Thought I'd start an Astronomy thread.
Anyone have a telescope or really interested in Astronomy? As a huge Alien fan I'm fascinated with this stuff. A couple of years ago between 2009-2010 and again 2014 I went on a massive Astronomy equipment buying run. I had to downsize at some point but now that I bought a house with no neighbors in the backyard thinking of re starting for fun.. Anyhow here are 2 videos I took of the moon with my first telescope. Really not easy with this one because it did not have a tracking system (I have one now though :)) so I had to constantly manually drag it and hold the camera..I have more from Saturn, our Sun etc.. If anyone has a telescope or wants to get one...discuss if you wish. :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOuIeNtFUC4&feature=youtu.be
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7rgNp0An7yU
Really cool thread, I look forward to seeing more discoveries shared on here.
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Aug 27, 2016, 04:26:15 PM
You have a telescope, Nostromo?
That is so f**king AWESOME!
I love space so much. ;D
Same here :) I have this telescope now:
http://www.celestron.com/browse-shop/astronomy/telescopes/advanced-vx-8-edgehd-telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=3cATYe7kd7U
That is some great stuff man!
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Aug 27, 2016, 05:53:32 PM
That is some great stuff man!
I used to have this telescope, it's one of the best telescopes for the price on the market still to this day I'm sure. 10 inches but no tracking, although now I'm sure they make them with tracking. They are huge and heavy though. Tracking is only useful if you want to photograph but not absolutely necessary.
http://www.telescope.com/Orion-XT10-Classic-Dobsonian-Telescope-amp-Beginner-Barlow-Kit/p/27162.uts
Finally a real pic of Jupiter from Juno.
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/juno-completes-jupiter-flyby
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You should have the x-files theme playing through one of the videos. lol
WOW...this is going to possibly be the news of the year ...or more...in the Astronomy world at least.
Is Earth being contacted by ALIENS? Mystery radio signals coming from a sun-like star baffle scientists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3763416/Is-Earth-contacted-ALIENS-Mystery-radio-signals-coming-sun-like-star-baffle-scientists.html
Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/29/12/37AECA0900000578-0-Two_SETI_research_groups_will_track_HD_164595_tonight_using_the_-a-17_1472468548908.jpg
Working out the strength of the signal, the researchers say that if it came from an isotropic beacon, it would be of a power possible only for a Kardashev Type II civilisation.'
'If it were a narrow beam signal focused on our solar system, it would be of a power available to a Kardashev Type I civilisation.'
The Kardashev scale is a way of measuring an alien society's technological advancement based upon how much energy it has at its disposal.
A Type I civilisation is given to species who have been able to harness all the energy that is available from a nearby star, gathering and storing it to meet its population's demands.
A Type II civilisation is much more advanced and can harness the power of their entire star.
Type III is a species that has been able to master everything having to do with energy. Earth doesn't feature on the scale.
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If there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them.
The physicist believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonise our planet.
'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said in an interview.
But co-founder and former director of the Seti Institute, Jill Tarter, doesn't think this will be the case.
She argues any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.
'The idea of a civilisation which has managed to survive far longer than we have...and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn't make sense,' she said.
Update: Stay Tuned!
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal?utm_content=buffer10136&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
If they find a signal..could become the story of the century!
https://twitter.com/jrseti/status/770394028378497024?s=02
Quote from: Nostromo on Aug 29, 2016, 09:31:41 PM
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal?utm_content=buffer10136&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
If they find a signal..could become the story of the century!
Only skim read this yesterday but if it's legit it would be amazing. Doesn't sound like SETI are confident about it though.
I've got a telescope though I don't get it out far enough. Where I live at the minute doesn't have the greatest of views so I can't say I've used it recently. I did get the pleasure of seeing Mars and Jupiter through it when I brought it though and that was just wonderful. It wasn't the greatest photo and not very representative of the actual view but I've attached a picture from a year or so back.
Also got my pledgers pack through for supporting the Lowell Pluto Discovery Telescope. It included the discovery plates for how they discovered Pluto. Jesus. It's so minuscule. The effort that went into this kind of thing.
It indeed makes very little sense at first to have more develop civilization which basically would be even more colonialist than we are.
Chances are, they could be not interested at all about our planet. It's small, it ain't the richest in mineral, it may not even be suitable for sustaining extra-terrestrial life and there are great risk that people never think of contamination.
A cold could probably wipe out (works both way) their entire civilization.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 30, 2016, 09:31:21 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Aug 29, 2016, 09:31:41 PM
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal?utm_content=buffer10136&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
If they find a signal..could become the story of the century!
Only skim read this yesterday but if it's legit it would be amazing. Doesn't sound like SETI are confident about it though.
I've got a telescope though I don't get it out far enough. Where I live at the minute doesn't have the greatest of views so I can't say I've used it recently. I did get the pleasure of seeing Mars and Jupiter through it when I brought it though and that was just wonderful. It wasn't the greatest photo and not very representative of the actual view but I've attached a picture from a year or so back.
Also got my pledgers pack through for supporting the Lowell Pluto Discovery Telescope. It included the discovery plates for how they discovered Pluto. Jesus. It's so minuscule. The effort that went into this kind of thing.
Hey that's cool =) you heve a telescope also Hicks? Trust me I know how hard it can be to find locations with all the lighting everywhere. Yes first try at pictures usually is quite hard. I see you got a Jupiter moon or 2 in your picture :).
Anything but the moon is quite hard to catch if your camera is not afocally attached to the telescope.
Ha, no one believes the Russians anymore.
Quote from: Nostromo on Aug 30, 2016, 10:35:03 AM
Hey that's cool =) you heve a telescope also Hicks? Trust me I know how hard it can be to find locations with all the lighting everywhere. Yes first try at pictures usually is quite hard. I see you got a Jupiter moon or 2 in your picture :).
Anything but the moon is quite hard to catch if your camera is not afocally attached to the telescope.
I'd love to get into proper astrophotography at some point but it requires more money than I'm willing to spend at this moment in time.
Yes it's pretty expensive. That's why I did Afocal Astrophotography.
Not much to see, but another first: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries/quaoar
Whelp, the Russians are pretty certain the signal was a satellite of earthly origins. Oh well, maybe next time.
How stupid or messed up is that. The Russians detected something last year, they release the news a few days ago, than a day later come out saying it was probably a signal from earth?
Perhaps Seti found out and told the Russians hey dumbasses the signal is coming from Earth...so the Russians came out quickly to say that so they don't look dumb..pah....the f was this all about..I feel like deleting all the posts about this story.
Got a link to the confirmation?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 12:33:24 PM
Got a link to the confirmation?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/hd164595-signal-not-aliens-russian-scientists/amp
Thanks, will give it a read.
http://www.wftv.com/news/local/nasa-spacex-rocket-explosion-rocks-kennedy-space-center/434865764
Was this one of the reused rockets?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 02:11:18 PM
Thanks, will give it a read.
http://www.wftv.com/news/local/nasa-spacex-rocket-explosion-rocks-kennedy-space-center/434865764
Was this one of the reused rockets?
Hehe, what do you mean, that is another story, it just happened today, those type of rocket failures happen a lot. :)
I know it's a new story. Was just posting it. :P I just mean Space X was due to launch one of the rockets they had successfully landed. Was wondering if this was one of them.
ROFL: Forgive me, ;D
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http://www.seeker.com/spacex-rocket-israeli-satellite-destroyed-during-test-firing-1994278022.html
Just a bit more info on the explosion. There's some videos available online too.
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 01, 2016, 06:15:06 PM
http://d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/d/5/somebody-wake-up-hicks-avp-alien-vs-predator-ccg-premiere-card-ex-nm-aliens-be9097a1909be5adef8f91ef286a4546.jpg
Joker. ::)
Damn! Nice video!^
Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-aurora-sounds-2016-9
https://twitter.com/CassiniSaturn/status/771814693308510210
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Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.
Missing comet lander Philae spotted at last
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-09-orbiter-comet-lander-philae-space.html
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Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXHx_GVUAAo_Ll.jpg)
Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.
They gonna land? or just a fly by ?
(I'm getting tired of nasa just flying around... time to land some rovers on multiple planets/moons lol)
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 05, 2016, 10:10:48 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
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Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.
They gonna land? or just a fly by ?
(I'm getting tired of nasa just flying around... time to land some rovers on multiple planets/moons lol)
Haha...no they can't land on Jupiter. There probably isn't even any landmass to land on. You would also be crushed by pure pressure just entering it's deadly atmosphere! They've already sent something crash landing on Jupiter and it was crushed instantly. They may land on Europa someday but only with a rover for now. The Cassini mission is much more advanced right now, I believe they have something on Saturn's moon Titan but they are so cheap and secretive with their pictures...
And you can't land on Saturn either, it's another gas giant.
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 05, 2016, 10:34:12 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 05, 2016, 10:10:48 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
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Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.
They gonna land? or just a fly by ?
(I'm getting tired of nasa just flying around... time to land some rovers on multiple planets/moons lol)
Haha...no they can't land on Jupiter. There probably isn't even any landmass to land on. You would also be crushed by pure pressure just entering it's deadly atmosphere! They've already sent something crash landing on Jupiter and it was crushed instantly. They may land on Europa someday but only with a rover for now. The Cassini mission is much more advanced right now, I believe they have something on Saturn's moon Titan but they are so cheap and secretive with their pictures...
And you can't land on Saturn either, it's another gas giant.
I know lol, i'm just saying they need to stop flying around and get some rovers on the moons/planets with a 'surface'
or would be interesting to send in a probe with some HD cams straight into Jupiter see what data we'll get before its crushed.
They landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It functioned for about 90 minutes on the surface.
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http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/nasa-and-esa-celebrate-10-years-since-titan-landing
I believe they're working on a mission proposal for a Europa mission but I'm not sure about Rovers and etc. They need to be careful of contaminating any possible life and etc.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 06, 2016, 08:01:41 AM
They landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It functioned for about 90 minutes on the surface.
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http://www.space.com/images/i/000/044/970/i02/huygens-probe-titan.jpg?1421267025?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=640:*
http://substance.etsmtl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/titan-surface.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/nasa-and-esa-celebrate-10-years-since-titan-landing
I believe they're working on a mission proposal for a Europa mission but I'm not sure about Rovers and etc. They need to be careful of contaminating any possible life and etc.
I remember that, but why 90 min? power ran out? or dangerous surface?
As for Europa, it's a ball of ice, but they believe an ocean exists under it? if thy start drilling? makes you wonder, but i don't see them getting on Europa anytime soon.
Did you watch Europa report movie? http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 08:18:05 AM
I remember that, but why 90 min? power ran out? or dangerous surface?
Not sure to be honest. I'll have a gander.
QuoteAs for Europa, it's a ball of ice, but they believe an ocean exists under it? if thy start drilling? makes you wonder, but i don't see them getting on Europa anytime soon.
I'm certain there's a project in development to get to Europa. I'll see if I can find it.
QuoteDid you watch Europa report movie? http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/
I watched it a while back. Surprisingly good movie!
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 06, 2016, 08:01:41 AM
They landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It functioned for about 90 minutes on the surface.
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http://www.space.com/images/i/000/044/970/i02/huygens-probe-titan.jpg?1421267025?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=640:*
http://substance.etsmtl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/titan-surface.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/nasa-and-esa-celebrate-10-years-since-titan-landing
I believe they're working on a mission proposal for a Europa mission but I'm not sure about Rovers and etc. They need to be careful of contaminating any possible life and etc.
Incredible pictures! We're very lucky to see these. Usually Nasa doesn't show much.
Yes I meant to say a probe not a rover!! I'd stopped studying Astronomy around this time, will definitely need to read into this and the Juno probe a bit more. That Cassini mission has been a huge success, it's amazing that it's still going around Saturn for all these years! (Its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004).
Not only that, but it even launched that nice Huygens probe to Titan, which is the 2nd largest moon in our Solar System. By the way, Huygens is classified as a derelict lander, how sexy is that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)
Largest moons in our Star System (diameter over 1,000 km)
Moon Planet Mean diameter (km)
Ganymede Jupiter 5262
Titan Saturn 5150
Callisto Jupiter 4821
Io Jupiter 3643
Moon Earth 3475
Europa Jupiter 3122
Triton Neptune 2707
Titania Uranus 1578
http://www.ianridpath.com/moons.htm
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 06, 2016, 04:04:54 PM
it's amazing that it's still going around Saturn for all these years! (Its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004).
Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
They've definitely got to make a Voyager 3 someday. (with our current tech and faster speeds etc)
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 06, 2016, 04:04:54 PM
it's amazing that it's still going around Saturn for all these years! (Its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004).
Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
They've definitely got to make a Voyager 3 someday. (with our current tech and faster speeds etc)
Voyager 2 still going as well.. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
In case anyone wants to go live on Pluto, this is what it looks like in some parts:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-methane-snowcaps-on-the-edge-of-darkness
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Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.
Most likely nothing. It'll probably be a long time before the Voyagers see anything of interest. Dedicated interstellar probes are a long way off with our current level of technology. It'd just take too long for them to get anywhere. Someday though.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 07, 2016, 07:15:15 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.
Most likely nothing. It'll probably be a long time before the Voyagers see anything of interest. Dedicated interstellar probes are a long way off with our current level of technology. It'd just take too long for them to get anywhere. Someday though.
You're right, after reading more about it, it won't come into contact with any planet or star for another 30,000 Years...
(i'll make sure i'll be out on that day.)
Also, i remember this pic.
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Active Volcano/lava flow on the moon 'Lo'
That is lovely. Which probe is that from?
http://www.seeker.com/asteroid-named-for-rock-star-freddie-mercury-1998298240.html
That's a lovely tribute. :)
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
That is lovely. Which probe is that from?
Think it was the Galileo spacecraft or Pioneer 11.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
http://www.seeker.com/asteroid-named-for-rock-star-freddie-mercury-1998298240.html
That's a lovely tribute. :)
Nice.
One of my favorites
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SURFACE OF VENUS
One of the Russian probes?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 03:17:03 PM
One of the Russian probes?
Possibly, i remember reading about it, and they said something along the lines,
*second we landed we started to experience massive failures of systems and extreme temperatures rising*
Place is a living hell, dat yellow sky lol
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
That is lovely. Which probe is that from?
http://www.seeker.com/asteroid-named-for-rock-star-freddie-mercury-1998298240.html
That's a lovely tribute. :)
An active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this false color image taken on February 22, 2000 by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. White and orange areas on the left side of the picture show newly erupted hot lava. The two small bright spots are sites where molten rock is exposed to the surface at the toes of lava flows. The larger orange and yellow ribbon is a cooling lava flow that is more than more than 60 kilometers (37 miles) long.
QuoteOne of the Russian probes?
Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 tend to be more widely circulated because they are in color.
The spacecraft was designed to last about half an hour on Venus' harsh surface, but sent back data for more than two hours after its landing March 1, 1982.
Since no lander has ventured on to Venus since the 1980s, the Venera program's images of the surface stand as the best close-up record of the planet today.
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Found this very interesting:
If Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, could you fly straight through them?
Our friends at the W.A. Gayle Planetarium in Montgomery, Alabama, are curious to know, if Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, could you fly straight through them?
We think of a gas as something very . . . well, airy. After all, air is the gas we all know and love. We breathe it and fly planes right through it with no trouble. So it makes sense to think that a gas planet must be like a big, airy cloud floating out in space.
But take another look at Jupiter and Saturn—or pictures of them. Notice how round they are. You will never see a cloud on Earth so nearly spherical. Why are Jupiter and Saturn so round if they are just gas? For that matter, why are any planets round?
Well, the short answer is—gravity. Gravity causes all matter to be pulled toward all other matter. Let's think about this in more detail. When the planets were first forming, the solar system was a big, swirling disk of gas and dust, with the newborn Sun at the center. Bits of dust and clouds of gas were attracted to each other because of gravity. As these bits and clouds clumped, they attracted still more matter in their neighborhood and grew larger and larger until there was no longer any stray material nearby for them to attract. The growing planets were like big solar system vacuum cleaners, sweeping up all the debris in their paths. And they became round because gravity pulls equally toward the center of large masses such as planets, so anything sticking out gets pulled back to make a ball.
The bigger a planet becomes, the heavier is the material weighing down on its center. Think of how it feels to dive under water. If you are wearing a face mask, you notice that as you dive deeper, the mask presses harder and harder on your face. Also, your ears start feeling the pressure even at 2 or 3 meters (5 or 10 feet) below the surface. The pressure you feel on your body is due to the weight of the water above you. The deeper you go, the heavier the water above you and so the greater the pressure on your body. Even on Earth's surface, each square inch of your body experiences 14.7 pounds of pressure due to the weight of theatmosphere above you. If you could dive down to the center of Earth, the pressure on your body would be about 3.5 million times as great! The center of Jupiter is more than 11 times deeper than Earth's center and the pressure may be 50 million to 100 million times that on Earth's surface!
The tremendous pressure at the center of planets causes the temperatures there to be surprisingly high. At their cores, Jupiter and Saturn are much hotter than the surface of the Sun!
Strange things happen to matter under these extraordinary temperatures and pressures. Hydrogen, along with helium, is the main ingredient of Jupiter's and Saturn's atmospheres. Deep in their atmospheres, the hydrogen turns into a liquid. Deeper still, the liquid hydrogen turns into a metal!
But what's at the very center of these planets? The material becomes stranger and stranger the deeper you go. Scientists do not understand the properties of matter under the extreme environments inside Jupiter and Saturn. Many different forces and laws of nature are at work, and the conditions inside these planets are very difficult to create in a laboratory here on Earth. But you can be sure that you wouldn't be able to fly through these bizarre materials! As we now know, the gas giants are much more than just gas.
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 09, 2016, 06:15:33 PM
Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 tend to be more widely circulated because they are in color.
The spacecraft was designed to last about half an hour on Venus' harsh surface, but sent back data for more than two hours after its landing March 1, 1982.
Since no lander has ventured on to Venus since the 1980s, the Venera program's images of the surface stand as the best close-up record of the planet today.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tu-8h_l-IzY/maxresdefault.jpg)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimenow.com%2Fimg%2Fastronomy%2Fall%2Fatmosphere-of-venus.png&hash=a6dcdaaff0cfcc2bbfe9659cc22cb5ef6c008ea4)
Wow. I've not seen those ones before. I can't say I've really read into Venus but I sure as shit am going to later.
Need to book a Flight there, must be nice during the summer lol.
http://www.seeker.com/new-virgin-galactic-spaceship-takes-first-flight-2001229603.html?slide=itpxSQ
Looking good for Virgin's recovery from the first ship.
Three giant worlds found orbiting twin suns
Very interesting.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1386/three-giant-worlds-found-orbiting-twin-suns/
One billion stars in 3-D: Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come
Now that's a map:
http://go.newsfusion.com/nasa-news/item/2131624506
Anyone really interested in extra terrestials and UFO's, not my type of thing, but this could be very interesting: (Peoploe left a lot of answers below)
The Truth About Zeta Reticuli
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-truth-about-zeta-reticuli.html
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 14, 2016, 12:37:40 PM
One billion stars in 3-D: Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come
Now that's a map:
http://go.newsfusion.com/nasa-news/item/2131624506
http://www.seeker.com/gaia-completes-first-mind-blowing-3-d-galactic-map-2004810255.html
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/09/Gaia_s_first_sky_map
Link doesn't work for me but damn, that's impressive.
http://www.seeker.com/a-nearby-star-is-birthing-a-massive-icy-world-2004899608.html
I never cease to be amazed at what we can see out there.
50,000 Kilometers over the Sun
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fapod.nasa.gov%2Fapod%2Fimage%2F1609%2FFilaprom_Lawrence_960.jpg&hash=7515a0d12273cd041d506d65c1a0c74b1be9a053)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160919.html?utm_content=buffer023db&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
China begins operating world's largest radio telescope
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/china-begins-operating-worlds-largest-radio-103546347.html
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Wg_Zj_6QfircXf6wUh0UyA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/56de9783ab2143540d1dc4aa0f396544)
Impressive. I wonder if they'll be cooperating with SETI and similar organisations.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-spots-possible-water-plumes-erupting-on-jupiters-moon-europa/
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Ffull_width%2Fpublic%2Fthumbnails%2Fimage%2Feuropa02-photoa-plumes1042x1042-160919.jpg%3Fitok%3Did2vofAr&hash=883fa8dec826927af42d7558f42be3b04cc5bb11)
Really can't wait for them to get there.
QuoteBeyond Mars! —
Elon Musk scales up his ambitions, considering going "well beyond" Mars
Musk may soon detail the architecture he hopes will colonize the solar system.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacexs-interplanetary-transport-system-will-go-well-beyond-mars/
The conference is supposed to be today, isn't it?
http://nautil.us/blog/today-is-galactic-tick-day
Happy Galactic Tick Day!
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 29, 2016, 07:54:56 AM
http://nautil.us/blog/today-is-galactic-tick-day
Happy Galactic Tick Day!
I was expecting a big dumb guy in a blue suit.... but this is neat too.
http://www.seeker.com/musk-this-is-how-spacex-will-colonize-mars-and-beyond-2019588513.html
Imagine how much interest that is going to generate when it actually does happen. Just knowing humans are on their way to another planet...at least a decade away?
Speaking of planets..I think this is worth setting up the telescope after 2 years...
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/14516407_1030760687050739_3954838320605583391_n.png.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=887b0b3898ef889a76dbea81327f0037&oe=58684902)
I need to remember to get the telescope out and setup! Thanks for the info.
Hope one day... we can invent FTL in our lifetime, would love to know what's actually out there.... does make you wonder exciting and also frightening at the same time.
I'll be happy with getting a man on Mars in my lifetime. I'd be ecstatic if I managed to get into space, or even just the edge of the atmosphere.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 07:46:06 AM
I'll be happy with we get a man on Mars in my lifetime. I'd be ecstatic if I managed to get into space, or even just the edge of the atmosphere.
Oh my goodness, you think like I feel. Man, I've always wondered just what that moon landing was like to watch as it happened. So naturally I'm waiting for the Mars landing myself. Space stations... not to much confidence in that one in my lifetime.
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:08:59 AM
Oh my goodness, you think like I feel. Man, I've always wondered just what that moon landing was like to watch as it happened. So naturally I'm waiting for the Mars landing myself.
I have the same thoughts. If I could somehow magically live another life, I'd want to live one that was around for the moon landing and that early exploration. I've been lucky enough to witness New Horizons and Pluto, I want to see man put foot on another body.
QuoteSpace stations... not to much confidence in that one in my lifetime.
You don't need to wait for that one!
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceflight.nasa.gov%2Fgallery%2Fimages%2Fstation%2Fassembly%2Fhires%2Fs119e009765.jpg&hash=375410f62ae1b6745882a60ae095d01cf101ca61)
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella. ;)
NASA did say by 2030 we'll get to mars... i seriously doubt it though...
I'll be more curious to visit the bootes Void
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Barnard_68.jpg/600px-Barnard_68.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void
Makes you wonder what the HELL is in that dark space....
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella. ;)
Well I didn't want to sound that cold... but yea, what he said. :)
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Makes you wonder what the HELL is in that dark space....
Probably just a lot of Dark Space. That or engineers and predators duked it out and wiped out a few hundred thousand star systems.
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:39:51 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella. ;)
Well I didn't want to sound that cold... but yea, what he said. :)
I was being funny. :P
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 07:24:18 AM
I need to remember to get the telescope out and setup! Thanks for the info.
Hehe...Uranus is not an easy find. It took me some major star hopping to find it without tracking and you need at least a 6 inch telescope I'd say. (Not sure what you have). Even as important are dark skies but less so for planets. What you see for Uranus and Neptune are 2 blueish green (more blue for Neptune) very circular discs the size of a pinhead..a little bigger for Uranus and both are very distinct looking compared to stars. Without tracking or a go-to system you need good navigational skills. A good program like Stellarium (now comes as an app too) is needed.
But when you do find them, you're like holy shyte there it is! I took a picture of Uranus but it's blurry because I had no tracking than. Now that I do have tracking I don't have my Canon camera. Canon is hands down the best everyday cam for Astrophotography by the way.
I've seen all the planets with my scope, including Pluto, and Mercury only with binoculars since it's always setting with the Sun. I still haven't seen Earth though :).
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 08:17:43 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:08:59 AM
Oh my goodness, you think like I feel. Man, I've always wondered just what that moon landing was like to watch as it happened. So naturally I'm waiting for the Mars landing myself.
I have the same thoughts. If I could somehow magically live another life, I'd want to live one that was around for the moon landing and that early exploration. I've been lucky enough to witness New Horizons and Pluto, I want to see man put foot on another body.
QuoteSpace stations... not to much confidence in that one in my lifetime.
You don't need to wait for that one!
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceflight.nasa.gov%2Fgallery%2Fimages%2Fstation%2Fassembly%2Fhires%2Fs119e009765.jpg&hash=375410f62ae1b6745882a60ae095d01cf101ca61)
Wish I could pay somewhere to go in cryostasis for say 500-1000 years. I'd do it. Some people are already doing it I think or it's slowly getting started.. You best have ready plans though lol. Imagine waking up with no money or anything...You may never even wake up if there's a planetary catastrophe or imagine waking up and there's been an Alien invasion.
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella. ;)
NASA did say by 2030 we'll get to mars... i seriously doubt it though...
I'll be more curious to visit the bootes Void
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Barnard_68.jpg/600px-Barnard_68.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void
Makes you wonder what the HELL is in that dark space....
It says they found 60 galaxies in there. :)
Still that is one weird object or void. Wonder what the heck happened there.
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 11:53:44 AM
Hehe...Uranus is not an easy find. It took me some major star hopping to find it without tracking and you need at least a 6 inch telescope I'd say. (Not sure what you have).
Aaahhh. Mine is going to be too small. It's only 5.1"
I only brought an entry level thing. Sky-Watcher Explorer-130 EQ2.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 12:54:57 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 11:53:44 AM
Hehe...Uranus is not an easy find. It took me some major star hopping to find it without tracking and you need at least a 6 inch telescope I'd say. (Not sure what you have).
Aaahhh. Mine is going to be too small. It's only 5.1"
I only brought an entry level thing. Sky-Watcher Explorer-130 EQ2.
Hey Hicks that's a pretty nice Newtonian telescope and from a very reputable company! Sky Watcher/Orion is what I had too. Newtonian/Reflectors on an EQ mount are serious kick ass no matter the size. That's like a perfect go to scope. I'm pretty sure you can see Uranus/Neptune under dark skies. Try and be in a red/yellow zone. Nice to know someone has a decent scope!
'Alien Megastructure' Star Keeps Getting Stranger
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-110000285.html
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/bill-dunford/20161010-new-gems-from-the-moon.html
Absolutely f**king gorgeous.
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetary.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F3-moon%2F2016%2F20161008_earth_lensflare_f840.jpg&hash=d599de85f560375c0fc8279f8f90a73753b075ff)
Found this news pretty awesome. I also hope they find that Neptune sized one they think exists.
A Potential New Dwarf Planet Has Been Found In The Solar System
The planet is twice as distant as Pluto and takes more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/potential-new-dwarf-planet-found-in-the-solar-system/
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 13, 2016, 06:41:49 PM
Found this news pretty awesome. I also hope they find that Neptune sized one they think exists.
I'm really curious to see if that pans out. They've been looking for Planet X for so long.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37650274
So that's an interesting concept.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 14, 2016, 09:52:48 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 13, 2016, 06:41:49 PM
Found this news pretty awesome. I also hope they find that Neptune sized one they think exists.
I'm really curious to see if that pans out. They've been looking for Planet X for so long.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37650274
So that's an interesting concept.
It's great, but tooooooo expensive and i doubt we'll see it in the next 20/30 years or so.
That's one nice looking spaceship. No matter how expensive or how long these projects in space will take, one thing is for certain, they will happen. Makes me want to go back to school and study hard in something that would give me a good chance of getting aboard on a project like this...
Can only imagine 50-200 years from now what will be happening up there. Someone please put me in the old freezarino lol.
Some very good space related stories here if anyone's bored:
https://www.inverse.com/article/22383-new-horizons-nasa-pluto-clouds
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)
I'm sure we're all alone though.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)
I'm sure we're all alone though.
Over 1 Trillion Galaxies, imagine that...1 trillion x 100 billion stars on average per Galaxy, x 5-6 planets perhaps each star, x 1-10 moons, incredible....With such a huge number, I'm pretty sure a creature like Alien has spawned somewhere...we just need to find it.
If you like Galaxies, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with a decent pair of binoculars in a dark sky, as it's the nearest Galaxy to ours apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, and it's always directly on top of you, where it's very dark. In the countryside you can probably see it without binoculars. I've seen it in my scope, it's huge!
The sad realization is it will collide and merge with our galaxy in 5 billion years, destroying us for sure. So no matter how far Humans get in our Galaxy, they better to learn to travel to another Galaxy before this happens:) Damn, I wish I could see the sight from earth say 50,000 years before they merge...
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)
I'm sure we're all alone though.
Yea.. ALL ALONE... lol
Still tho does make you wonder what is out there... and should we explore/discover it ?
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 19, 2016, 07:26:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)
I'm sure we're all alone though.
Yea.. ALL ALONE... lol
Still tho does make you wonder what is out there... and should we explore/discover it ?
We know what's out there, planets and stars. ;)
Quote from: Master Chief on Oct 19, 2016, 07:45:59 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 19, 2016, 07:26:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)
I'm sure we're all alone though.
Yea.. ALL ALONE... lol
Still tho does make you wonder what is out there... and should we explore/discover it ?
We know what's out there, planets and stars. ;)
Do we? :P
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 19, 2016, 07:14:56 PM
Over 1 Trillion Galaxies, imagine that...1 trillion x 100 billion stars on average per Galaxy, x 5-6 planets perhaps each star, x 1-10 moons, incredible....With such a huge number, I'm pretty sure a creature like Alien has spawned somewhere...we just need to find it.
And that's just the
observable universe.
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 19, 2016, 07:14:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)
I'm sure we're all alone though.
Over 1 Trillion Galaxies, imagine that...1 trillion x 100 billion stars on average per Galaxy, x 5-6 planets perhaps each star, x 1-10 moons, incredible....With such a huge number, I'm pretty sure a creature like Alien has spawned somewhere...we just need to find it.
If you like Galaxies, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with a decent pair of binoculars in a dark sky, as it's the nearest Galaxy to ours apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, and is usually directly on top of you, where it's very dark. In the countryside you can probably see it without binoculars. I've seen it in my scope, it's huge! There's also another
The sad realization is it will collide and merge with our galaxy in 5 billion years, destroying us for sure. So no matter how far Humans get in our Galaxy, they better to learn to travel to another Galaxy before this happens:) Damn, I wish I could see the sight from earth say 50,000 years before they merge...
I watched a documentary that said when the galaxies do collide, the chances of two stars hitting each other won't be as high as it may seem. Galactic collisions are not destructive, it's just two galaxies "absorbing" each other to become a bigger and more fertile galaxy due to the exchange of the materials needed to form new stars. It's a process called "Galactic Cannibalism", but it looks like a beautiful cosmic dance as two galaxies pork LOL!
This is why the biggest galaxy, IC-1101, is dying. Because there's no nearby galaxies to collide with it and no fresh material for the formation of new stars. It's also a sickly yellow looking galaxy rather than a bright blue or white one like ours, Andromeda or Triangulum.
Also I doubt we'd be around when this collision happens anyway. XD If we are, we'd be unrecognizable. Look at life 4 billion years ago... and look at it today. We won't be around as a species to witness this in 10 billion years, we'd either be extinct through our own destruction or due to becoming so different that we're not recognizable as humans anymore.
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
It feels humbling to know how small and insignificant we are and how none of our little squabbles on our spinning wet green volcanic rock even matter to the darkness beyond.
Just think of how much we'll be able to see once Hubble's successor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is in orbit and gives us an even
better view of the universe.
QuoteOne particular goal involves observing some of the most distant events and objects in the Universe, such as the formation of the first galaxies. These types of targets are beyond the reach of current ground and space-based instruments. Another goal is understanding the formation of stars and planets. This will include direct imaging of exoplanets.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 04:37:20 AM
Just think of how much we'll be able to see once Hubble's successor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is in orbit and gives us an even better view of the universe.
I find all these developments really exciting. The wait is almost unbearable.
http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-seti-intelligent-civilization-dyson-sp-2064947450.html
SETI is devoting some serious time to checking out Tabby's Star. It'd be remarkable if they do detect something but I'm sure they wont.
'Planet Nine' Can't Hide Much Longer, Scientists Say
http://www.space.com/34455-planet-nine-discovery-coming-soon.html
NASA's Jupiter Probe Back in Action After Glitch
http://www.space.com/34521-juno-jupiter-spacecraft-rebounds-from-glitch.html?utm_source=notification
For Halloween :P
These Scary Things in Space Will Haunt Your Dreams
http://www.space.com/34546-scariest-things-in-space-photo-gallery.html?utm_source=notification
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 27, 2016, 11:10:24 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 04:37:20 AM
Just think of how much we'll be able to see once Hubble's successor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is in orbit and gives us an even better view of the universe.
I find all these developments really exciting. The wait is almost unbearable.
http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-seti-intelligent-civilization-dyson-sp-2064947450.html
SETI is devoting some serious time to checking out Tabby's Star. It'd be remarkable if they do detect something but I'm sure they wont.
What if SETI finds a derelict space ship?
I'll be pretty impressed.
Monster Chinese Telescope to Join Tabby's Star Alien Hunt
http://www.space.com/34571-breakthrough-listen-seti-alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-china-fast.html?utm_source=notification
http://www.seeker.com/china-astronauts-space-station-dock-record-breaking-mission-2053211598.html
Looks like China are getting on well with Heavenly Palace.
Of course. I like to keep one handy. You know, for close encounters. :P
All NASA and Russia and china ever seem to do is
1: Build Telescopes
2: Send up satellites to orbit earth or other planets...
It's really time to 'step up the game'
NASA need to send a new type of rover to Europa (or a team with drilling equipment)
Get a satellite around Neptune or maybe get it inside Neptune and report back
Make Voyager 3 and send it the other way not the same route as V1 & V2 (give it the latest tech/hardware we currently have that works and will work for 50/100 years.
And finally get to mars ffs....
lol
On about that Flat Earth stuff.....
Farking hell! I looked at a few articles because I thought it would be funny but my god. people honest to god believe it the same way they believe Dinosaurs didn't exist, Hitler was innocent, There was no Holocaust, there was no WW2.
.....Even my OCD at it's highest height was not nearly as insane as these people.
Ironically the tall weird dude with the twitch in the corner is probably the most normal person in the room.
The major world powers need to unite and invest in space travel....the only thing that will save this human race
Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn Shines in Spectacular NASA Photo
http://www.livescience.com/56924-photo-bizarre-hexagon-on-saturn.html?utm_source=notification
http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html?_ga=1.241628802.127677819.1477929766
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--znl1KbW---/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/clsnzrv4zchucfkfe8ph.jpg)
NASA's Dawn Probe Sent Some Stunning New Images of Ceres (http://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-dawn-probe-sent-some-stunning-new-images-of-cere-1789212627)
Astonishing. It still surprises me at what we're capable of when mankind isn't busy arguing over stupid things.
I've just finished watching The Expanse and a good chunk of it is set on a colonized Ceres.
Is that show worth my time?
Quote from: Local Trouble on Nov 22, 2016, 06:19:05 PM
Is that show worth my time?
Yes, very much worth it.
If you can get the first Season on Blu-Ray looks
amazing.
Still not as good as Firefly though.
If it's a SyFy series, I can probably binge watch the HD episodes on demand.
^^ Good show. Definitely worth a watch.
http://www.seeker.com/one-second-of-bad-data-doomed-mars-lander-2107178851.html
https://vimeo.com/191664574
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Nov 25, 2016, 06:48:45 PM
https://vimeo.com/191664574
http://www.seeker.com/space-poop-challenge-nasa-astronauts-exploration-spacesuit-crowdsourci-2118607081.html
Loving the Apollo anecdote :laugh:
http://www.seeker.com/mars-water-nasa-colony-astronauts-climate-change-red-planet-2116417629.html
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto's Icy Heart (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/scientists-probe-mystery-of-pluto-s-icy-heart)
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Perfect organism...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151217-the-tiny-creatures-that-flew-to-the-moon-twice-and-survived?ocid=fbert
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/30f42fe0-bf82-389c-b593-560455e957b3/nasa-just-spotted-a-massive.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/30f42fe0-bf82-389c-b593-560455e957b3/nasa-just-spotted-a-massive.html)
QuoteNASA just spotted a massive hole growing on the surface of the sun — here's what it means
Business Insider Mon, Dec 5 9:00 PM PST
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just spotted a massive hole on the sun called a coronal hole. The hole appears black because it's cooler than its surroundings and is responsible for high-speed solar winds that can sometimes disrupt satellite and radio communication satellites.
http://www.seeker.com/space-junk-jaxa-debris-problem-international-space-station-2156194264.html
QuoteThe Japanese space agency will soon be testing a new technology that would use a roughly half-mile-long tether to grab large pieces of space debris and dispose of them.
http://www.seeker.com/nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-big-hits-2016-red-planet-2155745847.html
Curiosity's Most Incredible Mars Snapshots of 2016
(https://assets.rbl.ms/9074675/980x.jpg)
Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Seriously need to get a man/woman to mars in the next 15 years or so....
:)
Quote from: x-M-x on Dec 24, 2016, 07:15:42 PM
Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Seriously need to get a man/woman to mars in the next 15 years or so....
NASA DEVELOPING FOOD BARS FOR TRIP TO MARS!!Quote NASA is currently in the process of developing special food that will one day be used on manned-trips to Mars.
The food (which can be seen in the video below) is currently being developed for use on the Orion Spacecraft, which is designed to take astronauts beyond low Earth orbit. Orion's upcoming trip, Exploration Mission 2, will take its crew around the Earth's moon "without being attached to any habitation module," explains Orion Crew Support Equipment System Manager Jessica Vos.
"In order to complete that mission," Vos says, "we need to pack all the food that we need for four crew for, like, 10 to 14 days. So that's quite a bit of mass and volume that we're talking about." In order to combat that, she continues, NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory has developed meal replacement bars meant to be low in mass, but high in caloric density.
"We have the banana nut bar, orange cranberry bar, ginger vanilla bar, and barbecue nut bar," NASA Food Scientist Takiyah Sirmons shows off in the video. "Each are totaling about 700 to 800 calories. So it's a huge meal replacement." NASA is currently carrying out human studies to see how often astronauts will need to eat the bars during missions, she says.
https://youtu.be/ZvE8jIf5Efw (https://youtu.be/ZvE8jIf5Efw)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/28/nasa-developing-food-bars-for-trip-to-mars?abthid=586406aaa51671153a000007 (http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/28/nasa-developing-food-bars-for-trip-to-mars?abthid=586406aaa51671153a000007)
(https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/7573_PIA20513_full.jpg)
Cassini's Breathtaking New View of Saturn's Enigmatic Hexagon
http://www.seeker.com/cassini-nasa-saturn-mystery-hexagon-solar-system-spacecraft-photograph-2171829992.html
NASA to Send Mission to Metal Asteroid That Could Be Dead Planet's Core
http://www.seeker.com/nasa-discovery-program-asteroid-missions-solar-system-origins-2179287316.html
I'd never known about these entirely metal asteroids. I'm quite intrigued.
Makes you wonder what type of *Metal* it is though... and if one of these hit earth? jesus.
QuoteUnlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 06, 2017, 08:47:28 AM
QuoteUnlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.
How would they know just by looking at it? lol (maybe thats a retarded question but still i'm no scientist lol)
I expect asteroid mining in the next 200 years lol
Quote from: x-M-x on Jan 06, 2017, 02:28:12 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 06, 2017, 08:47:28 AM
QuoteUnlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.
How would they know just by looking at it? lol (maybe thats a retarded question but still i'm no scientist lol)
I expect asteroid mining in the next 200 years lol
There are plenty of ways to figures it out.
Like for example analyzing the Wavelength of the light.
Each element absorb and reflects / refracts a certain amount of energy.
You just have to figure what wavelength correspond to what element ;)
Then with the addition of Electromagnetic scans, planet's mass data and a bazillion of other things you can refine more and more each composition to decipher the very layers of every planet ;)
But like all science, it's a matter of patience (I can vouch, I do science on DEdit lol).
A Stellar Explosion Could Be Visible In the Night Sky In 2022 (http://gizmodo.com/a-stellar-explosion-could-be-visible-in-the-night-sky-i-1790999540)
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 10, 2017, 12:07:16 AM
A Stellar Explosion Could Be Visible In the Night Sky In 2022 (http://gizmodo.com/a-stellar-explosion-could-be-visible-in-the-night-sky-i-1790999540)
That would be spectacular. Really hope that comes to pass and we can get a good look at a nova.
An Enormous Atmospheric Anomaly Has Been Spotted On Venus (http://gizmodo.com/an-enormous-atmospheric-anomaly-has-been-spotted-on-ven-1791172483)
Still waiting for news of mysterious probes around Uranus.
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info.. They know we are not alone, and i would go so far as to say that they know exactly in which direction to look, and are afraid to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg)
http://www.seeker.com/south-pole-telescope-extreme-astronomy-dark-energy-cosmology-2200868930.html
Pretty cool read about astronomy from the South Pole.
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info.. They know we are not alone, and i would go so far as to say that they know exactly in which direction to look, and are afraid to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg)
Indeed, always suspect them, but then again... if we actually found a planet with life on it, and they are advanced... not good for earth lol.
kinda like Prometheus lol
Quote from: x-M-x on Jan 25, 2017, 06:38:06 PM
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info.. They know we are not alone, and i would go so far as to say that they know exactly in which direction to look, and are afraid to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg)
Indeed, always suspect them, but then again... if we actually found a planet with life on it, and they are advanced... not good for earth lol.
kinda like Prometheus lol
Let's hope "hunting for sport" is not a thing among them as well. XD
http://www.seeker.com/international-space-station-retire-private-axiom-orbit-commercializati-2214242152.html
A Private Space Station Might Be Born From the ISS
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnunnakiAwake/status/821221473729839105 (https://mobile.twitter.com/AnunnakiAwake/status/821221473729839105)
NASA's Awesome new Spacesuits look inspired by 2001: A space Odyssey (http://geektyrant.com/news/nasas-awesome-new-spacesuits-look-inspired-by-2001-a-space-odyssey)
(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/58894fa33a04118a0c61442a/1485393834492/nasas-awesome-new-space-suits-look-inspired-by-2001-a-space-odyssey?format=750w)
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info..
Of all the planets discovered, we have the ability to visit 7.
Of those seven, four have no surface.
Of the remaining three, we've landed on two.
Of those two, one is incapable of supporting any sort of life as we know it, and we're still not sure if the other one does/doesn't, or did/never did.
Of all the moons, we've landed on two. One is dead. The other has lakes of farts. We're pretty sure it's worth our time to look under another one.
How in the hell people expect NASA to have found alien life after looking under the equivalent of a few grains of sand on an entire beach, I've no clue. But assuming people are lying to you to spoil the fun is a lot more palatable than the fact life can be pretty disappointing, so whatever floats your boat.
Quote from: SiL on Jan 27, 2017, 06:52:01 AM
Of all the moons, we've landed on two. One is dead. The other has lakes of farts. We're pretty sure it's worth our time to look under another one.
Lol! :laugh:
We're still a long, long, long, long way off discovering anything. Certainly not in our own lifetime. But we still get to witness a lot of firsts. I'm so thankful the Pluto fly-by happened while I was alive and hopefully I'll get to see man land on Mars.
And snipped. Let's keep on track please. :)
Dudes, look at this...
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/
While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.
I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/
While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.
I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.
At least someone agrees, and I would love to explore that but alas not in this lifetime. :)
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/
While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.
I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.
Ah, yes!
IC-1101!
I love that galaxy. Unfortunately, it's one of the dying ones. It's yellow-ish in colour due to the lack of fresh star material to form new stars. Unlike the vibrant blue and white colours of galaxies such as our own and Andromeda which still have plenty of stellar matter to help form new stars.
What helps galaxies gain new star materials is through galactic cannibalism, where the two (such as our Milky Way and Andromeda will eventually do) merge together into one and exchange all this fresh and fertile star dust.
IC-1101 doesn't seem to have many galaxies nearby to achieve cannibalism, or if it does, they're too small to have any big contribution to it. It'd be like you eating a single pea for the entire day.
Our universe truly is one fascinating entity.
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Feb 01, 2017, 07:13:24 PM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/
While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.
I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.
Ah, yes!
IC-1101!
I love that galaxy. Unfortunately, it's one of the dying ones. It's yellow-ish in colour due to the lack of fresh star material to form new stars. Unlike the vibrant blue and white colours of galaxies such as our own and Andromeda which still have plenty of stellar matter to help form new stars.
What helps galaxies gain new star materials is through galactic cannibalism, where the two (such as our Milky Way and Andromeda will eventually do) merge together into one and exchange all this fresh and fertile star dust.
IC-1101 doesn't seem to have many galaxies nearby to achieve cannibalism, or if it does, they're too small to have any big contribution to it. It'd be like you eating a single pea for the entire day.
Our universe truly is one fascinating entity.
Would it not be at least millions of more years into the future until it dies off? Then again, I have no idea if when and how we will have the capability of galaxy hopping. Our boys and girls in white are working hard day and night trying to figure out better ways to move planet from planet, so its astonishing and amazing to see how tech will improve centuries from now.
Plus on a meta universal scale, I am looking back at 1917 and 2017 and realize wow....if 2017 is the equivalent of thier millennium timeline, damm so much can happen. Its like look how far we came in 100 years, whats it like going to be 100 years later?
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 04, 2017, 12:15:11 AM
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Feb 01, 2017, 07:13:24 PM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/
While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.
I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.
Ah, yes!
IC-1101!
I love that galaxy. Unfortunately, it's one of the dying ones. It's yellow-ish in colour due to the lack of fresh star material to form new stars. Unlike the vibrant blue and white colours of galaxies such as our own and Andromeda which still have plenty of stellar matter to help form new stars.
What helps galaxies gain new star materials is through galactic cannibalism, where the two (such as our Milky Way and Andromeda will eventually do) merge together into one and exchange all this fresh and fertile star dust.
IC-1101 doesn't seem to have many galaxies nearby to achieve cannibalism, or if it does, they're too small to have any big contribution to it. It'd be like you eating a single pea for the entire day.
Our universe truly is one fascinating entity.
Would it not be at least millions of more years into the future until it dies off? Then again, I have no idea if when and how we will have the capability of galaxy hopping. Our boys and girls in white are working hard day and night trying to figure out better ways to move planet from planet, so its astonishing and amazing to see how tech will improve centuries from now.
Plus on a meta universal scale, I am looking back at 1917 and 2017 and realize wow....if 2017 is the equivalent of thier millennium timeline, damm so much can happen. Its like look how far we came in 100 years, whats it like going to be 100 years later?
Yeah, it'd definitely be millions (or even trillions) of years before IC-1101 begins fading out of existence. Andromeda is already 10 billion years away from colliding with us.
That is amazing to consider. We've progressed so much in recent times which is interesting because when you go to Medieval times, or Paleo times, 100 years would've meant very little as far as progression is concerned.
Like, 1100 to 1200, people still used swords and shields.
Or 76,000 BC to 75,000 BC, Ugg still swung his stone axe like a champion. :P
But 1900 to 2000, you see huge (YUUUGE) leaps in tech, you see people go from horses and carriages, to cars, planes, CHOPPAHs, rocket space craft, submarines, particle accelerators, genetic engineering you name it and it probably happened.
I think that despite our flaws, despite so many human things that piss me off, from an animal and nature perspective, humans are the most fascinating creature to have evolved on this planet.
While on the topic, in the Rage War novels, Isa Palant tells Elder Kalakta how she thinks "galactic travel is impossible" to which the Predator elder tells her "imagine telling your ancestors a thousand years ago about your Dropholes (which are man-made wormhole gates)." So from 2692, that'd be 1692. Holy shit!
If we continue to progress at this pace, imagine what we'd have in our own 2692 AD!
https://mobile.twitter.com/TimeOutNewYork/status/829827335536988161 (https://mobile.twitter.com/TimeOutNewYork/status/829827335536988161)
https://www.timeout.com/usa/blog/a-snow-moon-a-lunar-eclipse-and-a-comet-are-all-hitting-the-sky-simultaneously-tomorrow-night-020917 (https://www.timeout.com/usa/blog/a-snow-moon-a-lunar-eclipse-and-a-comet-are-all-hitting-the-sky-simultaneously-tomorrow-night-020917)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition
Pretty cool project.
http://www.seeker.com/organics-found-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-2266073354.html
These is pretty interesting!
Imagine the number of habitable planets that could be orbiting these superstars.
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FDVceZsn.jpg&hash=91edc2d9f64fa51ec666e6cb4999095609320985)
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/22/nasa-we-found-7-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years-away/?sr_source=Facebook
NASA: We found 7 Earth-sized planets just 40 light years away
Now for the follow up!
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2017, 06:39:33 PM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/22/nasa-we-found-7-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years-away/?sr_source=Facebook
NASA: We found 7 Earth-sized planets just 40 light years away
Now for the follow up!
Looks like our current setup.... scary if LIFE is on one of those planets.
We really shouldn't be messing around with this *search for life business* lol it's gonna backfire one day i think.
Zeta 2 Reticuli is around 40 light-years away too... :o
There are aliens out there. Right now. In our back yard. Now all we need to do it create the technology to detect them.
We lack the proper motivation, thus...
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
Not many people have even explored much of this planet.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170223/246ea51f4c5bffb92ce2899e48053119.jpg)
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 22, 2017, 11:45:48 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
Not many people have even explored much of this planet.
So you have no interest in exploring the rest of the universe?
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 23, 2017, 12:01:16 AM
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 22, 2017, 11:45:48 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
Not many people have even explored much of this planet.
So you have no interest in exploring the rest of the universe?
Universe? Chicken feed. Multiverse.
Most of these planets have orbits less than 10 days long... instead of 365 days like ours. Can you imagine if they rotate and are tilted on their axis like earth so that they have "seasons" like winter spring summer and fall, all in one week. In fact, the rotation period (the length of a day, 24 hours here) could be anything. Mercury rotates only once every 59 day. We could end up looking at a planet who's days are longer than their years and have a full set of seasons within a single dawn to sundown period. How weird would it be living on something like that? You planet could have 4 seasons before it even went from daylight to night and back... and from dawn to sundown could take a week or two of our time. When you left home for work you would need to bring both shorts and a winter coat. And if you wanted to "enjoy your spring weather" you could do so every morning from 10 am to noon. The concept of 24 hours or the concept of an entire year would be absolutely meaningless there.... but still I really do believe that we are and never have been alone. Life is everywhere. The universe is teeming with life that we can only imagine. As above so below. Some scientists are actually talking about our existence being a computer generated one as which would be inevitable to civilisations which are millions of years ahead of us. Who knows. It's easy for us to reject the thousands of anecdotal stories by people from every walk of life about their sometimes life changing experiences. It may just be so incomprehensible to us what it really is that we may just be better not knowing. Folk like Brian Cox and the likes are great but really know no more than anyone.
Total mindf**k that.
WHOS BOOKING TICKETS? :D
Small Saturn moon has most of conditions needed to sustain life, Nasa says (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/13/alien-life-saturn-moon-enceladus-nasa?CMP=fb_us)
QuoteSpace organization finds that hydrogen erupts out of underground ocean on Enceladus, meaning it has the water, chemistry and energy sources life requires
Tabby's Star (AKA "Alien Megastructure") is dimming again:
QuoteAs reported by Popular Science, Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star's light output has recently dimmed by approximately 3 percent. As with previous dimming events, this can't be easily explained by any ordinary stellar behavior.
That 'Alien Megastructure' Star Is Freaking Out Again (http://gizmodo.com/that-alien-megastructure-star-is-freaking-out-again-1795385620)
QuoteScientists are a step closer to understanding the inner-workings of the universe following the laying of the first stone, and construction starting on the world's largest optical and infrared telescope.
With a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), is going to be, as its name suggests, enormous. Unlike any other before it, ELT is also designed to be an adaptive telescope and has the ability to correct atmospheric turbulence, taking telescope engineering to another level.
To mark the construction's milestone, a ceremony was held at ESO's Paranal residencia in northern Chile, close to the site of the future giant telescope which will be on top of Cerro Armazones, a 3046-metre peak mountain.
Construction begins on the world's first super telescope (https://phys.org/news/2017-05-world-super-telescope.html)
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/News/article/bgr-nasa_wants_to_probe_uranus_in_search_of_gas-rpenskemc
https://www.space.com/37576-mars-moon-phobos-amazing-hubble-video.html?utm_source=notification
(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA2Ny85OTcvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGhvYm9zLW1hcnMuZ2lmPzE1MDA2NTAwMDk=)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/20987360_1365672690218055_6687057393160814592_n.jpg)
Elon Musk reveals first official photo of SpaceX space suit (https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16188658/elon-musk-reveals-first-official-photo-spacex-spacesuit)
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
I'll make sure i'll be out on that day then.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
Again?
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
In your own article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/), a professor is cited as saying "There's no such thing as a Christian numerologist" (and the person who is claimed to be one denies being one). So what you said is untrue. "Christian numerologists" don't believe "we're all gonna die on 9/23." An idiot named David Meade thinks that.
Do you think Christian numerologists who believe the world is gonna end on 9/23 really care what some professor says about them?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16471616/gravitational-waves-ligo-virgo-neutron-stars-merger-multi-messenger-astronomy (https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16471616/gravitational-waves-ligo-virgo-neutron-stars-merger-multi-messenger-astronomy)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FMFUVrmT.jpg&hash=042ace7d4f6ccb55d36e9ba75e1deeeba24623fe)
https://www.space.com/38838-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html
Wow! 1st Interstellar Asteroid Is a Spinning Space Cigar
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2017, 03:08:20 PM
https://www.space.com/38838-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html
Wow! 1st Interstellar Asteroid Is a Spinning Space Cigar
It's happening!
(https://i0.wp.com/nerdgeekfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/encontro-com-rama-capa-edicao-original.jpg)
For a book where nothing happens, I sure enjoyed Rama.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/933176530951376896
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/933052146639167488
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPLd-zXWsAgeK-T.jpg:large)
Beautiful! It's a real shame that Cassini has gone.
Recently started listening to the Gravity Assist podcast from NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist).
It's presented in a very basic fashion, clearly aimed at the layman, but I've found it quite informative so far (eg. I never knew there was a theory that Mercury was the core of a dead gas giant - which sounds awesome).
Thanks for the recommendation, SM!
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia21972.jpg)
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/936407954101809159
That is mesmerizing. Absolutely gorgeous.
What a wonderful time we live in, when we get to see these things on an almost daily basis! Thanks for sharing these Crazy Shrimp
Yes, that's very beautiful. At the same time, the winds are dangerously powerful.
https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/938527815191932928
Quote from: SM on Nov 30, 2017, 11:53:48 PM
Recently started listening to the Gravity Assist podcast from NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist).
It's presented in a very basic fashion, clearly aimed at the layman, but I've found it quite informative so far (eg. I never knew there was a theory that Mercury was the core of a dead gas giant - which sounds awesome).
I'm caught up on these. I really enjoy the conversational tone and the excitement with which these folks talk about these missions, and the 'gravity assist' that got them started on their careers in astronomy.
:D
"SpaceX confirmed Wednesday its CEO Elon Musk plans to blast his cherry red electric car off toward the Red Planet when the company's Falcon Heavy rocket launches for the first time next month."
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/297331/SpaceXs-Elon-Musk-to-launch-his-own-car-into-deep-space
He should make sure that the paint job doesn't get ruined by the Martian sandstorms.
https://www.americasuncommonsense.com/1-apollo-17-diary-of-the-12th-man/
I thought this might be of interest to some. It's the diary of Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. Only a couple of chapters actually released, though.
President Trump Directs NASA to Return to the Moon, Then Aim for Mars (https://www.space.com/39050-trump-directs-nasa-humans-to-moon.html)
Quote"Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmitt] become one of the last Americans to land on the moon," Trump said. "Today, we pledge that he will not be the last."
"The directive I'm signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said during the ceremony. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint — we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."
https://www.space.com/39088-blue-origin-upgraded-new-shepard-test-flight-video.html
Mannequin Skywalker :laugh:
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 12, 2017, 12:59:25 PM
https://www.americasuncommonsense.com/1-apollo-17-diary-of-the-12th-man/
I thought this might be of interest to some. It's the diary of Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. Only a couple of chapters actually released, though.
President Trump Directs NASA to Return to the Moon, Then Aim for Mars (https://www.space.com/39050-trump-directs-nasa-humans-to-moon.html)
Quote"Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmitt] become one of the last Americans to land on the moon," Trump said. "Today, we pledge that he will not be the last."
"The directive I'm signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said during the ceremony. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint — we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."
Everything on the Space Coast just became electrified over this, really looking forward to the space programs amping up!
Until he gives NASA more money it's just more Trump bluster. Bush said much the same thing in 2004 but at least he said he was going to get congress to increase their budget (don't know if he succeeded).
You make it sound as if Trump's credibility is in question.
Had he any, I would question it.
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/942924707720024066
Spliffs in SPAAAAAACE!
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Dec 19, 2017, 01:46:30 AM
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/942924707720024066
I'd love for them to find an ET in my life time and I love reading about these kind of thing but it's just such a long-shot. :'(
www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/radio-telescopes-combine-data-to-capture-firstever-image-of-a-supermassive-black-hole/news-story/d9c2cb732eea80fb381f0cfb055bf106
Quote from: SM on Dec 15, 2017, 09:28:58 PM
Until he gives NASA more money it's just more Trump bluster. Bush said much the same thing in 2004 but at least he said he was going to get congress to increase their budget (don't know if he succeeded).
Wouldn't it be something to blink at if Trump becomes a huge investor in jumpstarting space research and tech?
He would if he had family members who stood to make money off it.
Tesla going to Mars orbit, pictures from Elon Musk
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.larevueautomobile.com%2Fimages%2F2017-Photo%2F12%2FTesla_Roadster_Mars.jpg&hash=1a746e3132fa1bd2962a41f616bb6e8f303f0887)
Link to the article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-car-rocket-mars-instagram-photo-2017-12/#falcon-heavys-fairing-stands-dozens-of-feet-tall-and-is-made-of-lightweight-yet-incredibly-strong-carbon-fiber-composite-materials-1
Quote"Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring," Musk wrote in his Instagram post. "Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel.
"The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit."
Apparently, the universe in its infancy used to have a greater abundance of massive stars.
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/949120159926464513
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/949396172568854528
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/949491044936134657
https://twitter.com/io9/status/951677435858292736
https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/952266029161304065
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0116-a-new-look-at-venus-with-akatsuki.html
QuoteAkatsuki (also known as PLANET-C and Venus Climate Orbiter) is a Japanese mission that launched almost eight years ago, in 2010. It missed its first attempt to orbit Venus on December 7, 2010 due to the failure of its orbital insertion rocket. It was only on December 7, 2015, after several years of wandering around the Sun, that Akatsuki succeeded in placing itself in orbit around the enigmatic planet. Even though the new orbit of Akatsuki is distant and highly elongated, a large portion of the original science objectives may still be achieved.
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Venus looks like a nice place to live.
The ultimate holiday planet. Nice and warm.
Too many dinosaurs.
Also stumbled across this (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/).
I think I've seen some of the extrasolar ones before but never our planets. Those are great. I love that kinda retro vibe.
Can anyone tell me.
(https://i.imgur.com/lh4a46c.jpg)
Is this the correct colour of venus surface or has it been edited? because that is some yellow sky we got there.
:o
One of my favs (MARS)
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Falcon Heavy launch today! Here is a live stream from PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-spacex-launches-the-falcon-heavy-the-rocket-that-could-go-to-mars
1:30 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST is the window. Leaving early from work today to drive up as close as possible.
Beautiful launch and landings! Comeon number 3!
Watched the launch live! Was great seeing them land. Hope to hear good news for the core but it's been a while.
Sounds like the core didn't have enough propellant to slow down and crashed on or next to the pad.
LIVE conference:
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Amazing.
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The pad seems to have survived save for two destroyed engines. Cool.
My new twitter header:
(https://i.imgur.com/2d4OKUM.jpg)
Makes me wanna watch Heavy Metal again.
Plenty of photos from the event - https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex
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Sounds like the central core didn't make it, unfortunately and the third main burn didn't put it on the right trajectory.
Quote from: slipknotpredator on Feb 07, 2018, 01:09:59 AM
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Quote from: Jacku on Feb 07, 2018, 01:40:06 AM
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This is straight outta Heavy Metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyfInT1y0c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyfInT1y0c)
Quote from: Jacku on Feb 07, 2018, 01:40:06 AM
The pad seems to have survived save for two destroyed engines. Cool.
My new twitter header:
(https://i.imgur.com/2d4OKUM.jpg)
Mine too!
There is an old hidden boat dock positioned directly in front of the VAB. It was worth jumping over a few barricades for this view:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVYjW53WkAEzUvR.jpg:large)
When the two rocket boosters descended together, they looked like giant fireballs slowly coming down. The four sonic booms were incredibly loud, I was an emotional wreck. Having spent most of my life watching shuttle launches, words just don't describe the feels. Couldn't stop reading posts of Starman lol. Still excited, can you tell!
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury
What a coincidence you share a name with such a famous singer!
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury
Dead?
If you are a Scottish lord then I am Mickey Mouse!
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury
What's your views on the successful landings on the Moon?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 12, 2018, 08:20:32 AM
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury
What's your views on the successful landings on the Moon?
Are you dense?? That was all fake, staged. Sounding like some democrat...
Quote from: Deadmeat on Feb 12, 2018, 09:36:14 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 12, 2018, 08:20:32 AM
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury
What's your views on the successful landings on the Moon?
Are you dense?? That was all fake, staged. Sounding like some democrat...
Ya know I just can't help but wonder centuries from now when we start colonizing other planets, where these conspiracy theorists will be or come up with next. Be kind of funny actually in a morbid sort of way.
https://www.space.com/39671-trump-nasa-budget-2019-funds-moon-over-iss.html
QuoteNASA's 2019 budget request formalizes the agency's handover of human-spaceflight activities in low-Earth orbit to private industry, in favor of a shift toward the moon.
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QuoteFly, Starman, fly! The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver, that launched into space aboard SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6), has been spotted zipping through space by a telescope on the ground. And we can't stop watching it!
https://www.space.com/39647-spacex-tesla-roadster-spotted-in-space.html
That is beautiful.
The Earth and the Moon photographed from 62 million kilometers away
https://twitter.com/OSIRISREx/status/963803706960457728
The video with the Tesla Roadster spotted in space is my favorite thing ever.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 13, 2018, 01:31:28 PM
https://www.space.com/39671-trump-nasa-budget-2019-funds-moon-over-iss.html
QuoteNASA's 2019 budget request formalizes the agency's handover of human-spaceflight activities in low-Earth orbit to private industry, in favor of a shift toward the moon.
https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3My85NzUvb3JpZ2luYWwvVGVzbGFSb2Fkc3Rlcl8wOGZlYjIwMThfdGVuYWdyYUlJSV9zMi5naWY/MTUxODE5ODYyOQ==
QuoteFly, Starman, fly! The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver, that launched into space aboard SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6), has been spotted zipping through space by a telescope on the ground. And we can't stop watching it!
https://www.space.com/39647-spacex-tesla-roadster-spotted-in-space.html
The bar has officially and literally been knocked out of space for the most epic event in my lifetime after this 8)
Is that car on a collision course by any chance? i'm sure they just didn't send it out there and *pray/hope* Right?
god knows what it's aimed at... i have seen several reports it's gonna crash into mars... and if that is true? That musk guy should be ashamed.
Quote from: x-M-x on Feb 16, 2018, 08:01:42 PM
Is that car on a collision course by any chance? i'm sure they just didn't send it out there and *pray/hope* Right?
god knows what it's aimed at... i have seen several reports it's gonna crash into mars... and if that is true? That musk guy should be ashamed.
No. I believe it was aimed to orbit the sun in a way where it's orbit would intersects that of Mars (when it wasn't there) so that it didn't contaminate the planet but still 'get there' in a sense. Though it overshot I think and will go the long way around through the asteroid belt. Since it's space the odds of it hitting anything are very very low.
Falcon 9 launching shortly. They're going to try catching the nose cone like this:
:laugh: http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/21/painting-100-years-ago-show-first-alien-visit-earth-expert-claims-7330557/
QuoteWhacked on drugs including mescaline, opium and hash, Crowley 'made contact' with a being which now looks oddly familiar... like the 'grey aliens' beloved of UFO fans. Crowley made a painting of the entity, which he called 'LAM' – and his fans later linked the painting with planets beyond Pluto, Paranoia magazine reports.
(https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/sei_560711.jpg?w=620&h=864&crop=1)
https://twitter.com/spacedotcom/status/966733996062253056
https://twitter.com/spacedotcom/status/967147842681765888
https://twitter.com/gizmodo/status/968516893136097280
Stephen Hawking, the master and translator of the universe himself just passed away....
Damm dude :-[
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/stephen-hawking-physicist-who-reshaped-cosmology-dies-at-76?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
Oh man, Stephen Hawkins, that's a rather heavy loss. Damn dude is right. :'(
Was sad to read this this morning. :( A Brief History of Time is sat on my to-read pile. Must get to it soon.
Damn... This really hit hard for me. What an individual, so sad to see him go. :'(
https://twitter.com/io9/status/976292285263486976
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/977551609579393024
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2018, 08:23:46 AM
Was sad to read this this morning. :( A Brief History of Time is sat on my to-read pile. Must get to it soon.
A Long History of No-Time to Read a Brief history of Time.
Lol. I'm sure we've all got that dreaded pile!
Busted!
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Now this made me laugh! :laugh:
:laugh: Who filmed this one? Kubrick did the moon landing, right?
Rian Johnson.
A mix of science fiction and NASA footage in the musical video below
BAMM DONE CHECK MATE
(https://i.imgur.com/ZrLpeI1.jpg)
Apollo 12 LMP, Skylab commander and painter Alan Bean has passed away, aged 86. (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean)
:'(
In interviews he always seemed to be the guy who was just happy to be part of the space program, which undersold his skill.
"SCE to AUX"
You guys down under know about American astronauts?
The famous ones.
Remember that time the Aborigines helped John Glenn with their bonfire?
I was busy that night.
These guys are real heroes.
Smart and someone to aspire to.
Godspeed.
https://www.space.com/40783-tiny-asteroid-hits-earth-2018-la-video.html
QuoteScientists discovered the asteroid, called 2018 LA, early Saturday. After a closer look at the space rock's trajectory, it "was determined to be on a collision course with Earth (https://www.space.com/39925-hammer-spacecraft-dangerous-asteroid-nuclear-bomb.html), with impact just hours away," NASA officials said in a statement.
:o :o :o
You guys definitely need to get a telescope if you love space. Finally got back into observing after a few years and enjoying it more than ever. Also upgraded from an 8" to an 11" CPC 1100 telescope and got some wide field 100 degree eyepieces that have hooked me so hard. I was out with some friends I met over in the cloudy nights forum (great forum for advice etc) at a nice dark site this past Friday. I still can't forget the views I saw. Not just of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars (currently 25% covered by a planet wide dust storm and growing) but these fantastic views of open star clusters and Nebulae in the Sagittarius constellation. Best investment I ever made! Would highly recommend a scope to all you guys. There's so much to see up there. Check out M51 (2 colliding Galaxies), M23 & M24 open cluster & star cloud and the Lagoon Nebula, just awesome.
(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny8yNzcvb3JpZ2luYWwvYXN0ZXJvaWQtcnl1Z3UtaGF5YWJ1c2EyLmpwZw==)
https://www.space.com/40987-japan-hayabusa2-asteroid-probe-closes-on-ryugu.html?utm_source=notification
A Japanese Probe Is Closing in on an Asteroid 180 Million Miles from Earth
When are we going to start mining those damn things?
https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system (https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system)
QuoteElkins-Tanton has estimated the value of the asteroid's iron content alone at approximately $10,000 quadrillion (https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/18/nasa-announces-plan-to-visit-asteroid-worth-10-000-quadrillion/21656990/). That's to say nothing of the gold, copper, and platinum to be found. The value of this asteroid alone could wipe out global debt, $60 trillion (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4128582/Nasa-plans-explore-expensive-asteroid.html), and leave enough left over to give every human on the planet a comfortable lifestyle, or conversely, cause the collapse of the world economy and send us hurdling back to the Dark Ages. Take your pick. Elkins-Tanton suggested dragging back a hunk and doling it out little by little, but also played with the idea of solving mineral scarcity for all-time.
f**k me, go get the damn thing.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 28, 2018, 12:55:19 PM
When are we going to start mining those damn things?
https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system (https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system)
QuoteElkins-Tanton has estimated the value of the asteroid's iron content alone at approximately $10,000 quadrillion (https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/18/nasa-announces-plan-to-visit-asteroid-worth-10-000-quadrillion/21656990/). That's to say nothing of the gold, copper, and platinum to be found. The value of this asteroid alone could wipe out global debt, $60 trillion (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4128582/Nasa-plans-explore-expensive-asteroid.html), and leave enough left over to give every human on the planet a comfortable lifestyle, or conversely, cause the collapse of the world economy and send us hurdling back to the Dark Ages. Take your pick. Elkins-Tanton suggested dragging back a hunk and doling it out little by little, but also played with the idea of solving mineral scarcity for all-time.
I knew they were a potential gold mine, but to be worth 10,000 trillion?! :o I hope the whole world is investing towards this.
That's $10,000 quadrillion.
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?
Though that's a pretty big rock. It's so exciting just imagining the potential. If humanity is cautious and wise, we as a species have a bright future ahead of us.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 29, 2018, 12:17:21 AM
That's $10,000 quadrillion.
Probably cost 11,000 quadrillion to mine though. Also you'd need to find somebody that would want to buy that much steel at that price point. It's value at the moment is zero. :P
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?
Though that's a pretty big rock. It's so exciting just imagining the potential. If humanity is cautious and wise, we as a species have a bright future ahead of us.
We're doomed
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?
I imagine it's based on the current market value of iron. However, if iron were to become so abundant, it's price would naturally plummet.
I think I'd like living in a post-scarcity world.
Humans love to build things. Discovering new resources has always pushed our progress further. Even if it's not a new type like cheap fusion energy, the shear abundance of metals/raw materiel is very exciting IMO.
Quote from: 426Buddy on Jun 29, 2018, 10:43:17 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?
Though that's a pretty big rock. It's so exciting just imagining the potential. If humanity is cautious and wise, we as a species have a bright future ahead of us.
We're doomed
:laugh:
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 30, 2018, 03:22:07 PM
Humans love to build things. Discovering new resources has always pushed our progress further. Even if it's not a new type like cheap fusion energy, the shear abundance of metals/raw materiel is very exciting IMO.
You seem quite enthused.
I like seeing optimistic news and if it's news that Sci Fi ideas could maybe become a reality, without ending the world, I can't help but be excited. Just like the probability that I'll see the first human set foot on Mars in my lifetime, it puts a smile on my face.
What if the invention of FTL space travel, the development of an inexhaustible clean energy source and contact with a friendly alien species all happened within the next ten years?
I'm a bit skeptical of that happening so soon, especially of the FTL part as physics is kinda demonstrating how unlikely and impractical that is.
Though if any one of those things happened within the next ten years, that would be a huge milestone for humanity. I'd be very grateful to live to see any of those things whatever their probability may be.
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jul 01, 2018, 01:59:40 PM
I'm a bit skeptical of that happening so soon, especially of the FTL part as physics is kinda demonstrating how unlikely and impractical that is.
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (https://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html)
QuoteA warp drive (https://www.space.com/6649-star-trek-warp-drive-impossible.html) would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light (https://www.space.com/5725-spaceship-fly-faster-light.html). A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy. Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.
How about now?
Sweet!
Someone get Sam Neil on the line in case something goes wrong.
https://twitter.com/nature/status/1012337726849519617
Nice!
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 01, 2018, 05:46:25 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jul 01, 2018, 01:59:40 PM
I'm a bit skeptical of that happening so soon, especially of the FTL part as physics is kinda demonstrating how unlikely and impractical that is.
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (https://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html)
QuoteA warp drive (https://www.space.com/6649-star-trek-warp-drive-impossible.html) would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light (https://www.space.com/5725-spaceship-fly-faster-light.html). A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy. Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.
How about now?
I've seen this, it's an old idea. Theoretically it's only possible, but the greatest problem with it is that it requires "exotic matter" which there is no evidence for at all. And there are other problems with it as well. Still, out of all the FTL ideas, this is the most probable one, though that's not going by much.
FTL is very, very unlikely unfortunately and nothing would surprise me more if it turns out it's possible and practical. I hope I get surprised though.
There are great episodes on youtube about FTL from PBS Space Time and Isaac Arthur.
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It's a Beautiful Baby Exoplanet! Historic Photo Is 1st View of Alien World Being Born (https://www.space.com/41051-newborn-exoplanet-first-confirmed-photo.html)
QuoteThis photo from the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the act of formation, around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet is clearly visible as a bright point to the right of center, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the star.
Looks like an ear.
Incredible.
Someone 'shopped the cover of Meddle.
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In other news - Jupiter has 12 new moons and one is going the wrong way. (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/17/astronomers-discover-12-new-moons-orbiting-jupiter)
New Horizons Spies Its Next Target Beyond Pluto — from 100 Million Miles Away
(https://www.space.com/41652-new-horizons-2014-mu69-photo-100-million-miles-away.html?utm_source=notification)
https://twitter.com/NASAHubble/status/1035194513747333120
Japan makes history as rovers land on asteroid.
https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1043486871504867329
Superb!
Planet cracking incoming
Did you learn nothing from Dead Space?
Yes, we need more Engineers trained in dismemberment with Plasma Cutters!
Engine Burn Puts New Horizons on Track for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule (https://www.space.com/42049-new-horizons-engine-burn-ultima-thule.html)
Record Breaker: 4 Huge Alien Planets Spotted Around Baby Star (https://www.space.com/42147-alien-solar-system-four-huge-exoplanets.html)
QuoteIn an astronomical first, four gigantic planets have been detected around a very young star, a new study reports.
The star in question is CI Tau, which lies about 500 light-years from Earth. CI Tau is just 2 million years old and is still surrounded by a swirling clump of dust and gas known as a protoplanetary disk.
The star was already known to host one planet, a world about 10 times more massive than Jupiter that circles CI Tau once every nine Earth days. This planet, called CI Tau b, was the first "hot Jupiter" ever discovered around such a young star. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1050758511204823040
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1052218389354053632
No Space News exactly, but I didn't find a better place ;D
https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1052608948212097025
https://twitter.com/BDisgusting/status/1052991880194117633
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1053084842706063360
Not exactly space news but still interesting...
https://twitter.com/NASA_ICE/status/1052601381712887809
With a grain of salt as usual.
https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1058335238890364928
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 05, 2018, 02:58:54 AM
With a grain of salt as usual.
https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1058335238890364928
How amazing would that actually be?
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1060275904956583937
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1059963017041854464
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 07, 2018, 09:06:34 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 05, 2018, 02:58:54 AM
With a grain of salt as usual.
https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1058335238890364928
How amazing would that actually be?
Amazing wrapped in steroids! but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, I'm afraid :'(
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1060041941713387520
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1061741864355840000
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1061415715872391168
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1056903707550511104
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1061027853536559104
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1060649260029493248
Aliens are going to be pissed when they finally show up and want to speak to our Supreme Leader Karen Carpenter.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1062843372619132929
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1063529896486547456
Such a beautiful pareidolia (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22686500). :)
https://twitter.com/chandraxray/status/1063131187277955073
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QuoteIcy 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted Around Nearby Barnard's Star
The nearest single star to the sun apparently hosts a big, icy planet.
Astronomers have found strong evidence of a frigid alien world about 3.2 times more massive than Earth circling Barnard's Star, a dim red dwarf that lies just 6 light-years from the sun. Barnard's Star is our sun's nearest neighbor, apart from the three-star Alpha Centauri system, which is about 4.3 light-years away.
The newly detected world, known as Barnard's Star b, remains a planet candidate for now. But the researchers who spotted it are confident the alien planet will eventually be confirmed. [Barnard's Star b: What We Know About the "Super-Earth' Candidate]
"After a very careful analysis, we are 99 percent confident that the planet is there," Ignasi Ribas, of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia and the Institute of Space Sciences in Spain, said in a statement.
"However, we'll continue to observe this fast-moving star to exclude possible, but improbable, natural variations of the stellar brightness which could masquerade as a planet," added Ribas, the lead author of a new study announcing the detection of Barnard's Star b. That study was published online today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature.
Barnard's Star b, if confirmed, will not be the nearest exoplanet to Earth. That designation is held by the roughly Earth-size world Proxima b, which orbits Proxima Centauri, one of the Alpha Centauri trio.
NASA's Kepler space telescope showed that small planets are common in the Milky Way galaxy at large. Together, Proxima b and Barnard's Star b strongly suggest that such worlds "are also common in our neighborhood," study co-author Johanna Teske, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., told Space.com. "And that is super-exciting."
A near solar neighbor
Barnard's Star is named after the American astronomer E.E. Barnard, who in 1916 discovered the speediness Ribas mentioned. No other star moves faster across Earth's sky than Barnard's Star, which travels about the width of the full moon every 180 years. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
This unparalleled apparent motion is a consequence of the proximity of Barnard's Star and its high (but not record-setting) velocity of 310,000 mph (500,000 km/h) relative to the sun.
And Barnard's Star is getting closer to us every day: In about 10,000 years, the red dwarf will take over the nearest-star mantle from the Alpha Centauri system. At that time, just 3.8 light-years will separate Barnard's Star from the sun.
Barnard's Star is about twice as old as Earth's sun, one-sixth as massive and just 3 percent as luminous. Because Barnard's Star is so dim, its "habitable zone" — the range of distances where liquid water may be possible on a world's surface — lies extremely close-in. Indeed, researchers estimate that zone to be a sliver that lies 0.06 AU to 0.10 AU from the star. (One AU, or astronomical unit, is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
The habitable-zone concept is a tricky one, of course. Gauging a world's true habitability requires a strong working knowledge of its atmospheric composition and thickness, among other characteristics. And such information is hard to come by for exoplanets.
A long search
Barnard's Star has long been a target of exoplanet hunters, but their searches have always come up empty — until now.
And the new detection wasn't easy: Ribas and his team analyzed huge amounts of data, both archival and newly gathered, before finally digging up Barnard's Star b.
They used the "radial velocity" method, which looks for changes in starlight caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet. Such tugs cause a star to wobble slightly, shifting its light toward red wavelengths at times and toward the blue end of the spectrum at others, as seen from Earth. [7 Ways to Discovery Alien Planets]
"We used observations from seven different instruments, spanning 20 years of measurements, making this one of the largest and most extensive datasets ever used for precise radial-velocity studies," Ribas said in the same statement. "The combination of all data led to a total of 771 measurements — a huge amount of information!"
Never before had the radial velocity method been used to find such a small planet in such a distant orbit, study team members said. (Big, close-in planets tug their host stars more powerfully and therefore cause more dramatic, and more easily detectable, light shifts.)
Those seven instruments were the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile; the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope, at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile; HARPS-North, at the Galileo National Telescope in the Canary Islands; the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, at the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii; the Carnegie Institute's Planet Finder Spectrograph, at the Magellan 6.5-m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile; the Automated Planet Finder at the 2.4-m telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory; and& CARMENES, at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.
The researchers also detected hints of another possible planet in the system, orbiting farther out than Barnard's Star b — way farther out, with an orbital period of 6,600 Earth days. But this second signal is too weak to be deemed a planet candidate, Teske said.
"There's not enough data," she told Space.com.
A frigid super-Earth
Barnard's Star b is at least 3.2 times more massive than our own planet, making it a "super-Earth" — the class of worlds that are significantly larger than Earth but smaller than "ice giants" such as Neptune and Uranus.
The newfound planet candidate lies 0.4 AU from its host star and completes one orbit every 233 Earth days, according to the new study.
This orbital distance is similar to that of radiation-blasted Mercury in our own solar system. But, because Barnard's Star is so dim, the potential planet lies right around the system's "snow line" — the region where volatile materials such as water can condense into solid ices.
"Until now, only giant planets had been detected at such a distance from their stars," Rodrigo Diaz, of the Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research and the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, said in an accompanying "News and Views" article that was also published today in Nature.
"The authors' discovery of a low-mass planet near the snow line places strong constraints on formation models for this type of planet," added Diaz, who was not involved in the new study.
Barnard's Star b, if it does indeed exist, is not a very promising abode for life as we know it, at least not on the surface. The potential planet is likely very cold, with an estimated surface temperature of about minus 275 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 170 degrees Celsius), study team members said.
Confirmation of Barnard's Star b is unlikely to come from additional radial-velocity measurements, Diaz wrote. But super-precise measurements of star positions, such as those now being made by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, may do the job in the next few years, he added.
"Even more excitingly, the next generation of ground-based instrumentation, also coming into operation in the 2020s, should be able to directly image the reported planet, and measure its light spectrum," Diaz wrote.
"Using this spectrum, the characteristics of the planet's atmosphere — such as its winds and rotation rate — could be inferred," he added. "This remarkable planet therefore gives us a key piece in the puzzle of planetary formation and evolution, and might be among the first low-mass exoplanets whose atmospheres are probed in detail."
https://www.space.com/42423-barnards-star-super-earth-exoplanet-discovery.html
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1064985071134887939
https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/1064582206566350848
https://twitter.com/Seeker/status/1064933895576190977
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1065224232659873792
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1067146825931661313
Excellent.
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1069668380171493382
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1068583758088019968
https://youtu.be/K2kf1I8yx_4
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1073189323644653569
https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1073442521970294784
https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1073090802086227968
https://twitter.com/JSTOR_Daily/status/1071943332996243458
https://twitter.com/ScienceAlert/status/1073568791186075648
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1076528460569460737
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1076534348533379072
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1076313724896587777
Oh come on, no love for New Horizons' ongoing mission?
https://www.wired.com/story/new-horizons-first-photos-ultima-thule/
Ultimate Thule (tool-ee), motherf**kers! More, closer, higher-res photos coming in February, with data from the flyby drip-feeding until 2020, all going well.
I am so glad I'm alive for this. Feels like I missed out with the Space Race and Voyager's Tour.
Wouldn't you rather be alive during a time when we have FTL space travel and can actually explore the universe?
Yes.
Quote from: SiL on Jan 04, 2019, 12:16:04 PM
Oh come on, no love for New Horizons' ongoing mission?
https://www.wired.com/story/new-horizons-first-photos-ultima-thule/
Ultimate Thule (tool-ee), motherf**kers! More, closer, higher-res photos coming in February, with data from the flyby drip-feeding until 2020, all going well.
Sounds like a baddie from Conan the Barbarian.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 08, 2019, 10:26:29 PM
Wouldn't you rather be alive during a time when we have FTL space travel and can actually explore the universe?
You mean "if" we have FTL? :P
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1083071819865882625
https://twitter.com/NatGeoMag/status/1083774408303423488
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1083567087983964160
Historical! China manages to germinate seeds on the moon for first time 8)
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1085094095637438469
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1085205306962071552
https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/1084796039784263680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDYN5J5chAhttps://twitter.com/verge/status/1084572889427398656
https://twitter.com/AstronomyCast/status/1083085003234390016
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1087715950873493504
We had so many close calls with huge city destroying meteors if it weren't for our lovely moon.
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1088817926717825024
https://twitter.com/JHUAPL/status/1088544283202863105
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1088873495575101441
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Jan 23, 2019, 03:28:12 AM
We had so many close calls with huge city destroying meteors if it weren't for our lovely moon.
Yup, our shield against planetary puberty :laugh:
i just want to admire the beauty of our Super Blood Wolf Moon
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Makes me wonder how would this kind of moon be used in mythology like for werewolves.
Sorry if this has already been posted.
Attention: I was only able to read it once. Second time I went back to the link I couldn't read it anymore unless I payed.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-if-true-this-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-discoveries-in-human-history-1.6828318?fbclid=IwAR1HdIIqCGSGN3Il6oqyiPKQL8iEhrZ3eFmUukQgkUgb__jFqZE2VYMSVwA
https://twitter.com/engadget/status/1095057385855414272
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Quote"my battery is low and it's getting dark" is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I can't articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. It's acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.
Found me that quote and damm. I its projecting and all but when you include the situation at hand, you just can't help it. You are lost but never forgotten Opportunity.
This made me cry when i read the announcement. Don't know why I got so emotional about it. Opportunity will not be forgotten, it's a great piece of our space exploration history. A sad day indeed.
Despite the truth, she has done a good job, indeed.
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R.I.P :'(
Can Mark Watney still use her?
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 17, 2019, 09:43:30 PM
Can Mark Watney still use her?
Only if we leave him there, again. Who's ready for a sequel?
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1095052738101161985
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"We are excited that Ripley, an anthropomorphic test device, will be making the trip to and from the International Space Station on Demo-1. She is outfitted with many sensors to provide teams detailed information to further understand the effects on future crew members who will be traveling in #SpaceX's Crew Dragon."
This is so cool, can't wait. Loving the dummy's name :)
The name use is brilliant!
After referencing Alien, now NASA is getting down with Predator (https://www.facebook.com/NASA/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARAfZOOY8L2lf2Qgee7_ZxlgE4qSlqX_KbSh2-Q9hnBNAKNjNlhH2Iv96etbjul4NVlCJmaZopEhxzsd&hc_ref=ARRNfXB9clA02ouqHxCTfYHeewXk90b95yOuOAhBj2DQypOaGOnpZeSBtYjmbVnBLrc&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCeyCYS-nrvDC_nJpLmGR-vT5sP5CyZ-RS68uB2MO2_VJV7b7DfNX-JWmTQxX5R5s99uRT2_J66BdZINsUPVUtR7qiCd9wCPtt2gsSIktoTYmaJUWkrsDEAxPDhZ9fKhEfbWUhmDmqD5W3VOnWum_S87zMjfNmnC4EKqdGOBSJykpWvO1fpMcYYsuRCIOXSi_o7a6-KYCJpHXMeB8QIF6_1uRLFHI01NPeGlbRfaIs4c5m4AGOAQFI67dKcDLcf7f6jnjCCovIEuf_U_9zcqSVg_g-ukBnWtXrX3YTgJsK1vQ4kcZn8wkV5bXl1cOK8tH9Ya8n8B4KvTLLVSA).
Say hello to a black hole.
Taken from the live stream of the press conference.
And a news report:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-10/black-hole-event-horizon-telescope-announcement-astrophysics/10989534
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Excellent.
https://youtu.be/qp2jt2xq7J8
I want to show this to all the science deniers. Until now, black holes were still theoretical and had never been directly observed.
But science makes predictions and has a sterling record of doing so.
Fascinating stuff.
Beautiful! The first ever picture of a black whole. Just stunning.
Just a blurry image for now, but this blurry image is literal proof of decades of scientific research and hard work. Now that's what science is all about. Finding the hard to find through the laws of the universe. A huge thanks to all the scientists involved.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 10, 2019, 03:35:26 PM
I want to show this to all the science deniers. Until now, black holes were still theoretical and had never been directly observed.
But science makes predictions and has a sterling record of doing so.
Its impossible, they'll just say fake CGI and move on. Funny though we have been taking images long before CGI but they'll never get it. Oh and the eye reminds me of that of the Egyptian Duck
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At the same time, the whole thing is right here:
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Quote from: Mr.Turok on Apr 13, 2019, 12:57:52 AM
At the same time, the whole thing is right here:
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/7178e3c66e74e4ebb69bfffed1295f5a/tumblr_pptira1lYM1tji4d6_1280.jpg)
Holy f**k that's doing the rounds and it's pissing me off. In the sense that's a photo of the same black hole, yes; not in the sense of the description given, that it's the "full image" and that the EHT is just a cropped selection. Different telescope, taken two years ago, in an entirely different spectrum of light. The data from the telescope was used
in conjunction with the EHT shot to get a more complete profile of the black hole's properties, but this is not the "full" EHT photo.
(The picture is eerily similar to that duck's eye, funny enough.)
Still very beautiful, yet chilling nonetheless.
NASA Is Sending a Life-Hunting Drone to Saturn's Huge Moon Titan (https://www.space.com/nasa-dragonfly-mission-saturn-moon-titan.html)
Sweet, I hoped they would do it in my lifetime.
Awesome, yep.
Quote"NASA still doesn't have a suit because the decision was taken suddenly," Pablo de Leon, engineer and director of a NASA financed spacesuit project at the University of North Dakota, told AFP. "On the one hand, there's this order to get to the Moon by 2024, and on the other, we haven't developed new spacesuits since 1977."
https://twitter.com/futurism/status/1154026605813125120
https://youtu.be/Az_qrXQzYOA
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1164406859970670592
First space crime in human history?
"Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
https://twitter.com/LawScribes/status/1166064800809586688
Wow, that's not something you see every day. I'm quite curious how space laws will develop regarding everyday human interaction.
Quote from: The VergeToday, NASA unveiled its designs for future spacesuits that astronauts will wear during trips to the lunar surface. The suits are still in development, but NASA claims they'll be ready to keep astronauts alive in space by 2024 — the space agency's deadline to return humans to the Moon.
People on Twitter are complaining it doesn't look "futuristic" enough! :laugh:
Yeah, it's not like these things need to be functional, the physics of cold cruel space really care for fashion and sleek Prometheus styled suits... :P
Seriously? :laugh:
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Yep, directly in the comments from that post. The human race disappoints me yet again... :'( Though at the same time it's so sad it's actually hilarious.
If they just alone fixed the bloody problem of not enough space suits of different sizes so that there won't be anymore idiotic problems when smaller men and women need to go on space walks, I'll be happy with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)
quote
The Ripley impact crater on Pluto's moon Charon was given its name in honor of Ellen Ripley
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_(crater)
Anyone watched these?
First one's with a physicist who worked in Area 51.
Second with retired US Navy pilot who encountered a UFO. This one is hard to deny imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWz4SXfyCQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ
Popular science sites tend to exaggerate news and claims from academics, but this sounds interesting anyway. Apparently, some geneticists are proponing human-tardigrade hybrids in order to achieve a more strong physiology in humans, so they can resist the hard conditions of space and planets.
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Quote from: Space.comWill we one day combine tardigrade DNA with our cells to go to Mars?
Chris Mason, a geneticist and associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell University in New York, has investigated the genetic effects of spaceflight and how humans might overcome these challenges to expand our species farther into the solar system. One of the (strangest) ways that we might protect future astronauts on missions to places like Mars, Mason said, might involve the DNA of tardigrades, tiny micro-animals that can survive the most extreme conditions, even the vacuum of space!
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1192417430565351429
Sounds ripe for a scifi horror film
Anyone found the Klingons around Uranus yet?
New 'Self-Centering' Laser Sail Could Enable Interstellar Travel (https://www.space.com/laser-sail-centering-breakthrough-starshot.html)
QuotePrevious research has suggested that "light sailing" might be one of the only technically feasible ways to get a probe to another star within a human lifetime. Although light does not exert much pressure, scientists have long suggested that what little it does apply could have a major effect. Indeed, numerous experiments have shown that "solar sails" can rely on sunlight for propulsion, given a large enough mirror and a lightweight-enough spacecraft.
The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which was announced in 2016, plans to launch swarms of microchip-size spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, each of them sporting extraordinarily thin, incredibly reflective sails propelled by the most powerful lasers ever built. The plan has them flying at up to 20% the speed of light, reaching Alpha Centauri in about 20 years.
One concern with using laser sails is that if they drift out of alignment with the propelling laser beams — which will be based here on Earth, at least initially, in Breakthrough Starshot's plan — they may veer wildly off course from their targets. Now scientists have designed and tested a new sail that could in principle automatically keep itself centered on a laser beam for the required few minutes, allowing a spacecraft to stay on course for interplanetary or even interstellar journeys.
Pretty amazing really.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe hears whispers of solar wind (https://www.space.com/nasa-solar-probe-hears-solar-wind-whisper.html)
Voyager 2 tried to run the kettle and hairdryer at the same time. (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/voyager-2-engineers-working-to-restore-normal-operations)
What happened to Voyager 6?
SILENCE, CARBON UNIT.
First US Space Force satellite has launched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zb3Qg6BadY
NASA is contemplating the idea of turning a Moon crater into a giant telescope.
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That's so cool!
Quote from: Gr33n M4n on Apr 08, 2020, 11:32:23 PM
NASA is contemplating the idea of turning a Moon crater into a giant telescope.
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"That's no moon."
https://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/1248293685038587904?s
It'd be so great if there was a little guy in the middle of it yelling, "the burgers are about done!"
New research suggests time in space causes Astronauts' brains to expand.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-travel-astronauts-brains-expand/amp
Quote from: Gr33n M4n on Apr 19, 2020, 10:15:31 PM
New research suggests time in space causes Astronauts' brains to expand.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-travel-astronauts-brains-expand/amp
One of these lives has a future
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and one of them does not...
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Astronomers found a star that's "dancing" around a black hole.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/einstein-star-dancing-around-black-164002411.html
Space Force Accepting Applications Starting May 1
https://www.airforcemag.com/space-force-accepting-applications-starting-may-1/
Currently busy suiting-up for today's historic launch:
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First time in over a decade that the US would be able to put a man in space again. All thanks to a private entrepreneur from South Africa.
I've seen this before. This is the part where Ripley and Newt exits their pods.
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Dammit, it's been scrubbed.
Bloody weather! >:(
We'll try again at the weekend!
Mmm... Saturday's weather is not really looking good either at the moment. :-\
Remind me again, why did NASA build all it's space launch facilities in Hurricane Central?
I'm just happy NASA is at this again.
Well, SpaceX is really the star of this particular show.
It is what makes this launch so historic, it's a new dawn in private sector driven manned-space-exploration.
Elon Musk is basically a real-life Peter Weyland. He even has big plans for the colonization and terraforming of Mars, just like Weyland.
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Well, SpaceX is really the star of this particular show.
Agreed. But they're in partnership with NASA. So SpaceX stars, NASA produces. ;)
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Elon Musk is basically a real-life Peter Weyland. He even has big plans for the colonization and terraforming of Mars, just like Weyland.
Building better worlds to plant marihuana baby :laugh:
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Earth is doomed anyway and I bet Elon has millions of marijuana seeds here, for the future of mankind on Mars.
(https://i.imgur.com/gyQ9xgE.jpg)
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on May 29, 2020, 03:27:45 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Elon Musk is basically a real-life Peter Weyland. He even has big plans for the colonization and terraforming of Mars, just like Weyland.
Building better worlds to plant marihuana baby :laugh:
And now you know why the Covenant had all that weed onboard. ;)
You mean we can't grow Moon Weed?
Yep, getting antsy and excited watching this...
All nominal, all nominal, they are in LEO.
Now on a 19 hour trip to ISS.
Fantastic. Absolutely exhilarating watching this.
Watched it live with my cousin this afternoon while assembling a new grill outside.
It was nice to have a positive event on the tv for once.
Next up, the Mars Rover scheduled to be launching around late July. 8)
The astronauts have just arrived safely at the ISS. Mission accomplished:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904)
What is really amazing about SpaceX rockets is their recovery methods.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZSoGI6U0AEqeS8?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Unfortunately the camera signal was lost just as the rocket landed on the drone ship but another aerial drone camera managed to capture the landing.
Video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be)
Incredible how it can return all the way from space to land upright on a tiny moving platform on a pitching and rolling ship.
I wonder if the drone ship's name is an Ian M. Banks reference?
It's cool to see the US get back in the game, and to see commercial success like that. Shame I'll never be able to afford a trip, but it's a step into a very interesting direction! Really enjoyed watching the launch and dock too.
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 31, 2020, 03:58:58 PM
The astronauts have just arrived safely at the ISS. Mission accomplished:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904)
What is really amazing about SpaceX rockets is their recovery methods.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZSoGI6U0AEqeS8?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Unfortunately the camera signal was lost just as the rocket landed on the drone ship but another aerial drone camera managed to capture the landing.
Video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be)
Incredible how it can return all the way from space to land upright on a tiny moving platform on a pitching and rolling ship.
I wonder if the drone ship's name is an Ian M. Banks reference?
haha My dad and I were anxiously waiting for it to land and when the signal was lost and restored, to see it had already landed, we pretty much made that face. ;D
Quote from: Master Chief on Jun 01, 2020, 02:47:55 PM
haha My dad and I were anxiously waiting for it to land and when the signal was lost and restored, to see it had already landed, we pretty much made that face. ;D
Apparently is was the rocket exhaust that caused the signal disruption, but I wouldn't be surprised if Elon intentionally organized it in order to troll the conspiracy theory crowd. :laugh:
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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jun 01, 2020, 09:32:48 PM
Quote from: Master Chief on Jun 01, 2020, 02:47:55 PM
haha My dad and I were anxiously waiting for it to land and when the signal was lost and restored, to see it had already landed, we pretty much made that face. ;D
Apparently is was the rocket exhaust that caused the signal disruption, but I wouldn't be surprised if Elon intentionally organized it in order to troll the conspiracy theory crowd. :laugh:
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180907100732-elon-musk-smokes-marijuana-podcast-1-super-169.jpg)
He couldn't convince Eddie Bravo if he took him up in a rocket himself lol.
https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/1272580080733208579
Our planet plus Venus from Mars.
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https://twitter.com/inversedotcom/status/1273553793003773953
Quote from: Science AlertA 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification.
Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism to slurp out some of that rotational energy - if we could ever develop the means.
https://twitter.com/AnoushehAnsari/status/1276147328353742849
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 25, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
Quote from: Science AlertA 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification.
Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism to slurp out some of that rotational energy - if we could ever develop the means.
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jun 26, 2020, 05:09:59 PM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 25, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
Quote from: Science AlertA 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification.
Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism to slurp out some of that rotational energy - if we could ever develop the means.
https://i.imgur.com/cJlBUVL.gif?noredirect
Indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY
Quote from: BBCAstronomers have been baffled by the disappearance of a massive star they had been observing.
They now wonder whether the distant object collapsed to form a black hole without exploding in a supernova.
If correct, it would be the first example of such a huge stellar object coming to the end of its life in this manner.
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1277965073009369097
where did Triton come from? I like the idea that it was part of the Uranus system first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwuUujh4-OM
If only :D
https://youtu.be/hf5H7rO5D1c (https://youtu.be/hf5H7rO5D1c)
He is not serious, but ;D
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1289051795763769345
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Elon likes nothing better than a good bit of trolling.
And his tweets have landed him in hot water all so very often.
I don't think he gives a shit at this point.
Well, he's the kind of troll who knows his stuff for sure :laugh:
https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1039785763431481344
SpaceX's Starship SN5 prototype soars on 1st test flight! 'Mars is looking real,' Elon Musk says (https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn5-prototype-1st-test-flight.html)
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 05, 2020, 08:16:59 AM
SpaceX's Starship SN5 prototype soars on 1st test flight! 'Mars is looking real,' Elon Musk says (https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn5-prototype-1st-test-flight.html)
Very exciting!
Watching these guys also:
https://firefly.com/ (https://firefly.com/)
As in watching "boots on the ground" on Mars in our lifetime, just amazing!
Did you know that
Andromeda and the
Milky Way are going to kiss passionately to give life to a son named
Milkdromeda?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiv6tKtoKgI doubt we'll be in the neighborhood by the time that happens :laugh:
https://www.space.com/mysterious-gamma-ray-heartbeat-gas-cloud.html
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHB5KfFeiY/?igshid=1o27it0nrm9h8
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" ~ Bones.
Read about this recently, "life" in the clouds of Venus would be sulfur based. Interesting what this would look like to us.
:laugh:
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1319293721976791042
https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1320757460269895680
Next crewed SpaceX launch is November 14, 2020 at 7:49 P.M. EST:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-crew-1-mission-update-target-new-launch-date (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-crew-1-mission-update-target-new-launch-date)
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SpaceX launched U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite
https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-u-s-space-force-gps-3-satellite/ (https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-u-s-space-force-gps-3-satellite/)
The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-asteroid-bennu-is-hollow-spinning-to-death-2020-11?amp
New space race :laugh:
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1324426692920836097
So chest girth is more important than acting talent in Russia? Why am I not surprised :laugh:
The Kremlin claimed Venus as a Russian planet awhile back. They ought to go shoot the movie there to really stake their claim.
Quote from: AliceApocalypse on Nov 09, 2020, 06:16:27 PM
So chest girth is more important than acting talent in Russia? Why am I not surprised :laugh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law
The Dragon Crew is here in Florida, yay 8)
https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-1-astronauts-launch-site-arrival (https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-1-astronauts-launch-site-arrival)
(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DWzsR7gJQwaPT7m8Uduq6F-970-80.jpg)
The beginning of regular crew rotations to the ISS, with private companies.
Europa Glows: Radiation Does a Bright Number on Jupiter's Moon
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/europa-glows-radiation-does-a-bright-number-on-jupiters-moon
U.S. Military shoots down ICBM in space from warship for first time in successful test.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeland-defense-test-intercepts-destroys-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-u-s-missile-defense-agency
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch-Black After All
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936219170/scientists-discover-outer-space-isnt-pitch-black-after-all
NASA has selected five 3D model submissions to the Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) challenge. The ideas offer potential ways to unload supplies on the Moon, something NASA is considering as it works toward sustainable exploration under the Artemis program. As part of its 21st century lunar exploration program, NASA has proposed building an Artemis Base Camp at the lunar South Pole. Such a camp would likely need systems to unload and transport cargo from landing zones located a safe distance away. The ALLGO challenge gave the public an opportunity to submit their ideas.
The first prize selection uses a tripod structure on wheels.
(https://scitechdaily.com/images/Moon-Supply-Unloading-System-First-Prize-777x777.jpg)
https://scitechdaily.com/moon-supply-unloading-system-design-winners-announced-by-nasa/
Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs
''It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept – first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s – was mainly an inspiration for writers.
A century later, however, scientists are making huge strides in turning the concept into reality. The European Space Agency has realised the potential of these efforts and is now looking to fund such projects, predicting that the first industrial resource we will get from space is "beamed power".
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https://www.livescience.com/solar-power-stations-in-space.html
The best space board games of 2020
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https://www.space.com/best-space-board-games
Mmmm interesting. Can I grow potatoes with my poop ala Matt Damon?
Turning Lunar Dust Into Oxygen – And Using the Leftovers to 3D Print a Moon Base
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''British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base. It could be an early step to establishing an extra-terrestrial oxygen extraction plant. This would help to enable exploration and sustain life on the Moon while avoiding the enormous cost of sending materials from Earth.''
''The project is part of ESA's preparations to establish a permanent and sustainable lunar presence. Astronauts will live and work on the Moon, where they will help to develop and test technologies needed for missions farther into deep space. British company Metalysis has already developed a mineral extraction process that is used by industries on Earth to produce metals for manufacturing.''
An Object that will buzz past Earth might be an old NASA rocket From 1960s.
https://www.complex.com/life/2020/12/old-nasa-rocket-from-1960s-to-buzz-past-earth-2020-so
Chang'e-5 spacecraft smashes into moon after completing mission.
https://spacenews.com/change-5-spacecraft-smashes-into-moon-after-completing-mission/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-starship-explodes-spectacularly-after-successful-high-altitude-test-flight/ar-BB1bjTZ6?ocid=uxbndlbing (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-starship-explodes-spectacularly-after-successful-high-altitude-test-flight/ar-BB1bjTZ6?ocid=uxbndlbing)
Sad face, RIP SN8 :-\
(https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106808969-1607554610416-sn8_impact_explosion.png?v=1607554643)
https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1347204268722421761 (https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1347204268722421761)
Considering a manned mission to Mars will cost about $500 billion, Mr. Weyland Musk could theoretically self-fund one in less than four years if his fortune keeps rising like this.
I'm sure he fully intends to.
Looking forward to this, awe :)
Meet Au-Spot, the AI robot dog that's training to explore caves on Mars:
(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s5PoA7GNDDcR2mwtCXBAMK-970-80.jpg)
https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu (https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu)
It actually makes me sad to see them kicking the robotic dogs in their videos :-[
Win a seat to space!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-dragon-civilian-mission-gives-public-opportunity-to-win-seats-to-space/ar-BB1djSAC?ocid=uxbndlbing (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-dragon-civilian-mission-gives-public-opportunity-to-win-seats-to-space/ar-BB1djSAC?ocid=uxbndlbing)
I'm in, oh yeah 8)
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were Brought to Earth Hundreds of Thousands of Years Ago (https://www.touch-univers.com/2021/02/expert-says-humans-are-aliensand-we.html)
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The terrible broken English on that site is not helping its wild claims.
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Feb 17, 2021, 09:12:34 PM
The terrible broken English on that site is not helping its wild claims.
What for is to you up?
Hi! You've probably heard that Perseverance roved successfully landed on Mars several days ago. Now we can enjoy a panoramic view (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8873/nasas-perseverance-rover-gives-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-landing-site/) of the rover landing site. I just want you all to share this joy with me. Is there someone who'd waited for this with equal eagerness?
The video of the landing was spectacular!
Quote from: SpaceJac37 on Feb 25, 2021, 11:01:01 AM
Hi! You've probably heard that Perseverance roved successfully landed on Mars several days ago. Now we can enjoy a panoramic view (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8873/nasas-perseverance-rover-gives-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-landing-site/) of the rover landing site. I just want you all to share this joy with me. Is there someone who'd waited for this with equal eagerness?
Absolutely! I also get the pleasure of watching the launches when it's done from the Space Coast 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoII9TQd8kComparison is at 10 minutes, but maker of video says you can get better shots with smaller telescope if you track/take longer exposure/stitch pictures together.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/03/string-theory-michio-kaku-aliens-god-equation-large-hadron-collider
QuoteYou believe that within a century we will make contact with an alien civilisation. Are you worried about what they may entail?
Soon we'll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we'll have thousands of planets to look at, and that's why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilisation. There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that's a terrible idea. We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago. Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can't gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.
There's also a theory that we'll discover dead alien civilasations.
For someone like me with an interest in archeology and aliens/ufos, a find like that would be da beezneez.
I hope I live long enough to see that day.
If there are dead civilizations all over the place and with the fact we could become one, suddenly the universe seems quite gothic. I can get with that theme. :P
One of the ideas behind the theory is that there are or were civilizations like ours, because there are so many Earth like planets in this universe (and others). And either they destroy themselves at some point in their history, or they evolve and progress enough so they're able to explore other planets.
https://news.osu.edu/black-hole-is-closest-to-earth-among-the-smallest-ever-discovered/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antimatter-stars-antistars-milky-way-galaxy-space-astronomy/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Michael Collins passes away aged 90.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-dies-90
90 years and astronaut, what a life :o
R.I.P
This should be addressed in a movie again 8)
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https://youtu.be/QqsLTNkzvaY
Quote from: SM on Apr 28, 2021, 08:40:00 PM
Michael Collins passes away aged 90.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-dies-90
What an amazing life.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the-radio-we-could-send-to-hell
I hope and wonder if I'll ever get to see pictures or footage of one of those Earth like planets.
https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1445013102873899013
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Captain Kirk went to space!
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https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1448335526378020866
SpaceX's monstrous Gigerian Raptor engines looks like something from an Alien film set:
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Sure does
And if it's Giger style, even better 💜👉👈💜
I thought this thread would be abuzz with excitement over the launch of the James Webb telescope today. :-\
SM would be excited :'(
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1475178141714894853
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 26, 2021, 07:30:31 PM
SM would be excited :'(
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I'm super-excited about it! It's been a long time coming. I still remember hearing about this for the first time and being blown away. I would have watched the launch but was kinda busy. I really can't wait to see the first data coming down. Just hope it doesn't have the same issues Hubble had - it'll be harder to go service Webb. :P
James Webb Space Telescope uncovers massive sunshield in next step of risky deployment (https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-uncovers-sunshield)
QuoteThe James Webb Space Telescope has unwrapped its sunshield, crossing another important item off of its lengthy and risky deployment to-do list.
After successfully extending its deployable tower assembly (DTA), a structure that connects Webb's two halves, on Thursday (Dec. 29), the telescope had the room to begin the preliminary steps to unfurl its gigantic sunshield. Today (Dec. 30), mission teams completed two major next steps: deploying the James Webb Space Telescope's aft momentum flap and releasing the sunshield's protective membrane cover.
Webb still must unfurl the sunshield, which it will do in the next day or so by extending two booms. The mission team will then spend a few days getting the five-layer structure to the proper tension, wrapping up such work no earlier than Sunday (Jan. 2).
1st orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket pushed to March at the earliest (https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-orbital-test-flight-faa-delay-march)
QuoteWe'll have to wait a bit longer for the orbital debut of SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket.
SpaceX had been aiming to launch Starship on its first orbital test flight in January or February, provided that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wrapped up a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) of the company's South Texas launch site by Dec. 31 as planned.
But that timeline no longer applies. The FAA announced on Tuesday (Dec. 28) that it has pushed the release of the final PEA back to Feb. 28, citing "the high volume of comments submitted on the draft PEA" and "discussions and consultation efforts with consulting parties."
Did Hicks see this?
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-fuel-lifetime
Glad to hear it! Just hope the mirror isn't f**ked. :P
On This Day in Space! Jan. 5, 2005: Discovery of Eris ignites Pluto-planet debate (https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html)
QuoteOn Jan. 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system.
White House directs NASA to extend International Space Station operations through 2030]=https://www.space.com/white-house-international-space-station-2030-extension]White House directs NASA to extend International Space Station operations through 2030 (http://=https://www.space.com/white-house-international-space-station-2030-extension)
QuoteThe White House has given NASA a New Year's Eve "go" to continue operations on board the International Space Station through 2030, granting the orbital outpost a six-year life extension.
Excellent news.
Pentagon launches new UFO office. Not all believers are happy about it. (https://www.space.com/us-government-investigate-ufos)
QuoteA new office in the Pentagon will investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — but longtime UFO enthusiasts are skeptical.
According to NBC, putting the new "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" program in the purview of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security has some UFOlogists upset, as they don't exactly trust the military to reveal whatever truth is out there.
"This is a subject with a provable history of secrecy, and anything that lacks a new openness about the information is subject to more, possibly inappropriate control," Ron James, a spokesperson for the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network, which investigates such sightings, told NBC News.
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1486801700962942979
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1509198797427073030
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/AndrasGaspar/status/1520145182670430208
It's an incredible difference isn't it?
https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1531621522753966080
@Corporal Hicks https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23160209/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-meteor-strike-impact
I can imagine some heads-in-hands that morning. Fortunately it'll still be operational.
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970
Incredible!
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1554441811355226114
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1554469773433606144
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 04, 2022, 05:19:39 AM@Corporal Hicks
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1554469773433606144
Absolutely stunning.
https://twitter.com/SpaceFoundation/status/1562816663409803264
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1563332273210261505
CG video illustrating how the Artemis Space Launch System works:
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1563925156661264385
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1564224808933539840
Inclement weather also incoming...
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"Do we scrub?"
Update:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1564232429279272962
Much sadness was felt here. Was watching the stream when it was announced.
It's no big deal Corporal, happens all the time, we just have to wait 'till Friday or Monday for the next attempt.
Better safe than having another Apollo 1 disaster. One small step at a time...
I know, I know. I'll be watching the new launch if I can, of course. I was just ready for it.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 31, 2022, 08:00:19 AMI know, I know. I'll be watching the new launch if I can, of course. I was just ready for it.
Re-scheduled to a possible Saturday evening (7pm) launch, so work shouldn't get in the way:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1564744300927356930
Love the late 60's vibe here:
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Not like it's rocket science. ;D
NASA will be over the moon if this is successful.
Today's launch is a go and fueling of the rocket has begun.
60% Favourable weather conditions are forecast during the start of the launch window (19:17 BST) and 80% favourable conditions during the end of the launch window (21:17 BST).
Another scrub, hydrogen fueling issue:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1566077508142993408
I wasn't watching this attempt - was on the way to see Wrath of Khan on the big screen for the first time in my life!! - but disappointed it was scrubbed again. NASA isn't having a good show with Artemis.
It's a bit of a Frankenstein monster really. The rocket engines are a hodgepodge of recycled shuttle engines and solid rocket boosters with varying mileages, at least one engine having being re-cycled at least 6 times already.
Throw in a few other used shuttle parts and some old support gantries and shit, it's as if a post-apocalyptic Mad Max warlord decided to cobble together a rocket.
I suppose it's more cost effective to recycle older tried-and-tested technology but it seems that also comes with its own set of problems.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1574428436688523265
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1574539270987173903
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1582773836915048448
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1585996531705978881
I just love the vibes so much 👀🥐
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It really does give those vibes, doesn't it! Am absolutely loving these new Webb images.
https://twitter.com/EMSpeck/status/1591476859014991874
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1591049869438984193
Third time lucky?
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1592302969390759936
@Corporal Hicks ,They give a confusing amount of times but the 2 hour launch window opens at 6am tomorrow morning.
Knowing my luck it'll launch while I'm driving to work. lol Thanks for the shares!
Looks like we finally have a go after some minor issues. T minus 10 minutes to launnch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg
Was just coming on to share the link myself. It's actually happening! ;D
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 16, 2022, 06:44:30 AMWas just coming on to share the link myself. It's actually happening! ;D
Yup, yup, yup, that was an awesome launch. Most powerful rocket since Apollo's Saturn V's.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1592772202289430528
I actually managed to watch it! Incredible. I can't wait to see how this one progresses.
Left Earth orbit and on the way to the moon which will take about 3 days.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASAArtemis/status/1592826283838214144
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1592902833766076416
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxenTNLjWE
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1598173684811939840
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCmVu934Vo
By far the second best cake in the universe😍🌌
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Here is the first best one 👉👈
@Corporal Hicks https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1617555788007985157
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1626310964214628352
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1630682591702441985
Was able to see Jupiter and Venus share a cosmic kiss (https://www.livescience.com/jupiter-and-venus-kiss-in-a-stunning-planetary-conjunction-tonight-heres-how-to-watch) last night. Pretty cool!
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1633068172260655104
https://twitter.com/NASA_Marshall/status/1637516037443780613
Only another year and a half after the announcement to see them launch then!
Lovely trailer, horrible music choice. Absolutely disgusting and generic :laugh:
All the money was spent on R&D. Saving some cash on royalty free music.
This 👆😅
So not surprising, a pretty experienced crew (bar the one rookie, Jeremy Hansen). Note that this crew will not actually land on the moon but only fly past it because NASA is wisely following in the footsteps of Apollo with the "one small step at a time" philosophy.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642910860845756419
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642911119491694592
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642911463781068806
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642911787669389314
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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 03, 2023, 03:32:54 PMSo not surprising, a pretty experienced crew (bar the one rookie, Jeremy Hansen). Note that this crew will not actually land on the moon but only fly past it because NASA is wisely following in the footsteps of Apollo with the "one small step at a time" philosophy.
I hope they break protocol and land on it anyway. Just to make some lunar soil angels.
Quote from: Master Chief on Apr 04, 2023, 01:29:21 PMI hope they break protocol and land on it anyway. Just to make some lunar soil angels.
That's probably going to be a bit tricky without the Lunar Lander on board! :laugh:
:laugh: I believe in them!
Live feed for the SpaceX Starship launch, the biggest rocket ever built.
Currently T-minus 15 minutes to launch:
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN57x2a_waw?feature=share
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yNGaNXwdkjJj
Update:
Scrubbed 8 minutes before launch. :(
We just got a successful launch, biggest rocket ever:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649043715686793218?cxt=HHwWhIDQybehyuItAAAA
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVQrgzwGb
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and boom
Quote from: kwisatz on Apr 20, 2023, 01:56:57 PMand boom
Oh noes!!
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649045802332073986?cxt=HHwWhMDRpfKay-ItAAAA
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Sonavabitch is huge!
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It looked truly impressive! The power behind that thing.
Must have been awesome to witness that in person. I know people have remarked on the earth tremmoring power of a shuttle launch before, but this must have been several magnitudes higher.
I don't like Musk but at least he's trying. I'll give him credit for that.
The take-off leaving the launch pad looked seriously bad ass!
But then you learn why: Stage zero of the launch (before it even left the ground) is where it started to go wrong. They had decided not to build a humungous and elaborate launch pad to receive the tremendous blast of the rocket engines, so that huge and highly impressive exhaust plume you saw was the cheaper pad that they did build being pulverised into rubble and dust. Some of the disintegrating concrete chunks got blasted back up into the rocket engines, damaging a few of them before the ship even took off.
If you're interested, look up Scott Manly's YouTube channel for more details.
TC
How does NASA prevent the same from happening? Won't a bigger and more elaborate launch pad also have bits of concrete flying around?
I think NASA uses tons of water under the pad to help break up the energy/sound waves so the pad isn't destroyed.
I'm sure Space X would already be doing that though. May need a larger more elaborate pad with an even greater water system.
Quote from: 426Buddy on Apr 22, 2023, 07:04:03 PMI think NASA uses tons of water under the pad to help break up the energy/sound waves so the pad isn't destroyed.
I'm sure Space X would already be doing that though. May need a larger more elaborate pad with an even greater water system.
If anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJuqyZVQzTcRemember when the space shuttle took off there was always that huge white exhaust cloud blossoming out from the pad? That was mostly caused by water from the deluge system being vapourised by the shuttle's rocket engines.
SpaceX decided on a dry launch based on their test of specially toughened concrete. Elon Musk also hinted that they were in a hurry to move their program along, but we know better than to take his words at face value, right?
TC
EDIT: For all the rocketry nerds I want to make the correction that the space shuttle's water deluge system was only partially responsible for the large, white launch cloud. Huge amounts of water vapour were also the result of combusting the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuels in the shuttle's main engines. They even worried that the temporary micro-climate was to the detriment of all the surrounding estuaries at the Cape.
So is it like in Martian ?
@426Buddy @TC , thanks for the info.
Looks like Artemis is also using the same water deluge system as the shuttle. Can see it clearly in the video below.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1592772202289430528
Wow Space X went with a dry launch?
Losing some respect on that one.
Quote from: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AMSo is it like in Martian ?
Do you mean the movie
The Martian? Is there a specific scene in there you're referring to?
Quote from: 426Buddy on Apr 23, 2023, 01:21:12 PMWow Space X went with a dry launch?
Losing some respect on that one.
Yeah, I know. It's like Musk feels like there's some loss of face if he ever resorts to taking advantage of conventional wisdom.
TC
Quote from: TC on Apr 23, 2023, 04:22:10 PMQuote from: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AMSo is it like in Martian ?
Do you mean the movie The Martian? Is there a specific scene in there you're referring to?
Yes, I refer to scene where the rocket explodes shortly after the launch cause they neglected to properly test it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqGksZ2iCgThe SpaceX Starship didn't actually blow up by itself. It was deliberately self-destructed after going off course to prevent it crashing in a populated area.
I see
Quote from: TC on Apr 23, 2023, 04:22:10 PMQuote from: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AMSo is it like in Martian ?
Do you mean the movie The Martian? Is there a specific scene in there you're referring to?
Quote from: 426Buddy on Apr 23, 2023, 01:21:12 PMWow Space X went with a dry launch?
Losing some respect on that one.
Yeah, I know. It's like Musk feels like there's some loss of face if he ever resorts to taking advantage of conventional wisdom.
TC
He's rich enough to afford to be really dumb but still occasionally land a win.
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 23, 2023, 04:36:08 PMThe SpaceX Starship didn't actually blow up by itself. It was deliberately self-destructed after going off course to prevent it crashing in a populated area.
@SiL https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1650945913949417485
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 27, 2023, 05:09:56 PMQuote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 23, 2023, 04:36:08 PMThe SpaceX Starship didn't actually blow up by itself. It was deliberately self-destructed after going off course to prevent it crashing in a populated area.
@SiL
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1650945913949417485
Well, I suppose little bits of rocket raining down all over the place is better than a whole 5000 ton rocket full of highly explosive liquid oxygen and methane landing on top of your head...
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1658498957272662017
via The Guardian: Hibernation Artificially Triggered In Potential Space Travel Breakthrough (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/25/hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough)
https://twitter.com/Parsec44/status/1689485431241601024
https://twitter.com/mars_atlas/status/1689362387604844545
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1689383094208303106
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1687190366707998720
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1689788731455397888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uA8Kak1rQhttps://twitter.com/CNN/status/1689973714211717120
Asteroids can be found in the most bizarre places.
https://twitter.com/futurism/status/1690376107638296576
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFslUSyfZPc
https://twitter.com/BBC_Future/status/1691800726648082828
The Russian Luna 25 project is having trouble on landing. Somehow, I am not sad for them.
Quote from: Wweyland on Aug 19, 2023, 09:30:35 PMThe Russian Luna 25 project is having trouble on landing. Somehow, I am not sad for them.
I can only imagine what kind of corners they cut for this mission.
Probably lots of washing machine chips and 70's tech inside that thing.
Special moon operation is over.
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Aug 20, 2023, 10:09:05 AMSpecial moon operation is over.
Too bad. Heard there were Nazi's on the moon...
I was surprised they had the funding for this project, but it seemed to have kicked off 10 years ago already. I don't think Luna 26 will go ahead now, with the hard crash of the previous one and the economy...
https://twitter.com/SpaceScience_/status/1697252638113587646
https://twitter.com/planetarysci/status/1696901099968434668
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1698034261352145378
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1699754482005860766
https://twitter.com/SpaceNews_Inc/status/1709150102604980567
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1708844041540977114
https://twitter.com/wwd/status/1709472631362113944
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 04, 2023, 11:29:00 PMhttps://twitter.com/wwd/status/1709472631362113944
Don't forget to consult Gucci and Janty Yates as well.
https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1711510427283153348
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1709588951013470370
https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1711787353298080015
https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1711948368795038132
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1712888321297334420
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1712140634952282306
https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1714350827412799635
https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1713895833282953297
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1720118883917738159
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1719825390737265118
Space Marines are now a thing:
https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1724504025771462714
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCH0NH1tt5khttps://twitter.com/guardianvideo/status/1725904992719216867
Musk not having a good day today.
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 18, 2023, 06:54:42 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCH0NH1tt5k
https://twitter.com/guardianvideo/status/1725904992719216867
As much as I like seeing Musk's work go up in flames there were some significant advancements made in this test.
Yeah, these sort of things are a given with prototype rockets, but I'm sure he'd much prefer the darn thing didn't go boom.
@Immortan Jonesy do you know what the cause was? Launchpad debris again?
Self destruct after contact was lost for as yet unknown reasons.
Yup.
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 19, 2023, 08:56:34 AMYeah, these sort of things are a given with prototype rockets, but I'm sure he'd much prefer the darn thing didn't go boom.
@Immortan Jonesy do you know what the cause was? Launchpad debris again?
Not as far as I know, and that's how it works actually;
1. They build a system.
2. Test it, and see if it works.
If it doesn't work then they fix the problem and re-test.
Ok thanks. So looks like they may have licked the chronic issues with the dry launch.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1726314284488225050
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726328010499051579
https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1726432728634052829
https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1727969698883711050
https://twitter.com/Thales_Alenia_S/status/1727681024606224812
https://twitter.com/SpaceNews_Inc/status/1730580087085416602
https://twitter.com/AvID_Feed/status/1722417208222175330
https://twitter.com/SciStarter/status/1738193310080999472
https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/1737681266114236697
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1737234323903037620
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1679072314653016064
https://www.youtube.com/live/yWUU1PqX6Og
https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1740577166553977095
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1742155897009225810
https://twitter.com/nativenews_net/status/1742191760154013946
https://twitter.com/AAS_Press/status/1743006298097029268
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1744795716013175212
Artemis II pushed to next year. :'(
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jan 09, 2024, 07:32:47 PMhttps://twitter.com/NASA/status/1744795716013175212
Artemis II pushed to next year. :'(
Was kind of expecting that anyway, no surprises.
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." - JFK
https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1745542119463469289
https://twitter.com/SenBillNelson/status/1750602013639844177
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1750972843339153626
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1-lbwNJ3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiJpvergBI
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1750972843339153626/FirstClassSpace/status/1753042414938509663
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1757172159460384903
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1757807267288629475
So what did Russians send to space, nukes?
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1763249193982779679
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1764956045187895347
Successful launch and re-entry of the biggest rocket ever built:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768279990368612354