Looks faked. Check out the clouds - they are moving too fast.

Yeah, LOL at the amateurish design.

I’m going to steal that.

Issac, you read that press release wrong. Ceres does not emit clouds of dust.

Yeah, depends on how much momentum it absorbs.

George is going to be featured in a medical journal someday for having Krown Lung disease. The man needs to wear a mask and googles around that fog goo.

Spacecraft guy here: These spin launch people have a poor commercial case. Why would I spend millions of dollars to build my spacecraft to be a solid chunk to survive the launch loads - it is hard enough to qualify a spacecraft at 8 or so gees in one axis - this would require something that could survive both the…

There was a German novel called Subloon that proposed an interesting way to stop or weaken a hurricane. There were, anchored to the ocean floor, sky-scraper sized garbage bags, filled with air. As the eyewall passed overhead, the bags were cut releasing the air to rise to the surface. As it rose, the air expanded…

The AT&T one at least attempts to show they can’t fully cover in the mountains above San Bernardino. The Verizon one shows almost global coverage across them, which is blatantly inconsistent with my pent up Verizon text messages all suddenly arriving as I hit the valley floor every week day.

I understood and agree with your point, but I am extending your argument. From a point of view of the total energy input to the Earth, it doesn’t matter if the way that the energy is transferred from space is efficient. It will all end up as heat. Space based power systems would intercept more solar energy than the…

Except that if the space-based collectors are out there grabbing solar energy that would not have hit the Earth, then you _are_ adding heat to the eco-system. All that microwave or laser transmitted energy will eventually turn into extra heat somewhere down here.

Here it is.

I used to commute 9 miles into work on a bike, like some of my friends. Why did I stop?

Assuming we did hear a beacon like Breakthrough is listening for, then we’ve proven that those particular aliens are pretty stupid. Consider:

“A team of scientists and managers of the Ingenuity project ...”

What’s that strange feeling.....

Undoubtedly, the Chinese carefully balanced it against the Tesla Roadster which left Earth.

Been there. It is funny that it is near a previous monument that is some ways off, because they didn’t have a good measure of where the equator is. And even this monument isn’t really in the right place as anyone with a GPS can readily see. But it does have sinks on either side of the equator line showing the water…

True, all. But you can get away from most of those disturbances, either by waiting a bit or going somewhere else. It is why we have wilderness, why tax money goes to parks and such. When the entire Earth is blanketed by satellites, there is no escape from it. (actually there is - but only if you count waiting until…

Interesting question. I did a rough calculation. From any point on Earth, looking more than 20 degrees above the horizon, one can see about 1/400th of low Earth orbit at StarLink’s altitude. StarLink (alone) wants to put up 42,000 satellites. So you would, on average, have over 100 in view at any one time! They are…