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Then there's the logic behind constructing such a habitat. Assuming that only a technology many hundreds of years more advanced than us could fabricate such a thing - why would they even want to? Why bother hollowing out and setting a rocky or metallic asteroid rotating rapidly enough to...

I'm sorry Line_112, but even though I see you cited me, I can't see any answer to any of my questions in this reply. Perhaps you didn't see them or perhaps you would prefer to ignore them? But giving you the benefit of the doubt, here they are again. Values? Data? Evidence? Do you have any...

And you are qualified to make these judgments in what way? You'll grace us with these qualifications that you've earned from reputable institutions, yes?

Sources? Citations? Published papers? Presumably you can back up these assertions by providing links to sites that support your claims?

Values? Data? Evidence? Constructing an argument is all very well but science doesn't proceed just by well made (or poorly made) arguments. It proceeds by having those arguments tested by observations. Which yield evidence and data and numerical values which can cited by the argument-maker...

Ok, so I envisaged his model incorrectly. Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed. Go too far down the road of ignoring the evidence and one comes to the realm of conspiracy theories. Then the scientists who study GRBs aren't just incompetent and wrong, or guilty of misconduct. They are...

Just so, Ibix. But we've visited the idea of a relatively small, spherical volume with an isotropic distribution of GRB's before. And Line_112 refused to answer my three questions about this small, intragalactic volume. So, can you please explain how, in defiance of galactic rotation, this...

Or we could just cut to the chase and tackle the real issue that is a subtext in this thread? Line_112's belief that GRB's are of intragalactic origin. Its not difficult to read between the lines here and see that his 'contradictions' are just him trying to build a case for GRB's being inside...

Maybe this article would be helpful? https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1124317/full

To Hornbein and Algr... Yes, this is indeed a fantasy story. Zelazny was noted for his ability to seamlessly blend fantasy with science fiction. As regards the Great Machine, here's how it is described in the book. It had so many gears that it would have been an interminable task to number...

Yes, that's right Dave. In the story the Earth was tidally-locked to the Sun to give Zelazny what he needed, a world half in darkness and half in light. He never explicitly mentioned what the Moon was doing, but he did mention that there was a black sphere in the sky directly over the Earth's...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_Shadows In Roger Zelazny's 1971 novel Jack of Shadows the Earth is held tidally locked by the influence of a vast machine at the planet's centre. No, the machine is surrounded by cold, solid rock and not molten rock... but never mind that. Anyway, I was...

Thanks BWV. So is that a 10 followed by 120 zeros or is there more to it than that?

How many zeros is that, BWV? ❓

Once again, thank you for your help, your guidance and your instruction, Peter. I really appreciate the time and effort you've put in to help me along. All the best, Cerenkov.