I don’t know. The pollution affiliated with space flight is tremendous and I don’t know if the trend will be supported by governments if it becomes popular.

If only the elite can access it then the pollution may not be too crazy but if it’s affordable even for the minor rich I believe governments will get involved and regulate it or prevent it altogether.

But what do I know? The dollar talks and if there is money to be made and the government stays on its trend of not really caring too much about pollution then yeah you very well be able to go to space sometime in the future.

>photons have no mass

How then are they redirected when in the proximity of a stellar gravity field? How does that happen when they have no mass?

>EM and photons are well understood

And here I was, thinking they call it black matter and black energy precisely because they don't understand what it is.

My takeaway from this and other such articles regarding exoplanets is that it seems much more common for gaan giants to be orbiting near their star, and it seems Jupiter is an outlier in that sense. It seems Jupiter would've also been this way if not for the formation of Saturn whose gravitational pull stopped it advancing inwards and caused it to retreat back to where it presently is.

This comment is incorrect. The study shows the beads contain trace readings of hydroxyl.

This article is poorly written.

The main reason it's taken so long to get back to the moon is there's no point going to the moon for a photo op.

NASA realized when we go back it should be to stay.

Why the Artemis missions are focused on figuring out how to set up permanent presence both on the moon and the Lunar Gateway.

We need water on the moon, for water mainly. And for Hydrogen.

What the moon truly offers though is long term and that's manufacturing, refining, and mining. Off of Earth.

We aren't launching any mega structure from Earth ever. No matter how good rockets get.

From the moon... Yes we can build mega structures.

SLS program is already done they are only building the current rockets. Starship will be the rocket used for future programs.

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So much light pollution on the moon. We really need to scale back development 😆😜

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Even low-grade hobby telescopes are polished to 1/16 micron (2.5 millionths of an inch). Serious telescopes are several times more accurate. Optics inherently have to be very precise.

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Just in forms that cannot be used.

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Everything I've heard about MDA is in general a disaster, I don't think it was the move though.

Everyone seems incredibly toxic and its just asses in seats mentality.

1 in 10,000 year GRB seems like a stretch, we've only been able to detect them for a few decades.

There isn't a "point" to a magnetosphere, we just happen to have one. Its importance as a radiation shield is wildly exaggerated, and Earth regularly goes through periods with no strong, organized global field. The existing atmosphere of Mars provides more surface protection than Earth's magnetosphere provides in LEO, and Earth's atmosphere provides most of its protection from cosmic rays. A terraformed Mars would have an atmosphere with nearly 3 times the column mass due to its lower gravity, and even without an magnetosphere would have far better protection than Earth.

As for orbit, only LEO is protected. Satellites and probes are better off outside the magnetosphere than they are in medium Earth orbit where the belts are, and missions with humans have to plan trajectories that take them around the belts. And geomagnetic storms only pose a problem on Earth because we have a large magnetic field to get buffeted around by changes in the solar wind that we otherwise wouldn't notice.

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When they tried to move the MDA headquarters to Huntsville it was a disaster.

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I don't think there's any way to actually determine the spin rate (day length) of exoplanets at this time so they would be talking about Earth days.

Also planets near stars are easier to spot so a super-short orbit is expected.

It can just be confusing which days we're talking about.

What if we nuke the core or do something to make it spin again?

Look at the proposals for protecting Earth during it's next geomagnetic reversal. I can't find now, but there are basically two main approaches: the L1 satellite one that DanFlashesSales said, and the superconducting rings over the surface that more closely reproduce the natural magnetosphere. For Mars, as far as it don't have a huge industry, the first one seems more realistic, but both are massive enterprises.

> This would help a a lot for future missions and future terraforming.

It would mostly mean that satellites and spacecraft would have radiation belts to deal with, and Mars itself would be subject to geomagnetic storms. Neither of these is very "helpful".