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Plausible reason not to notice a planet
Imagine a generation ship heading for a distant star. Humanity had means to observe that star up to a point, that it is 99.9% sure the star has a colonizable Earth-like planet (with water and ...
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Can I monitor animal movements from space?
The Earth-like planet I'm working on is the culmination of years of labor by the galaxy's best scientists. It consists of fully artificial ecosystems, and is, for all intents and purposes, like Earth. ...
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Visibility of explosions from space
I'm trying to figure out whether spacecraft could see explosions occurring on the surface of a planet, or under what conditions they could.
To be specific:
Given a spacecraft equipped with a ...
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