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Seems to me that if it worked, they would be using the concept today.

Draw a circle on the ground of sufficient radius, a short segment would be indistinguishable from a straight line.

Typical of our infrastructure maintenance, build it, don’t maintain it enough, then scratch our heads when it falls. Like many bridges and buildings. Just a shame it won’t be rebuilt, it was awesome.

NASA is not the only source of information. There are many universities and other groups who would communicate information like this. They would keep NASA on the up and up. That’s one reason to doubt the Apollo nay-sayers. If Apollo was faked, the Soviet Union and others would have jumped right...

And any strike by another object has a greater chance of causing Apophis to move farther away from Earth as toward it.

It would be like the Earth’s year, but, twice as long, but, sunlight is about half what it is here because of the distance from the Sun. The day is about a half hour longer.

If they pick the right location to land, there should be plenty of water, just need sufficient energy to melt it. Maybe live in one of those lava tubes they’ve seen, build a big water tank overhead. Voila! Shielding. I’m sure it’s easier said than done.

About the only place that ain’t got rocks is stars. To find ones that look like other stuff is no surprise at all.

I think when we meet an alien civilization, we need to ask to see their science fiction movies, especially ones involving Earth.😊

It would take a huge amount of carbon in a certain form to clean the whole atmosphere, but, the process to make that carbon in the correct form would probably produce more CO2 than it would remove.

When black holes like that merge I wonder how ‘stretchy’ they get, like stars falling into one.

And imagine the effects on the internals of the planet itself, suddenly stopping some 6x10^24 kg. Then the most humongous tsunami as the sea sloshes around the Earth a few times. And the moon will stop receding as the Earth’s rotation will no longer drag the tMoon in its orbit, but, the Moon...

Yeah, try to find someone who could do this with pencil and paper today, let alone a team.

Both definitions of the Solar System could be valid. A spacecraft on a transfer orbit beyond the Earth-Moon system will experience interplanetary medium once it gets sufficiently beyond the outer Van Allen belt, but, gravitationally, it will have left the system when the gravitation the the Sun...

We’ve been launching stuff beyond Earth’s atmosphere for 67 years now and haven’t gotten beyond 0.064c thus far. This warp thing is still only one team’s theory. It’ll likely be generations before we get even a subatomic particle into this warp speed thing, if ever. If it ever does become...