Activity for Peter Taylorâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #289835 |
I'm not convinced that these reasons are either correct or relevant. To the first one: why can't generations of human evolution in non-Earth environments (i.e. biology) be relevant to answers? And are questions which only involve one subfield of science out of scope anyway? To the second: do you know... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288134 |
Certainly the *bodies found at* the Jupiter-Sun L4 are called "the Greek camp" (and mainly named after Greek characters from the Trojan War), but is the region itself called anything other than "the Jupiter-Sun L4 point"? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286604 |
You can also write inline \$ \LaTeX \$ using `\$` as a delimiter. My understanding is that in general MathJax always interprets `$$` as a delimiter for "equation" (i.e. paragraph-level) markup and allows configuration of either `$` or `\$` as "inline equation". (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286180 |
A 2D cross-section of the Earth is seen in the shadow of a lunar eclipse, so that narrows down the options. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283322 |
Dubai is one of the United Arab Emirates, not a part of Saudi Arabia. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282568 |
Dubai's [Palm Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands) and [The World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(archipelago)) mainly used seabed sand. The environmental impact locally has not been good. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280613 |
The scenario seems self-contradictory to me: if the spacecraft is in a highly eccentric orbit and burns "such that its orbital eccentricity does not change", how does it end up in a circular orbit? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279498 |
The premise of this question makes no sense. Humans aside, the mammal which kills most people in Africa isn't a predator but a herbivore (the hippopotamus). The rhinoceros is also a herbivore. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to explain life on a moon orbiting a non-habitable planet Isaac Asimov's oeuvre contains an example of this involving our very own planet and satellite. Humans terraformed the Moon, and then later a nuclear war left Earth uninhabitable. If high radiation levels on the planet are a problem, you can make this have happened in the very distant past, such that ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |