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And having finished (I correctly guessed the culprit), I immediately downloaded the next in the series. And started it, but it became bedtime. So...

So I did not realize it isn't a direct appointment, nonetheless I expect it to have an effect on how funds are allocated.

Right. Congressional committee chairs are largely based on majority party affiliation and seniority; the president has no role in selecting the...

Going again tomorrow https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1352413945173311488

I may have misunderstood, but Senate chair positions are not presidential appointments, right? Or do you mean if Biden selects him to serve in some...

It is owned by the village folk and not by a particular person. It is for all to use. Even the government can not change that status.

I guess I was thinking that through a process of logical elimination (e.g., the aliens cannot be incorporeal) one could develop a picture of what a...

What about the Solaris dilemma, from Stanislaw Lem's book "Solaris"? Is it even imaginable that we would encounter alien life that appears...

Depending on where that happens it could lead to charges.

How could an extraterrestrial civilization communicate with us over interstellar distances? Is there a simple and cheap way to do so? Does the fact...

The coworker's wife, or the friend? :evil:

We have a starting point, a center to build from; similarity with our kind of life. We just don't know the boundaries of where to end our search. ...

Because people like to talk about it. It’s far from the only subject where nothing solid can be said but people have pet positions and like to argue...

Air Force Academy to produce more officers for Space Force. Cadets at the academy can choose to serve in the Air Force or the Space Force after they...

Foggy static fire (LabPadre,)

One Biden pick that could impact future NASA budgets is the appointment of Bernie Sanders as Chair of the Senate Budget Committee.

Except that under British law common land is owned, whether by private owners or government bodies.

So you complain about NASA overstepping some imaginary boundary suggesting these terms, but think they should have explicitly included the sites of...

Space industry executive calls on Biden to keep the National Space Council. Mandy Vaughn said the National Space Council is needed for effective...

If the proposal had more examples of historic sites like Russian rocket that 1st touched (crashed) the moon, instead of only having US examples, I...

Biden administration appoints Steve Jurczyk acting NASA chief. Jurczyk has been the agency's associate administrator since May 2018, according to his...

This is one one opinion I can agree with. Treat space as one would treat a "commons" as established by the UK. Putt more strength in peaceful use of...

Another arXiv paper suggesting that a tidally locked exoplanet can have continents. Surface Imaging of Proxima b and Other Exoplanets: Topography,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Exoplanets On Earth-sized planets, plate tectonics is more likely if there are oceans of water....

NASA is simply putting forward a proposal that these historic sites be protected, they are not demanding or insisting and I have to wonder why you so...

Did Ancient Mars Have Continents? (from 2015) With the help of a rock-zapping laser, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has detected Red Planet rocks...

This suggests a tidally locked planet can have continents. The influence of a sub-stellar continent on the climate of a tidally-locked exoplanet ...