I used the term "electric engines" to avoid limiting myself to ion engines. Why? There are superior electric engines to ion engines, suchas the MPD...
Then were are the alien biospheres in our solar system? What about Earth: why are there no silicon-based bacteria? What about Venus: why are there no...
Sveet. This is the link to the thread on the tech forum. I'd rather you not post there, let the thread die :o But it'll give you a really go idea of...
Sure I can, I just have to correct the number. 16 billion is a starting point. But not just a starting point, but the point from which you *must*...
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame91.html Sometimes Patois will come right out and announce that English is not his native tongue, but even if...
For LEO its @ 8km/s. V measured in miles-per-hour or miles-per-second, kilometers-per-hour or kilometers-per-second? R measured in miles or...
Now we go from what is accepted as "physics" into the realm of "philosophy." Goody goody: I'm better at the latter than the former. "Proof," sir,...
Best reply in an internet forum evar :) Well TS, the issue with the balloon-people of Jupiter and the rock-dwarves of Venus is that they aren't...
The marine engineers and power company can figure that out. That's incidental. As proof: how long will a nuclear power plant last? That is, in...
It is a fallacy to claim that your proof lies just beyond our ability to detect. Physics as we know it states that nothing but photons can travel at...
By "universe" you may have confused two terms. "Universe" is often meant "all the galaxies and stars and such." However, it is also meant "the...
Only if a mirror is hard to find :)
I read about this on the internet a few days ago. It's just so outrageous, like a space elevator to GEO or a 50km tower as the first step to LEO....
Well, the Drake equation only works for life similar to ours. It works for finding ETs that are human for all intents and purposes. If you want to...
That's called Moore's Law. Wait a few months and regular ol' transistors-and-silicon will do the trick without help from quantum trickery. As for...
It's a question of how long you want to take re-entering the atmosphere. There are two different kinds of aerobraking that people talk about....
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