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Sphaeroeca-colony It took less than a billion years for some creature a bit like this to evolve to us. So, for all ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jun 14 2022 - 8:33pm

collects at the poles. It gets warm at midday, briefly, can go over 0 °C. So is not cold all the time, but ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Apr 30 2024 - 3:40am

engineering solutions for everything from lasers to atomics, for example. Finally, all else being equal, the ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 7 2009 - 3:09pm

to build at all or too massive. Instruments that would fill an entire lab not that long ago, are now ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 21 2018 - 3:47pm

in all directions. While that is not particularly difficult in directions above and below the stellar ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 5 2019 - 8:00am

spend nearly all their time inside the habitats for safety reasons. You would only go out if you had to. ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 4 2015 - 4:59am

or in space, or in Venus or whatever, you would need to make all your oxygen from the ice and snow on ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Mar 9 2014 - 4:22pm

gives the planet its appeal, as a place people want to colonize. All agree that it is no second home at ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 5:55pm

created life from amino acids, when all it created was RNA, a biosignature, but no life. But if we find ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 26 2015 - 10:57pm

eventually evaporate away. You might wonder how that’s possible. After all it’s a 29.8 km / sec delta v to ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2018 - 11:02pm

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IrishNeanderthal
I don’t think this would go down well in Britain. There have been abominations such as the Tavistock clinic:

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