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    Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

    Here's how I would approach orbital object removal. Removal vehicle maneuvers close to the object. A claw like device on the removal vehicle grips the object. the claw is let out on a long cable (1 mile long), and a rotation of the vehicle and object is started. This rotation is enhanced by the...
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    Mysterious object that crashed through Florida home was likely space junk from the International Space Station

    Oh, man I may have worked on that Unit. The picture sure looks like it. I did Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing in a RF screen room at Space Systems Loral in 1995. The object that landed on the roof of the house looks like one of the NiCd battery pack cylinders partially melted. . Each...
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    Life as we know it could exist on Venus, new experiment reveals

    OK, now this is getting strange Phosphine was one thing, but now we have this? If life can exists in Venus, then why not the Sun? How about Black Holes? life that can never get out.
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    Ax-3 astronaut snaps dizzying photo of ISS's jam-packed interior

    Yeah, a little stressed. What if as I'm floating through this tunnel of wires, I accidently pull something loose.
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    China's record-breaking Gravity-1 rocket aces amazing debut launch from ship at sea (video)

    It makes sense. You combine all operations together into one ship launcher. Lower cost. But the ship had better be able to take a large oops when a nasty RUD happens. Could be more damage unless a RUD is planed for in construction of the ship..
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    NASA outlines plan to deploy burrowing 'cryobots' on icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter

    Wow, launching submarines into outer space.
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    Nuking an incoming asteroid will spew out X-rays. This new model shows what happens

    The problem, you have to pay careful attention to is the exact placement of the Nuke. It should be positioned in front of the direction of motion of the asteroid around the Sun. Also it needs to be placed slightly above the center line of the asteroid in relation to Earth. A large mass of water...
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    SETI is searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies

    My thinking on this is that receiving a Extra Terrestrial signal is possible, but normal methods of signal processing make hearing these signals very hard. I think if the proper signal processing were used, these faint wisps of RF energy could be detected. The big problem here is distance, but...
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    The elusive origins of long gamma-ray bursts may finally be revealed

    Could very short Gamma Ray bursts be the shock wave created by alien spacecraft exceeding the speed of light? Breaking the sound barrier causes a sonic boom. What would breaking the light barrier produce? A gamma ray boom?
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    Mysterious blasts of radiation might stem from our universe's most extreme stars

    I have a simpler explanation. It is said that if you drop a grain of sand onto a Neutron Star, because of the intense gravity, the grain of sand will be accelerated to near the speed of light by the time it hits the surface. When that grain of sand hits, it will hit with the force of several...
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    NASA's Psyche spacecraft just fired a laser 10 million miles away in deep space

    The rumors are that the calculated density (and that is very hard to figure out exactly) is very close to the density of Gold. It this thing turns out to be an actual huge chunk of Gold, I fear a huge race to grab as much of this (or remotely claim it as theirs) as possible. I fear a huge human...
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    Odd supergiant star Betelgeuse is brightening up. Is it about to go supernova?

    OK, the Doom Sayers now have another thing to obsess on. It was asteroids wising past Earth at only 1 million miles (that's not even close). Now there will be all sorts of click bait telling us of the impending explosion of this large star. OK, people realize, this is a variable star. It...
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    Mercury is home to exotic glaciers of salt, and they may host life beneath them

    What is the temperature of Mercury at the North or South pole? What is the temperature of Venus at the North, or South pole? On Earth it is 80 degrees at the Equator, and -100 degrees at the poles. Maybe the temperature difference is greater on Venus, or Mercury? So, at the equator you might...
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    Dark energy may allow black holes to live in 'perfect pair' binaries

    This implies that dark energy is being syphoned off into gravity wave energy keeping the black holes apart. Hmmmm.... Maybe, Maybe not? What happens if the dark energy runs out in the area?
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    Snake-like magnetic fields on the sun bring scientists closer to solving a major solar mystery

    Anybody notice the strange objects that appeared near the last third of the clip? Strange, very strange. Maybe it's an internally generated alignment mark? I don't know but it's very unusual.