Recent content by foxpup

So where do YOU think the substance, form, and purpose comes from in this universe. Provide a simpler more applicable explanation than mine. Until you do I apply Occam's razor and will stick with mine over all others. BTW "Intelligent Design" as you call it may not be 100% scientific but it...

"I am sure humanity will know for certain whether we are alone in the universe." We will only know for certain if we are alone in the universe if there actually IS life out there and we encounter it. Until then we will be clueless for the most part. Human hubris is unlimited. Many actually...

If the Earth had an identical twin with identical history on the other side of the galaxy we would both be dipping our toes into space getting ready for a real swim very soon. Astronomically and geologically, it has been no time since we started as a civilization and we will likely be almost...

Well...You have convincingly shown that the balloon in your hand is round. This demonstration fails to show anything about the state of the Earth....nothing like watching the progress Space-X does as it builds the StarLink satellite network. That's better evidence. Although I do not believe...

Even if one could produce truckloads of incontrovertible evidence, convincing some flat-earthers otherwise will be impossible. In the most likely situation they are just pushing your buttons and pretending to be flat-earthers just to annoy you. There is also the rare possibility where they...

I see your position and generally agree with it, but we are not limited to just our own judgement and observations. We can ask ourselves if the matter is controversial or not. If I want to know the pin-out of the DB-9 serial port connector and go to Wikipedia to look it up, I can be confident...

I wonder if the stripeyness of the planetary out-of-focus image choresponds to the geometry of some aspect of the telescope used to make the image, like the line on the secondary mirror of a newtonian telescope that is perpendicular to the light's reflection. I'm not sure how the stripes...

I know I'm anthropomorphisising, but that rocket is acting like it really wants to be flying up in the sky rather than torturously being held down while running it's rocket engines. Hopefully Firefly will be able to do just that soon. :-) Success to the Firefly team!!!

Flat-Earthers (Young-Earthers too) are better people than those who hate them. Sometimes I pretend to be a flat-earther just to drive the jerks around my crazy. It's fun watching them go nuts as if I had said some kind of religious blasphemy. (which it is in their minds) I bet if you are the...

I'd be willing to bet 10:1 that you are an urban resident or at least sub-urban. Go out in the real rural areas and you will see how little communication infrastructure there is out there. It just isn't practical to bury the massive quantity of fiber lines to serve the few people living in...

Very cool video, but PLEASE!! no more autoplay on space.com videos. I want to read the article and start the video when I'm ready and with sound. The way it is now, I'm wasting bandwidth as I try to ignore the video while I read and then I have to back the video up to the start and turn on the...

Perhaps I can reassure you with something. It IS great that the entirety of humanity will be able to join in to the global internet community. Also great is the technology of cryptology. The internet is getting "darker" very quickly over time. An ever increasing amount of traffic flows...

This is the best application for "Black 2.0" that I can think of. :-). Perhaps Space-X should sponser the construction of an absolutely gigantic aperture orbiting optical telescope to be used for both science and photography of whatever is most beautiful up there. That should apease many...

Sorry, "999999 Rot Balloons" (you would need much more because they are lower) just isn't going to cut it and such balloons will be visible in the dusk sky too. Also there isn't enough helium in the world to meet that need uness you want to do it Hindenberg style. :-) I don't see such baloons...

First, you don't "put" the satellites anywhere at night or in the dark. They just keep going along their established orbit while providing their needed communication function. The fact that you cannot see them because they are in the dark is unimportant consideirng they only need to be seen in...