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Comment How to Fix? (Score 1) 341

I think all the ideas about slowing or a total stop of carbon emissions are good... Yet pointless if we can not find a way to remove all that we have added. amazon.. ( the jungle) is on the verge of no longer being a carbon sink... With rising temp's I find it hard to think that everyone on the planet will plant a tree.. And it would hardly matter. We need something north of half a trillion... And they need be fully grown in a year... Any other good ideas ?

Comment in soviet USA, radio uses YOU (Score 1) 72

Remember, most Russian military devices rely on US and Western-sourced chips and whatnot. Unless the thing has megawatt klystron tubes or some Cold War-era Marx generator attached to it, I highly doubt that "Russian components" was anything more than BS propaganda thrown in to get the crazies worked up. Already I see lots of intelligent discussion, but nobody is doing much more than one-upping each other or focusing on a narrow aspect of the whole phenomenon. I recommend a bit of research and an open mind before...ah-hmmm...swallowing this excuse that Homeland Security is forcing on us. In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Comment Re:Minor problems, from what I'm reading. (Score 2) 48

Usually the raised floor contains HVAC / cable runs. When I worked at rackshack back in the day, we had cooling towers that we could add that plugged into the floor panels. so... remove the floor and you would basically have to redo the entire datacenter.. cheaper to build a new one probablly. Still, I imagine they could find hardpoints and build up a frame, or use some kind of crane / suspension solution if they were locked into that location

Comment you guys are a bunch of cat's taped to eachother (Score 1) 40

Regardless of what you sling at each other, all of this left wing, right wing BS gets old. Anything with only one wing is just going to fly around in circles until it crashes. Anyhow, telemessage's website is interesting. check https://www.google.com/search?... None of the links are working.. Must be some hack.

Comment deflection (Score 1) 81

Well, if they are detected early enough, you don't need much to deflect them. Think of a large sheet of mylar... solar wind and light pressure... attached weeks in advance. Micro-newtons are enough; slow it down and let the earth's orbital speed widen the gap. Of course, you need to put a few dedicated telescopes or SAT's up to catalog and calculate the orbits. Oh yeah, and all orbits change constantly when they interact with other orbits. So any static model you think of is not valid today. But we need eyes in the sky. I think one is going up in a few years, but we have been able to do this since the 1970s, at least. for sure in the 80's. It seems like an awful risk with the tons of Starlink and spy satellites we send up. Governments are too greedy to launch three or four payloads that could save humanity.

Comment Re:thermal expansion (Score 1) 28

I FOR ONE FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THE LANDER COULD BE THE CAUSE... Well, all 4 legs are wrapped in mylar. Actually, it's a mix of aluminized pyloymide mylar and h-film. It's interwoven with inconel on some other alloy backing. It's a mega-insulator and reflective, so it blocks heat from the sun. NASA was not sure how the surface of the moon was going to react to giant metal landers. Think of the design philosophy for the bases in the South Pole and Arctic regions. Minimal thermal footprint. So why blame the landers and not the lunar probes both we and the Soviets had sent for years, or the lunar buggy? We left one of them parked up there. Or two.. Using thermal expansions to find a car, however, makes sense if you can't hear the beep when you press the clicker due to there not being any air. So scientists were just having a 'dude, where's my car' moment? All this being said, my theory is that this is the culprit. ASLEP. https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/... Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 carried aslep packages that contained plutonium-238 and thermocouples to generate 70 watts of power. large fins on them, of course. I am sure the radiators work both ways, heating up quite a bit when they are in direct sunlight. Anyhow, this is all obvious, so why would they release an article saying it's the landers, which are thermally isolated from the surface? So well insulated that they could never be the cause?

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