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billslugg replied to the thread NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore reports 'strange noise' coming from Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, 'I don't know what's making it.I listened to the noise and it occurs at one second intervals. Some sort of timing device leaking into the audio. -
billslugg replied to the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0?.The BB hangup is "dividing by zero". I'm on board with that, it makes sense not to allow dividing by zero. Another hangup is that when...
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billslugg replied to the thread First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history.We should lie low and listen until we figure out what their intentions are.
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billslugg replied to the thread Question Can we create a micro climate crater on Mars?.Let's take as a goal to have the same surface pressure as Earth. Neglect what gasses they are, just look at pressure of 15 PSI. Current...
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Apart from the already monetized communications and ground sensing satellites that already profitably service paying subscribers I think...
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billslugg replied to the thread Create Breathable Air on Mars.Yes and no. Depends on how fast you can make replacement atmosphere. Stripping it takes millions of years. If we could somehow produce...
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billslugg replied to the thread Create Breathable Air on Mars.Mars is too small to have maintained enough heat inside it to maintain molten iron convection. This is what makes the planet's magnetic...
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billslugg reacted to Jan Steinman's post in the thread SETI searches for alien life in over 1,000 galaxies using unexplored radio frequencies with
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This article refers to detecting a "maximum detectable power". Perhaps I misunderstand, but I think what was really specified was a... -
billslugg reacted to rod's post in the thread Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds with Like.
'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology.' Okay, nothing to see hear folks, cosmology and...
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billslugg replied to the thread Monetizing Space.I don't mind skeptics. You appear skeptical due to the complexity of asteroid isotope mining. But if you can't grasp the value of a 4%...
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billslugg replied to the thread Monetizing Space.I sense a slight skepticism in your comments. We'll strike you from the list of recipients of our upcoming prospectus.
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billslugg replied to the thread Monetizing Space.The vaporized metal is produced in the vacuum of space and can be held by any thin walled metal container. The pressure is very low. The...
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billslugg reacted to cecilia's post in the thread NASA's DART asteroid crash really messed up its space rock target with Like.
that's for civilizations.
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billslugg reacted to Classical Motion's post in the thread Astronomers discover new 'odd radio circle' near the center of our galaxy with Like.
It's broke again.
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