I like that in scifi, people treat space like the ocean asks
I guess you’re probably getting sick of the “go to this link and tell me why this sucks” questions but…
Go to this link and tell me why this sucks. Or why it’ll work. Whatever.
I know you’ve already gone over why reusable spacecraft are terrible but does adding the fact that this is a single stage make it even worse? Or better?
I have been playing Spore! I have been hating Spore! Oh, is Spore a terrible game and a waste of possibly the best game concept ever, and that’s something I’ll be expanding on more next week. This week, though, I’m going to talk about one of the very first sequences you see when you start a game of Spore: a very pretty crystal-studded asteroid flits past a star, approaches a planet, breaks up in the atmosphere and plops down into the ocean, where it releases cells that form the basis of organic life and starts the first stage of the game.
In another Prometheus-inspired post, I’m going to talk about space suits. Prometheus has space suits. They’re very pretty space suits. But are they practical?
Jiiiiim asks
So, put a grapefruit and an egg in an area of space which has no other gravitational influences. Would they orbit each other and what would that orbit look like?
It rather depends on the initial parameters of the system, but assuming no other information my answer is going to be absolutely not.
I went to see Prometheus on Saturday. It was my first cinema trip in three years and the results were… not pretty. Prometheus is a film about space scientists and their space mission to a space planet to be killed by space aliens, except the scientists in question are pretty much the worst scientists in the history of science. Even by film scientist standards they’re absolutely terrible. The following laundry list of complaints is going to spoil the movie fairly comprehensively, so if you have any intention of watching this awful film at some point in the future I’d avoid reading the rest of this post if I were you.
Blah blah blah transit of Venus blah blah blah once in a lifetime event blah blah astonishing photographs blah. Screw that astronomy shit, let’s do some real science.
Hey, so you know when I said that in order for the universe to accommodate the speed of light being invariant something else has to pick up the slack, and that something is time?
I lied.