Recent content by skynr13

The ESA is responsible for returning the samples and have their craft ready to do that once they are supplied to orbit.

I agree with your point on entropy being a product of entanglement. It would seem that two quarks that are entangled would be non-entropic and a lot less messy. Because there would be less atomic interaction on a vast scale. It is important in this article to know that quarks are entangled. I...

I still tend to differ. Totally removing the 'filter' (aka; atmosphere) would be more or less like removing an obstruction from an Earth based telescope, except it would be difficult if not impossible for the astronomer to breathe! All those other filters you mention are really beside the point.

The atmosphere in this case is not a filter, but an obstruction.

Didn't scientists disprove that theory about 'seed' BH's?

Although possibly they will find that Intermediate BH's can't survive well in position. And will fall to the galactic center rather quickly, a good reason they find so few. (or none) Also, it might lead to new science, especially if the Intermediate BH is going from the outside-in past Earth.

It still cannot land on the Moon without landing legs. So why isn't that being introduced now for testing?

Or having the legs it will needs to land on the Moon. Chopstik catches are fine, but it will still need legs to land on other planets or moons. It would be especially fine now, as it would facilitate it's landing even on Earth during testing and check one more test off the books before regular...

Ok, so you mean send up a human or humans to assemble the satellite or telescope. But every time humans launch into space there is the risk of loss of life and that is probably why they assemble these things on the ground.

With today's solar panels that unfurl they'd be no problem with being attached before launch. The shields and mirrors I don't know. But if they have to be assembled in space, in order to do that you'd need a robot to be sent up with it and that is what I was thinking would be the extra cost. I...

But it would also create extra cost trying to assemble them in outer space as well as the reliability of something that wasn't assembled on Earth and can't be reconfigured by hand before use. So, it's a 50/50 proposition there if not worse with trying to assemble and test them in space.

I wouldn't say, Mars is no place to test this copter. I don't know the specifications on the Dragonfly mission copter, but the only difference in the Mars helicopter from one on Earth is Earth copters rotate at around 500 rpm. where the Mars helicopter rotates around 1000 rpm. Also, the blade is...

Good one, MHF! I wondered/thought the same thing.

There is little evidence to prove what was in the meteorite was ever alive except it resembled a small worm. It was eventually concluded that the tubular was just an artifact of mineral formation.