stargazer-3

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by stargazer-3 14y ago
The coolest thing about it is that more than 2200 years ago it was already possible to measure Earth's circumference with only 2% error. If not for the dark ages, who knows what world we'd live in now?
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Curiosity Rover's "historical" breakthrough to be announced(wired.com)
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
110 years to reach primary mission point? I'd say that we ought to spend more time on rocket engine studies before launching something like this. Besides, 100x magnification still wouldn't help us to resolve an Earth-like planet.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
It is ineresting that their indiegogo campaign has an upper funding limit, as all of their goals are limited in size. Is it due to some sort of production limitations? I think it's strange, given that they've surpassed their goal already an
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
It is also foolish to take Drake equation seriously or assume that we know what intelligent life is. Drake equation should be used for demonstration purposes only. As a side not, it is good to keep in mind that all we did for ETI search was
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
What do you mean by 'not centered'? Imagine you are standing on a field of corn. To you, the field looks like a line encircling you, although it may look like a square or circle from above. There's your projection thing.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
They seem to have built it by themselves this summer.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
Tachyons have complex mass, for one thing. The authors described the way to move between frames of reference of superluminal particles, so that they (particles) seem to have real finite physical properties. At least that's my understanding.
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Aircraft Carriers in Space(foreignpolicy.com)
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Major roguelike ADOM gets fresh breath on Indiegogo(indiegogo.com)
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
The space outside is not quiet. We can pick up all sorts of frequencies from outer space, and the spectra seems to have no gaps. It just that we can't seem to find any intelligent message buried in heaps of information that's falling on Ear
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
And what stops Chinese from making those machines?