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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Who is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief?.The article's statement about Isaacman "having no scientific or engineering background" seems off, considering his design and...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 86 years after infamous 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, visitors in the sky have New Jersey panicking again.Following another drone does not seem so simple as you make it sound. For one thing, you would need your own drone to be at the ready...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 86 years after infamous 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, visitors in the sky have New Jersey panicking again.This "don't worry about it" proclamation is wearing mighty thin, especially now that it has interfered with flights at Wright-Patterson...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Mars exploration plans need 'paradigm shifts' to succeed, report finds.There are lots of potential "energy cycles". Some are quite simple. For instance, it is possible to harvest the energy from...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX test-fires Super Heavy booster for 7th Starship launch (video, photos).True, but it takes as much delta-V to get out of orbit and land as it does to take off and get back to orbit. Considering that the mass...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread SpaceX test-fires Super Heavy booster for 7th Starship launch (video, photos).Remember that the landings of StarShips with legs will not be by StarShips that still have full loads of propellants. Another issue...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread ‘Tragedy of the commons’ in space: We need to act now to prevent an orbital debris crisis, scientists say.Allowing salvage in space might be what is needed for the actual owners to get their defunct stuff out of orbit. The "salvage" would...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve.One thing that may be wrong with this article is the part about the "information density" in DNA of various life forms on Earth. That...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Mars exploration plans need 'paradigm shifts' to succeed, report finds.I don't see how we can be planning Mars exploration out into the 2040s with much certainty at this point. We don't know if NASA, China...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Up and over! NASA's Mars rover Perseverance reaches rim of its Jezero Crater home (video).The subwindow where the video gets displayed looks like a blank black rectangle as you first scroll onto it, so most people just scroll...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history.Actually, it is the other way around. There have been so many exposed fakes that we know that we need to be extremely careful what...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history.Bill, Even isotopic analysis is not that convincing for something simple to make, such as a sword. There are already examples of...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history.More assertions that the evidence exists, without offering any, falls flat. Show us the "evidence". And, I don't mean a "tic tac" on a...
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I can't remember who said it, but I do recall a tongue in cheek quote "the best evidence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life is the... -
UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet.Interesting. But, this article states theory as fact in many places. I would still like to see statements that replace "is" and "was"...
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