Ask me any one question about space, please!

[Tex]

Hello all, and as some of you might remember, I have recently posted more than one thread about doing a video explaining how space works. Now, I have gone through the motions, thought about all the angles, and now, I want you, the wonderful Kommunity, to have the biggest single part in the entire process.

What I'm hoping to do is simply ask people to ask me a question about anything space. Ask me one question that you'd like to find out more about, and I will put your question into the video! I want this to be a continuing thing, so as long as I have questions to answer, I will make more and more videos to answer them.

So lay it on me! Ask me a question or two! Every contribution counts, and we'll all have a part in educating the masses about stuff that interests them!

Thanks for reading, and I hope to hear some great questions!

Edited April 16, 2014 by Maximus97

[LaydeeDem]

How many calories in a cubic lightyear of cheddar.

[shynung]

How to launch assymetric vehicles (e.g. Space Shuttle) into orbit without them spiraling out of control?

Even with help from mods, I find this task an engineering nightmare.

[Holo]

If you had a machine that could teleport you to a random place anywhere in the universe, what is the probability of you landing somewhere where you would:

a). die within a second?

. survive for longer than a day?

[vetrox]

If i was a rich ****er and there was world peace and the whole world was united in the goal of space exploration and I decided to attach a bunch of rockets to the side of the moon...and also I can put a massive rocket on the side of the moon (im magic icarnate)

How much thrust would I need to alter the moons orbit to crash into the earth (you know...for ****s and giggles) if we know how much thrust we need and how long we need to burn for at that given thrust...then how much (using current rockets as a baseline) would it cost and how huge would it be?

[K^2]

Who's going to be answering the questions, and what sort of arbitration is there going to be on answers? That's sort of important to establish, if there's going to be any point to this.

[Tex]

It's me that's gonna do the answering. I'm wanting to do a series on educating people about space and things like that, so my method is to get questions from anybody who wants to ask them! What better way is there to educate the masses than answering questions that they have directly?

Edited April 16, 2014 by Maximus97

[Kryten]

This place is hardly a good facsimile of 'the masses' in terms of knowledge about space.

[K^2]

It's me that's gonna do the answering. I'm wanting to do a series on educating people about space and things like that, so my method is to get questions from anybody who wants to ask them! What better way is there to educate the masses than answering questions that they have directly?

Hm. What are your credentials?

Edit: It just occurred to me that this might come off as a bit condescending. It's just that questions can be very broad in a lot of ways. When one person answers them, it has to be either someone with huge amount of experience across the board, or better yet, a group of people with variety of experience. For example, I would not doubt for a moment that this forum, as a community, could construct a very good answer on just about any space-related subject. Probably more general science questions as well. There would still have to be an "editor", if you will, somebody who compiles the bits and pieces of the answers into something that flows well. But having just one person answer the questions is an extremely difficult task. I have a vast background in physics, with a lot of interest in space, and I'm good at doing research on the fly across both popular resources and academic papers, but I still make quite significant errors frequently enough, as many members of this forum will attest to. And I'm always glad to have this community correct me.

So that's why I'm asking what sort of background you are planning to rely on, if you are going to answer questions yourself.

Edited April 16, 2014 by K^2

[Javster]

Wi havnt ppl landud un teh sun? cant thuy go @ nite wen its nut hot???

Seriously though, would you say Apollo 11 is a bigger achievement than Voyager 1?

[Tex]

Okay, this is NOT how I had pictured this going. I'll address as much as possible.

This place is hardly a good facsimile of 'the masses' in terms of knowledge about space.

I am GATHERING QUESTIONS here, so I can research them and present my findings on YouTube. I had wanted this to be a learning and cooperation experiment, and to see if I could get some funny and interesting questions with interesting anwers. Needless to say, this is failing horribly and I am quite dissapointed.

Hm. What are your credentials? Edit: It just occurred to me that this might come off as a bit condescending. It's just that questions can be very broad in a lot of ways. When one person answers them, it has to be either someone with huge amount of experience across the board, or better yet, a group of people with variety of experience. For example, I would not doubt for a moment that this forum, as a community, could construct a very good answer on just about any space-related subject. Probably more general science questions as well. There would still have to be an "editor", if you will, somebody who compiles the bits and pieces of the answers into something that flows well. But having just one person answer the questions is an extremely difficult task. I have a vast background in physics, with a lot of interest in space, and I'm good at doing research on the fly across both popular resources and academic papers, but I still make quite significant errors frequently enough, as many members of this forum will attest to. And I'm always glad to have this community correct me.

So that's why I'm asking what sort of background you are planning to rely on, if you are going to answer questions yourself.

I have literally stated that I am high school student in the earlier posts about this exact same topic. I would ask that you please READ the posts I have told about.

Of course I have hardly any experience in these fields, and that is what I am doing by letting the community in on my process to learn and teach others.

So yep! All's I'm wanting to do is have a little fun with you guys, and have everybody learn something!

Edited April 17, 2014 by Maximus97

[ZetaX]

It is going out of hand because somebody told you that it is a difficult task and wants to know if you are up for it¿ Seriously, his post was neither agressive nor wrong, but just an elaboration on "science/research can be harder and more tedious than you think". Get yourself together please and don't feel offended everytime anyone does not only praise you...

[LaydeeDem]

You're gonna at least answer my question before the lock right?

[Holo]

One person asked you about what you knew about physics, which is pretty far from "out of hand".

And you have received questions! Just look at this thread! Plenty of questions here for you to answer, and there's likely plenty more on the way if more people see this thread.

If you don't feel that the current questions are up to scratch, feel free to ask me to throw a few more your way. Here's another one:

"What would I see if I jumped into a black hole?"

[sal_vager]

Maximus, relax, you can answer these I know it

[Tex]

Of course I can! I HAVE TEH POWAH

Keep 'em coming!

[astropapi1]

What would happen if I started spinning a dead weight at the end of a rope in space until it almost reached the speed of light? What would it look like?

You can do it.

[cantab]

Why don't NASA and Roscosmos put artificial gravity on the ISS?

[tychochallenge]

Why don't NASA and Roscosmos put artificial gravity on the ISS?

I don't think ISS is structurally stable enough to handle artificial gravity. Whether it spins itself or has something spinning on it, it would be structurally unstable. Unless they use moat struts. NASA is too lazy to put on moar struts:P

Edited April 17, 2014 by tychochallenge

[K^2]

You can attach a module that would allow for stable artificial gravity. Not going to be very comfortable, because of low G and high RPM at that scale, but it's workable, and there has been proposals to send one up.

Nautilus-X ISS demonstration module is probably best known of the above. It addresses most of the engineering challenges.

[Select Few]

How big is space?

[LaydeeDem]

How big is space?

"Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space..."

[Seret]

What are the cardinal directions in space?

[Nibb31]

"Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space..."

I've seen that before...

[Nibb31]

Why don't NASA and Roscosmos put artificial gravity on the ISS?

1- Because there is no time to develop, launch and use a centrifuge module before the ISS is decommissioned.

2- Because microgravity scientists don't want their own experiments messed up by the vibrations of a centrifuge.