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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blowing up: Inflatable space habitats could be key to exploring the solar system.This inflatable technology, plus the development of technologies to use local materials like lunar regolith and Martian soil to create...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happen.I won't have time to make extensive comments, today. At this point, I just want to say that it does not necessarily take the same...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX launching 20 Starlink internet satellites from Florida tonight.I saw it from Maryland. I was out looking for the Atlas comet (no luck) on a mostly clear evening, but there is too much moisture and...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happen.To extend this discussion a bit more relative to the state of understanding of the real issues for a space elevator: 1. Note that the...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread What would happen if Earth stopped spinning?."Perpetual motion" itself is not inconsistent with known physical laws. Newton's first law is: " A body remains at rest, or in motion...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happen.Stephen Cohen, you are apparently not trying to actually discuss the issues, and are sending me off to find things that you say exist...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Massive galaxy with no dark matter is a cosmic puzzle .First line of the linked article: "A vortex of electrons provides unprecedented information on magnetic quantum states in solids"...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happen.From https://answers.library.american.edu/faq/405403 "ResearchGate is a business that hosts open access research. It is neither a...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Massive galaxy with no dark matter is a cosmic puzzle .I am going back to my conspiracy theory that the dark matter is really the cloaked properties of the Klingon Empire. For proof, please...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Why haven't we found intelligent alien civilizations? There may be a 'universal limit to technological development’.OK, I'll wait for the actual announcement. No sense wasting my time listening to some long-winded non-scientist tell us that some...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happen.Can you show me a link to a report of how the upper mass moves as a function of climber mass and speed?
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Why haven't we found intelligent alien civilizations? There may be a 'universal limit to technological development’.Dave, do you have a link that describes the "unusual pattern in the initial signal"?
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happen.I am not trying to discourage further thinking and analyses of the space elevator concept. But, I think it is well past time for...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to Space Robot's post in the thread These 'failed stars' orbit so closely it took 29 years to tell they were a pair with
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Wow! The illustration showing the size comparison is completely wrong! Jupiter is NOT half the diameter of the Sun, but closer to 1/10... -
UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn't easy.A coupe of comments: 1. The countries with nuclear weapons have the capabilities and rights under the treaty to produce weapons-grade...
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