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Science Section => Science General Discussion => Physics & Cosmology => Topic started by: Baruch on July 14, 2018, 07:31:36 AM

Title: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Baruch on July 14, 2018, 07:31:36 AM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/the-icecube-neutrino-detector-at-the-south-pole-hits-paydirt

However none of this will provide warp drive or a free lunch.  The output of a blazer (kind of quasar) over 3.5 billion years ago, is not something you want in your galaxy, let alone your neighborhood!

Actual reasoning by smart people ...

https://iai.tv/video/heraclitus-dream
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Cavebear on August 01, 2018, 04:05:24 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 14, 2018, 07:31:36 AM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/the-icecube-neutrino-detector-at-the-south-pole-hits-paydirt

However none of this will provide warp drive or a free lunch.  The output of a blazer (kind of quasar) over 3.5 billion years ago, is not something you want in your galaxy, let alone your neighborhood!

Actual reasoning by smart people ...

https://iai.tv/video/heraclitus-dream

There are many celestial events I don't want to happen nearby. 
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Baruch on August 01, 2018, 07:05:55 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on August 01, 2018, 04:05:24 AM
There are many celestial events I don't want to happen nearby.

That gravitational wave pulse, in the other string, its initial power was greater than the whole output of a galaxy, for a short while.  Definitely not something you want to be near.  Billions of light years, gives us a little margin of safety.
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Cavebear on August 01, 2018, 07:11:52 AM
Quote from: Baruch on August 01, 2018, 07:05:55 AM
That gravitational wave pulse, in the other string, its initial power was greater than the whole output of a galaxy, for a short while.  Definitely not something you want to be near.  Billions of light years, gives us a little margin of safety.

Billions of light years are OK.  Those events happen all the time at that distance.  Even millions are OK.  Thousands gets iffy.
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Unbeliever on December 30, 2018, 08:02:08 PM

This looks very promising:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IorDYGI1uqc
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Minimalist on December 30, 2018, 08:42:03 PM
Pfft.  I've been on a plane with no moving parts.  It sat on the runway in Detroit for 6 hours without moving.
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Unbeliever on December 31, 2018, 01:17:56 PM
Well, I think the whole idea is for the thing to actually fly, since sitting on the ground does get much done.

But I hope you at least had a good book to keep you occupied while you waited! LOL
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Baruch on December 31, 2018, 10:24:49 PM
Quote from: Unbeliever on December 31, 2018, 01:17:56 PM
Well, I think the whole idea is for the thing to actually fly, since sitting on the ground does get much done.

But I hope you at least had a good book to keep you occupied while you waited! LOL

It's relative.  Given the spin of the Earth, the movement of the Earth around the Sun, the motion of the Sun thru the Milky Way ... and the universal motion from the Big Bang ... you are going places, even when standing still.  Just not getting to the relative destination you desire.
Title: Re: Some actual science, not Elon Musk fraud ...
Post by: Cavebear on January 05, 2019, 07:21:08 AM
Quote from: Minimalist on December 30, 2018, 08:42:03 PM
Pfft.  I've been on a plane with no moving parts.  It sat on the runway in Detroit for 6 hours without moving.

My house doesn't move either.  I still like it.