Recent content by Michael Z Freeman

Thanks for this. After being away from Orbiter for a few years I watched, think it was something like "Extreme Engineering" on Yesterday that had a lot about Orion. The chutes, the new friction welding process and a lot more. So this was a great addon to start back with ! :tiphat: My Orion...

From a purely logical standpoint if extraterrestrials were here then how would we even know ? One only has to look at a few Star Trek episodes to understand ... from using cloaking technologies to knowing how to blend into a society. How many extraterrestrials have we spoken to and not even...

True. Glad you've heard of the the Antikythera mechanism :hello:. True. But I was not referring to the possibility of anything like our current nuts and bolts space endeavors. As I discuss on my blog, the thinking here has often become very staid. Why do SETI ignore the discoveries of...

Pretty ironic reply from Yoda there :lol:. Swami Sri Yukteswar 1855 - 1936 came out of a tradition of ancient Hindu Physics and Cosmology. This planet is also littered with astronomical ancient sites. The Ancients had a deep understanding of the heavens. The Maya track astronomical time over...

"could there be?" I said. No, there is no evidence that I know of. But remember Earth has been around for a long time and we aren't the first civilisation to have a good understanding of the Universe.

You might be interested in a blog post I wrote about this ...

It's extraordinary the innovations going on to allow this kind of imaging. The last time I checked up on this subject I saw predictions that it would be decades before we could image another planet. I hope it's not just a speck of dust on the lens ! :rofl: But this is not the only one ...

OK. I'm not convinced myself. Thanks for the discussion. Maybe I should leave it there :cheers:. Well, give em' a chance ! According to this page ... All the Expedition experiments are linked on that page. -----Posted Added----- ( Somehow back on topic :huh: ) Your question is not a dumb...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7642014.stm Or forums ? GregBurch .. you introduce a bit of positivity to the discussion. Moonwalker ... yes, of course you may not be so impressed by ESA and Roskosmos, but frankly, you sound so CERTAIN about what you are saying ! We're talking about a...

Thanks for the info .. I was trying to find that ! :speakcool: In terms of the ISS and what it has achieved,and what it is for ... this is my point. It couldn't have happened without Russia and now Europe with ATV. So why is the USA taking this attitude with Constellation ? I've already heard...

Interesting. But where is the evidence for all this ? I can't decide if I'm reading your own opinion on this, or something that happened in a meeting I missed. So Griffin has contradicted himself ? What about the ageing ? Where is the evidence for material ageing, of say, the super structure...

Jeez. I was actually thinking Columbia when I wrote that. Typo really. Inexcusable though :chair:. You certainly have a point. I was just taking what he was saying in the social and cultural terms that he was talking in. It is not "rational" that the diary was eventually returned to his...

Did you read the article by Friedman ? The "it's history" argument sounds too much like Fait Accompli to me. You don't address the political environment and that Orion is dependent on funding. Griffin's speech means nothing ? Friedman has no bearing on the argument ? It's all been decided...

I would like to submit to you both that this entire issue is mired in politics and ... ... as Friedman and Jacques Blamont put it in a recent document ... A New Paradigm for a New Vision of Space, A paper by Louis Friedman and Jacques Blamont. The ISS is becoming a political football in an...

It's only just starting to do research science using experiments. However the whole station is an exercise in the Science of engineering. The tolerances and performance of materials, and much more. The ISS is part of going farther. Dig up Griffin's recent speech and statements by the Planetary...