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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread US condemns failed North Korean rocket launch as breach of international security: report.

    The U.S. "condemning" anything that North Korea does in the way of rocket launches or nuclear technology is hardly "space news" and...

    45 minutes ago
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread 2024 hurricane season should be busy, NOAA says.

    The parameters that are "unprecedented" are the surface temperatures of the Atlantic Ocean , the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico...

    48 minutes ago
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Does the Milky Way orbit anything?.

    A couple of thoughts: 1. How do we know that there is no other galaxy nearby, considering how hard it is to detect anything that is...

    Today at 4:24 PM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Astronomy has a bullying and harassment issue: 'Results presented in this report are bleak.

    There is definitely a problem with bullying in most of society, these days. Much of that has to do with loss of punishments for...

    Today at 2:14 PM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them..

    Some think we are already inside one.

    Today at 6:45 AM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them..

    Helio, Frame dragging would be a lot like that - a whirlpool of space. Frame dragging is definitely not one of the things I have...

    Yesterday at 7:29 PM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread It's so complicated:' Boeing Starliner teams diagnose helium leak ahead of June 1 astronaut launch.

    As I posted before, this article needs some work. But, it still says that helium is a "non-inert gas". So, it seems pretty clear that...

    Yesterday at 4:35 PM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them..

    Helio, I think the analogy is fitting. But, the problem with the BBT is that it is an extrapolation based on everything going back to...

    Yesterday at 12:24 PM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Why a giant 'cold spot' in the cosmic microwave background has long perplexed astronomers.

    So, did they call you "Mr. Checkoff" after that? :wink:

    Yesterday at 10:40 AM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread What would happen if Earth stopped spinning?.

    This article is rather silly, trying to conceptualize the Earth's spin to stop in some manner that does not stop what is on the surface...

    Yesterday at 10:38 AM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them..

    Fire-Starter James, when you majored in "astrophysics" things were different than now majoring in "cosmology", especially in that the...

    Yesterday at 10:10 AM
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    Unclear Engineer reacted to billslugg's post in the thread Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them. with Like.

    I don't understand the assumption the center of a Black Hole be a singularity. We know a neutron star has a finite radius, we know when...

    Yesterday at 9:53 AM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Junk from a SpaceX Dragon 'trunk' may have crashed into a Canadian farmer's field (photos).

    And now this: https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/nc-space-x-seven-debris-trunk-find . It seems like SpaceX and NASA are going to...

    Sunday at 9:52 AM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean.

    The article says that there are two sets of simulations that come to opposite conclusions about whether there is a liquid ocean in...

    Sunday at 8:37 AM
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    Unclear Engineer replied to the thread Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes.

    Regrading the density of stellar mass black holes in interstellar galactic space, I don't think we yet have very good quantitative data...

    Saturday at 4:40 PM

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