Recent content by OliverClosehuf

Glad I found this thread. I've always wondered why the expansion of the universe was run backwards to a singularity instead of stopping sooner, like at the big tear, or the big hernia, or the big flush (gives a new meaning to dark matter) :) So with the modeling that's been done, has the...

As an average nobody, I'm not worried about the question "are we alone?". Someone has to be first and there is no evidence an average schmo like me can access that would prove that isn't us. I'm more concerned with how we can terraform Venus and get some use out of it before the Sun grows too...

What happens when you blow a soap bubble into the wind? It goes in whatever direction the wind blows. I would expect Proxima Centauri's solar wind would keep anything like this from getting anywhere close, unless we are just blowing bubbles to see how the wind blows.