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The most noticeable feature of Vesta's surface is the huge Reyasilvia impact crater located around the south pole. The surface of Vesta is...

Cool, and that sounds reasonable to me. I'm guessing (I don't know really) that the safety issue was probably one of the things they were looking at,...

Nowhere near that easy, of course, any more than cloned dinosaurs are a threat to amusement parks. Human and viral genetic engineering and virology...

I'll just add, in the first episode of the show it's established that there were political and military reasons for taking over a repurposed facility...

I was mistaken. To make my point clearer, I'll say even if human safety were not a concern, even if we never set foot on Mars, my view is that...

Be careful what you wish for...some monster could splice sickle cell anemia for selectivity, HIV for the long incubation, with something airborne. A...

Eastern time is + 1 hour Mary @BocaChicaGal Feb 28, 2021 I have just been notified that I have to evacuate tomorrow for a possible Starship SN10...

OK, in post 1189, I wanted to ask: In post 1178, you wrote: And in post 1187, you said:

Abort at T-01:24 Next opportunity tomorrow at 2015 Eastern

StarLink 20 launch in 30 minutes #8 flight for this booster https://youtu.be/DpsrExXlQrA

SN-10's flight termination system has been installed. Looks like a flight early in the week.

Is there some parallel with setting up the base camp for climbing Mt Everest?

Which would make both radiation shielding and thermal control less complicated than windows.

My wife and were just now scheduled to get our shot #1 on Weds and shot #2 on April 1st (no fooling). I'm assuming that we're getting the Moderna...

I ended up tracking down some L.A. Law for my article yesterday; wow, some of that has not aged well.

One of my hopes of the After Time is to take the kids places around Western Washington and let them get to know their state the way we got to know...

With good reason.

If we could do genetic therapy this easily . . . .

Yes, if Earth had no atmosphere and was equipped with some sort of frictionless racetrack around the equator, you could theoretically set down a...

I was looking forward to watching Vera on PBS last night, but it's pledge time so instead they had some health quack followed by an old music show. ...

As I mentioned earlier, I would go up to $10,000 for that type of short suborbital hop. Mind you, I doubt they could make money with the SS2 on...

Me no speak Celtic, Sweetheart!