Recent content by Steamdude

Trick question. Doesn't count! Not a waterfall in the traditional sense.

Agree

Someone really phoned this one in, didn't they?

Someone needs to revisit basic arithmetic and actually proofread what they write. In one place you say "graze by Earth at a mere 12-thousand-mile (19.3-thousand-kilometer) distance", and later in the same article you write "at a distance of 7,641 miles (12,298 kilometers)". So which is it...

"no one has ever managed to create a reactor that is able to put out more energy than it takes in." Minor point. That's technically not true... https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414681-nuclear-fusion-reaction-releases-almost-twice-the-energy-put-in/ Still a long, long way to go.

Due to time dilation, wouldn't time stand totally still relative to the rest of reality?

Wait. Am I missing something? Wouldn't the "late Holocene" actually be today? Wouldn't it be more accurate to describe it as the "early Holocene"? Oops!

Thanks for pointing that out. She was the first Nurse Chapel, delicious as Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of the computer in almost all the earlier TV series. She was perhaps the most notable presence in the entire franchise!

Let's see now. In order to utilize these theories we will first have to solve the problem of FTL travel. And then, to "charge" the black hole we'll have to come up with a massive amount of charged particles. Wait a minute. Charged particles? Doesn't that mean that you already have a...

Not sure why you'd need a wobble. Couldn't it be closely inferred by the rotation of the accretion disk?

As confounding as the physics of black holes is, it seems to me that you should still be able to define its rotation as a function of number of revolutions per interval of time, which would put it into a much more understandable frame of reference than a number between 0 and 1. Has the speed of...

I have a good explanation for why the years seem to pass more quickly the older you get. It's a matter of relatively (not the Einstein kind). For me, at age 70, one year is just one seventieth of my existence. For my 10 year old granddaughter, that same amount of time is one tenth her existence.

The just boosted my bill this month by $5.00! ;-)

These tyrants came to power because their countries' citizenry decided not opposing them was the "easier" thing to do.

Given to hyperbole at all? How 40 to 50 light years away translates to "across the galaxy" literally boggles my mind, given the latter would suggest a distance of somewhere around 50,000 LY! It betrays a certain ignorance of the distances involved, or a tendency towards click bait, or both.