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billslugg reacted to AboveAndBeyond's post in the thread SETI searches for alien life in over 1,000 galaxies using unexplored radio frequencies with
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The frequency is one thing but no mention was made of the bandwidth resolution they had. Artificial signals are likely to have their... -
billslugg replied to the thread Introduce yourself! (And show us your swag).Welcome to the forum! EM waves have a rest mass of zero, but they are never at rest. All photons move all the time, all photons have...
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billslugg reacted to Viking's post in the thread There was some tension in the room', NASA says of decision to bring Boeing's Starliner spacecraft home without astronauts with Like.
Send two Boeing execs up on the Dragon and let them bring the Starliner home.
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Yes. His Dialogue book ended in making Simplicio look foolish. This more than ended their long term friendship. Galileo was...
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billslugg replied to the thread Books of interest.Gallileo was under house arrest the last few years of his life. Pope Urban did it because Gallileo wrote as fact, not theory, that the...
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billslugg replied to the thread Artemis 3 astronauts will walk on the moon with 4G-equipped spacesuits.I speculate that 4G is more robust than 5G. Less susceptible to interference, perhaps. Frequencies are lower, transistors all throughout...
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billslugg replied to the thread Regarding Apopolis meteor 99942..He proposes making a one meter diameter plastic disc and measuring the circumference. I have already done this, but on a 5.5 meter drum...
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billslugg replied to the thread Imaginary Time.The biggest step loss in EE students occurs at the point "i" is introduced. It happens around beginning of Junior year.
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billslugg reacted to Catastrophe's post in the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0? with Like.
Very good question. Maybe we are just not up to understanding some things yet. See the D+ being in the flatlander analogy. Look at...
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billslugg reacted to Catastrophe's post in the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0? with Like.
I know of the diversity of ideas "in the mill" and there is no shortage of "grist". Trying to keep an open mind, without turning it into...
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billslugg replied to the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0?.I think a Big Bounce makes a lot of sense except for the universe is now accelerating its expansion. So how does a contraction occur?
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billslugg replied to the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0?.My comments are as I remember them! From what I've read, the concept of time does not exist prior to t=0. I also read that prior to...
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billslugg reacted to promytius's post in the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0? with Like.
no; it's as if you are trying to confuse me. That's ok, we're working out of different dictionaries. I do appreciate your comments, you...
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billslugg reacted to Catastrophe's post in the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0? with Like.
promytius My apologies. I have corrected it. Thank you for your comments. Cat :)
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billslugg reacted to Catastrophe's post in the thread More on the Big Bang - what was before t = 0? with Like.
I would like to return to division by zero, and the problems it can cause. Why do we try to bring “infinity” into legitimate science...
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