Musk and it won't be close. He understands the imperative of spreading the human race out.
Great News for a Mars Colony!
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WJ-OSU-STEELERS
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Scientists estimate a 4.3% chance of asteroid hitting the moon in 2032
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James Webb telescope ups the odds that 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.
eastisbest
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Is that implying actual water or just glacial grooving?
Good question and the answer appears to be both. The glacial grooving shows that large glaciers were once present and some of that water must now be buried ice. The other point made was that most of our direct surface measurements have been at the Martial equator which is bone dry but that buried ice is likely plentiful at more northerly and southerly latitudes.
This is a big deal:
If humans are ever to establish permanent settlements beyond Earth, they will need to build habitable structures. However, transporting large quantities of industrial materials for construction poses major logistical and financial challenges. Scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are exploring a biological alternative.
Led by Robin Wordsworth, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, an international team has successfully grown green algae inside shelters constructed from bioplastics under Mars-like conditions. These experiments represent an initial step toward developing self-sustaining space habitats that do not rely on materials transported from Earth.
“If you have a habitat that is composed of bioplastic, and it grows algae within it, that algae could produce more bioplastic,” explained Wordsworth. “So you start to have a closed-loop system that can sustain itself and even grow through time.”
If humans are ever to establish permanent settlements beyond Earth, they will need to build habitable structures. However, transporting large quantities of industrial materials for construction poses major logistical and financial challenges. Scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are exploring a biological alternative.
Led by Robin Wordsworth, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, an international team has successfully grown green algae inside shelters constructed from bioplastics under Mars-like conditions. These experiments represent an initial step toward developing self-sustaining space habitats that do not rely on materials transported from Earth.
“If you have a habitat that is composed of bioplastic, and it grows algae within it, that algae could produce more bioplastic,” explained Wordsworth. “So you start to have a closed-loop system that can sustain itself and even grow through time.”
Damn, this makes me feel infinitesimally small:
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Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void
Sound waves 'fossilized' in the arrangements of galaxies across the Universe support the theory that the Milky Way galaxy floats adrift in a giant void in space.
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eastisbest
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measurement is a damn interesting science.Damn, this makes me feel infinitesimally small:
Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void
Sound waves 'fossilized' in the arrangements of galaxies across the Universe support the theory that the Milky Way galaxy floats adrift in a giant void in space.
Probably posted this before but always worth reminding, the most important invention towards our technological development has been photography. The manipulation and recording of light, to see the unseeable and to record the unrecordable.
StoneEagle
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...to dream the impossible dream. This is my quest - to follow that star. No matter how hopeless; no matter how far...
In a dramatic new discovery, scientists have identified over 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars, revealing that vast regions of the planet were once crisscrossed by flowing water.
These winding ridges, preserved in the Martian highlands, suggest that rainfall—not just glacial melt—once played a major role in shaping the Red Planet’s surface. The findings, mapped using high-resolution orbital data, challenge long-held views of Mars as cold and dry, pointing instead to a time when it may have been warm, wet, and far more Earth-like than we imagined.