Chat GPT for Astronomy, Microscopes on Mars, Use Cases for Starship | Q&A 217

I asked a PHD in astronomy that same question. His brief answer as I understood it was,”well, it just doesn’t work that way!” Suffice it to say, they have already thought about that question and the physicists have an answer even if I cannot understand it.

If nothing can escape a black hole, except hawking radiation. How does the Big Bang get around this, assuming the early universes density was high enough to be a black hole.

Chat app- totally unrelated, I shall blame you for any upcoming diabetes II diagnosis...I have uploaded chatgp thingy and asked for a Haribo recipe 😉🤣🤣

Fraser- random question. Assuming on the moon we wanted to use the hot/cold temp differential at the edge of daylight for energy, how fast would the equipment need to travel on the moon surface to keep up with shifting sunset line? Could this ever be practical? Cheers!

Mandalorian... One of the consequences of relativity is that accelerating any particle that has mass causes its mass to increase. As it approaches the speed of light, the mass approaches infinity, and the force needed to accelerate further also approaches infinity. Only a massless particle such as a photon can reach the speed of light. FTL travel isn't going to happen. The only alternative seems to be a "warp drive" that could shorten the path by "warping" spacetime.

Hoth for me too

Hoth: an interesting question but although the microscope could be the size of a small camera it's the preparation of the sample that's the problem. In an Earth laboratory a rock would be cut into slivers, ground and polished to translucent thinness then put under the microscope. Now imagine fitting that equipment into a Mars rover and having it reliably prepare hundreds of samples. Its difficult enough just collecting small rocks and putting them in a tube. Simpler to return them to Earth.