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"Six things to know about NASA's Mars helicopter on its way to Mars" ...

Froom more than 60 Earth observation satellites, sent to space, China has collected reams of data. In fact over 100PB (about 100 million GB).The data...

Do you know there is a space economy up the in the ISS. Astronauts actually trade stuff or services. Listen to a 9 minute video by NASA astronaut...

"NASA's Mars rover Perseverance lands on the Red Planet in less than a month!" https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-landing-one-month

Astrobotic's chief technology officer believes that in the near future, drones will be able to “dive” into alien volcanic caves and map them in three...

I’ll be interested to see. I can’t remember hearing Sanders ever say anything about space. If I had to guess from what I have heard from him in...

It will be much easier to land on Titan than on Mars. For Titan, everything is decided by parachutes, in a dense atmosphere they are most effective,...

We humans have put a lot more time and effort into listening for communications (SETI) than in sending out communications to others (METI). One...

During its work, Galileo flew 4.6 billion kilometers, approached Jupiter, and circled the planet several dozen times. The satellite cost the United...

Yeah, it's a big pain in the asteroids.

Incorporeal is a nebulous term (pun). Would it apply to life made of cold plasma? Of exotic particles? Structural spacetime? Extra dimensions? None...

Shot - gaah - this was about 15 years ago and I had forgotten that it was tablets - sorry. What I do remember is that the Dr had to ring up our...

An anti-viral shot? Interesting.They gave me anti-viral tablets (Valacyclovir) that I took over the course of a week after the day the rash appeared....

I hear there is a giant gas cloud out there.

Yes shingles are fun. My wife and have both had it but luckily we recognised the symptoms early enough to get the anti viral shot within the 72 hour...

Thanks! I'm trying. :)

I'm glad you were likely spared this affliction. Unfortunately, I got the chicken pox at three months old, so I have no memory of the event. That...

I realized earlier that an old board member and moderator Moose was last spotted in part of my province getting hit the most by Covid. Also I guess...

Watching Jeopardy earlier and for some peoples knowledge, Quebec is not bilingual and Montreal is not a province.

I am in the first generation to get vaccinated for chicken pox in the US, but I’m somewhat worried that because the vaccine is so new, the oldest...

That sucks. And that really sucks. Shingles scares me, as I had chicken pox and I know some people who have had it bad. I got the vaccine a...

Yes, the problem with pressurizing with helium is that your rocket exhaust doesn't come out with a roar, but more like a high pitched squeal. You...

Well, I've spent the last three weeks enduring the non-trival agony of a case of shingles, also known as the varicella-zoster virus. If you had the...

Yesterday morning I went to do some work in the garden and when I bent down something black kept appearing in the 'side' of my eye. After several...

SN8 got into trouble with fuel pressure when it lit two engines after the belly flop descent. I suspect they're tweaking and tuning to get the...

"Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 11 Jan – 17 Jan 2021" ...

I think you're right Roger, I don't think there is any certainty about plate tectonics on superearths. See this for example: GEODYNAMICS AND RATE...

Right there at the top of page 6 in my downloaded copy, and also present in the linked document, though I needed to wait for it to fully load in my...

Hah! Unfortunately, the coworker's wife died about 10 years ago. Which doesn't exactly answer the question, you figure it out!

No worries, I only wear them in the house! And if they lead to anything here, I'd be extremely happy! But the jeans are getting more comfortable...