Edit: don't read what i posted. I'm probably wrong i didn't understand tidal lock definition. Left it here because for shiggles.

Sadly no. The definition of a planet: It must orbit a star (in our cosmic neighborhood, the Sun). It must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape. It must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun. The gravity requirement would make both objects to massive to be tidaly locked and in the goldilocks zone I believe.

You can search for it in the free version of Stellarium too.

You people are the worse, you overly worshiped him before 2020, and now u overly hate him...

Elon is making it billions cheaper for them to have internet. No need to run billions of miles of fiber..

It's not really an opinion, it's an engineering problem. Given enough resources and time to develop technology, we can live anywhere.

Yea, that would be a double planet. Depending on the exact sizes, distance from the star, and distance from each other, it might not be stable in the long term. But in the right circumstances, it could exist for a very long time.

Very misleading article imo. There is every likelihood that we will one day have the capacity to set up cities on planets of similar size and temperature and live there without issue, as well as find better candidates than Mars. The thing is, we will never get to that point, ever, if we let our current planet die. That future is a long way away, but I certainly wouldn't say it will never happen. I can't stand Elon Musk, don't get me wrong, but not because he wants to move to Mars.

Yes. The Earth and the Moon are tidally locked, so if the Moon was the size of the Earth we would have what you posit.

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They’d have to be awfully close to each other for that to be possible, probably too close to maintain a stable orbit. Otherwise one would have to be significantly bigger than the other

This is just a longer version of the typical Reddit comment of "Why waste resources on that orange piece of rock, when there are kids in Africa that still don't have internet?!"

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Haha I’m not clicking any link when Elon is the clickbait. This reads like Elon is the only human that’s interested in colonizing other planets, and if we don’t listen to him, nobody will talk about colonizing planets anymore.

Regarding Elon Musk, just remember; prosecute wants prosecute’s pronouns to be prosecute and fauci. I say we keep calling fauci that until the day prosecute dies, I mean it’s what prosecute wants, who are we to deny fauci?

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Not an exact copy, there were several versions of the shuttle design, before the final was settled on. Burt Rutan was consulting with NASA then, and told them, this thing is going to get people killed.

Not to look at things in local space or on our own galaxy

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Agree, Reddit should crowd fund one I’m sure SpaceX can give us a ride.

I wish i was creative enough to come up with shit like this! I’ve seen articles and it was years ago. I’m looking but honestly I don’t have the imagination to create something like this

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well they never tested any engine configurations other than the 4 rocket one they used for the one launch. In theory it could use anywhere from 2-8 engines.

They never used it to put anything into orbit so none of the satellite deployment stuff was ever tested.

And they never launched with humans so none of the life support or other functions were fully vetted.

Read the article someone else posted about it, it's a good read.

Orbital Index is a great email newsletter about all things space!

Aren't there cameras on the ISS streaming live? Close enough.

Telescopes expose for hours, days even, before they have a picture. Not much to see there.