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billslugg replied to the thread Blueprint for an Advanced International Space Agreement.Delegating any of our current power to an international organization is a non-starter. There is nothing in the above that cannot be... -
billslugg replied to the thread Bill Nelson steps down as NASA chief as Trump begins 2nd term.NASA should be broken up and sold off. Why, just the incompetence alone would pay off the national debt.
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billslugg replied to the thread Quiz about FTL galaxy observations.False premise. We cannot see light emitted by galaxies moving away from us FTL. As they get farther away and move faster and faster they...
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billslugg replied to the thread World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project.My understanding is the renewable energy engineers are claiming the land as their only sacred hydrogen production grounds.
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billslugg replied to the thread 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone.I didn't realize there was so much "back and forth" between theories. Lots of big egos to deal with.
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billslugg reacted to Helio's post in the thread 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone with
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1925, Jan. 1 – AAS meeting in DC where Russell presented Hubble’s results of Cepheids in Andromeda and the Triangulum nebulae showing... -
billslugg replied to the thread SpaceX Starship explosion likely caused by propellant leak, Elon Musk says.Doesn't sound as if they got to the root of the problem. These are very cold liquids at high pressures, in high volumes, through large...
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billslugg reacted to Wolfshadw's post in the thread NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to search for life on alien worlds with Like.
We no longer have the means of capturing the HST, nor the capacity to deliver and install updates to it. -Wolf sends
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According to the Heisenberg principle of uncertainty and certain other physics, it is possible to be in two places, two positions, at...
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billslugg replied to the thread The Entanglement.Yes, the distant quantum state is decided instantly, but no it doesn't break any laws. There is no way to transmit information...
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Lets unpack this shall we. The Moon is cold, incredibly cold by Earth standards, space is cold, incredibly cold, namely around -273°C...
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As wolf has said, Betelgeuse is significantly far from Earth that if it suffered a core collapse (Type II) supernova and the...
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billslugg replied to the thread Will the International Space Station's 2031 death dive cause pollution problems?.ISS must have people inside it, operating it, or it would quickly degrade where no one could ever safely re-enter or hook up to it. No...
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billslugg reacted to DrRaviSharma's post in the thread Can I ask someone to rebuttal my argument against human space flight? with Like.
Observations inspired by previous 80+ comments: Humanity's quest for knowledge and spirit for adventure to know the unknown is...
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billslugg replied to the thread Why is the redshift of high energy rays emmited by blackholes the same as the redshift of its host Galaxy ?.The accretion disc will form any time a large random assemblage of objects is in orbit around something. As collisions occur between...
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