Recent content by MikeMc

The only way we will find evidence of life on Mars is to go there. There is a massive difference between sending robots to Mars vs sending humans to Mars.

The top of the story says that we will have to wait millions of years to see how this all plays out. I guess so, but it actually already has played out millions of years ago. We are seeing pictures of what the two galaxies looked like 390 million years ago. So in their present day location, the...

I agree with everything you said except for the 3rd and 5th paragraph. Musk has very specifically said that they would not be one-way trips. He thinks that they can re-fuel on Mars by producing methane from airborne carbon dioxide. It doesn't sound very plausible, but I also thought that cars...

I agree that they will crash land. ITF-1, ITF-2, and ITF-3 were all failed attempts on Earth. That is the quickest way to learn. You crash it, study the data, improve the design or procedures. I'm pretty sure that they know what they are doing. I also had a hard time believing that the Sky Crane...

Elon Musk is also not expecting a successful Mars landing, just like he was not expecting IFT-1 to be successful. It took 4 test flights to be successful on Earth and there will likely be at least 4 test flights to Mars where they will likely have crash landings. Because you are not a rocket...

They will likely have Actual Full Self Driving by the end of 2026. If you are watching the videos, they are really getting close. Back in 2017, he didn't mean full autonomy. He meant that the car will be able to do what it actually does today. It drives by itself. Stops at stop signs & stop...

They are doing that. They're not allowed to do multiple things at the same time? Sounds like you don't want them going to Mars no matter what. As you know, the Moon lander and the Mars lander are just modified versions of the exact same ship.

Huh? Of course we are running out of Fossil Fuels. It takes millions of years to produce fossil fuels. We are currently burning through fossil fuels much, much, much faster than they are being replenished. The only way to not run out would be to stop using them. Is that what you mean? They are...

I felt a little confused reading this article because the contributor mostly called the name of the company Lenovo 14 times by my very quick count and LG 5 times by my very quick count. Lenovo is a Chinese company and LG is a Korean company. I’m going to guess that this is a Lenovo product based...

Back in 2004, I couldn't have imagined that it might take 25 years before regularly scheduled flights would begin. Wow. I don't know how many years they will stay in business but they will go out of business at some point. I almost feel like suborbital space is a little pointless at this stage...

That isn’t exactly what he said. He didn’t say that galaxies stopped forming recently. Our solar system only formed 4.5 billion years ago and he is saying that galaxies basically stopped forming more than 13.5 billion years ago. So there is no coincidence. There is exactly the same amount of...

There is a lot more to the merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda other than the distance between stars. The merger could create the energy equivalent to 100 million supernova explosions which could kill all life on Earth. Another effect would be planets getting all mixed up and moving around...

This article was total fiction. Just complete, total, guessing. No one could possibly have a clue as to how many planets with intelligent life there are. All of these so-called factors in the article are all unknowable. I wish I wouldn’t have wasted my time reading it.

Okay, but I feel like it’s important to note that way before a trillion years gets here, there will be no such thing as a sun-like star. Life orbiting a white dwarf would be very extremely unlikely and life orbiting a red dwarf would be very highly unlikely. So when the sun-like stars burn out...

Wouldn't it be simpler to just say 3.2 gigapixel?