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Yesterday, 12:15 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Can a civilization be hobbled by its number system? in Life in Space

133,855,722,000 gets you to 25 if my math is correct, and 104,809,030,326,000 to 30.

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Yesterday, 12:10 PM

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

Dave241: Rats! Now I'm going to go nuts trying to remember what that story was.

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2019-Dec-03, 05:24 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread What was that ATM theory? in Science and Technology

Familiar name, that might be it.

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2019-Dec-03, 03:13 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread What was that ATM theory? in Science and Technology

Note: I am posting this in here, rather than ATM, because I am not defending it, I just want to know who came up with it. IIRC, this theory states...

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2019-Dec-02, 12:55 AM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

Really trivial thing that annoys me? The fact that I keep getting messages on my iPhone like "192 replies on 'Really trivial stuff that bugs you'".

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2019-Dec-01, 01:26 AM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread What is a good source to refute this denialist argument? in Science and Technology

The point I meant to make is that, while it is a denialist forum, it is not a Denialist forum. I would not waste my time debating such. While they...

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2019-Nov-29, 04:53 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Have any decent books on the TNOs been published in the last decade? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Well, it's not a book, but this website updates the catalog frequently: http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dps.html

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2019-Nov-29, 12:08 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread What is a good source to refute this denialist argument? in Science and Technology

I just mentioned as being what it was. I would not even bother going to a "pure" denialist forum for anything other than curiosity. I like the forum...

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2019-Nov-28, 05:11 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread What is a good source to refute this denialist argument? in Science and Technology

I am a Furry. On a far right Furry forum, I am debating Global Warming deniers. One made the "CO2 greenhouse effect is saturated" argument, and I...

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2019-Nov-27, 11:49 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread charge radius of the proton in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

I remember when I was in school, and our science teacher had a van de Graff generator. I loved how the big ball made sparks when you put your hand...

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2019-Nov-27, 09:55 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Powering Io in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

So it will be when they get into resonance with Callisto that the fun ends?

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2019-Nov-27, 05:18 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Planets on planetary nebulae in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Thanks, grant. While we are talking about PNs, is it true that the sun will probably not have one? That a star must be more massive than the sun to...

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2019-Nov-26, 05:50 PM

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe#Stelliferous_Era Stelliferous Era From the present to about 1014 (100 trillion) years...

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2019-Nov-26, 05:46 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread Planets on planetary nebulae in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Could large planets in a planetary nebula have any detectable effects on the nebula at all?

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2019-Nov-24, 03:06 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread Powering Io in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

I do not believe in perpetual motion. Something is powering Io (namely tidal flexing) and the energy of all those volcanoes has to come from...

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2019-Nov-24, 03:03 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread "Impossibility" of abiogenesis in Science and Technology

Well, I don't believe that I am confusing the two. That is my point. Life has to get started. Once it starts, it can evolve through Darwinian...

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2019-Nov-23, 01:44 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread "Impossibility" of abiogenesis in Science and Technology

Maybe it's the biochemistry...my "thing" is astronomy, and that is a B.S. 40 years out of date. I can see Darwinian evolution easily getting up to...

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2019-Nov-23, 10:58 AM

Tom Mazanec started a thread "Impossibility" of abiogenesis in Science and Technology

I see this argument in this right wing journal fairly often, but not usually as sophisticated as this (perhaps because the author is an MD). What is...

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2019-Nov-21, 07:25 PM

Tom Mazanec started a thread Mass orbiting the Earth in Space Exploration

How many tons of artificial satellite matter is orbiting the Earth?

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2019-Nov-13, 10:43 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Sources of Milky Way luminosity by spectral class? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

I thought we were in the Orion Arm (or at least the Orion Spur)?

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2019-Nov-12, 07:03 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Type 1a Standard Candles Refined a Bit. in Astronomy

Well there is a recurrent nova in M31 with a period of about a year. It must be close to the limit. Is it gaining mass?

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2019-Nov-12, 07:00 PM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Sources of Milky Way luminosity by spectral class? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Is a billiard 10^15?

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2019-Nov-12, 02:49 AM

Tom Mazanec replied to a thread Sources of Milky Way luminosity by spectral class? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Dave241: I try to say it that way because, back in the day, when I would read something from the UK it would say "half a billion stars in the Local...

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2019-Nov-12, 02:39 AM

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

Seems unlikely. Why would, say, the Orion Arm be immune to GRBs? They can happen just about anywhere.

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