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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic 1st private spacewalk in orbit (video).Maybe not a "giant leap", but certainly more than a "baby step". I am interested in whether the seals on the hatch have resulted in any...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How SpaceX's historic Polaris Dawn private spacewalk will work.Not to mention that a retrograde orbit would mean that other orbiting objects are coming at you at twice orbital velocity, so much less...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing's Starliner during landing, NASA says.While Boeing is not (so far as I know) getting additional compensation for their continuing program to get their capsule certified, it...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Perseverance rover's Mars samples must be brought back to Earth, scientists stress.https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-says-it-found-possible-signs-life-mars-there-are-lot-maybes We won't know without doing...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing's Starliner during landing, NASA says.Space travel has not been very safe. Using rough data from a variety of imprecise sources, it seems that there have been about 700...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures.We are making some progress in understanding the language of sperm whales, and using "AI" to do it. See...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures.That is the part that I am disagreeing with. It is not a logical expectation for what current "AI" really is and does. In order for an...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread A long-lost moon could explain Mars' weird shape and extreme terrain.The editors seem to have deleted a paragraph that introduces "Nerio" as the name of a lost moon of Mars. The story also fails to mention...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures."AI" at this point in its development is not capable of "critical thinking" - the ability to look at the big picture and say "something...
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The current state of AI doesn't really work that way. It "learns" from existing/past data. Meaning our AI wouldn't know what it was... -
UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.Making methane fuel on Mars would require more than the CO2 in the atmosphere. It would require water, lots of energy, and substantial...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread The great silence: Just 4 in 10,000 galaxies may host intelligent aliens.Here are some links to Antarctic sub-glacial lakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.The other side of this issue is that we are still trying to figure out if life ever evolved on Mars, and whether there is still some...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.The Sky Crane is really a good idea for delivering an autonomous rover to the surface, because it puts it down gently and right-side-up...
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