Posts by Doitsujin

I saw this article the other day, which, based on a simulation, argues for Venus being able to hold liquid water on its surface until 2.9 billion years ago. If accurate, this has a number of interesting consequences: first, that planets orbiting other sta...

This is excellent news, especially that there's competition now in the development of fusion power. The interesting thing with the Stellarator model is actually something that while theoretically been around for a while, has been neglected/discarded in pa...

On Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 at 9:14 am, Jovian said: My hunch is that it probably came mostly from outgassing. It seems unlikely that the sheer amount of water would come from a bombardment of comets. I'm not convinced on that, especially becaus...

From a chemical perspective, this makes total sense: Earth's principal chemical elements are actually oxygen and silicon (not just quartz, SiO2, but the vast majority of all common minerals on earth include silicon and oxygen), plus the iron of Earth'...

Thing is, colo(u)r* as we know and see it is based around the electromagnetic force. All of chemistry, essentially. The strong nuclear interaction force (which operates QCD) is essentially the most powerful force in the universe, but it acts only in an ex...