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The accretion process whereby a huge dust/gas cloud is perturbed, coalesces (first via Van Der Waals forces, then gravity), accretes into larger and larger masses and ultimately becomes a sun and entire solar system.

This appears to be so. Animals may abstract, but their abstractions are germane only to their day-to-day existence. Hunans, however, do so about things that don't even exist.

There is satellite imagery floating around out there that does show a decrease in light-pollution, on average, in major urban areas around the world since Covid-19 became a real issue. Hope that helps answer your question.

Ah well, that's a pity, but I see the problems as you'd described. As to letting the word get around, yes, I know a fair number of former members here, I've been letting them know as I run into them,

Hi guys. I'd registered here a few days ago, and had noticed that the userbase, as yet, was painfully small. When Tech Media Networks pulled the plug on us back when, we had over 585k registered members. So, a suggestion: Obviously you guys have all of the old, legacy information from the...

Educated guess - not a star, but Venus. It will be visible in the night sky, near the moon, from the 25th through the 27th.

Not, per se, a book, but from the annals of chemist Derek Lowe. This is the subsection of his ongoing blog at ScienceMag, called, "Things I Won't Work With." For those of you with an interest in Chemistry, it's an eye-opener and frequently very humorous, as he chronicles things that only the...

Ugh, Carter. I was serving in the Army as a radar/missile tech. when he was President. A dearth of imagination and follow through. Yes, Jon is a proponent of robotic based exploration, although he was not against manned missions as well. It simply depended on the what and the where. And...

I must admit, it's good that conversations can occur here. The userbase is still painfully small. In the old days, when Tech Media Networks pulled the plug on us, we had over 585k registered members. Hopefully the numbers here will increase. I am also a (now former) engineer. I understand...

I overestimate none of this. In point of fact, one of our old SDC Moderators was Doctor Jon Clarke, who in fact was/is a project scientist for various Mars rover projects. His skew on their capabilities was far different than yours, I'm afraid. Within their limitations they are quite capable...

Ultimately, this renders to a cost/benefit analysis. What is there to Mars that would be ultimately valuable to us? Research? As noted, this can be adequately done using purpose-built rovers. Living space? That's an awful difficult thing to justify, given the sheer distance, small amounts...

The concept of Panspermia is all fine and well, but expecting a space-borne pathogen to identically conform to known Earth variants is a bit much, yeah.

Full list pf lectures at Youtube. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk

"Matrian snake...Matrian snake...you make my guts...quiver and shake." (Disclaimer - these are very old SDC in-jokes)

Well, this is exciting. Hello. I am Yevaud. As with Mental_Avenger, I am one of Space Dot Coms original members and was a Moderator there for over six years. There right from the beginning; there the literal last day the boards were online. The original message boards were a unique...