Just send space junk on a direct path for the sun

I just listened to a Lex Fridman podcast with one of the authors and it didn't seem to me to be as much of an assumption as proposing a possible mechanism that needs to be figured out and then tested.

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I hope it all goes well to them, competition is needed to get NASA and ESA off their ass.

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With realistic scale, Mercury will be about 0.5cm from the sun, and Nepture at 30cm. That's just the radius from the sun, so probably the biggest you wanna do for a normal table. You'll be needing a pin to place Mercury, rather than a square grid.

>The ability of NASA to ignore SpaceX

They aren't, they need SpaceX for the moon landing. The whole plan is to get the SLS to launch a crewed Orion spacecraft to the Moon, rendezvous with the lunar lander variant of Starship in Lunar orbit and use it to land.

It's been assembled out of many self-contained modules launched separately, just like the ISS, so it seems like it should be pretty open to reconfiguration and expansion.

I really hope it's never taken public. It would all go downhill.

You missed the SLS launch a few months ago? That rocket would have never taken off if it wasn't for China.

I guess I'm seeing myself outside our known or perceived universe and seeing it as like my hand covering the moon. Seeing it all in a glance.. it's all one time and space as I see it... It's about how it's perceived to the observer..

All I know is that I wanted to be very distant when my wife was fully dilated.

Vertically launching rockets try to get out of the dense atmosphere as quickly as possible, so an air breathing engine wouldn't work for very long - Falcon 9 is above 30000 ft about 1 minute after launch, and above 50000 ft 20 seconds later. The added cost and complexity of another stage for such a short period of the flight aren't really worth it.

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Except every time you come back into the hab there is the brown soot that you can't get off your boots so it gets tracked everywhere...

But seriously, about the water ice. Yes it is easily available on the surface, certainly more so than say the Moon, but in many places it is buried underneath a lag deposit of [insert non-ice component name here]. So the easiest exposures are on steep slopes.

do you have any reference of this? or you personally created this?

I have worked in space debris tracking before. I'm not forgetting anything. Low LEO clears in a relatively short period of time, it is not at serious risk. High LEO...I mentioned? You seem to be freaked out that I didn't mention a specific term that's become overly common amongst those who don't understand the environment.

The most serious risks to High LEO are what I mentioned: ASATs and breakups of non-operating satellites. If those continue to happen unabated for some time then we can start to worry about Kessler Syndrome. Too many people watched Gravity and took it as a real risk.

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Better late than never, if it can be decided who will & how will they be enforced...

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Well it looks pretty uniform from what we can see (and we can see a lot of it - the observable universe is huge). There is no good reason to assume there is anything particularly atypical about 'our bit' of the universe and the unobservable universe would be any different).

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I suppose the part they seem to assume is that the black hole is the cause for dark energy, but without actual study into the real cause for the correlation.

It might be the other way around with the expansion of the universe causing the growth, or it may be an indirect mechanism being the cause for both of them.

The assumption that the black hole is helping cause the expansion is what I was digging at.

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