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    Torbjorn Larsson reacted to danR's post in the thread Black holes can squash star formation, James Webb Space Telescope finds with Like.

    "Squash" "Quash", with its sense of "suppress", might be better employed here; and is closer to the paper's frequent use of the word...

    Jan 5, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Was 2024 the year we finally started to understand dark energy?.

    The article does not describe new research that would reject LCDM. On the contrary, the latest DESI results confirms LCDM (so general...

    Jan 5, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson reacted to George²'s post in the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved? with Like.

    I remember when I lived in a cave and I looked up, I could see the ceiling of the cave.

    Jan 4, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?.

    Sorry to disappoint, but AFAIK complete sterilization attempts only happened with the Viking probes. Soviet (crash) landers before that...

    Jan 4, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?.

    As long as politicians are not involved, I'm sure we can get a program that is cheaper for the US. (Remember that ESA is currently...

    Jan 4, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson reacted to Nik0101's post in the thread Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved? with Like.

    "ID a bug"?? "Scientific fluff"?? Wait... What!? Do you mean definitively answering the question mankind has been pondering since when...

    Jan 4, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Will 2025 be the year of Starship? SpaceX's megarocket is growing up..

    The next Starship launch has been placed on SpaceX's website, though the date is still to be announced there. Some details bearing on...

    Jan 4, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson reacted to Philly's post in the thread Will 2025 be the year of Starship? SpaceX's megarocket is growing up. with Like.

    SpaceX has done some rather amazing. 134 Falcon 9 launches in 2024. That also means they produced/manfactured 134 2nd stages for the...

    Jan 4, 2025
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread SpaceX's big year: The new records and feats Elon Musk's space company achieved in 2024.

    After having read today's news I have considered - today polarization is not the worst thing that is happening. Musk, who has a history...

    Dec 28, 2024
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread SpaceX's big year: The new records and feats Elon Musk's space company achieved in 2024.

    Journalists informing on the context is a well regarded service to the reader, "your obvious political animosities" aside. (And globally...

    Dec 28, 2024
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought.

    It explains much if fact such as the magma ocean crystallisation time, a lower number of impact basins than expected, the rarity of...

    Dec 24, 2024
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought.

    Moons and ring particles are essentially on Keplerian (elliptical) orbits. The smaller, easily charged dust particles - like those...

    Dec 24, 2024
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought.

    The model may be useful but got immediate criticism...

    Dec 24, 2024
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    Torbjorn Larsson replied to the thread ‘Missing link’ black hole found? Not so fast, new study says.

    There is no hard criteria for abandonment, which is why the question remains open. The kind of cluster formation found here is a much...

    Dec 22, 2024
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    Torbjorn Larsson reacted to Don M's post in the thread Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis with Like.

    The Universe's "incredibly rapid rate" of expansion depends on perspective. The current rate is ~7% larger every billion years.

    Dec 21, 2024

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