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From: Di (amina046)
8/14/21
Runaway star caught streaking across Milky Way at 2 million mph ... in the wrong direction
Astronomers say a weird star careening through the Milky Way could have survived the explosive powers of a supernova.
Read more from livescience.comFrom: Di (amina046)
8/24/21
Mercury Is No Longer The Closest World To The Sun: Scientists Just Discovered Our Star's New Nearest Neighbor
Astronomers have found the fastest-orbiting asteroid so far-and its gets closer to the Sun that even the planet Mercury.
Read more from ForbesFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
8/26/21
I thought you were about to declare a new planet there for a second!!
From: Di (amina046)
10/27/21
Space Mining: Scientists Discover Two Asteroids Whose Precious Metals Would Exceed Global Reserves
"Mini Psyches"-mysterious metal-rich near-earth asteroids-have been discovered. They could one day be mined.
Read more from ForbesFrom: adwil
10/27/21
Give it 50 years and some nations and perhaps companies will be out there mining. Of course by that time there will be several bases on the Moon and Mars. I wish I was young enough to live to see it, but I can imagine it.
From: NISSY (NISSY2)
10/28/21
Elon recently said that politicians are trying to stop him from going to Mars with their proposed Billionaires tax.
https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-criticized-billionaires-tax-151215819.html
- Edited October 28, 2021 12:41 pm by NISSY (NISSY2)
From: adwil
10/28/21
Perhaps Musk and the other billionaires should let it be known that they'll renounce their US citizenship and move their wealth and their research and development abroad.
From: NISSY (NISSY2)
10/28/21
It would be hard for Musk to do that but he may be considering it. The US government is one of his customers so I doubt if he would do that.
His factory in Germany hasn't opened yet. Environmentalists are delaying it.
It is going to be hard for democracies to settle Mars.