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2021-Mar-06, 01:57 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread Eccentricity and synchronous rotation in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

How eccentric does a planet's orbit around its star have to be before its "stable" rotation is 2/3 of a revolution? I know Mercury is over the limit....

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2021-Mar-01, 05:10 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread What is Antare's habitable zone? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

What would it be like to be on this planet? I am picturing Antares looking like a little round burning cloud, fuzzy or blurry on the limb, and the...

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2021-Mar-01, 04:09 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread Terraformed planet of O star in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

What would it be like to be on an inhabitable (presumably terraformed) world of an O star? I am thinking a brilliant deep purple sky, like the light...

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2021-Mar-01, 04:03 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread M 5.3 earthquake near Point MacKenzie, Alaska in Geology & Planetary Surfaces

"an aftershock of the November 2018 M7.1 Anchorage earthquake." How long after a 7.1 quake do you get aftershocks?

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2021-Feb-28, 12:00 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread What do you think is the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox? in Life in Space

If power sources shrink and you could have instantaneous comm "large facilities" does not mean "shrink", and neutrinos are not tachyons.

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2021-Feb-24, 11:29 AM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread CMB solar apex in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Thanks. And the area we are coming OUT of (antiapex?) would be Aquarius, right?

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2021-Feb-23, 07:49 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Animals where they don't belong might turn out okay: Cocaine Hippos of Colombia in Science and Technology

Invasive species good news bad news joke - Good news: In the long term, invasive species are good for species diversity Bad news: The long term is...

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2021-Feb-23, 07:46 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread CMB solar apex in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

What constellation is the sun heading to in respect to the cosmic microwave background? I tried googling this but could not get an answer.

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2021-Feb-10, 08:47 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread What do you think is the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox? in Life in Space

cosmocrazy: How about laser communication?

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2021-Feb-08, 01:09 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Disease and pandemics thread (because it's science) in Science and Technology

Why (in simple terms) will I need TWO shots? Why not one or three?

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