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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more.The story notes "supermassive black holes — black holes with a mass at least 100,000 times that of our sun" as the apparent limit of...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread James Webb Space Telescope finds supermassive black holes that seem impossibly large.What is surprising about this article is the age of the LRDs quoted at 1.5 billion years after the BB. Other sources indicate they...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis.So based on this, galaxies forming superclusters must be converging because the space between them is decreasing. The galaxies forming a...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis.Two very good notions. But......... How can we know that the CMB is a 'direct' measurement when there is nothing to verify the...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis.Is there such a thing as a "relativistic mirage", where we are fooled by "something" caused by "something else"? Thinking here on a...
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Ccontrarian reacted to George²'s post in the thread We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.' President Trump wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mars with
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Should be have not enough time in one mandate to touch stars. But for Mars flagged, again, yes. If I remember good first flags landed on... -
Ccontrarian replied to the thread We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.' President Trump wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mars.It is on the Phoenix lander also : https://science.nasa.gov/resource/phoenix-and-the-american-flag-on-mars/
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Are James Webb Space Telescope images really that colorful?.Direct imaging of stars is the best we can hope for, unless it is a really large planet, and close by. We will require an enormous...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Moon selected as historical preservation site to protect lunar heritage.Won't be easy to enforce any regs on the Moon. One reg that should be in place is that any country with a failed manned mission will be...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Big Bang or no Big Bang and Creation Theory.The observable universe is defined as consisting of all the matter which can be seen from Earth by way of electromagnetic radiation...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Food grows better on the moon than on Mars, scientists find.Not quite a bolthole. Not even close actually. And warming Mars is very hypothetical. It doesn't address the extreme cost of getting...
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Ccontrarian reacted to Galacsi's post in the thread Food grows better on the moon than on Mars, scientists find with Like.
This is a very bad post. Written by somebody that does not know anything in agriculture, and on the subject. A very shallow piece.
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Food grows better on the moon than on Mars, scientists find.The whole idea of human settlements on the Moon or Mars is remarkably stupid. The cost for getting things up and running are, to say the...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Was 2024 the year we finally started to understand dark energy?.It certainly seems questionable. But then you read about changes : "That means it is dynamic and changing." If the expansion rate is...
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Ccontrarian reacted to Zdepthcharge's post in the thread Was 2024 the year we finally started to understand dark energy? with Like.
Well... Maybe. The Timescape paper is certainly the largest advancement in "dark energy" research we've had since the whole idea was...
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