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billslugg replied to the thread At 60 years, monument to NASA's Project Mercury still stands, but what of its time capsule?.I am pretty sure that rocket scientists would know to purge the capsule with inert gas. If so, and if nothing more perishable than... -
billslugg reacted to edison6017's post in the thread The US is now at risk of losing to China in the race to send people back to the Moon’s surface with
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But why the US wants another Space Race with China after so called beating Russia in a "space race" . What is winning and loosing in... -
You may find some speculations on the imaginary "wormholes", but it is nothing more than a notion. No proof, no examples, and as OP...
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billslugg replied to the thread Wormholes fake or real?.A wormhole is thought to be a connection between two black holes far away from each other. Go into one BH, instantly arrive at the...
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billslugg replied to the thread Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption."...is a large icy object spanning around 37 miles (60 kilometers) across — around three times the length of Manhattan..." There is not...
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billslugg replied to the thread Starlink satellite falls to Earth, burns up as stunning fireball over US (video)."I have done work for the federal government and I have been paid, however I am not a government employee and there is no protective...
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billslugg reacted to m4n8tpr8b's post in the thread Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates with Like.
Unfortunately this has become way too common on this site...
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billslugg replied to the thread The US is now at risk of losing to China in the race to send people back to the Moon’s surface.BTDT
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billslugg replied to the thread Starlink satellite falls to Earth, burns up as stunning fireball over US (video).This would likely be an internal reflection, between individual lens elements, of a bright light within the camera field of view. Or it...
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billslugg replied to the thread Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates."whether incredibly bright, or "ultraluminous," accretion disks also wobble, or "process,"" It's precess, not process. Writer not...
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billslugg replied to the thread Why does classical physics gravity formulas/measurements do not work at a quantum level, what’s missing?.No, there is no way we could measure the gravity due to a magnetic field here on Earth anyway. We can make about 10 Teslas, but any...
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billslugg replied to the thread Create Breathable Air on Mars.We know that Ganymede is covered in water ice, has a magnetic field, has a low moment of inertia. The magnetic field is best modeled by...
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billslugg replied to the thread 4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened.The Arecibo dish was built by a general contractor Amos Carlton Samford Jr. His son, Bill (RIP), was my age and lived about a mile from...
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billslugg reacted to TomMariner's post in the thread 4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened with Like.
NSF and the University in Florida stole the maintenance money for their pet projects. As others have pointed out -- not just the...
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billslugg replied to the thread World's 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test.I remember the Ranger images where the last one just before impact was only partially sent, half the picture was noise.
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