Recent content by kamikrazee

Roughly the attention span of several well-known politicians.

I don't know how long a galactic year is in human terms, but this year seems like it is lasting forever.

Yeah and it could be a Dairy Queen wrapper too. When there are three or more corroborative facts, we can talk about the alien intelligence possibilities, but right now, it's just something to talk about over a libation.

A mouth, a digestive tract, and a back passage. Charming. Reminds me of a well known chief executive.

I agree that this virus is/was not "manufactured", but the original report was that it had been isolated from animals, (specifically bats), and was one of several used in experiments on human subjects, and this was the means by which it "escaped". The story is plausible, however I do not...

I'd say that Freud was basically correct, though not in an all encompassing way. With credit to the Firesign Theater, "we are all just Bozo's on this Bus". So there.

I say this respectfully, and without any measure of snark, but I'll believe it when I see it. What would the decay signature look like, and how might we detect it with the instrumentation that we have in place today?

You can do those things when you are old. Shoo'ng kids off the lawn, spanking puppies and running around naked, farting at people. One of the perq's of old age.

Can't the propellant be used to boost the satellite out of orbit altogether? If it can reach escape velocity, it could be directed into an orbit that allow it to fall into the sun, solving a multitude of problems.

OK, as I write, it is about 90 minutes past the expected (potential) impact time. What happened? How close was the miss, or, how large is the debris cloud?

Is it just me, or does this whole situation have an "Andromeda Strain" feel to it? The misinformation, the uncoordinated reactions, they all don't fit unless there is something unseen at work.

OK, I assume that neither is in a counter-rotational orbit, so, they are both in a (general) west to east path. Does anyone know, or know where we can find out, the individual angles of inclination of these two birds with respect to the equator? We could get a rough guess of a potential...