Starship Asterisk*

I hate to be "that guy", but the spelling mistakes are over the top. One I can forgive, but I stopped counting after 5.

In 4th grade, I think, our teach had butcher paper on one of the back walls and at 9:30 precisely every morning would ask a child to put a dot where the sunlight through the window cast a shadow of the window corner on the wall. After we fell back it was at 8:30. We asked why but she said "We'l...

As someone who was entranced by the old Delta Clipper trials, this landing of boosters has always held my attention. It is a testament to the success of Spacex that something that was amazing 5 years ago has almost ALMOST become common place. A pity that work on BFR/Starship/SuperHeavy pushed aside ...

Do we know the inclination of the system relative to ours? Are we looking at it roughly from a polar view of the star?

Can anyone explain why Mars would appear to be gibbous rather than a full disk? What geometry makes that even remotely possible?

APOD Robot wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:08 am From Earth, Saturn's disk is nearly full now

From Earth, isn't Saturn always a disk?