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Baluncore replied to the thread High School The world is not enough.Born in the UK, now live in the antipodes. I have been backwards and forwards a few times, but mostly they cancel, leaving 1½ to the... -
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SpaceX did 165 launches in 2025, including putting up 3000 Starlink satts. Including Starlink, SpaceX made a profit of about $8 billion... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars?.That can be achieved with LSD, or the hallucinations of AI, without any need to contaminate Mars with the human epidemic from Earth. -
Baluncore replied to the thread High School The world is not enough.I guess that means you are well sprung. -
Baluncore replied to the thread High School The world is not enough.The sum of my net global travel, has me travelling 1½ laps of the Earth from West to East. Should I make my next circumnavigation from... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Question of accuracy of galactic collision simulations.Numerical simulation is accelerated by grouping individual objects into local pools, having linear and angular velocity, mass, and the... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Questions about bubble behaviour.https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2023/07/bubble-trails-straight-or-wonky/ A more thorough analysis, but of air, not CO2... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Questions about bubble behaviour.I agree with what you write, but I think we need to look more closely at the circulating cell below the bubble, and the density... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Piston suction pump versus external gear pump as vacuum pump.Why worry, The OP is gone. -
Baluncore replied to the thread Development of a Bike Trainer (rollers).I don't believe you. The tire contact patch follows the circumference of the roller. The roller pushes against the tail of the contact... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Spectrometer of James Webb Space Telescope.What is meant by "solid-phase methane" or "methane ice" ? If the methane is held in the form of a clathrate, then methane will be... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Spectrometer of James Webb Space Telescope.Should you also consider that the more intense sunlight may ionise CO2 into CO and O ? Is that the source of the CO ? -
Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Questions about bubble behaviour.Yes, but it is a lesser effect. The bubble rests in the surface as it contains heavy, higher pressure gas, compressed by the bubble's... -
Baluncore replied to the thread Bad Math Jokes.Should the limit not be negative infinity?