@RoryAlsop Ruling ideologies tend to set themselves up as universal truths. Their followers does not understand that they follow a totalitarian ideology, they think they only follow some "common sense" or similar.

Check, how do they behave with harmless people following other "common sense" versions. And google for "mao cultural revolution" and read the first wiki hit.

Btw, JWST is now on L2 and mostly deployed. Next steps are cooling down, and aligning the mirrors. I very miss its details

@RoryAlsop We are all amateurs, and we like things. We have a thing what we want to reach. It is some "interplanetary civilization" or at least a much better space exploration as today. It is a very different setting than 1) the politically polarized sites, incl. Skeptics SE 2) the professional sites where people are sharing info to make better in their job (SO).

Russians are building a new reusable rocket type, called Amur. It looks like a falcon 9, but it will be driven by LNG. They plan 100 times reusability for each rocket. It seems, the first traffic jam on LEO is near...

@peterh I have no idea why you think you are right on this, but you are so very very wrong. The topic of the question is pretty much irrelevant (look at the wide range of ones on there that are open and the ones that are closed) - there are crazy theories in questions that are open and in ones that are closed

The difference is not the crazy theory, but does the question meet the very simple rules

@peterh it doesn't matter if the question is "mao cultural revolution" or "is this the fastest spaceship ever" - if the question doesn't meet site requirements it should be closed

You do keep talking about ruling ideologies, but I don't think you are prepared to see that no SE site is even vaguely close to that

Mods aren't some elite that gets paid to keep proletariat down - mods are their to ensure their site rules are not broken, junk is removed, arguments are stopped, folks meet the CoC, and the site grows through quality questions

I think you need to revisit the Skeptics site tour, goals etc - it is not a place for anybody to discuss anything, or to raise a political point, or to try to publish somthing that is hidden. There are a million internet sites for that.

From their tour: Skeptics is a question and answer site for applying scientific skepticism. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers challenging unreferenced notable claims, pseudoscience and biased results.

skeptics.stackexchange.com/tour

If you think otherwise then I'm afraid the evidence vehemently disagrees with you

One of the reasons I still use Skeptics is it is very quick to remove bad questions, those with no notability, and folks trying to spread political propaganda

@RoryAlsop No-no. The Red Guards did not think that they are executing the largest persecution of the human history. They tought that they help Mao to keep the country together on a way to a beautiful, perfect society. Beside that, they were also happy on that their activism makes them once eligible for high ranking positions in the communist party. How we see them from their far future, was absolutely not part of what they tought about themselves.

@Vikas I did not see the video. But gravity make time slower and it is clearly visible from the relevant formulas of the General Relativity. This part of the GR is comprehensible even with high school math.

@RoryAlsop They close also the questions which matches all their requirement, but they think of it that their content is usable to support views differing (or opposing) theirs. And they are doing it by interpreting their rules suddenly much more strictly as usual.

@RoryAlsop It is hard to say if it is intentional. Most of the Red Guards were probably brainwashed and not really evil. The case might be the same also on the Skeptics SE power users. But it did not affect what they did.

@RoryAlsop "Is this the fastest spaceship ever" looks badly for me, but might survive. "Which spacecraft has the largest delta V with full load" is pretty okay.

@peterh Yes, that's what I found out and that's what he said, that gravity makes time slow. But I don't know then why they say clock ticks slow on ISS.

It's away from Earth so there's less gravity

@Vikas Yes, but it is going also with 7.8 km/s

Question is, which effect is stronger.

@Vikas Trick: the gravitational time dilatation around a spherical or point-like body is exactly as if the object orbiting it would fly with the escape speed.

Thus, I think they are right and the clocks on the ISS are really slower. It is because the quickening depends on the difference between the gravitational time dilation on the surface and ISS orbit. And the special relativistic slowening depends on the absolute value of the ISS speed.

CSG-2 launch this evening, 6PM EST or so. (606PM specifcally?)

25th RTLS of the program. They are using one of the Falcon Heavy side cores, that flew twice on Heavies, as a standalone F9 booster. 3rd flight. This iwll be its 3rd RTLS in a row! And the NRO misssion beginning of Feb is another RTLS but at Vandenberg.

Good page to watch.

spaceflightnow.com/2022/01/27/falcon-9-csg-2-live-coverage

And launch delayed till Friday night, again around 6PM EST. Rats.