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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...

If it’s terraformed - that is, modified to support Earth life - there would need to be an optical filter between the surface and the sunlight, or the...

Apparently the recent quake in Japan was called an aftershock to the big event in 2011. ...

I don't think you'd see shadow bands. Plugging in values for an O3V from Lang's venerable tables (52500K, 15 solar radii), I get an apparent...

They're called O'Neil cylinders...

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...

100.3% ? Someone get three doses? ;)

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

For far too many people, unfortunately, the obvious reason is that flu deaths are being falsely reported as Covid. Along with all other deaths...

I know. I didn't create this world. Someone else did. Thankfully it's a colony, not a native world, so presumably terraforming was involved.

Excellent vaccine uptake in Scotland so far, as we work our way down the age tiers. According to the Public Health Scotland Covid dashboard, we've...

It seems that people are resorting to creating bots to deal with the complicated and multithreaded booking systems in the USA. Grant Hutchison