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You lost me at the first inappropriately capitalized word.

You lost me at the first inappropriately capitalized word.

The tectonic plate it is on, the African plate, is moving northward at 5" per year. In 150 years the line of latitude will dead center under the peak. By "based on the same thing" I mean: - Latitude is measured equator to pole as 90 full degrees. - The meter was a ten millionth of the distance...

I'm still baffled by the fact that latitude 29.9792458°N passes through the top step in the Great Hall inside the Great Pyramid at Giza. The speed of light in m/s is 299792458. This is based on the distance from the equator to the North Pole. Both numbers based on the same thing. I'm scratching...

1E23 Suspiciously close to Avogadro's number, 6E23. Hmmm...

Many things resonate when we hit them with a strong beam of energy, always a possibility for exploration sake. ELF shows lowest possible loss in a dielectric and is essential to talk with our nuclear subs deep under highly conductive salt water. They don't mind the extremely low bit rate. In...

The only "Diamond Ring" is at 4 o'clock where the Sun is. The rest of it is the Earth's atmosphere. For this eclipse the tangent line ran N-S through Brazil and Eastern Siberia. The rest was over oceans. Those land areas get forest fires, make the light even more reddish. I watched it through...

The only legitimate role of government is to make it safe for us to go about our daily lives. If NASA can tie space related R&D to that function, I'm OK with it.

Correct, it is only on paper and with laboratory examples. This is the "development" you were asking about. The development is done. Now to mass produce and commercialize.

The Sun certainly gives off mass in all directions. Due to the high temperatures, most of it is ionized, most of the ions electrons and protons. The two particles have equal but opposite charges and differ in mass by a factor of 1,836. Electrons are thus more mobile and would be preferentially...

The universe does not expand into empty space. It expands into itself.

The referenced paper has no mention of Dark Energy except in the footnotes and is dated 2007. Whoever wrote the accompanying article appears unaware of the recent explanation for Dark Energy, which is time dilation. This is the second article in SDC that misses the point. What am I missing?

Musk is the guy who sent a Tesla into outer space. Don't give him any ideas.

He provided a reference for the work you are referencing.

This is an acceptable form of verification. I already have one wife pissed off at me, the last thing in the world I need is two.