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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?

Comment reduced photosynthesis ? (Score 1) 101

Photosynthesis]! How could somebody sane, and rational, ever let this discussion progress so far... or what I really mean, ever waste time, resources or money on it? This plan, if successful will result in percentage of the total / average sunlight to be deflected away from the earth and away from the trillions of trees, and plants.lowering the efficiency of photosynthesis converting carbon to sugars / lignin, and therefore allow gigatons of carbon to remain in the atmosphere un-captured.. I can not think of how this could end well.

Comment Declaration? (Score 1) 33

apparently she only said that while attending an international summit in The Hague, Netherlands. not quite an official statement or position of the united states, and i can see why news / censors would want people to believe it was. perhaps something official from the pentagon or federal government would make a better gesture ?

Comment patent free - corbbevax (Score 1) 46

https://www.texastribune.org/2... whay all the debate, when a protein based vax was already developed? seems all the big pharma were droning on and on about the need for a better solution but due to invesing so much money in rna research... etc etc. the us is paying 20 bux per dose while patent free allows closer to 2 dollars per..

Comment something to ponder (Score 1) 78

First of all, I would like to ask why has the absurdity of this all not been mentioned. The idea that the Russian armed forces need to raid a facility such as chernobyl to make dirty bombs is beyond belief.. They have many myriads of reactors in the country proper - from other power plants to the nearly 170 naval reactors that are in long term storage after the dismantling of its cold war submarine fleet. Now, Geiger counters do need to be calibrated from time to time, they do not require much material... A quick look on eBay is all you would need to see this. https://www.ebay.com/b/geiger-... so, I don't believe the whole truth is being told in this story. Not one bit. Like I said above.- Absurd.

Comment pi hex (Score 1) 414

Pi Hex was a project to compute three specific binary digits of pi using a distributed network of several hundred computers. In 2000, after two years, the project finished computing the five trillionth (1012), the forty trillionth, and the quadrillionth (1015) bits. All three of them turned out to be 0.

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