Recent content by LemmyCaution

In view of NASA having sunk 24 billion dollars into the development of the Space Launch System and has effectively nothing to show for that huge expenditure one might argue the James Webb Telescope is in comparison a resounding success story and as such a relative bargain to boot.

Not only is the imagining of an "energetically open systemic universe of an expansionist space frontier itself" a fruitless exercise in science-fiction-inspired non-factual doodling but the idea that humanity has only one millenium of survival remaining is patently nonsensical when applied to a...

All the considerations of profit motive aside, wouldn't it make more sense to put the "going to the dead planet Mars" ideas to rest and use all those resources to save our one and only earth instead?

Perhaps Wiki managed to get it backwards since 5700C just happens to be a bit shy of 6000K.

Thank you; now I understand how and why this exoplanet rotates. And as you say, this doesn't do anything to explain the unbelievably high wind speeds.

Please help me with this. If the planet is tidally locked with its star, how could it possibly be rotating? And without any rotation what is causing those powerful winds? I'm lost on this one.

Now I'm really confused. It's been my understanding that any gamma ray bursts originating within 1,000 light years of earth would decimate our atmosphere and end life as we know it on our planet. How then could the Vela Pulsar, situated at that very distance (of 1,000 light years) from earth...

The NASA spokesperson's statement regarding the six month ISS stay capabilities of the Boeing Starliner is one of the best examples of pretending to actually say something I've ever come across.