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Ccontrarian replied to the thread AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified.This is the most significant aspect of AI. More like Artificial Ignorance for many of these things. It can be soooo wrong. Why DeepSeek...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Moon or Mars? Why not both, acting NASA head Janet Petro says.The International Space Station cost well over $100 billion to put into orbit and maintain. And remember this is in LEO. The cost of a...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread 1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang.This was all the post considered. It was not about habitability, but when the conditions for abiogensis might occur following the BB...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread 1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang.While water is certainly a requirement for life, a considerable number of other elements and compounds are also required, not the least...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Dark Matter Revisited.So the Timescape Model suggests that the postulation of dark energy (DE) is based on observations which might be defined as a...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Trump wants the US to land astronauts on Mars soon. Could it happen by 2029?.To be sure, 2029 is even more than wildly unlikely, it is simply not possible. NASA's expected time line is 10 years later, by 2039...
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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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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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