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I would appreciate a nudge toward one of these fora with such a thread.

Been >20 years now. It has outlasted most others, so far. You've been here almost 20 years too. Certainly long enough to know PF's...

Hey NASA! Been four years. You ever gonna weigh in on this??

Mars atmo is ~.6kPA - less than 1% of an Earth atmo. It's effectively vacuum. Mars orbital velocity is roughly 3.5km/s. ChatGPT thinks...

Yeah! That may actually be the gotcha - a deliberate ruse, depending on whether one trusts Monty to give away a whole car, or nah.

It's a Rorschach test. I would reject the switch because I am a paranoid person. ;-)

OK, a case of wrong logic leading to the right answer. IOW, Monty's actions are trying to help them win.

Haha. I was going to say ACKtually it's a highly eccentric ellipse that happens to intersect the Earth's surface.

'Marine' anything. "Don't get that dental floss, landlubber. Use marine dental floss. What, are you, new??" "Ah! OK. Marine dental...

Cool, but three playing cards would be a lot more efficient an expedient.

I take no credit except for asking ChatGPT. The credit goes to your detailed decription. (I have a sci-fi story I still can't find, no...

Apparently, it stands for Yet Another Story/Internet Document. New to me too. (Another thing ChatGPT solved for me.)

“The Time Traveler” (also called The Time Traveler’s Tale) by Dan Simmons. (ChatGPT is very good at finding stories. I just copy-pasted...

Just wanted to ensure you were accounting for all relevant factors in the trip.

As I understand it, the loss is not "on the outward bound leg", it's after arrival at Tau Ceti but before the ship refuels. And it's not...