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billslugg replied to the thread Asteroid the size of 3 million elephants zooms past Earth.The elephant system has great legs to stand on. -
Bowers3934, the graph of the WOW! signal you posted shows that the signal received on Earth was sampled at 12 second intervals to...
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billslugg replied to the thread WOW Decoded? ..... 6 E Q U J 5.The WOW signal was most likely where a clump of gas fell onto a neutron star of magnetar class, emitted an intense pulse of energy that...
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billslugg replied to the thread New scientific calculator.No, what I meant was "every prime must be an integer". No fraction can be a prime number.
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billslugg replied to the thread New scientific calculator.Except, the prime numbers are among the positive integers plus zero. Fractions cannot be prime.
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billslugg replied to the thread Will the International Space Station's 2031 death dive cause pollution problems?.It took 9656 m/s delta V to get the 400 tons of ISS where it is. It would take 20 m/s slowing down to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. It...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question How feasible is it now or in the near future to have atomic or molecular beams to transport simple material to the ISS?.EMF can create ionization at needle tips causing air flow that can cause an object to levitate. There must be a screen below the array...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question How feasible is it now or in the near future to have atomic or molecular beams to transport simple material to the ISS?.What you are describing is a cathode ray tube. It has coils on each side of a beam of electrons. There is a thrust produced by the...
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billslugg replied to the thread New scientific calculator.Base does not change value. Numbers on our computer screen are in base 10, but inside the memory they are base 2 and in some places base...
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billslugg reacted to Russell Crawford's post in the thread Question Not when or where or how but why did the Big Bang happen. with
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I believe you are addressing a universe that starts with empty space, not nothing. A universe with noting would not have laws, virtual... -
billslugg reacted to danR's post in the thread Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal with Like.
The answer to the Fermi Paradox, rather than being a needle in a haystack, is turning into an embarrassment of riches: Asteroid strike...
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billslugg reacted to Torbjorn Larsson's post in the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications with Like.
https://www.sciencealert.com/voyager-1-just-activated-a-radio-thats-been-offline-since-1981 They do send science data and, as I noted...
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billslugg reacted to Torbjorn Larsson's post in the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications with Like.
I'm happy the crafts are chatty. Unfortunately these end-of-life interruptions takes time off the last gasps of science collection...
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billslugg replied to the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications.Voyager 1 and 2 are measuring the magnetic field and charged particles in interstellar space. One is in the planet's orbital plane, one...
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billslugg reacted to Nomadd's post in the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications with Like.
It's not the P238 decaying so much as the RTG thermocouples deteriorating.
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