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    bolide replied to the thread Private Intuitive Machines moon lander fell over inside crater at lunar south pole, photo reveals.

    "He's no fun--he fell right over!"

    Mar 11, 2025
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    bolide reacted to gmsexton's post in the thread SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites in overnight Falcon 9 launch, loses booster after landing (video) with Like.

    it's amazing this dork has 7000 satellites orbiting... or the fact he's already burning up 300 or 400 as they are already obsolete...

    Mar 4, 2025
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    bolide replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.

    The point was just that Earth is externally heated, and so does not serve as an example of this idea. I probably should have just stated...

    Mar 4, 2025
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    bolide replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.

    Evaporation cools the water, but where does that heat energy go? Into the atmosphere, right? So how is there going to be a net cooling...

    Mar 3, 2025
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    bolide reacted to billslugg's post in the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals! with Like.

    There is a heat flow from inside the Earth of 92 milliwatts per square meter. Solar insolation is 1,361 watts/m^2. The Sun's heat at the...

    Mar 3, 2025
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    bolide replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.

    Assuming we are talking about the environment at the planet's surface, this argument seems to fall on the horns of a dilemma. Either...

    Mar 2, 2025
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    bolide replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.

    Mars trip doesn't have that problem. Just like Mars and Earth and everything else being dragged by the Sun, so is your spaceship. It's...

    Mar 1, 2025
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    bolide replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.

    That's my understanding. This spiral has not been seen as yet in any observational data. They created a computer simulation of the Oort...

    Feb 28, 2025
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    bolide reacted to billslugg's post in the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals! with Like.

    They didn't "discover" anything, they predicted something. They did a simulation and got a spiral in the computer. They will now figure...

    Feb 28, 2025
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    bolide replied to the thread I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing.

    Logically, this resembles a certain retort to someone who complains that God didn't answer their prayers: "Yes, He did--and the answer...

    Feb 19, 2025

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