Recent content by Bandersnatch

The voids, like all large scale structure, are subject to expansion as they evolve, especially rapid early on. Numerical simulations were run (eg. Illustris, Millenium) and the formation of structure under the LCDM tracks what is observed. One can only view the steady state as a contender for...

The raisin bread, like all analogies, suffers many ills. But this ain't one of those. In an expanding universe structures bound by gravity - like galaxies - don't expand. So the raisins staying the same as the bread raises in the oven is actually ok. You've referenced an empty thread template, btw.

Just reinforcing post #2 here. If the Moon is out of the picture, by the virtue of it being held in place by magic, then there are no non-negligible forces in play. The Moon-less, tidally locked to the Sun state is the equilibrium the system is currently evolving towards. The only reason it...

Down with the entrenched atmosphericist terminology. There's no weather on the Moon, innit? It should be an ameteorite.

*cough* It's gramm ar. *runs away*

Wright's tutorial pages list issues with tired light. https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm It's good to keep those in mind as one talks to, uh, a proponent.

The OP thinks that only GHGs can radiate heat. - is the issue here.

For this you can use the small angle approximation, which makes it a simple proportionality - if you start with the size, distance and apparent size of the Moon, then anything e.g. twice the distance looks half as small while anything twice the size looks twice as large. In terms of angular...

Looks like 'sun dogs' with the '22° halo'. Maybe the '46° halo' or the 'supralateral arc' as well, seeing how there is a secondary ring. They're all, in general, the effect of sunlight being reflected off of ice crystals in the atmosphere. Wikipedia has articles on those terms, with pictures and...

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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 have to describe in more detail the issues you had. I assume you've read the manual, and looked at the wiki and tutorials provided on the website?

The argument here is that without rotation there could be sufficient difference in temperature between the two sides to either boil off water on the illuminated side, or freeze it on the far side. The issue with freezing here is that provided it's cold enough to freeze any water - all water will...

Late to the party, but I can offer some intuitions. Re.: a&d, these are not questions about physics, but alien biology and technological capabilities. The space of possibilities here is so large that it's impossible at this time to decide what is and isn't possible. Re.: b&c, these are...

Can you point to the software you're talking about?

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 occurs, causing the root vowel of the plural to be pronounced closer to the vowel of the ending; then loss of the redundant ending (as you now can distinguish...