Will Mars eventually be more polluted than Earth?
It is already more polluted. It has so much CO2 that it is uninhabitable. The atmosphere is too thin to breath and the solar rays from the sun are deadly.
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Hypothetically, equally intellectual organisms are living on a near planet when and how would humans discover?
Hypothetically, we are living in an infinite universe. How far is a “near planet?” If the planet is within a very close 200–300 light years, then there might be some possibility, within 200–300 years, that we might detect each other. If the life form is on the other side of the Milky-way, or in another […]
Read More →Did we “accidentally” bring new bacteria to the moon or Mars via our space exploration programs?
Probably, and that’s why terraforming is a bad idea. Inside the scientifically minded community, there are two distinct ideas. Don’t contaminate. Leave whatever planet it happens to be in the original pristine condition so we can study it. (This is the predominant, tree hugging concept.) Screw number 1. Terraform the planet. Make it livable for humans, […]
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When is enough enough?
I’m not old. Sixty five. I look younger, but how much more time do I have? Twenty three years from now will be the age my father died. Thirty-four years from now will be the age my mother died. I still have some time. Right? I notice, however, that I think about “the end” a […]
Read More →Fact or Fiction? How do you know?
Inside a category called “Fact or Fiction” on a blog that claims “Making sense of it all,” it might serve to answer the questions: “Fact or Fiction? How do you know?” We have a president calling “Fake News” basically to anyone who criticizes him and claims of planet destroying events on the Internet. How do […]
Read More →Lost in Space: Netflix
When I was a kid it was riveting – the TV show Lost in Space. The movie was awful, but I had hopes. Now, the new Netflix show “Lost in Space…” well, I love it.
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How many satellites are there, and which are there on each planet?
If you count all the little nuts, bolts, loose wrenches and pieces of demolished satellites as satellites, then there’s a whole lot of junk floating around Earth. Thousands of pieces that pose a hazard. Around the moon we have about three functioning spacecraft but have launched far more than that that have, over time, gone […]
Read More →Fedora 28 can't play DVDs
I’m a 20 year Linux veteran. I’ve been using the KDE spin of Fedora 28 workstation for a while now, and I just discovered I can’t play commercial DVDs! Now it seems to me this is a pretty important thing to do. I’ve already installed a bunch of packages and still I can’t get VLC, […]
Read More →Would a possible alien lifeforms perceive time differently relative to ours?
I perceive time differently from other lifeforms. For example, when I was 7 years old I thought it would take forever to reach 10 years old. Nowadays, at 65, the years go by like months or days. If I’m busy, having fun, the day goes by faster by my estimation, and if my day is miserable it […]
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