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Yesterday, 10:47 PM

Roger E. Moore started a thread 2021 Mars fleet arrives - Perseverance rover, UAE Hope, China's Tianwen - 1 in Space Exploration

Feb. 9: The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars, the Hope orbiter, will arrive at the Red Planet. Feb. 10: China's Tianwen-1 Mars...

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Yesterday, 10:34 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread NASA's moon mission - ARTEMIS in Space Exploration

The Trump administration left Biden with a rocket dilemma. "NASA needs to go back and look at what the options are to go to the Moon." The reality is...

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Yesterday, 09:30 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Jan. 30 - Falcon 9 • Starlink V1.0-L17 Launch time: 1224 GMT (7:24 a.m. EST) Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9...

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Yesterday, 09:28 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Kīlauea Activity in Geology & Planetary Surfaces

What’s happening at Kīlauea Volcano? (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1fWQkFEnw

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Yesterday, 09:23 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread United States Space Force and United States Space Command: what can they do? in Space Exploration

U.S. Space Force acquisitions to get fresh look, lawmaker wants hearings. Rep. Jim Cooper said lawmakers are concerned that Space Force programs are...

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Yesterday, 05:38 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Everything about Mars except colonisation and where there specific threads already co in Space Exploration

Was early Mars wet and warm, or dry and cold? Yes. (Phil Plait) https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/was-early-mars-wet-and-warm-or-dry-and-cold-yes

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Yesterday, 03:39 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Where did the "space ambient" sound come from? in Small Media at Large

I think of non-outer space ambient music as Harold Budd's "The Room", which does not sound like outer space ambient music. I know space ambient is...

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Yesterday, 01:37 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

SpaceX targeting Wednesday for Starship SN9 test flight. SN9 will be the second Starship prototype to perform a high-altitude test flight. ...

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Yesterday, 01:32 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread NASA's moon mission - ARTEMIS in Space Exploration

Welding Underway on Orion for First Artemis Mission Landing Astronauts on the Moon. At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians...

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Yesterday, 01:25 PM

Roger E. Moore started a thread How astronomy helps society during a pandemic in Astronomy Education

Science and survival: insights from Astronomy Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Debra M. Elmegreen This paper presents a brief overview of how astronomy...

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Yesterday, 12:54 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread United States Space Force and United States Space Command: what can they do? in Space Exploration

U.S. Space Command chief makes case for civilian space traffic control. Gen. James Dickinson said he supports the transfer of space traffic control...

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Yesterday, 12:52 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread United States Space Force and United States Space Command: what can they do? in Space Exploration

The U.S. Space Force on Dec. 31 officially terminated launch technology partnerships signed in October 2018 with Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman. ...

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Yesterday, 12:48 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread International Space Station in Space Exploration

A pair of astronauts went spacewalking Wednesday to install a high-speed data link outside the International Space Station’s European lab. NASA’s...

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2021-Jan-26, 08:33 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

A link to a list of three paper titles using the phrase, "Destroyer(s) of Worlds" to hype their reads. ...

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2021-Jan-26, 08:28 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

The abbreviation for Helium II reads as "He II", or "HeII" when rammed together. This allows you to get titles for papers on detecting He II in...

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2021-Jan-26, 08:22 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

This comment is true. Here are only a few examples. ===================== Is the Spectrum of Gravitational Waves the "Holy Grail" of Inflation?...

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2021-Jan-26, 07:49 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread What do you think is the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox? in Life in Space

I have heard that a purely random signal would attract great attention.

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2021-Jan-26, 05:28 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread The Joe Biden Admin Space Exploration Policy in Space Exploration

What Happens to the Space Force Now? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/01/space-force-trump-biden/617812/

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2021-Jan-26, 05:23 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread International Space Station in Space Exploration

Axiom Space names first private crew to launch to space station. Axiom Space on Tuesday (Jan. 26) revealed its clients for its first privately-funded...

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2021-Jan-26, 01:47 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread American human space capsule in Space Exploration

Hoping Starliner doesn't crash into the ISS. It's not that I don't trust Boeing, but.... um...

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2021-Jan-26, 12:59 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread International Space Station in Space Exploration

Jan. 27: NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover are scheduled take a spacewalk together outside the International Space Station, to outfit...

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2021-Jan-26, 03:53 AM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Phosphine, a strong biosignature, has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus in Life in Space

Two papers stating that it was not phosphine that was detected in Venus's atmosphere, but sulfur dioxide. Read on. --- Claimed detection of PH3...

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2021-Jan-25, 11:27 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

Did scientists find an alien protein inside a meteorite? Another fading announcement. ...

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2021-Jan-25, 11:25 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

The media hype over the fluctuations in light from Boyajian's Star (KIC 8462852) is about dead now, was not an alien megastructure. ...

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2021-Jan-25, 10:36 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

Canals on Mars were in arXiv.org papers until the mid-1960s with the Mariner spacecraft.

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2021-Jan-25, 09:18 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

Exoplanet "discoveries" before 1995 were pretty bad, particularly Peter van de Kamp's claim about various exoplanets including one around Barnard's...

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2021-Jan-25, 08:05 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

Here is an example of a recent paper that I believe will not pan out: a suggestion that dark matter could destroy Earth. Woo-hoo! ...

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2021-Jan-25, 08:01 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

Here is a link to a list of 36 recent arXiv.org paper titles that include the phrase, "smoking gun" in a manner that appears to hype the paper. ...

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2021-Jan-25, 07:46 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread Astronomy discoveries that did not live up to their hype in Astronomy

Here is a phrase I see a lot when scanning arXiv.org manuscripts to post here: smoking gun. It's eye-catching but doesn't always lead to a deep read...

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2021-Jan-25, 07:01 PM

Roger E. Moore replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

SpaceX Starship SN9 go for high-altitude launch attempt later today. All signs point to SpaceX’s second high-altitude Starship prototype preparing...

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