But being private companies, do they publish their science and research like NASA does? Is development of space tech moving forward in proprietary silos?

Maybe part of goverment funding, which many or all of these projects have, should be publishing the science (if they don't publish it already).

Except in reality this wouldn't be the case if people didn't use the bus.

https://www.ft.com/content/a891387a-278f-434b-9ff8-791495aaa...

like im sure that not common right? maybe it is i dunno

From an aesthetic point of view, we're uniquely lucky to have the moon just the right size for beautiful eclipse phenomena like the diamond ring, but for science I don't think it makes a big difference.

If the Moon were significantly larger than the Sun:

The Moon would block not just the Sun but also the surrounding starlight, making it impossible to observe the light bending around the Sun’s edge.

As a result, Einstein’s prediction of light bending around the Sun, famously confirmed during the 1919 eclipse, would not have been observable.

I used chatgpt i ahve no idea wat it means

EDIT> previous comment i made was unhelpful because i forgot how to read

> I used chatgpt i ahve no idea wat it means

Please don't do that. You're just filling the comment section with misleading noise.

Neat, though.

Like someone's exactly 2.000 meters tall. How rare is that ? Well, just as rare as someone being exactly 1.999 meters talls eh.

Temperatures, resources, distances, orbits, etc.

If there's a world out there without a moon and could not really see other plants and stars, would they have developed the math and science that we have without such motivation? Maybe but slower?

But without our extra large moon, at the right mass and distance, helping tides and lighting the night for hunting, would life even exist? Maybe but not as advanced or a lot slower evolution?

(it's kinda like that Star Trek Voyager episode where they inspire a planet to industrialize after being trapped in their orbit in a dramatic time dilation)

They would have other advantages and disadvantages, and develop math for different reasons. Then they'd look at our planet and say, 'lacking our conditions, how could they develop mathematics?'

Because we're here and that appears to be a "special case" and rare and no other life spotted (yet) elsewhere, it might very well be the reason we are here at all (that we haven't figured out yet)

It certainly enabled math and science to progress because it was accidentally possible to calculate distances because of that size/distance particularity even before telescopes and computers, though I realize that's not biological evolution

Ancient Past, Navigation, Tidal patterns enabled early coastal navigation and fishing patterns, critical for survival; Prehistory, Evolution of Life, Stabilization of Earth's axial tilt led to climate stability, promoting diverse ecosystems; Early Civilization, Timekeeping, Regular lunar cycles allowed ancient societies to develop lunar calendars and plan agriculture; Ancient Astronomy, Observing Celestial Events, Solar eclipses (due to perfect alignment) inspired early understanding of the cosmos; Future, Gravitational Lensing Studies, Its size and distance offer a natural model to study lensing phenomena and gravitational effects; Far Future, Space Colonization, Potential base for observing the universe free from Earth's atmospheric interference.

for now.

this is purely coincidence that you are observing at this point in time, its getting further away

https://archive.is/2024.04.12-145123/https://www.nytimes.com...

There must exist a lunasynchronous orbit that would remain over the earth side of the moon, though I'm not sure if its close enough to the moon to avoid being perturbed by the earth and kicked out.

Selenostationary orbits (The astrodynamics terms generally take the Greek name) are indeed unstable and vulnerable to perturbation. Instead, you can have a trajectory around one of the Earth-Moon LaGrange points (points where the gravitational pull from each body is equal)

Is there a list of programs available?

It was a long experiment, but just an experiment, since it never found a way to sustain itself economically.

More's the pity; it was really fascinating.

I think the most creative name would likely just be a UUID.

People who write articles or blogs about them should use the normal name but somewhere should have a table giving the UUIDs of the things they mention.

Then when people are trying to find pages about things with names that are terrible for searching like X or Go they could use the UUID.

Cf the propulsion startup ThrustMe

Sure, they are all unique. But also very high entropy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eServer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac

I'm sure there's some new fad waiting around the corner in both TLDs and application domains. We'll have to see if any of the apps turn out to be useful and sticks around. The TLD fad will surely explode and then disappear.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutte...

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/japanese-moon-startup...

A lot of Japanese space companies have come under scrutiny for discrimination against non-Japanese, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination, often by the ex-NASA employees they hired.