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billslugg reacted to ChrisA's post in the thread I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing with
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Yes. Both are looking for confirmation of a belief that is not based on reason. So many people want Star Trek to be true or for... -
billslugg replied to the thread What happens when your warp drive fails? Scientists have the answer.I understand that. The only point I care to make is that there is no such thing as negative mass, thus the "warp drive" machines cannot...
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billslugg replied to the thread What happens when your warp drive fails? Scientists have the answer.The article refers to negative mass, not antimatter. Antimatter has opposite charge from normal but is massive, not negative massive...
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billslugg replied to the thread Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports.It's not a "space versus airplane" problem, it is a management problem. The engineers got taken over by the accountants. (See: "737 MAX")
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billslugg replied to the thread 3D-printed 'hydrogels' could be future space radiation shields for astronaut trips to Mars.Shielding of very high energy massive ions requires many tiny collisions to remove the energy. We don't want dangerous secondary...
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billslugg replied to the thread Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports.Plenty of opportunity in the private sector. If not, start your own. You have seen your bosses show you how not to run a company.
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billslugg reacted to LemmyCaution's post in the thread Scientists discover exoplanet with 20,500 mph winds — the fastest in the known universe with Like.
Thank you; now I understand how and why this exoplanet rotates. And as you say, this doesn't do anything to explain the unbelievably...
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billslugg replied to the thread What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images).2028 is the next close pass to Earth, a good time to hit it to change its orbit. One such plan requires only ten days from launch to impact.
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billslugg reacted to Dale Holley's post in the thread City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say with Like.
Would've, could've, should've, don't worry about what might be till it's a fact
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billslugg reacted to YetAnotherBob's post in the thread Scientists accidentally discover Earth's inner core is less solid than expected with Like.
It's a semi-solid, make that like molasses. It's still subject to tides. those have a slowing action until the planet is tide locked. So...
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billslugg replied to the thread Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane.We need to go to the far side of the Moon to site large arrays of low frequency antennae. Putting them on Earth is a losing proposition.
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billslugg reacted to Max Wrent's post in the thread Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane with Like.
back in the analog TV days using antennas, we called that multipath. Multipath signals from aircraft would cause image ghosting.
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billslugg replied to the thread Scientists accidentally discover Earth's inner core is less solid than expected.The core has a certain angular momentum. How can that change? Maybe some fluid is pushing sideways on one of its surface bumps.
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billslugg replied to the thread World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project.Earth surface is a horrible place to put a telescope, haze, light pollution, water vapor, gravity. We need more space telescopes. I want...
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billslugg reacted to cacarr's post in the thread World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project with Like.
One suspects that was a joke
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