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billslugg
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Curiosity rover may be 'burping' methane out of Mars' subsurface
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HobartStinsonian - The sedimentary geology of oil and gas deposits on Earth support their formation out of biological materials that...
Apr 28, 2024
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Astronomers just discovered a comet that could be brighter than most stars when we see it next year. Or will it?
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Yes, https://theskylive.com/ shows 10.2 magnitude now. It is visible up in Virgo at my location in MD about 1 degree 43 arcminute from...
Apr 28, 2024
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Do We Exist Inside a Black Hole?
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If you were falling through the event horizon of a black hole you would be travelling at the speed of light, all you would see is a...
Apr 28, 2024
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact
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I studied Fortran in college. It was used for all scientific work. One day I saw a guy with a thick printout of nothing but ones and...
Apr 28, 2024
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Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit
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Matching speeds with debris is capital intensive and requires lots of delta V. I would put a large laser up there combined with a radar...
Apr 27, 2024
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Curiosity rover may be 'burping' methane out of Mars' subsurface
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That is sort of an interesting question. On Earth, the assumption is that it comes from decaying biological matter that has been...
Apr 27, 2024
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Curiosity rover may be 'burping' methane out of Mars' subsurface
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Helium is definitely created inside the Earth - by radioactive decay that involves alpha particle emissions. Alpha particles are just...
Apr 27, 2024
billslugg
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Astronomers just discovered a comet that could be brighter than most stars when we see it next year. Or will it?
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Hoping for another Ikeya-Seki, which reached magnitude -10. I saw it just before sunrise in Oct 1965. It had a 30° tail and was spectacular.
Apr 27, 2024
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Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?
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FWIW, I was thinking more of human eyes looking through robotic lenses, rather than AI trying to decide what to pick up.
Apr 27, 2024
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Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?
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I would say not. Starship needs redundancy in a growing and evolving competition of vehicles and transport firms (a growing list of...
Apr 27, 2024
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Watch 2 gorgeous supernova remnants evolve over 20 years (timelapse video)
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These supernova remnants are moving at extraordinary speeds only visible to us in long-term timelapses. Watch 2 gorgeous supernova...
Apr 26, 2024
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Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away
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NASA's DSOC experiment passed yet another milestone, interfacing with the Psyche spacecraft and beaming data back to Earth from 140...
Apr 26, 2024
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Temperature on the Moon?
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It is true that conductive heat transfer will not heat up your thermometer. There are not enough molecules of air in this near perfect...
Apr 26, 2024
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Are we prepared for Chinese preeminence on the moon and Mars? (op-ed)
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Capitalism is the only system that takes man's self interest, his strongest motive, and benefits all of society with that selfish...
Apr 26, 2024
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NASA astronauts enter quarantine for 1st crewed Boeing Starliner launch on May 6
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Yes, they did learn their lesson. When they discovered the tape was flammable they halted the program so they could fix it.
Apr 26, 2024
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