Space Railgun, JWST's Plans, Claiming The Moon | Q&A 216
Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space? What will JWST see next? Can red or brown dwarfs be the source of dark matter? Should SpaceX just be the only launch service for the USA so they can save money?
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Comments (4)
I'd sit and eat popcorn x
Tatooine: I love the idea of O'Neill cylinders. As you've said in the past "gravity wells are for suckers". Although they are beyond our engineering abilities now, we can start small and scale up and they could be built close to home. I think Elon is in for a high casualty count.
Hoth: I'm old enough to remember the first image of earth taken from space. Some sceptic pointed out that one couldn't tell there was life. There in lies the disappointment, unless the exo-earth image is of spy satellite quality and the equivalent of trees and dinosaurs can be seen the presence of life has to be inferred, a notorious unreliable process. Remember the supposed detection of phosphine on Venus? What happened to that?
Tatooine: there's the Large Hadron Collider, can't see that being built on the moon anytime soon!