SCI CR Crowlspace Exploding Planets How much energy does undoing a planet require? The usual estimate is the so-called Gravitational Binding Energy (GBE) which is the…
SCI TCH CR Crowlspace Powering the Sun Before the discovery of nuclear reactions in the 1920’s no one was too sure how the Sun sustained its shine for the billions of years of…
HUM CR Crowlspace Engineer the Sun! Trying to imagine Life billions of years from now seems kind of futile to me. But if there’s any trace of us left then I can imagine they’d…
SCI CR Crowlspace How Big is a Planet? Stars are fundamentally different to planets and one surprising way in which they differ is just how big they can get. Heavy stars get…
SCI CR Crowlspace The Clouds of Venus Venus is wrapped in impenetrable clouds of mostly sulfuric acid, with some odds and ends mixed in. No one is too sure what else is in the…
SCI BIO CR Crowlspace Minimal Lifeform 3.0 About a year ago Crowlspace discussed the smallest free-living organisms yet discovered: Smallest Life as We Know It
SCI CR Crowlspace White Dwarfs and the Long Dark White Dwarfs are already relatively common in the Galaxy, but as the Universe ages they will proliferate. About 200 billion will form…
SCI AI CR Crowlspace Falcon Heavy to the Moon! Interesting design. With a slight modification a Falcon Heavy can orbit ~55 tons of propellant. Then a fully loaded Dragon Capsule can dock…
