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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX catches giant Starship booster during historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing (video).One of the things that ChrisA talks about is the expense of the engineers to design, build, test and operate a scientific payload. But...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to fj.torres's post in the thread SpaceX catches giant Starship booster during historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing (video) with
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Power source? Ignore the luddite nuclear phobia. Small modular fission reactors will do the trick for larger systems and if you haven't... -
UUnclear Engineer reacted to fj.torres's post in the thread SpaceX catches giant Starship booster during historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing (video) with Like.
Part of the reason why probes, telescopes, and landers are expensive to build is the size and weight limits of existing launch vehicles...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s − a crewed mission could unlock some of the red planet’s geologic mysteries.While I support the idea of sending humans to Mars for scientific exploration, I am questioning the idea that NASA's SLS is adequate for...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blue Origin to debut 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket on Oct. 7 launch (photo).Well, the Blue Origin "New Glenn" rocket is designed to have a reusable first stage, and there is work to make the second stage...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?.Ken, Looking at your linked graph for temperature (proxy), the long flat period of the last 10,000 years actually starts to go down at...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?.The actual system of chemicals transported around the planet, into and out of the ground by subduction, volcanism, etc, is quite...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX catches giant Starship booster during historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing (video).I do hope to see more frequent StarShip launches, now that the booster capture flight has been approved and was successful on its first...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?.Helio, What I am saying about CO2 having a causal effect on warming is based on looking at the CO2 concentrations for hundreds of...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?.Yes, atmospheric concentration of CO2 seems to lag a bit, compared to temperature. Many things have been shown to release more CO2...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX Starship launches: live updates.Well, they caught the booster on the first attempt. I did not see anything that the FAA could call a "mishap", so maybe we can get back...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to Torbjorn Larsson's post in the thread Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound with Like.
Seems it could help with ionization, since early galaxies barely produced enough escaping photons. There are sound wave analogs in the...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to Torbjorn Larsson's post in the thread Nearby exoplanet is a 1st-of-its-kind 'steam world,’ James Webb Space Telescope finds with Like.
GJ 9827 d is a sub-Neptune (1.98 Earth radius) just above the radius valley, but it is interesting even so. It is a complicated issue:
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Cosmic rays have surprising amounts of antimatter. Is dark matter responsible?.Aren't each of those analysis techniques empirically calibrated to 100% of what is being measured? That would make them all come out to...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?.It is not as easy as dismissing the term "climate" completely. That is a fail that everybody can understand. When there are 2 mile...
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