The fact that most of our signals for extra-terrestrial life are based on life on earth has always made me concerned we'd miss something. This has made me reconsider a little. We would miss life unlike earth's with our approach, but without an analogy like this to draw on, how could we know?
For the non-clickers of the link (like myself):
It’s gonna be the Parker Solar Probe, skimming the sun’s atmosphere in ever tighter and faster elipses with each orbit, gaining more and more speed with each pass.
Sure thing! In chemistry, an organic compound is anything that has carbon in it. Carbon dioxide, for example, is an organic compound. While organic compounds are what life is made of, they don’t necessarily come from life. Biological, in this context, would be something that’s part of a living thing.
If any actual chemists want to correct anything I’ve said wrong or expand on this that would be appreciated
That’s because asteroids with organics that create life are sent out by the Pathagorath, the screeching glutton that dwells in the blinding. He’s the creature that lives in the center of the galaxy and sends out asteroids to seed worlds with life so that he can devour their souls. You see when we die our souls are eternally digested in his bottomless belly, and without ever increasing nourishment his metabolism would cease to produce the necessary excretions our galaxy needs for time to exist and we would simply blink out of existence. We owe him eternally for our existence as well as our damnation.
This is 632 megameters (million meters) per hour. The speed of light is 1.080,000 megameters per hour. So this object is traveling 0.58% of light speed.
Many hundreds of billions of dollars were paid to haul all of that mass up the gravity well into orbit. And guess who spent all of that money? And guess who’d like to make a LOT MORE money?
Apart from the spent rockets (now sitting at the bottom of Point Nemo) and fuel, most of ISS was clearly expensive and versatile and well-designed. And VERY likely to be worth recycling.
Instead, send a rocket up there to LIFT ISS into a stable parking orbit that won’t decay in thousands of years. By then somebody will have found a use for most of it. If ‘space-faring’ is really the goal, and not just a gimmick to put money into private pockets.
Using it to make a spectacular fireworks show is an ENORMOUS waste. The Egyptians didn’t dynamite the pyramids … a lucrative decision.
My bet: a Starship variant. Send it up, refuel it as needed, and you’ve got a metric shit ton of de-orbit push. Starship will have been to the moon by then, it’ll be a proven platform.
Hell, use a fleet and you could reland the ISS if you wanted it back on Earth intact.
Take a look at the world around you and tell me who’s fucked up more historically, private entities or governments? I feel like the answer is governments. I don’t know about yours, but MY government can’t even make up a fucking BUDGET, and you want them doing shit in space? No thanks. Let’s let the people with passion, experience, and the right pay take care of it.
who’s fucked up more historically, private entities or governments?
Historically, private entities … not even close. Governments are far more open to scrutiny. Entities pay well to keep their fuckups hidden. You have dig into the hundreds of books written about them to learn the documented facts. How many workers did Ford have shot? (Why did Hitler give him a golden award?) Why did the German dye-makers move their factories to New Jersey, then China? Why was noone willing to insure the early nuclear reactors … so the government had to?
Because privatization (and capitalism in general) opens the door for greedy corporations to squeeze every bit of profit they can out of something. And skirt regulation or oversight in the process
because because because because (ad nauseum) - the law allows it. that’s on the government. We can fix that. No, I don’t know how, and if I did, I would be screaming it from the rooftops.
Just because NASA has to release information doesn’t mean the normal person knows when they are going to do that. It’s nice to know when interesting information is going to come out.
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