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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Does anybody know about Spacecraft Online Simulator?.Thanks. I'm not familiar with it, so won't be able to help you. Unless you're looking for more general pointers, in which case you'd... -
Bandersnatch replied to the thread Red Dwarf Star Systems -- Could they support life?.The argument here is that without rotation there could be sufficient difference in temperature between the two sides to either boil off...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Red Dwarf Star Systems -- Could they support life?.Late to the party, but I can offer some intuitions. Re.: a&d, these are not questions about physics, but alien biology and...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Does anybody know about Spacecraft Online Simulator?.Can you point to the software you're talking about?
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Why is the plural for moose not meese?.Old Germanic (s,p) - regular plurals Goose = /go:s, go:si/ Mouse = /mu:s, mu:siz/ Moose = was ist das?* Old/Middle English - i-mutation...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Japanese schools have about two/two and a half months of total vacation time, usually split between a month/month and a half in summer -...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.Laziness might very well have been an Olympic sport all this time. It's just that it's always cancelled, because you don't qualify if...
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How is this news?
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.As you can see in the bit you quoted, flammable comes from Latin flammare, while inflammable comes from Latin inflammare. Same...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Does it make sense to build new radio telescopes?.While the SKA does list search for alien signals as one of its projects, I'd wager my hat on it being there mainly as a media angle. It...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Could an external cosmic body have influenced Earth’s geology?.The only interaction available here is tidal deformation. However, it is generally pretty weak, scales only linearly with mass, and very...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.Y'all assuming she misspelled meat, and not mistakenly typed a superfluous 'a'.
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread A Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin?.But to what extent? Attenuation by 10 or even 90% doesn't preclude detection. It's not all or nothing. You can't just hand-wave it and...
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Bandersnatch reacted to Cerenkov's post in the thread A Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin? with
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Then I don't understand the point of you attaching your map in support of your claim. It shows us nothing of what you claim is there... -
Bandersnatch replied to the thread How do people explore new ideas in physics?.I don't think that's correct. It was Kleiner.
