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"Following Perseverance, NASA awards contract for Mars sample return" ...

"NASA's new Mars rover hits dusty red road, 1st trip 21 feet" ...

Pondering this more, perhaps the distinction I prefer is between technology and science, rather than the idea of protoscience. If we exclude...

Yes thank you for picking that up, I perhaps am playing with words like others. Coining protoscience is to invent a pseudomeaning. As soon as...

Starlink v1.0 Launch 20 Date: March 9, 2021 Time: 2158 Eastern (0258 UT) Pad: LC-40 Booster: 1058.6 ​​​Recovery: ASDS Fairing recovery: yes

And sometimes even the same lengths. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

On AAVSO, magnitudes run from +0.8 to +0.3. The difference is a bit subtle. Some nights it appears equal to Aldebaran, +0.86. Other nights it...

At least it's now possible to by packages of hot dogs and buns with the same quantities!

On Twitter, Betelbot continues to report day-to-day changes in brightness bewteen ~85 and over 100% of its "average brightness". CJSF

There are some other cool things there, like work on developing a simple dust removal system for solar panels (would be really useful on Mars) and a...

Thanks, that makes sense.

Well, well... https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-nasa-partnerships-to-mature-commercial-space-technologies-capabilities

SpaceX has been cleared to use Starlink on their droneships https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=267270 and they're hiring for droneship,...

I’ve had zip type packages that sometimes work. It reminds me of the “easy open” packages for hot dogs and such, which might just be possible to...

The page that NCN quoted showed that there are a variety of definitions of protoscience. When you say “there is no such thing” do you mean that you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoscience

There is no such thing as a protoscience, nor a foundational theory. There is scientific method, now, not always, it has evolved well after many...

Science is a process of a analysis, not a fixed result. A science is an area of study, so any topic that is being studied through the scientific...

When I drove onto the scale at the transfer station I noticed that the readout for the vehicle weight was less than usual. Then I realized that...

It's handy that the bag the dishwasher pods come in has a built-in zip feature. It'd be even more handy if it actually worked.

I thought the generally accepted definition was that it becomes a science once the majority of people in the field are constructing and testing...

Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket is delayed for years. What went wrong? The big delay can be traced to a decision Jeff Bezos made years ago. ...

More information on Apophis can be found here. https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?172299-Missions-to-asteroid-Apophis-in-2029

That was my interpretation as well. Not practical.

Poorly designed software. Part of Mrs EV’s job is coordinating the daily pickup of many packages at people’s homes and having them sent to a...

*groan*