Recent content by Homer10

Everything has consequences. One thing always leads to another. (INXS).

What happens if there is a launch pad failure, and 16 million pounds of Methane and LOX get together, and go KABOOM! How many kilotons of explosive power would this be equivalent to? How much damage would this do to the towns around the launch site? Hmmm... I see a law suit here.

Yes, and NEOs (Near Earth Orbits), and DSOs Deep Space Objects, old rocket hardware (2nd, and 3rd stages), junk spacecraft, Useful spacecraft, and all manor of other objects out there. There are thousands of natural objects, and tens of thousands of man made objects.

They are called NEOs. Near Earth Objects.

This click bait has been around for a few months now. The reality: At any one time, the Earth has between 12-15 mini moons (possible more we don't know about). Some of these objects come and go. Others are always around. The largest of these small moons is over 900 feet in diameter. Nothing new...

This catch mechanism while complex and impressive, I think is too complex. They should redesign the Starship to be salt water proof. Then land these things in the water. Should something catastrophic happen, the explosion will be way out at sea. No one hurt. Safer, and less complex. You can't...

Fusion happens with temperature and pressure. If there is enough pressure and temperature, fusion occurs. If you raise up the temperature by adding a hellacious beam of intense radiation from the SMBH, this raises up the temperature of the star thus increasing the fusion rate thus increasing the...

Wow Aluminum Oxide canceling out a bit of global warming. We are creating a chem soup in our atmosphere. Not good. So we get a little cooler, but more permeated with chems.

There are actually 8-10 mini moons, possibly more. They come and go, pulled away by the Sun. Some are in complex unusual orbits shaped by the Sun and Moon.

Well, can we all remember Einstein's law "Mater and energy can neither be created or destroyed. They can only be changed from one form to another.". Them rocks have to go somewhere. However one lesson here. If you smack the asteroid hard enough you scatter the debris over a wide enough volume...

What isn't being discussed here is that if a planet is to have surface water, you have to fill up the internal part of the planet first with water before you will see any water on the surface. The water will percolate all the way down to the core. The core of the Earth has enough water to fill...

OK, let me ask a slightly different question. At some point in the past there was a large explosion, and the Universe as we know it, is created, and expands to a very large size very quickly, and continues to expand today. At the moment of this big bang, it happened somewhere. Let's call this...

Can we all remember the doom and gloom predictions if we had another Carrington event. It looks like we just had another one, and not much happened. So much for big magnetic storms sending us back to the stone age. I guess not.

Helium is hard to contain. Especially at high pressures. It has a knack for oozing through many metals and escaping. There's no crack or anything like that, it just can ooze through metal latus structures. Pressure changes a lot with temperature, and its really expensive. You have to have a good...

When the Big Bang occured, all the matter is flying in all directions away from the point of detonation. That central point where the Big Bang happened. I know they say "Well there is no center. The big bang happened everywhere.". But it didn't. There was some location where the big bang...