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If Man were serious about colonizing outside the solar system. by bowser March 28, 2012 12:07 am

Sounds like a possible sci-fi story! by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 01:39:53
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- Bowser's musings about a dying race sending off its genetic material to the stars in order to secure some sort ... by ER 2012-03-28 07:12:14
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  - Not a new idea at all. It's called "panspermia", and has been around since ancient times. My point is that ... by bowser 2012-03-28 16:13:56
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  - Find a way to make money out there, and the investment will be made. by TB 2012-03-28 09:05:50
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    - Hey, you're preaching to the choir. I want to go, even if I have to pay for my own ticket. "Find ... by ER 2012-03-28 09:33:24
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Very important test by johannes March 27, 2012 11:37 am

Which theory would that be? I've not heard it. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-27 18:06:12
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- Thanks for asking When I have a chance I’ll post some info about it on Mysteries Of The Multiverse by johannes 2012-03-28 10:13:54
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- You asked for it. by podrock 2012-03-27 18:20:57
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NASA says water ice may be on Mercury by bowser March 27, 2012 6:50 pm

Allow me to enlighten you on what I know here.... While ice might be found on Mercury, the Chances are slim ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 01:38:50
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The Wow! Signal by ER March 26, 2012 4:51 pm

Google Sky isn't the most reliant of sources either, so I've been checking star charts myself. So far, nothing ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 17:21:44
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- Those two narrow bands are the Right Ascension boundaries of the error box of the signal. Their heights represent ... by ER 2012-03-26 17:49:33
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  - Wiki? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 21:34:15
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    - I meant Wikipedia. by ER 2012-03-27 04:59:14
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      - Thanks for the clarification, but I read it in an encyclopedia. What I was confused about was why it ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-27 13:41:08
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        No, MY source was the Wikipedia entry on the WOW signal, and I put a link to it in my ... by ER 2012-03-27 14:32:01
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        I still wonder if we're barking up the wrong trees. by TB 2012-03-27 14:56:14
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        If you assume ET doesn't want to give its position away, (which is a perfectly reasonable assumption!) you must also ... by ER 2012-03-27 15:31:22
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        Personally, I think that they'll be using quantum telephones and radios, like the ones in "Crimes and Glory" Basically, two or ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-27 18:18:38
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Some optimistic SETI material by ER March 27, 2012 11:22 am

Tweeted from James Cameron by TB March 25, 2012 3:49 pm

A little more news here. by TB 2012-03-26 09:07:04
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That is truly impressive. by bowser 2012-03-25 22:23:18
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I can't wait see what he's sharing. Far Out! No...wait...Far In?...Far Under? Anyway, I raise my glass to the man, the ... by podrock 2012-03-25 18:09:37
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- He'll get to the bottom of it all by tomorrow. by ER 2012-03-25 18:13:17
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  - He may find that Silt Happens. by podrock 2012-03-25 18:35:09
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  - I'm sure we'll get an in-depth report. by ER 2012-03-25 18:15:47
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    - Give him time...he's under a lot of pressure right now. by podrock 2012-03-25 18:36:45
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      - Hey, if we had to sit under seven miles of water, we might leak something nasty too. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 01:21:47
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He's in way over his head. by ER 2012-03-25 17:03:55
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A question for ER by bowser March 22, 2012 11:43 pm

Flex by RobVG 2012-03-23 09:22:44
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- I was in Deck Dept. Those guys in the black gang (Hull Dept), are all crazy. We used to ... by ER 2012-03-23 10:38:57
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- That's about an inch of torque deflection every three feet or so. That sounds pretty high for high-strength steel. by TB 2012-03-23 10:04:35
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  - I don't remember my ship flexing like that, but we were much smaller, and much more ruggedly built and internally ... by ER 2012-03-23 10:24:02
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    - This is one thing we need to fix if we want good spacecraft. Vehicles planetside (mainly air and sea ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-23 20:18:43
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      - Everything constructed to resist any kind of load will "flex" under that load. by TB 2012-03-23 21:43:14
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        I did notice that in the video. I also noticed all the parts that were flying off the shuttle ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-24 00:44:01
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        That's ice coming loose. by TB 2012-03-24 11:09:13
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That's a pretty standard high speed turn, its what destroyers are designed to do, high-speed maneuvers while chasing or dodging ... by ER 2012-03-23 05:28:19
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- Appendix by ER 2012-03-23 06:51:39
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SpaceX on "60 Minutes" by TB March 19, 2012 7:14 pm

Saw it. Touching when Musk teared up talking about Armstrong and Cernan and their criticism. (n/t) by RobVG 2012-03-19 20:59:35
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Space Shuttle: riding the boosters by TB March 19, 2012 10:55 am

Great video. There is so much video and telemetry coming from something like a shuttle launch. How do ... by bowser 2012-03-19 12:01:15
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- Nearest I can tell, it's magic. by TB 2012-03-19 12:45:05
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  - It seems so. "Harry, we're getting a .2 undervolt reading on your watch battery. You may want to ... by bowser 2012-03-19 13:15:55
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    - The down side... by TB 2012-03-19 13:52:19
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  - It makes some sort of sense to me, if very little. If broadcasts on frequencies are refined enough, they ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-19 13:12:11
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Neutrino radio! by TB March 15, 2012 11:18 am

That's more than a little intriguing. Seems a bit like the telegraph in 1840, barely practical but a proven ... by bowser 2012-03-18 18:14:24
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Only question is, can it work longer distances? Let's send them to Japan, Canada, or the South Pole. ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-15 13:05:20
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Infrared Atlas of the Sky by ER March 14, 2012 8:18 pm

Artifacts would be much cooler than even the coolest stars, but much warmer than most gases, rocks, etc. By simultaneously ... by ER 2012-03-14 21:07:09
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- I'm at the limits of my knowledge of astronomical technique. by TB 2012-03-15 08:39:24
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  - You seem to have a pretty good intuitive grasp of astronomical technique, particularly since you haven't been trained in it. ... by ER 2012-03-15 12:01:48
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The snag is that even a pretty impressive IR source will get washed out by the star it's orbiting. by TB 2012-03-14 20:38:38
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*Unmanly squeal* by Vitruvius March 14, 2012 12:16 am

Political compass by Robert 2012-03-14 11:48:58
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The methods used by astronomers to detect exoplanets around nearby stars all have severe limitations. These methods include 1)Transit. ... by ER 2012-03-14 04:40:27
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- I wonder if the detected planets so far have any pattern to their orbital planes relative to the galactic plane? by TB 2012-03-14 07:37:26
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  - There is no "up and down" or "back and forth" in space, Only tilted toward or away from us. ... by ER 2012-03-14 14:23:25
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    - I was thinking local perspective, as seen through a telescope. To be more precise, any number of extra-solar planetary ... by TB 2012-03-14 16:17:46
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      - Its a reasonable question, but the galaxy is very old, almost as old as the universe itself, about 14 Gyr ... by ER 2012-03-14 18:14:19
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        I'd say that's probably a pretty accurate take on it. by TB 2012-03-14 20:04:37
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  - No. As you surmise in your last post, the two have absolutely no causal relation to one another. by ER 2012-03-14 13:54:03
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  - Hmmmm. by TB 2012-03-14 09:35:26
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    - An ellipse tilted relative to our line of sight is still an ellipse (of different apparent shape). So there ... by ER 2012-03-14 14:01:31
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    - Our own solar system has no alignment with the galactic plane. by TB 2012-03-14 10:01:13
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