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UUnclear Engineer reacted to danielravennest's post in the thread Can space-based solar power really work? Here are the pros and cons. with
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I've done work on space solar power for Boeing and the Space Studies Institute. The main obstacle has been cost, mainly launch cost... -
UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread What would happen if the Milky Way's black hole erupted? This distant galaxy paints a terrifying picture.This story seems to have substantial infusion of click-bait. The jets from the poles of black holes are usually going perpendicular to...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Black holes may obey the laws of physics after all, new theory suggests.These stories about black holes always strike me as inconsistent with stories about the BBT "beginning" of our universe. The whole...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse.Please note that the UN Charter, the Ten Commandments, and many other written documents have failed to achieve their stated...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse.Still trying to stay out of politics, I will just cite the Chinese attempt to limit their population growth. To some degree, it worked...
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UUnclear Engineer reacted to Helio's post in the thread Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds with Like.
Nice article. That eccentricity is low for smaller mass exoplanets is interesting. Here's my amateur approach to it in hopes to learn...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind.Ironic that my call, for not letting disputes about the definition of the word "universe" block discussions of what is in or outside...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse.Magnaflux, the problems in the Middle East, and elsewhere, are largely due to competition for land and resources "on the ground" and...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse.Getting enough people to agree to have only 2 children per "family" is the problem. If you look at places like refugee camps and even...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse.While I basically agree that human population increase is the root cause of increasing human caused climate effects, it is not a simple...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind.I am well aware of the discussions about the definition of "universe" and its various modifiers here on this forum. But, theorists do...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe' (video).This article never says how many pixels the camera has, it just says that it would take "400 ultra-high-definition TV screens" to...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind.I don't think that semantics should be used to avoid discussing concepts. If we have to add the words to make it clear, then something...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 13 faster-than-light travel methods from sci-fi that leave Einstein's theory of relativity in their space dust.These interstellar transportation processes in science fiction are using the "plausible impossibility" principle long used in animated...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread 13 faster-than-light travel methods from sci-fi that leave Einstein's theory of relativity in their space dust.I am surprised that we don't yet seem to have a 14th - "entanglement". But, that might be the backfitted explanation for some of that...
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