The wild rumors about what Curiosity might have found on Mars are back:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112735508/
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016 ... um-for-now
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49970587/ns ... LRb99dfx1E
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- Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:24 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mars rover Curiosity detects bright object
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12701
- Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154883
- Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154883
You know, one thing I liked about the old dial-up Internet days of the 90s was that people who used programs to create bloated, ridiculous websites were frequently mocked. There was a certain skill in writing concise html code that resulted in a nice looking webpage but loaded quickly. It is, of cou...
- Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Infrastructure Reforms
- Replies: 299
- Views: 65160
On top of all the economic failings of rail as an ideal transport system, consider the complications caused by pressing for especially "high speed" rail. HSR can't function inside a city. It's only safe through relatively rural areas. It requires very large tracts of land to be appropriated through...
- Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:18 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Special relativity beyond the speed of light
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4240
Interesting, although there's not too much that can really be gleaned from the article and the abstract. I wonder, though, if this might in some way support Woodward's theory: ie. if his approach to Mach Effect is correct and can be used to accelerate objects beyond the speed of light, this theory p...
- Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mars rover Curiosity detects bright object
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12701
Suggestion now seems to be that it is a piece of plastic that fell off the rover itself:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... rover.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... rover.html
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:16 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154883
Some good lines in there, like: "GS: I don't have any intention of putting anyone -- well, I don't have any intention of putting Astrotech out of business." And: "AWST: Why the octagonal arrangement on the engines on the upgrade? GS: As opposed to the tic-tac-toe? You actually want the engines aroun...
- Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466478
Quite so. 6 years to somewhere like Kepler 22b is quite acceptable if the ship takes a wormhole with it and everything that arrives after 6 years is basically instantaneous. Is there some sort of reason why you can't carry a wormhole inside a warp bubble? Is there too much bending/stretching of spac...
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Neil Amstrong has passed on.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8886
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are UFO's Advanced Science craft?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24000
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are UFO's Advanced Science craft?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24000
Well, the primary reason is part of being human: curiosity. If we entertain the possibility, no matter how remote, that other beings are visiting us, it's part of our nature to ask why. If you want to put effort into arguing that we are being visited, are you not interested in the slightest bit why?...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:43 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are UFO's Advanced Science craft?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24000
GIThruster, We were trying to postulate self-consistent, logical reasons why aliens would be showing up here, and why they would behave the way they do assuming that UFO sightings have been reported accurately and that the UFOs are indeed aliens. However, it is a series of jumps to speculate that ME...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are UFO's Advanced Science craft?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24000
Yeah, actually I suspect you could find a few shed skin cells almost anywhere people have gone. Doorknobs, benches, sometimes you might even drop a skin cell on the ground as you walk along a trail. Perhaps thrown-away coffee cups on a trail or road, or a trash can along a trail, or perhaps there's ...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are UFO's Advanced Science craft?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24000
No, acquiring biological samples wouldn't require interactions with any more than one person, maybe five to ten if you want some variety. I've never suggested that any alien abduction accounts are credible or unexplainable. I haven't seen any which I find to be overwhelmingly compelling. However, to...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:31 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A.I.s, singularity, brain transfer... your thoughts?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13820
Singularity theory = possible, but not certain. Elements of a singularity seem to be appearing. Open source group designing an open source machine that can print solar cells? Sounds like a primitive forerunner of a "cornucopia machine." There are already oddballs wandering around with primitive cybe...