kalkulat

kalkulat, 20 days ago

are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky core

The ‘oceans’ are not ‘known’, They’re a hypothesis based on gases escaping at the surface. Ever put a drop of water on a red-hot skillet?

That ‘ocean’ could be 1mm thick. Sloppy science writing. ‘Exceptional claims…’

kalkulat, 1 month ago

This works something like that: www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

kalkulat, 1 month ago

TimeAndDate has a lotta money. Really cool that you rolled your own appliance!

kalkulat, 1 month ago

If FTL is a thing, that’s OK with me, many good stories include it and I’d miss them.

kalkulat, 1 month ago

civilizations that sprouted and died

Maybe there’s something better than civilizations (not that we’ve ever had one yet) and they figured that out and are too blissed to listen.

kalkulat, 1 month ago

When I look back on human history, I can see no period that I would call ‘civilized’. (Sure, there were pockets of civilization.)

kalkulat, 9 months ago

Water scouring the surface? Or was it thousands years of wind-blown sand / dust? Dunes have ripples.

There is no water on Mars (not to be confused with liquid CO2) until somebody goes there and drinks some. Anything else is hoping for water to justify the $100billion price tag.

kalkulat, 11 months ago

I was just out enjoying Jup & Mars … couple hours too late for Ven … maybe it’ll be clear tomaro nite!

kalkulat, 1 year ago

Sure, why not? It’s not like we have any other pressing issues to address. Let’s keep pouring 100s of billions into the right pockets and press on.

kalkulat, 1 year ago

‘Speed of light’ compared to what? is what you need to worry about. Most things in the universe won’t be moving at the speed of light compared to you (or whatever you’re inside of), and when you run into them, you won’t last for long.

kalkulat, 1 year ago

If you’re zooming past the Earth at the speed of light headed straight at the Moon, you’ve got about 1 second to enjoy that before you make a very, VERY large crater.

If you change course and head straight at a frozen tardigrade, it will make a VERY large crater in you.

kalkulat, 1 year ago

You already knew the answer to ‘What would happen if you moved at the speed of light’ was was “To actually reach the speed of light you’d be massless.” No shit. The question was already massless.

kalkulat, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I haven’t seen the evidence of ‘water oceans’ out there that are about more than a few water ‘geysers’ spewing from below the frozen surfaces like our breaths on winter mornings.

Whenever I hear the words ‘water’ or ‘life’ in a message from NASA I think, ‘Hmmm… who stands to gain from this PR?’ (At least telescopes return great pix and -other, visible- evidence.)

kalkulat, 2 years ago

If it works for Europe, it could work here too!