Satellites have max 20 watts transmit!


Just saw this statistic in a NASA video about the Deep Space Array.
Turns out that due to limitations in power gathering, etc. satellites transmit power is only about 20 watts! That is true even for deep space probes which have already breached the limits of the solar system.

Wow.

Imagine being able to see a 20 watt light bulb at Saturn from here.
erik_squires
Are you talking to me? Yes, I believe in certainties. At least for some things. I can philosophize too, but I don’t believe nothing can be proven or that there is no such thing as facts. Why, are you one of those guys that can’t be convinced of anything? Are you trying to..... convert me? 😳
Convert you to what, a beam of dark? Can you tell me, whether the universe, is one in need of dark matter, to reach a mathematical equilibrium, just one in a multiverse, or(lately) a hologram, created through information generated by vibrating strings? All the prior vastly simplified, of course. I really thought it was funny, when they expected the weight of the Higgs Boson, to lend credence to either of the first two of the theories and it weighed pretty much dead center of the two expected parameters. I’m simply pointing out that no one can tell me, with certainty(YET), much of anything, regarding this universe. Everyone can’t be correct, can they? It’s not that I can’t be convinced. Just difficult to, given the possibilities. I didn’t intend to turn this thread into another soap. Won’t happen again(I may have said that before).  Just trying to have some fun in here(for a change) and it backfired.
"I’m simply pointing out that no one can tell me, with certainty(YET), much of anything, regarding this universe. Everyone can’t be correct, can they?"  

Even though science seems to have explained away the existence of God and the Heavens, cosmological thinking is, ironically, like theology in that it is wide open to hypothesis---like religion, only so much is knowable.  
A little refresher course in cosmology wouldn’t hurt, guys. The word is cosmology, not astrology. Nothing to get all hung up about.

Science explained away the existence of God and Heaven? Whoa! That’s seems a little extreme. That’s what is known as a misconception. Ye olde us vs them mentality. How do you explain the fact that many scientists believe in God? Betcha can’t.

Here’s something you can sink your teeth 🦷 into, the observation of gravity waves 2 years ago.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211

rodman999993,336 posts12-04-2018 9:24pmConvert you to what, a beam of dark? Can you tell me, whether the universe, is one in need of dark matter, to reach a mathematical equilibrium, just one in a multiverse, or(lately) a hologram, created through information generated by vibrating strings? All the prior vastly simplified, of course. I really thought it was funny, when they expected the weight of the Higgs Boson, to lend credence to either of the first two of the theories and it weighed pretty much dead center of the two expected parameters. I’m simply pointing out that no one can tell me, with certainty(YET), much of anything, regarding this universe. Everyone can’t be correct, can they? It’s not that I can’t be convinced. Just difficult to, given the possibilities. I didn’t intend to turn this thread into another soap. Won’t happen again(I may have said that before). Just trying to have some fun in here(for a change) and it backfired.

>>>>I honestly don’t know what you’re hyperventilating about. I just gave examples of things that are known about the universe. I never said we know everything. Cut me some slack, Jack.