Tod Lauer

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

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Well, you know, you gotta ask around - find someone who knows someone...
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Isn't that just basically a whopping part of how we do research?

Not even that.

Well for one thing, the Big Bang theory is not out the window.

Umm, the bunched up umbrellas certainly look like something.

I can’t even begin to understand this. And the IFT is just an FT with the sign flipped in the exponent.

Since 1970 we have explored every planet in the solar system. We have rovers on Mars. We have space telescopes looking back to the start of the Universe. We have new telescope on Earth that can find all killer asteroids. New Horizons has just demonstrated interstellar navigation. Not good enough?

Only Carl Sagan was Carl Sagan. You are Jasmine and you will do creative things that are uniquely yours.

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.

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He did get to the Moon twice, even though he didn’t get to walk on it.

Love this group picture of the "Original 7" + "Next 9" astronauts. 4 would walk on the moon. 3 more would orbit it. 2 went there twice. With the passing of Jame Lovell, they are now all gone.

“Very dirty and in need of a wash…” Nice touch!

Wow! I grew up on the Man from UNCLE! Do you know that there is a pre Star Trek episode of UNCLE that has both Shatner and Nimoy in it?

And got a member of congress to write directly to the NASA admin. When your ideas are that brilliant you need to do things like that.

May be fine. Selecting by BH mass is likely to boost the BH / stellar mass ratio.

Yup - we had a bobcat do the same trick under our carport. It also dug up two wood rats in the same visit. Hungry little kitty.

I've very recently come across the Tony's chocolate bars for this. Their irregular chunky casting is a lot of fun...

A US rep urgently advocatuing action to the admin amounts to the same thing.

It's infeasible - there's nothing to study. The Juno engine is non-functional, and there's at most 1/3 of the fuel needed in any case.

This whole thing reeks! Figured he had to know it wouldn’t work, but wanted to show off all the same. Deeply troubling.

I think it went the way of eight track tapes and leisure suits.

It looks pretty difficult to me! I imagine it would be pretty easy to drift into someone, and wonder how you hold the 3D geometry of your formation.

My jaw dropped when I read that in his paper. Like, um yes - every project would know this instantly. I think he put that in there as some sort of fig leaf. He had to know the answer and that it showed that what he was going on about simply isn’t feasible.

Asking is fine. But 1) Juno's main propulsion system is non-functional, 2) it has only 1/3 fuel needed anyway. Takes real resources to do *anything* and they would be completely wasted. It's not how "respected" Loeb is - it's that his idea is also nonfunctional.

Yeah, that’s about it. To say the least, the Juno project instantly knows their fuel reserves (1/3?of what’s needed) and the status of their main propulsion system (non functional). Why Loeb is pushing this is a mystery.

Where should I start? For one thing it wastes resources better spent on other things. It overrides the Juno teams own plans. It ignores protocols for decision making. Lastly, it endorses idiocy.

Not just the thruster, the main engine that would be called upon to perform the whole escape from Jupiter.

Seems to be. His paper notes having convos with the Juno PI, who surely would have told him the state of the spacecraft. Yet, the paper's mute on these vital issues. He assumes the full initial fuel load to work with. The present reserves would be a simple question for the Juno project.

It's hard for me to understand him posting a Juno rendezvous proposal with knowledge that its engine is non-functional + the fuel budget is >2x insufficient regardless, but it seems to be the case.