Recent content by Zaphod the Elder

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    Basic Error: The accelerating Universe conclusion - reason

    Yes, I think that would be a very good use of your time, going forward. Do it.
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    Add a Speculations Section?

    Does the whole Forum section not already acknowledge and encourage it? Seems so.
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    US Congress will hold another UFO hearing this week. Here's how to watch

    Wow, congress is taking more, serious looks at UFOs. Believe it or not, this is about the most non-crazy thing the US government and leaders are doing. CRAZY times.
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    China planning to build its own version of SpaceX's Starship

    That may be true, but a foot long bamboo tube stuffed with 3rd rate gunpowder and a short wooden stick for a guidance system is NOWHERE near the modern technology of rocketry. Virtually zero overlap. You may as well compare a thrown rock (ballistic payload) to the sophisticated payloads of...
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    Tachyon Turmoil

    "Maybe tachyons come in two (mutually exclusive?) 'flavors', either all electric or all magnetic." Until you prove tachyons exist, this is hogwash and your whole speculation is wrong. And, tachyons are not 'All electric or all magnetic". This is a nonsense statement, does not parse, prove...
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    Alternate Gravity Theory

    "The basic premise is that tachyons deliver time-dilation/mass & thereby gravity to space-time." Prove that tachyons exist. Prove it. Then you can post this. If you can't, then you should withdraw all this. Tachyons are thought to not exist by the vast majority of serious physicists; it is...
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    Space Compression Theory of Gravity

    " If the spacetime fabric can be “curved” or “warped” it can also be compressed." Prove it. Prove it!!! Just because space time is called a fabric, that does NOT mean it is a fabric-like object. You are misled by this, to state that this physical 'fabric' can be compressed. The General...
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    China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity

    Ordering of space powers: 1) spacex 2) china 3) rest of the USA 4) russia 5) ESA
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    Question If One Put a Massive Asteroid in Geosynchronous Orbit of Earth at 100 Miles of Altitude Would that Change the Day Length?

    Uuuuhhhh, people, you can't have a geosynchronous orbit at 100 miles up. Not possible. NO. NOT.