Recent content by monitorlizard

If you input Starlink, that is some pretty serious coverage.

I suspect many of you have seen this already, but if not... http://stuffin.space/

Contact with other life forms? You buy a plot of land, and wish to build a new house. The guy with the backhoe shows up to dig out the space for the basement and foundation. There are quite possibly 500 million ants in that 20' x 40' space. Does he ask the ants already living there if they...

So far that we humans have observed, yes.

Reply to this post and let us know what your favourite shuttle/ spacecraft is and why. Apollo 11, Eagle. Major turning point.

Many match heads + masking tape, rolled into a ball = a NICE smoke/stink bomb.

Given appropriate levels of handwavium, anything is "possible". Given current 21st century human knowledge and technology? No.

"You people are idiots! Stop blowing each other up." or "The bombing will commence in 3 minutes"

Humans on Mars? 3 years from now? Not a chance. First, show us the plan for a vehicle with 2 or more humans, living off planet, totally unsupported, for more than 6 months. Do it in LEO first, then we'll see.

Which liftoff?

Depending on the definition of "intelligent", the probability of "intelligent life evolving on a planet" is 100%. Us. The question is, did it happen a second time? I say Yes. But the probability of humans discovering this second (or third/fourth/twentieth) instance in the lifetime of anyone...

"Could We Be Aliens?" depends on the definition of "alien".

The one I'm currently in. Anything else is a crapshoot. Or, if it was identical enough....whats the difference?

Speed of sound on Mars at ground level is ~540mph. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/ 4 feet diameter @ 2400rpm = tip speed of ~502mph. Close, but not quite over. EDIT: Mods, please move this to an appropriate Forum.

Given the total resources of the Solar System and given unlimited funds and given a reason and given we invent whatever death ray that thing puts out and given that Darth Vader exists to push the project forward exactly as it is in the movie... Sure. But why "exact"? If, in in 1821, you were...