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Virgin Orbit now targeting Sunday for 1st spaceflight. The four-hour launch window opens at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT). ...

Here are some samples from the soundtrack of "Forbidden Planet". Yes, excellent space music. ...

The K Dwarf Advantage for Biosignatures on Directly Imaged Exoplanets (Giada N. Arney). Oxygen and methane are considered to be the canonical...

Wormholes may be lurking in the universe – and new studies are proposing ways of finding them. QUOTE: Some wormholes may be “traversable”, meaning...

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Not good at sharing, but here goes. Am 65, have high blood pressure + diabetes II, etc. About 2 weeks ago caught a bad sore throat. Could not be seen...

Michael Anteski permanently banned for a long and persistent history of revisiting closed ATM topics, as in this latest instance. This, in spite of...

Previously covered ATM(s). Thread closed.

Well, I really did go to the library often. So there's that. TV shows and radio music were on when they were on, until VCRs came along. Then we...

publiusr suspended for political and off-topic post.

Talking about how increasing the budget for space as part of some other bill or package is probably ok, but the rest is completely off topic and...

So basically Lockheed Martin have palmed passed it off to NASA before anything else breaks?

And yet the empirical evidence says you are wrong. Most recent problems SpaceX have encountered have been with newly made boosters and second stages....

If you want to have statistically valid data to base your specific product curve on, certainly. I was naming it in the more general sense that a...

I don't think so. I cannot imagine any scenario where the tidal interaction would cause the Earth to spin up. My educated-guess hypothesis is that...

I think bath tub Theory applies to mass produced components which allow a probability to be measured. For example bathtub theory is extensively used...

Automation covers a wide range of technologies, traditional ones use expensive tooling so that economy only comes with very large numbers.

I've noticed the same thing. Some nights it's very close to Aldebarans magnitude. Other nights it's 0.1 or 0.2 magnitudes brighter.

Do you apply the same reasoning to aircraft and insist on planes that haven't been test flown? The effects of wear and tear can be measured,...