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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Life as we know it could exist on Venus, new experiment reveals.A bit surprising, I would have thought cells needed more protection from the acid. Acids differ in action. Sulphuric acid attacks...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to Unclear Engineer's post in the thread Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters with
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Somebody needs to check their miles to kilometer calculator: 1,000 miles is not 1,800 kms, it is 1,609.344 km. -
TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters.With its thin atmosphere and proximity to the asteroid belt, planetary protection measures will - at a guess - be high on the list of...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Stardust particle locked in meteorite holds secrets of a star's explosive death.Neat analysis in the paper! They use oxygen isotope ratios to conclude a H-burning core collapse supernova. That the olivine grain, a...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Supermassive black hole’s mysterious hiccups' likely caused by neighboring black hole's 'punches.This is an example that turns the "last parsec" problem of mergers on its head. It is already orbiting so close that they have trouble...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Europe's upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed map to aid its search for ancient Red Planet life (video).In other "ESA will be there" astrobiology news, it has decided on an Enceladus mission...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Shiva and Shakti': The ancient star streams that helped weave the Milky Way.From the CNN article Shiva and Shakti lies in the 1/3 Milky Way disk slice surrounding Sun, the stars that Gaia can observe best. There...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Quantum tornado' allows scientists to mimic a black hole on Earth.That adds to the experiments studying Hawking radiation with similar mimics. Black holes are considered gravitationally compressed...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread SpaceX's Starship will go interstellar someday, Elon Musk says.Humanity is likely to colonize the Oort cloud eventually, making for a seamless colonization wave into the next star systems over. If we...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to George²'s post in the thread SpaceX's Starship will go interstellar someday, Elon Musk says with Like.
Yes, sure 😁 One engine to accelerate between 1 and second space speed. Must take more time, and how to balance trajectory when work only...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to danR's post in the thread SpaceX's Starship will go interstellar someday, Elon Musk says with Like.
There is no iteration of this series that could possibly be thought to be capable of interstellar travel except in the sense of...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread SpaceX's Starship will go interstellar someday, Elon Musk says.This is SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell's ulterior motive, and it is funny to see Musk and Shotwell trade public relation...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Interstellar meteor' vibrations actually caused by a truck, study suggests.https://www.universetoday.com/166123/a-790000-year-old-asteroid-impact-could-explain-seafloor-spherules/
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread IceCube might've caught 7 exotic 'ghost particles' as they pierced through Earth.The 1 in 3.5 million likelihood is a more than 5 sigma detection! So it is indeed confirmation of astrophysical and not only solar (or...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to danR's post in the thread IceCube might've caught 7 exotic 'ghost particles' as they pierced through Earth with Like.
"Neutrinos are charge-less and nearly mass-less particles that blast through the cosmos at speeds approaching that of light. Oddly...
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