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I think that without additional qualifications, saying the planet is terraformed makes the question unanswerable since there are too many...

SpaceX gets a $8,499,489.00 USAF Research Laboratory award, "...to refine thermal protection system manufacturing technologies to enable low-cost,...

Lynx used a car engine block as a pump ACES style. A scaled up all liquid would be easier. I wonder if anyone gave thought to rocket design based on...

No podcast this week. It it President Xi puts has support phase 4 of lunar exploration (CE6, 7, 8, and ILRS(moon base)) ...

Yesterday, 1 March, we had more than the entire average rainfall for March in one day. This is not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds as just 26.2 mm...

I was completely baffled at this point. Good thing I read the rest . . . Will you be posting Morty pictures here?

Tonight it is windy night after a day of rain and tomorrow it i going down to -29 with a wind chill in the morning, tonight sitting by the fire and...

You want a toroidal cloud in orbit, of tiny particles of a phosphor. Absorb UV and re-radiates as white light. Space launches would only be...

Watched Finding 'Ohana on Netflix last night. I enjoyed it quite a bit. A definite tribute/homage to The Goonies and the Indiana Jones franchise, as...

Morty the Moose. But it's not his fault. Around 20 years ago,we noticed that instead of the usual lighted deer, someone had a moose. That was...

China Aero & Space Weekly News Round-Up - Episode 21 (15 – 21 Feb 2021) This episode gives some insight into China's future moon base and working...

That would make a lot of sense, it would certainly help on cost and complexity, but who knows if it will happen. It could introduce other development...

This is the USGS website on aftershock forecasts; has some nice graphs of aftershocks over time from various size quakes.

The shift from "SpaceShipThree" to "SpaceShip III" is a bit odd. And they describe it as having a "modular design" and talk about it improving flight...

From the USGS glossary: And this, from the Southern California Earthquake Center (emphasis added): Here's a USGS search of earthquakes...

Okay. I see your argument but I made different assumptions. I’ve thought a bit about possible terraforming techniques, and for a planet too close...

Planetary defense experts use infamous asteroid Apophis to practice spotting dangerous space rocks. Apophis definitely won't hit Earth this month,...

Ignoring what she says about Musk, yeah, Mars is a hellhole, extremely dangerous to visit or even get to. Let robots run over it for a few decades.

The fuel is a few tons of cast polybutadiene rubber with somewhat complex internal voids and channels, probably not cheap but not hugely expensive....

That’s the claim. So what do you think about the article? For sure, Mars is better than Jupiter’s moons or Titan or other outer worlds in terms of...

Well, with the same total irradiance, our planet receives only 2% of the Earth's illuminance. But the remainder of the irradiance is coming in as...

I expect something like them will be built too.

According to the article below, New Orleans deaths jumped by about 30% last year. COVID was the biggest contributor, but homicide and accidental...

Only that? I would have thought to have sufficient light to be equivalent to what the Earth receives in optical (for terraforming) that the UV would...

Yes, lies, damn lies, and statistics. But in this case I suspect it's because most people are math-challenged. among other causes. The content...