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billslugg replied to the thread Scientists discover exoplanet with 20,500 mph winds — the fastest in the known universe.If the planet is tidally locked, the star stays fixed in the sky. There is no "morning side " or "evening side". I don't understand. -
billslugg replied to the thread Beam me to the stars.The Quaise company is further along than anyone in thermal gyrotron drilling but their website monthly status reports are just rehashes...
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billslugg replied to the thread Blueprint for an Advanced International Space Agreement.When called to account, it is customary to be somewhat formal. Writing with no caps, punctuation or paragraphs is disrespectful. Easy to...
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Crewed missions to Mars are far more hype than substance and are not even close to achievable and including return capability in my view...
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All of these arguments make some sense only to those who accept that the universe originated with a big bang.
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That would be true if it were a Doppler model. It’s not. Hence the “cosmological redshift” describes it. At only ~ z=1,4 galaxies are...
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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...
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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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