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danR

Joined: Feb 6, 2020

Last seen: Jan 5, 2025

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- danR replied to the thread NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans on Jan. 7. Here's how to listen in.
  
  "NASA would likely not be able to return Perseverance's samples to Earth until 2040, a full 20 years after the rover first launched to...
  
  Jan 5, 2025
- danR replied to the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?.
  
  2018, a Falcon Heavy yeeted an automobile+final-stage mass towards Mars' orbit. Since an unmanned Starship that does not need to...
  
  Jan 4, 2025
- danR replied to the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?.
  
  Sounds like you do not disagree with a <2040 date, then, which satisfies the constraints indicated in the article. As for ~2029, SpaceX...
  
  Jan 4, 2025
- danR reacted to Nik0101's post in the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved? with Like.
  
  Ah, yes. And I'm sure he'll begin building his Mars base with AI powered, self-replicating, Go-Go dancing robots at the same time. The...
  
  Jan 4, 2025
- danR replied to the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?.
  
  Not only can SpaceX do it for less, the whole project is being rendered moot by the company's own boots-on-the-ground timeline. They...
  
  Jan 3, 2025
- danR reacted to monkeyonmars's post in the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved? with Like.
  
  I think Musk can do it for less than $11 billion. Just got to get that fuel transfer working.
  
  Jan 3, 2025
- danR replied to the thread Black holes can squash star formation, James Webb Space Telescope finds.
  
  "Squash" "Quash", with its sense of "suppress", might be better employed here; and is closer to the paper's frequent use of the word...
  
  Jan 2, 2025
- danR replied to the thread Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis.
  
  The article is interesting but seems rather repetitious. I feel it would be more lucidly presented in four or five paragraphs.
  
  Dec 19, 2024
- danR reacted to Don M's post in the thread Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis with Like.
  
  The Universe's "incredibly rapid rate" of expansion depends on perspective. The current rate is ~7% larger every billion years.
  
  Dec 19, 2024
- danR replied to the thread Why we can't just name a quasi-moon 'Moony McMoonface.
  
  Because they just plain won't listen to you. I thought a certain Mars Rover in a naming contest should be called Dusty McDustface. But...
  
  Dec 4, 2024
- danR replied to the thread Dead stars within supernova explosions could solve the dark matter mystery in 10 seconds.
  
  How about, instead of looking for one signature from one uncommonly-captured phenomenon indicating one class of conjectured DM, they...
  
  Dec 1, 2024
- danR reacted to fj.torres's post in the thread Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal with Like.
  
  Some of the "great filters" assume a *technological* civilization was able to rise up to start with. A number of the emerging hurdles...
  
  Nov 30, 2024
- danR reacted to fj.torres's post in the thread Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal with Like.
  
  The sun is to all appearances a relative calm and stable star when compared to the majority of similar stars. Red dwarfs in particular...
  
  Nov 30, 2024
- danR replied to the thread Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal.
  
  The answer to the Fermi Paradox, rather than being a needle in a haystack, is turning into an embarrassment of riches: Asteroid strike...
  
  Nov 30, 2024
- danR replied to the thread What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 6 launch test on Nov. 18?.
  
  They updated everything in the article except the one "Monday" instance in the subtitle.
  
  Nov 16, 2024
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