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Is Liu Cixin from Krikkit? Stuff we are broadcasting to the space is puny. Virtually all out transmissions are not aimed up, but rather down or sideways. Arecibo message was strong, but lasted for less than three minutes and was very directional. That too was insignificant.

Depends on the signal. And how would we respond anyway? By radio? That could take thousands of years to reach them.

Why? What's the point?

If I retain the ability to commit a suicide, then yes. Of course I would. If I get stuck as a forever living being, I might consider it. I don't think Bowerick Wowbagger is having a good time.

It includes looking over the shoulder.

Anything from this guy. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMorgile I refuse to believe he's serious.

They do make rechargeable D cell. Search for HR20. I like the Maglite. It's small (takes just 2 AA), bright enough for my needs, lasts long on the batteries, etc, but the surface finish is something I really really like. When you grab it, the smoothness of the metal brings me an inexplicable joy.

Yeah, that was a joke. Poor one I guess. I have one that has a coil and a moving magnet inside. You shake it a bit (or more precisely quite lot) and it charges the battery inside. It's more of novelty item than actually useful. Now I just use a Maglite and put Eneloops in it.

Is it a mirror?

After being exposed to the direct Sun for just 9 hours it gets enough juice to go tic-tac for 10 months. I've been wearing it for about two years now, I'm not particularly outdoorsy and the watch hasn't even entered the low power indication mode (second hand pausing for two seconds, then advancing two seconds at once). It gets more power from my daily 15 minute bike ride to work and back home than it needs for steady operation. Night, rainy days and long sleeves are no problem. One good aspect behind the solar power is that it doesn't need to be opened every few years, messing up the gaskets and introducing moisture to the insides.

Is that the time keeping mechanism? "Hey, what time is it?" "Oh, it's third charge o'clock."

I stopped wearing my digital watch when I turned 8. Now I carry the spinny, pointy, sticky, dialy thing that doesn't beep at me in the middle of the night. It's solar powered, so it's supposed to not need battery changes, just an occasional sunbathing.

Very pretty pictures! But dunes? That implies sand and wind and/or liquid flow.

The animation shows the boosters and the central core landing at the same spot, right next to the launch site. That doesn't sound reasonable. Boosters going back to the launch site, eh, maybe, but the core? By the time central core stages to the upper stage, it should have traveled too far to be going back to the place where boosters landed. Why would they make such animation.

http://images.summitpost.org/original/394819.JPG http://images.summitpost.org/original/394853.JPG http://www.nature.org/cs/groups/webcontent/@web/@hawaii/documents/media/hawaii-moomomi-wind-erosion.jpg http://english.ts.cn/Travel/content/images/attachement/jpg/site2/20100721/0016eca4c78f0db0a0a807.jpg Wind can most certainly do it. Water and wind erosion work on the same principle. If one can do it so can the other.

My point exactly. Which brings us back to my question.

I find it perfectly easily believable. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/KharazaArch.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Im_Salar_de_Uyuni.jpg http://www.globalgeopark.org/UploadFiles/2012_5_4/Alxa%20_B.jpg We are obviously looking at some sort of layered rock. Such formation should not be mind boggling, especially when we don't know the scale.

That's the problem with internet. Often, you can't be sure if something is satire or not. What made you think this is?

That reminds me of a novel I've read quite a few years ago, which on several occasion I had trouble finding again. It's about an embryo spaceship colonizing a distant planet and children being raised by robots. All the manual labor is done by the machines so people can do whatever they like to do. The society develops vastly different than what we have here on Earth. Anyway, I've managed to find the title, so if anybody cares to read it, it's Voyage from Yesteryear by James P. Hogan. I know I'll be rereading it soon enough.

It's wrong only until enough people start using it. As for the original topic, all I have to say is: Duh!

Antimatter is opposite of normal matter. We have no idea what is dark matter, or even if it is matter at all.

To be honeat, it doesn't take much to get a better SF story than Gravity or Interstellar. I liked the movie too. The questioning and confusion is just the right amount of disturbing.

Map of large observatories. http://calgary.rasc.ca/world_observatory_map/world_observatories_large.htm Fom 60° North to 45° South there are plenty of large telescopes. No patch of sky is hidden.

Can we agree not to use milliteslas for mass? 1000 kg is 1 t, not 1 mT.

Why would that be the only appropriate name? In fact, why would it be appropriate at all?