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Update on Phobos – Where’s a shuttle when you need it?
This is another reason I advocate the continuance of NASA and the U.S. run space program. We led the way into space and must push forward to explore new worlds and boldly go where no man has gone before. Beam me up… oh, sorry I must have got carried away. Continue reading
Reason to keep NASA – Phobos Transpermia Fiasco
To leave planet Earth an escape velocity of 11.2 km/s (approx. 40,320 km/h, or 25,000 mph) is required, however a speed of 42.1 km/s is required to escape the Sun’s gravity (and exit the solar system) from the same position. The Phobos rocket is caught in Earth’s orbit and may never escape it.
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What did Carl Sagan have to say on time travel?
Related to discovering and measuring Hawking Radiation will be the validation that time travel, in one form or the other, will eventually be possible. Arguments such as, why are we not being visited currently by travelers from the past, is … Continue reading
