Recent content by Edward Coulter

I disagree that SpaceX is purely commercial. It is being done for altruistic reason, to get to Mars and form a colony of back-up earth life. Most people cannot imagine altruism, well these is one very good example if you are watching and listening. Remaining space shuttle engines are being...

True, as long as the star is small and the planet is big. This method won't work well for stars of both about 1 solar mass (our own) and planets of 1 earth mass unless sensitivity of wobble detection can be improved enormously. I am not sure where we are at now though. The degree of a...