brokeAstronomer

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by brokeAstronomer 1y ago
>> There are far too many documented instances of it actually working to call it a fantasy. Markets are a tool which can work extremely well if deployed carefully and within a sensible regulatory framework. Given that the world CO2 le
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by brokeAstronomer 1y ago
There are fixed costs associated with running research labs and facilities. Just because private funding can (sometimes) come with lower allocations for overheads doesn't mean that research can continue at pace without the public grant
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by brokeAstronomer 2y ago
Being super rich != merit. This is what seems to be happening in practice.
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by brokeAstronomer 3y ago
I agree that we are limited to "speculating" due to n=1. However, personally my sense is that simple life is more likely to be ubiquitous than not. This is informed by the fact that currently there is no evidence that conditions o
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by brokeAstronomer 3y ago
Since the EHT is an interferometer, the observations contain less information than what would be available from a single telescope of the same equivalent size. Therefore to reconstruct the 'full image' you need to find the model w
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by brokeAstronomer 3y ago
*1.5% of the radius, not 0.15%. Can't edit the comment for some reason...
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by brokeAstronomer 3y ago
Sure! The summary is that we'll likely be able to detect Earth-sized exoplanets in the habitable zone of their host stars and conduct basic biosignature searches using direct-imaging missions like HabEx and Luvoir. Below I'll give
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by brokeAstronomer 3y ago
As someone in the field (I made an account just to comment on this), I agree that scientists will always be motivated to push the boundaries on questions that are relatively esoteric. People are right to be skeptical... However, even if the