SpaceX’s colonial “grand plan” reveal is what I’m counting down to with this “Countdown to Mars” article series. Scheduled for September 26th – 30th of this year, Elon Musk has stated that he will be announcing detailed plans for their Mars Colonial Transporter at the International A...
How many miles is Earth from the sun? Why is Pluto not considered a planet anymore?Roughly speaking, stars cannot have a mass outside of which range? a. 0.5 to 5.0 solar mass b. 0.1 to 1.0 solar mass c. 0.08 to 100 solar mass d. 1 to 100 solar massHow much solar...
The answer, of course, is that they once did. But nature seems to hate an integer* as much as it reportedly hates a vacuum, so a year isn’t an even 365 or 366 days or 12 orbits of the moon around the Earth; neither does the moon take exactly 29 or 30 days to go around. So...
I’m reminded of the research I looked at inPlutocracy Isn’t About Money. People seem to donate surprisingly little to political candidates, and donations don’t seem to help. This seems consistent with the idea that rich people don’t directly coordinate to bribe politicians in their favor....