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billslugg replied to the thread How to Make a Space Elevator a Viable Operation.The existence of a single cable extending from Earth to 20,000 miles away is a vulnerability that cannot be tolerated. In order to... -
billslugg replied to the thread Boeing-built communications satellite breaks up in orbit. 'Total loss,' operator says."Tis but a scratch"
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billslugg replied to the thread 1st triple black hole system discovered in 'happy accident.The energy in a positron-electron annihilation is 1.022 MeV. The energy needed to make a proton is a thousand times higher, around 1 GeV...
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billslugg reacted to Mike Everman's post in the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent with
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Though there are higher frequency lasers we can make that are under 250nm, solidly in the UV band, that would avoid most of the emission... -
billslugg reacted to ChrisA's post in the thread NASA at a crossroads:' Budget woes, aging infrastructure and hard choices ahead with Like.
NASA is building payloads to put on top os SpaceX rockets. The payloads are the hard and expensive part. For example, an...
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billslugg reacted to Mike Everman's post in the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent with Like.
I suppose if I were to pick a frequency to both listen for, and broadcast at, it would be one suggested by, but not on the absorption...
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billslugg replied to the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent.We need radio telescopes at opposite ends of the Solar System, kept in place by optical means, the angular resolution would be incredible.
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billslugg reacted to Helio's post in the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent with Like.
But the use of arrays (interferometry) really helps.
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billslugg replied to the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent.I believe the infrared region is where the most telling of lines are when looking at complex molecules. JWST has good IR capability and...
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billslugg reacted to Helio's post in the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent with Like.
And we are close to having far better equipment in finding those signs, which will allow great focus for SETI on these exos.
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billslugg replied to the thread Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian.My fav thing was how Edison would electrocute animals on stage to prove the dangers of Tesla's AC.
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billslugg reacted to ColdBlueFire's post in the thread Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian with Like.
It's the little things like this that turn Nikola Teslas into Thomas Edisons.
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billslugg replied to the thread Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian.This type of error has been frequent on this site. I have taken other writers to task. The only response I've gotten is surprise that I...
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billslugg reacted to Mike Everman's post in the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent with Like.
So the premise is that the folks in the Trappist system are either multi-planetary (more advanced than us, talking planet to planet), or...
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