tkdguy Posted July 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 New Geologic Map of Mars Closing in on Extraterrestrial Life Spence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 ESA Spaceplane Debut Fast Radio Bursts Detected in the Auriga Region Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted July 18, 2014 Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 Fast Radio Bursts Detected in the Auriga Region Relics of million-year old civilizations, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 Perhaps. Interesting idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted July 18, 2014 Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 Pure idle speculation and probably impossible to prove either way, but a fun idea none the less! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 A building at Kennedy Space Center is named in honor of Neil Armstrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 A building at Kennedy Space Center is named in honor of Neil Armstrong. That's one small step for an organisation, one giant leap for an... Hold on. I'll come in again. tkdguy and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2014 How the solar storm in 2012 could have affected us. Granted, the title is pretty dramatic, but a direct hit would have had some pretty big repercussions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Another way to look for extraterrestrial civilizations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 A new off-world record! L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 ... Now, if it only could do a burnout. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 1, 2014 Report Share Posted August 1, 2014 Successful test of reactionless microwave drive by NASA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2014 Plans to make oxygen on Mars Fermi bubbles (in the wine) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 It would be super awesome if the reactionless drive really works. Freed from the tyranny of the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation, we could mount interstellar probe missions even if warp drive doesn't pan out, and the entire solar system, at the very least, would be ours for the taking. Combine that with the work being done on economically reusable launch systems, and the next few decades could be VERY exciting. However, there's that pesky conservation of momentum thing . . . IF the drive works, a major law of physics will have to be reworked, and the implications and ramifications will be almost as exciting as the applications of the drive. For example, if it turns out that you CAN violate conservation of momentum, what other ways can you violate it, and how might those be applied to practical technology? I'm not getting my hopes up just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 How to speak with aliens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2014 William Shatner, NASA exchange tweets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Observational error? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 http://phys.org/news/2014-08-ibex-voyager-spacecraft-advances-outer.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 It would be super awesome if the reactionless drive really works. Freed from the tyranny of the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation, we could mount interstellar probe missions even if warp drive doesn't pan out, and the entire solar system, at the very least, would be ours for the taking. Combine that with the work being done on economically reusable launch systems, and the next few decades could be VERY exciting. However, there's that pesky conservation of momentum thing . . . IF the drive works, a major law of physics will have to be reworked, and the implications and ramifications will be almost as exciting as the applications of the drive. For example, if it turns out that you CAN violate conservation of momentum, what other ways can you violate it, and how might those be applied to practical technology? I'm not getting my hopes up just yet. As more details about this "result" become available, it looks more like a measurement error. They tested two drives in the lab, one of which was a "null" that wasn't supposed to produce any thrust, while the other one was expected to (maybe) produce (a little) thrust. The problem is, a small but measurable thrust was detected from both of them. This probably means the experiment wasn't set up correctly. Time will tell; they're still working on it. http://jalopnik.com/why-nasas-impossible-engine-is-likely-just-that-1616224512 If I can find a better article I'll post a link for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 ... And suddenly, the lab went BOOM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 As more details about this "result" become available, it looks more like a measurement error. That's about what I expected. A truly reactionless thruster would violate both conservation of momentum AND conservation of energy, so I really don't expect to ever see one. It feels slightly ironic that warp drive is actually more feasible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Zombie Stars??? And you thought you'd be safe once you made it into outer space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 That's about what I expected. A truly reactionless thruster would violate both conservation of momentum AND conservation of energy, so I really don't expect to ever see one. It feels slightly ironic that warp drive is actually more feasible. Wired's take at http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/07/10-qs-about-nasa-impossible-drive . I'm getting kind of annoyed with the whole subject. If the paper's abstract doesn't even match the content, what are we supposed to make of the supposed science? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Skylon Spaceplane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Possible signal coming from dark matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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