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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Space mysteries: How does the ISS stay in orbit without falling to Earth?.As was already posted, it is counter-intuitive. If you are in a circular orbit, and fire a thruster to increase your forward speed, you...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket into orbit on 1st flight (video).I watched the video, which was impressive, up the point of booster reignition for the landing sequence. At that point, the video of the...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist's 'Moonhouse' set to lift off on lunar lander.It seems like there is getting to be a lot of stuff being sent to the Moon for emotional rather than scientific purposes. That seems...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to m4n8tpr8b's post in the thread China plans to deflect an asteroid by 2030 to showcase Earth protection skills with
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Ugh. This user was banned since; but the comment is so spectacularly stupid that I have to address it even half a year later. Such a... -
UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Scientists find quantum entanglement on incredibly tiny scales — within individual protons."Entanglement" is a concept, for which we really have no physical explanation. It is "proven" in the sense that, within our concept...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blue Origin scrubs 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to technical issue.I seriously doubt that the professionals involved in either of these launch projects have such an adolescent, egocentric approach to...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to jean-luc suchail's post in the thread Europe's BepiColombo spacecraft to zoom within 150 miles of Mercury in close flyby today with Like.
We do not have the same instruments on board. Much more science will come, the goal is NOT to be the first, but to be the BEST.
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Food grows better on the moon than on Mars, scientists find.The idea that there will be greenhouses on the lunar surface is missing a lot of concepts. Some have been mentioned in earlier...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Humans will soon be able to mine on the moon. But should we? 4 questions to consider.This article tends toward over-regulation "for the good of all" to the point where the entities that try to comply may simply be unable...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter.Well, that position is not really defensible, considering that we have no actual knowledge about what either dark matter nor dark energy...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter.As I posted in reply #2
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter.OK, but where do you stand on the "spoonful of guestimation" vs "mythology"? Probably best to focus your response on the concept of...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter."Jim Franklin", It seems like you just changed "finiter's" categorization of QM and RT from "mythology" to "theory". So, why quote me...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How the 'Great Filter' could explain why we haven't found intelligent aliens.Agreed that I missed three zeros, making thousands instead of millions. I have now fixed that in the previous post. Speciation in...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter.To the extent that QM and GR are successful in quantitatively predicting observable effects, I would not call them "mythology". But...
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