[Q&A+] Giving Up on Dark Matter, Swarm of Cheap Probes VS Single Expensive One, Rotating Universe | Q&A 328
At what point we should just admit defeat and give up on our search for dark matter? Should we be sending a lot of cheap space probes instead of a single expensive one? If the Universe is rotating, where is the axis? And in our Q&A+ version, how to make a friend fall in love with Astronomy? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A.
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I'm intrigued by the scoop + ion engine idea. Sounds a lot like a Bussard ramjet given new life. It seems this would work best in locations with a (relatively) dense medium, like the lower thermosphere or... Sun's corona? Parker Probe 2.0? Sundiver? (If you haven't read David Brin's "Sundiver"... you should. For that matter, interviewing David Brin, PhD/Astrophysics Cal Tech, Hugo.Nebula winner) on the state of "hard science fiction" and his own "Uplift Universe", would be fantastic.)
More author interviews would be awesome!