NFUN

depends if the landing was soft enough. If the retrorockets didn't work well as some think and would've killed passengers, one fatal accident in 23 launches is pretty bad

Let's be real. Whether or not it's viable doesn't change that it's insane

Oh is that what they're trying to do? Sure had me fooled given literally everything about the project (except, I suppose, the cost)

how. the whole pluto debacle is because of how it isn't gravitationally dominant. webb won't be able to detect smaller bodies that would form rings, nor any other likely edge cases

https://getpocket.com/collections/one-great-article-about-every-planet-in-the-solar-system?utm_source=pocket-newtab include pluto if you want, but if you do don't shut out ceres eris huamea and makemake if you do!

if an alien's appendages aren't capable of building a radio then they aren't capable of using or making electricity, rockets, or anything else that would qualify them as technologically advanced. The assumption isn't that every intelligent species will have them, it's that every technological species will... actually, no, it isn't. There's actually no assumption or logic of any sort beyond "this is a thing they might do and it is a thing it is feasible for us to check with the telescopes we have, unlike any basically any other test". Nobody is making arguments that are taken seriously that if we don't find radio signals with SETI (or even more generally, if alien life isn't generative radio signals) then there is no alien life out there

keep in mind that they're never in a line on the same side of jupiter

I hear metallic hydrogen is like normal hydrogen but more metallic

Challenge accepted

New Horizons

no

lmao

in b4 merge

that was a quote from the article

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-asteroid-samples-chance-chemically-pristine.html "These rocks have a similar chemical composition to what we measure from the sun and are thought to date back to the very beginnings of the solar system approximately four-and-a-half billion years ago—before the formation of the sun, the moon and Earth. [should Moon be capitalized to distinguish it from other moons?]"

Hello there has been a bit of debate about work about whether, in principle, one can halt radioactive decay through use of the quantum zeno effect. The argument goes that you can measure the precise species of, say, an ion through spectroscopy, knowing exactly what element and what isotope it is based on using its fine/hyperfine electronic structure. Thus you know enough quantum numbers to meaningfully know its state, which would be relevant in taking advantage of the effect. The strong conjecture is that you can generally halt particle-emission decays by rapid enough measurements of its state, as a change to its nuclear or electronic structure would be detectable via energy level shifts that your lasers would be tuned to take advantage of (perhaps even a gamma decay could be affected if your apparatus was sensitive and precise enough to tune a laser to the very-super-ultra-fine splitting that would [presumably] be caused by differences in nuclear volume between the excited and relaxed nuclear states). The weak conjecture is that this would only work in something such as 7Be+3, which decays via electron capture and has only one electron, and so the spectroscopy would be directly acting upon a particle actually involved in the decay. Importantly, a distinction is made in this latter case between a change in decay rate due to the Zeno Effect and a change due to changing the electron capture's cross-section via literally just changing where it's spending its time. Additionally, if you could directly address nuclear energy levels and nucleons, would this change anything? The null conjecture is that this is nonsense, which I'm inclined towards by gut but don't have the quantum theory chops to argue or mathematically demonstrate. feel free to laugh at our brief episode of insanity if none of this makes any sense. also feel free to talk about random cool quantum stuff if any comes to mind

5670 Moon -> LEO, 9400 Earth -> LEO, not including atmospheric losses iirc

or they just decided to yeet it to below 7 lmao explanation for the plateau: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/06/webbs-mid-infrared-instrument-cooldown-continues/

They can't passively cool that low, which is why they have the cooler in the first place. At a certain point they're turning off the heaters they were using to prevent ice from forming as it cools, so they've probably turned off the heaters and turned down the cooling power to compensate

It's in Ark Fleet Ship C, with the engineers

i am ROLLING you can't make this excrements up

∇•E=ρ/ε G=8πGT/c4 ∇xE + ∇xB = εμ∂E/∂t - ∂B/∂t dunno QFT or QED so can't give good equations for particle fields or anything

too bad you didn't answer it correctly