Q&A 66: What If SpaceX Went Bankrupt? and More...
In this week's questions show, I wonder what would happen if SpaceX failed as a company, why New Horizons can't search for Planet 9, and I ask for your suggestions for new names to call dark matter and dark energy.
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Walk on Mars in 2037? You don't think SpaceX has thought about radiation, toilets, alleviating boredom, etc, etc? Sure getting to Mars and staying there is ridiculously tough but I think SpaceX will get us there by the late 2020s. They better because I'll probably be dead by 2037 and I want to see someone on Mars before I go.
I think they've thought about them, I just don't think they've got working prototypes that have been proven to work in space.
Workers in space need "True Grit".
Exactly. :-)
Dumb question but, the Big Bang is always shown as a cone in one direction. Wouldn't the explosion occur in all directions? Is the cone the area that we can see? And if the explosion occurred in all directions, we are seeing only a fraction of what is possible out there.
That cone graphic that you're seeing is just the size of the Universe compared to time. In reality, it could have been going off in all directions forever. It was more dense in the past and it's less dense now. Did you ever see this video I did with Paul Sutter? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2A4yYeurGk&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v&index=78&t=3s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2A4yYeurGk&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v&index=78&t=3s</a>