Space News & Views

[Still Collating...]

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.   

[Immortan Jonesy]

Despite the truth, she has done a good job, indeed.



R.I.P 

[Local Trouble]

Can Mark Watney still use her?

[Huggs]

Can Mark Watney still use her?

Only if we leave him there, again. Who's ready for a sequel?

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1095052738101161985

[slipknotpredator]

"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

[Still Collating...]

The name use is brilliant!

[SM]

After referencing Alien, now NASA is getting down with Predator.

[SiL]

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

[The Old One]

Excellent.

https://youtu.be/qp2jt2xq7J8

[Local Trouble]

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.

[The Kurgan]

Fascinating stuff.

[Still Collating...]

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.

[Mr.Turok]

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


At the same time, the whole thing is right here:

[SiL]

At the same time, the whole thing is right here:

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.