Recent content by Anonymous010

They're overstating the importance of the cluster. A black hole doesn't need to be in a cluster to be large enough to swallow a neutron star whole and thus trigger a "lightless" collision. Yes, you're more likely to find a large black hole in a dense cluster, but you're more likely to find...

"Appeared" to? Come on, guys, this isn't a court of law where nothing actually happened until there's a jury verdict. The video speaks for itself - that prototype is done. It's a shame, but it's not really surprising. When Musk unveiled it for the first time, it didn't look good - it already...

Gotta do what we gotta do, I guess, but I'd much rather see DARPA develop a reusable solution to stopping incoming missiles (like lasers or microwaves). Sending up hypersonic gliders just so that they can kamikaze into warheads is wasteful.

I'm kind of surprised there's no mention at all of how long it would take to implement the various responses - there's just a few vague mentions about it: if we have more time, we can do Type 1, or if time gets too short, no response works. How much more time does Type 1 take compared to Type...

Discovery Channel is more or less the same. They air "fake-u-mentaries" that are meant to look like real documentaries about things like the Loch Ness Monster or the extinct megalodon with completely fabricated information from fake experts. If you watch closely during the credits, you'll see...

So there are parts to this that I don't agree with. First, the statement that we would've noticed extra dimensions by now if they existed. I'm not sure that's true - after all, the ancient Greeks thought the same thing about stellar parallax (they thought that they'd have seen it if it was...

I could see it as a big deal if the Russian satellites carried satellite disabling or interference technology. One hundred miles away is not very far away in terms of an orbit - certainly not close enough to worry about a collision or an intercept, but easily close enough to interfere with or...

Oh hey, Pearl Jam's still around. Neat.

An awful lot would have to go exactly right for what these guys are proposing to actually happen. Even if the first part, that microbes attached to a comet as it passed through Earth's atmosphere, had happened 1000 times over Earth's history, AND we assume that the microbes can survive...

Yup. I've noticed this counterproductive back-and-forth with NASA from the last three administrations. Politics ruins everything yet again.

No they aren't. To actually study aliens, they'd at least need to find some solid evidence for them first.

You guys might want to rephrase the above lines in the article. The white dwarf is less massive (1.02 solar masses) than the pulsar (1.27 solar masses). Technically, both objects in that system orbit the system's barycenter (center of mass), but if you want to say one orbits the other, then it...

Because that's worked out so well for us, right? We've spent the last decade feeding and babysitting private companies while they try to get a launch vehicle that can carry astronauts to the ISS, and we still don't have one from any of them. What's more, we don't have any guarantees that these...

Every time I read the word "darkmatter," all I can think is that it's just this generation's aether. Let it go, guys. You can't find what's not there.

"Starship" would need one more than most (if I was a passenger and I found out they didn't have one, I would demand a refund on my ticket purchase). Then again, that's all a long way off. Musk has a habit of being overly optimistic with his schedule predictions, and the first prototype...