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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93_Minerva

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you managed to throw every fallacy about this whole debate into one paragraph. congrats

When the simplest explanation for magnetism is "because special relativity", you know you're screwed Quantum annealing is a meme though

you can't tell me the hall effect isn't magic

if you stored neutrinos they're not moving so they're no better fuel than anything else. ion thrusters take considerably less magic to build and less magic to generate thrust from

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit It's not an uncommon tool in general and it's well-known and understood

I'd worry about the color of the spacesuit being very important to get to the apparently low margin of effectiveness. The moon has a pretty low albedo and you wouldn't want its dust, which is famously for sticking everywhere, to cook the astronaut if it starts building up everywhere

It's not even wrong...

They could've named it "Shuttle"

Firstly, no they aren't. Secondly,

why would they necessarily have ionizing radiation. why are you saying that they're particle beams

kerbiloid knows and has heard all of this before but he has honed his disingenuity to an art form

The Moon, Ganymede, Titan, Europa, Callisto, Io, Enceladus, etc are planets?

Gregtech is harder IC2. I've played Minecraft mods nearly to exhaustion but thanks for the recs was looking for something character focused rather than a colony simulator

Have prices come back down to a reasonable level again?

Thanks to Red Mars, I want a game that combines my three loves: automation & factory building (Factorio), convoluted resource processing and crafting (Minecraft mods, in particular Gregtech with its 5000000 chemicals), and, of course, space. A mixture of Spacechem, Surviving Mars and The Planet Crafter (I actually haven't played this last one but it didn't look like it had the complexity I craved). I want to be able to dig up a sample of common regolith and be able to arduously process it into something useful. ISRU to the max Anybody know anything that fits this description at all?

A lot of traits in biology seem strongly conserved. For example, tetrapods have four main limbs, even if some are vestigial. And simpler clades like insects and arachnids preserved their leg count. How come over hundreds of millions of years hexapods are hexapodal, but their progenitor arthropods produced more variety?

well they're ions so they're a plasma...

I crystalize ions in my lab every day!

yeah I loved Omon Ra

0 = 1 for sufficiently large values of epsilon

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I'm not sure an article talking about stars formed a few hundred years after the big bang is worth a read

I dunno. I feel like I've thrown baseball with more energy than that off of a building, but still