Recent content by MAraujo

Here's a theory: Given the high latitude, the quickness with which it appeared and disappeared, and the symmetry of the spiral, Im inclined to think its an strange aurora guided by a unique magnetic field interaction. I couldn't characterize what kind of field fluctuation would produce such a...

Rather than a scoop, why not use the heat differential between say the top and the bottom of the space craft during entry to induce some kind of generator. Maybe a turbine (direct or indirect) could store energy in the form of pressure across an o2 tank bridge.

Not only in sunlight but near the terminator. The design of the LEM and the Astronaut's suits depended on a rather low angle of insulation to keep things from overheating. Not to mention, while in flight, its a lot easier to identify surface features with longer shadows.

Ive always wondered about this myself. I can think of lots of places in the universe where mass is actively being converted into energy via E=MC^2 but are there places universe in the where energy is actively being condensed into mass? Obviously, if you go back to the first 100 thousand years...

Yes exactly!....Thank you for answering my question. John Gribbin's book came out in the late 80's so I don't think that term was coined when he wrote it. Gribbin derives the same interpretation from the Wheeler-Feynman absorber paper, that I think is the first example of a retarded/advanced...

So I read this book, Schrodinger's Kittens by John Gribbin, I don't know if any of you have read it (I would recommend it if you haven't). Its essentially a search for the underlying reality of the various models of quantum uncertainty. Whats really going on down there. It seems the...

Every organism has polluted and destroyed its environment causing extinction of other species. Then a new species evolves to fill that new "polluted" environment. After all, thats why we have oxygen to breathe...it was created by photosynthesis as toxic pollution to other early organisms and...

By the way........I bring up this whole "all life is bacterial" argument, not because Im on a tangent, but because I truly believe it is pivotal to the question at hand. We dont know what life looks like in other places, but is crucial that we at least understand how life lives here. If...

Microbiologists would not consider a virus to be a life form...but there's a lot of philosophical baggage that goes along with that question. A virus cannot be killed, it has no metabolism (it doesn't incorporate matter into itself), it can be thought of as a rouge piece of DNA that does only...

Just a funny fact that kind of trumps the whole human vs. other organisms debate... There is absolutely no life on Earth that is not bacterial... no opinion here...its a fact that anyone who has studied any type of micro or molecular biology already knows. Mull that one over and serve it to...

That is if you consider technology to be a trait that's outside of evolution. Is a beaver dam, birds nest, termite mound technology? All of those organisms have successfully done technologically what no other organism has done before. We are not unique to life, rather another link in the...

not even close...Anatomically modern humans have been around for about 2 million years. The average residency for any given species is 3.5-4 million years. A great many species (too many to be listed here) have remained anatomically consistent for 200, 300, 400 million years. If, of course...

If you count the last 20,000 years as the period of "intelligent" life on earth.....then life on Earth has been "intelligent" for 0.0005% of its history. That's a pretty lucky shot for anyone who might stumble on our civilization. The question for little green men comes down to whether...

When you seen Jimmy Page or Slash leaning back into there solos, its cause that thing weighs a ton. Its the heaviest guitar in rock and roll (except of course for Robbie Robertson's solid brass stratocaster). Not being a fan of the Les Paul or the SG models, I will celebrate Les Paul for his...

lol...I know you're just innocently asking (and I dont blame you, I would probably ask the same thing if I was new to this), but this is a question that gets asked it seems, once a week. And then everybody does there best to explain that: Yes, the project is still very active No, there's not...