Q&A 174: Could We Mine Jupiter for Hydrogen? And More...
In this week's episode, I explain how we could use Jupiter as a source of fuel for our fusion reactors, what it means to say there's a scientific consensus, and if gravitational waves can trigger earthquakes.
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You were way too nice to UK man loves goddesses :-D
Hah, people like my calm rational responses to questions.
Great take on the Scientific Consensus. My turn now: I don't think that Gravitational waves will ever cause earthquakes or anything like it. Because when a gravitational wave passes through earth it's not shifting things relative to other things, like ground in relation to buildings. It's squeezing and stretching everything in spacetime - not just in space, thus everything will remain in the same relative position to each other. Even relative to the gravitational forces of Earth, Moon and Sun for that matter. The only reason LIGO can detect gravitational waves is because the speed of light doesn't change during passing of the gravitational wave, and that’s how we're then able to measure the changes in distances between the mirrors. Anyways, the recent merger of two black holes only moved the mirrors less than a thousandth of the width of a proton. Yeah, I'm that smart :-) Or I can read Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves