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UUnclear Engineer reacted to Witchy's post in the thread The Pluto problem: Is it time to rethink our definition of a planet? with
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There is more than one planet definition currently in use. What this article doesn't say is that only four percent of the IAU voted in... -
UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread James Webb Space Telescope sees lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe.Current theories all put the net force of gravity at zero in the center of spherical masses. However, the negative potential energy of...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Scientists have dated the moon's oldest, and largest, impact site.???? The previous estimates for the period of intense bombardment is 4.2-to-3.8 billion years ago, and this article says that finding a...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blowing up: Inflatable space habitats could be key to exploring the solar system.Realistically, I think NASA is hoping that SpaceX and probably also Blue Origin will create LEO space stations and lunar surface bases...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to ColdBlueFire's post in the thread Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian with Like.
This is the second time I've seen this blatant misdirection on here, "The New Shepard (booster that) became the world's first launch...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to billslugg's post in the thread Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian with Like.
This type of error has been frequent on this site. I have taken other writers to task. The only response I've gotten is surprise that I...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blowing up: Inflatable space habitats could be key to exploring the solar system.Maybe I am misunderstanding what is meant by "airlock"? I was thinking of the actual "door" mechanisms that need to be rigid and close...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA at a crossroads:' Budget woes, aging infrastructure and hard choices ahead.I agreed with ChrisA right up to the point about sending astronauts instead of robots on scientific missions. I think NASA is stil...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA at a crossroads:' Budget woes, aging infrastructure and hard choices ahead.This is really no surprise, given the U.S. national debt of $34 trillion and rising fast. Just the interest payments on that debt...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread What happens when black holes merge?.This article says: "When black holes collide, they release more energy than every star in the universe — and all of it happens in...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent.Trappist 1's planets don't really seem like they would have a high probability of evolving or sustaining life. They are very close to a...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to Craig505's post in the thread Blowing up: Inflatable space habitats could be key to exploring the solar system with Like.
I was part of a UNM group that designed the ARMORHAB Design Reference Architecture back in 2016. See...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread When will Boeing’s Starliner fly astronauts again? NASA still doesn’t know.Boeing has apparently had some sort of capsule (+ service module) thruster problems on all of its StarLiner flights, so far. That does...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent.I think that Bill is right that if an extraterrestrial technological civilization was out there in a similar state of development and...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to billslugg's post in the thread SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent with Like.
We are not, on a large scale, actively trying to communicate with extra terrestrial civilizations, however our military radars are doing...
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