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    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 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?
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    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 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...
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    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 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...
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    Does anybody know about Spacecraft Online Simulator?

    Can you point to the software you're talking about?
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    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 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...
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    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 - duration depending on region - and around a couple weeks each in spring and winter. The three breaks separate the three terms that tend to make up the school...
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    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 you show up.
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    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 language, no?
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    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 is a radio telescope, it's going to be used for radio astronomy.
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    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 strongly (third power) with the inverse of the distance. That is a stronger dependence on distance than of the gravitational force. This makes it very hard...
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    Y'all assuming she misspelled meat, and not mistakenly typed a superfluous 'a'.
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    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 call it a day. Rather than coming up with fanciful arguments of dubious value (no, the ISM is very much not like the atmosphere in composition or attenuation...
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    How do people explore new ideas in physics?

    I don't think that's correct. It was Kleiner.
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    I Could fast radio bursts be alien radar signals?

    It's an equal-area projection of the sky. You're looking towards the centre of the galaxy, edge-on, with the 0th latitude being the plane of the Galaxy. The only concentration I see is the one associated with exposure times - you catch more events where you look at longer. I don't think it's...
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    I How to explain the strange pulsar in the Crab Nebula?

    It's a pulsar wind nebula, with shock waves and a jet aligned with rotation axis. Not a vortex or a cone of radiation of the type that is producing the pulses. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05184 I feel that, once again, you're trying to form far reaching conclusions based on how a blurry picture...
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