/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16186251
stellar wells at least supply you with energy and leaving them isn't very expensive if that becomes necessary

>>16142674
>System configurations like ours, where the gas giants all migrated outwards and the smaller planets remained inside are similarly uncommon
Yeah, those star systems we find with multiple Jupiter mass worlds huddled up within 1 AU of the primary freak me out. It wasn't supposed to be like this!

The summer population of Antarctica is about 4000. So 40 per ship and 100 ships is enough for Mars.

> surviving lunar night
just run your rover at a high latitude and you can stay in permanent sunlight. you'll need a com relay when it reaches the farside ofc

>>15035054
I partially disagree
>(458732) 2011 MD5 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid around 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles) in diameter. It is the largest asteroid known to have passed closer than the Moon.[4] On 17 September 1918 the asteroid passed 0.00234 AU (350 thousand km; 0.91 LD) from Earth[3] with a peak apparent magnitude of around 8.4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(458732)_2011_MD5
So it was 3x bigger than the proposed object
>>15034983
at roughly lunar distance and still pretty dim. Roughly as bright as Titan, so invisible to the naked eye - the ancients wouldn't see it - but late 17th C. astronomers could see it

Why don't they fill up the SLS so it doesn't blow away in the hurricane? Its like an empty beer can right now

The LEM is a spaceplane