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    Question Energy of a Low Earth Orbit collision - is this calculation correct?

    In case there was missing context, this is the setup (a link to which was removed by moderation): The energy of a Low Earth Orbit collision Imagine hitting something head-on at a clip of 8,000 m/sec in opposite directions. Physics tells us kinetic energy is proportional to the SQUARE of the...
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    Question Energy of a Low Earth Orbit collision - is this calculation correct?

    Hello, could someone kindly double check my math? Alternatively: is there a better place to post the request? My calculation: 50 gram mass (0.05 kg) Low Earth Orbit (~8 km/sec) Head on collision (relative velocity 16 km/sec) Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * mass * velocity_squared Kinetic energy...
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    Computation-bound areas of astronomy (and what gates them)

    Awesome, thank you, very pertinent :). Happy to have a tendril to follow now.
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    Computation-bound areas of astronomy (and what gates them)

    Are there interesting astronomical problems that could be fully/partially solved by distributed computing? Similar to folding@home or seti@home, but as a a carve-out from something like a video game. Imagine a checkbox in video games settings that enables/disables using spare cycles on the...
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    Question will we ever be able to go in a different galaxy?

    Why would we ever go there? Can't we just zoom there? :tearsofjoy:
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    What if we throw poo at Mars?

    What a crappy idea! But have you ever seen The Martian? One man's trash is another man's treasure :tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy:
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