Ahhh its not that little, space makes it look liitle.
Earth is plenty big enough for us right now, we simply have to get some perspective and work on our existing technologies to do things better.
In fact things are alot better than they have been in the past.
Getting us all out of poverty and ...

This is ironic! We just had an earthquake this morning (only 3.8) in the opposite part of the state-- in Buffalo!
Can such a weaker distant earthquake also be detected using this method, Mid?


A 3.8 is way too weak for a camera observation like this. But this instrument itself can detect such ...

Mid, are they even sure about that period? I read that they aren't even sure if it will ever return. Maybe it has a parabolic path or even hyperbolic?
Its orbit is changing during its plunge through the solar system. Inbound its eccentricity was slightly less than 1 with an orbital period of ...

It's a faint comet (I don't really understand the hype, which seems to be centered around that it has an orbit of 50,000 years (quite roughly?), but I digress). But I was able to find it in video from a meteor camera, despite exposure times of 1/25 second. It was supposed to be magnitude 4.5, but ...

I know, but in my light polluted part of the country, the only thing that I can really see from here are stars (and only the really bright ones) so it would be interesting to see a green object in the sky. The only other comet I've ever seen was Hale Bopp.

Even with binocs and from a dark sky ...

This is ironic!  We just had an earthquake this morning (only 3.8) in the opposite part of the state-- in Buffalo!
Can such a weaker distant earthquake also be detected using this method, Mid?

Exactly. :) We use belts to describe diffuse but disk-like distribution of objects, and clouds for diffuse but more spherical distribution of objects.
Is it really spherical though or more like a torus? I always envisioned it like a torus because there is the "hole" in the middle (where the ...

Green comets are not rare. The vast majority of them are green (the color comes from C2 molecules which are common component of a comet's coma), and ones bright enough to see with the naked eye show up every few years on average. Sometimes there are several in the same year. I've even photographed ...

Is it really spherical though or more like a torus? I always envisioned it like a torus because there is the "hole" in the middle (where the planets are.)
At closer distances it is more like a disk extending out from the Kuiper belt, but at larger distances it transitions to a gigantic and ...

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How reliable could this be-- for example would it be able to tell the difference between a gamma ray burst and an "unnatural" signal (whatever that means.)

Yes, and to be able to do with with some semblance of safety we would have to create some version of the alcubierre drive and keep it active until we're in a "safe" zone where local space is free of these objects.
I have always thought that the solution to the Fermi paradox is technological ...

Personally, I think cloud is the right descriptor — after all is it not spherical in shape? Whereas a belt is more or less a ring. And where in the definition of "cloud" is there mention of a specific density? :)


Exactly. :) We use belts to describe diffuse but disk-like distribution of ...

wow which ship is that? another one of your ships that aren't on Steam haha?
Thanks going to check messages now, fellow Alex!

A long time ago I did a simple calculation related to that. If you took every object in the Oort Cloud and squeezed them together into a flat, face-on disk at the same distance, how large would it appear on the sky? (In other words, what fraction of the sky do all the Oort Cloud objects take up ...

Unless the Oort cloud can actually obscure some stars.....

The Oort cloud is very, very empty. The planets of the inner solar systems are more packed than objects of any size to speak of in the Oort cloud. You can zip through it with a spacecraft at any angle and the probability that you hit ...