Recent content by Jason K

Interesting that you make this particular point. After reviewing your posts here, I have the strong impression you either are a flat-earther although you stopped short of actually stating this, or are at least agnostic on the subject. At the very least, you've hit on many of the same talking...

If this was the 63rd Soyuz launch to ISS (including the 2018 aborted attempt), and there were 37 STS launches to the ISS plus 1 manned Dragon launch, wouldn't Soyuz MS-17 mark the 101st (manned) spacecraft launched to ISS?

Now I'm curious. From davea0511's quote here, is the general consensus of the community here that 36 civilizations seems like a low number? Curiously, when I read the space.com article, I took it to be still a rather large figure. I guess I'm more of a pessimist in regards to extraterrestrial...

Nevertheless, they still have done some form of multiplicative probability assessment in a similar fashion to the Drake equation, even if they utilized different terms than Drake; probability of X times probability of Y times probability of Z, etc., equals 36. As I said, I cannot access the...

Rod, I don't have access to the full article, but from the abstract, it appears the authors acknowledge that most of these potential civilizations would be found around class M red dwarf stars: "Furthermore, the likelihood that the host stars for this life are solar-type stars is extremely small...

Just a quick observation. In the section of the article discussing an initial competing theory, of this X-ray burst possibly emanating from a neutron star, it's observed that the calculated mass of the X-ray emitter is at least 50,000 solar masses, which is much more massive than a neutron...

I suppose this is where philosophy enters the conversation. I personally don't see this as the earth residing in some privileged place in the universe, just perhaps in one of many large-scale slightly heterogeneous areas that deviate from the idealized cosmological principle of a perfectly...

NASA's human space flight has been in limbo, it could be argued, since before Apollo successfully landed on the moon. The basic plans for STS (the Shuttle) were already laid in 1969, and that locked us into a trajectory for the next 40 years. And it didn't pan out the way the Shuttle concept...