Space

BudmanTX said:

be interesting to see what the data says...

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I would not be surprised if

cannabineer said:

I would not be surprised if

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And lonely!!! Just imagine a human on that thing sending one letter at a time. Poor thing.

BudmanTX said:

so what are ya looking for Esoteric stuff, cause i've been currently reading the songs of solomon....weird book i have to say

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Remembering all of history where even talking like this would have meant torture and then some excruciating death as a public spectacle. You know!? Probably still in some dark corners.
I really try not to be esoteric and the exact opposite. I love guys like Carl Sagan and Stephan Hawking that wanted to share the information with everyone to benefit from.

Read any of their books. I was listening to Cosmos by Sagan recently oh and Contact. I’ve listened to Contact like 2-3 times at least. I tend to like sci-fi more right now and have gotten a bunch of Asimov’s books like the foundation and galactic empire series.

My own philosophical hunt has plateaued to feeing good about no one having the answers.

M.O. said:

And lonely!!! Just imagine a human on that thing sending one letter at a time. Poor thing.



Remembering all of history where even talking like this would have meant torture and then some excruciating death as a public spectacle. You know!? Probably still in some dark corners.
I really try not to be esoteric and the exact opposite. I love guys like Carl Sagan and Stephan Hawking that wanted to share the information with everyone to benefit from.

Read any of their books. I was listening to Cosmos by Sagan recently oh and Contact. I’ve listened to Contact like 2-3 times at least. I tend to like sci-fi more right now and have gotten a bunch of Asimov’s books like the foundation and galactic empire series.

My own philosophical hunt has plateaued to feeing good about no one having the answers.

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if you like those guys, ck out Neil Tyson.....he has 2 shows i like one called cosmos (just like Sagan), and another called star talk, and the newest is Cosmos: Possible worlds that was in 2020..........

and if you really want a good stoner show...ck out Dune......

just remembered, if you want a thriller/horro scifi.....ck out sunshine (movie)

ok well i started looking a basically nuclear reactors....and i found this 12yrs old and built a fusion reactor..... this kid is going somewhere......

i retro i was looking at he possiblities of using nuclear power to generate for space travel.......is honestly why


this one built his at 14......

Dune is a classic. I couldn’t read the sequels though. They were a little word intense somehow. Neil Degrasse Tyson absolutely. All my style as well.




Many will know this already but the voyager craft was turned around in 1990 when it passed one of the outer planets and snapped a picture of earth. Prompted one of the most profound quotes I’ve ever read. Don’t read this until you have time because it straight up brought me to tears the first time I read it. Usually still does to some extent.

Pale blue dot (pic borrowed from Pinterest)





Then there is the Hubble ultra deep field. Take a grain of rice and hold it up to the night sky at arms length. Those pictures represent that much of the sky and those aren’t stars. They are galaxies. Yea. Tell me there isn’t other life out there.



https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

M.O. said:

Dune is a classic. I couldn’t read the sequels though. They were a little word intense somehow. Neil Degrasse Tyson absolutely. All my style as well.




Many will know this already but the voyager craft was turned around in 1990 when it passed one of the outer planets and snapped a picture of earth. Prompted one of the most profound quotes I’ve ever read. Don’t read this until you have time because it straight up brought me to tears the first time I read it. Usually still does to some extent.

Pale blue dot (pic borrowed from Pinterest)


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Then there is the Hubble ultra deep field. Take a grain of rice and hold it up to the night sky at arms length. Those pictures represent that much of the sky and those aren’t stars. They are galaxies. Yea. Tell me there isn’t other life out there.



https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

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Dune would have been stronger if there were no spice. It substituted a sort of cynical magic for more palatable explanations of how that universe worked. It became the deus ex machina that made all the cool weird stuff happen.
Also, sandworm physics are no better than some of the throwaway nonsense in Star Wars.

nice capture......earth and mercury from Mars.....

cannabineer said:

Dune would have been stronger if there were no spice. It substituted a sort of cynical magic for more palatable explanations of how that universe worked. It became the deus ex machina that made all the cool weird stuff happen.
Also, sandworm physics are no better than some of the throwaway nonsense in Star Wars.

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You make some good points. I just always assumed Herbert grew up catholic and hated it so much he thought of the story as a dark joke/wish. The actual sci-fi being fairly basic. Love trying to deduce influences.





Just for fun



Motorway to Roswell
Pixies

First image.....now for the next 3 months they have to align the mirrors on James Webb

Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite
Last month, a private satellite tracking company spotted a Chinese spacecraft apparently grabbing and throwing a dead satellite away into a "graveyard" orbit.

The last flight of Soyuz 1
or
What happened to Vladimir Komarov?





A different telling of the same flight with a few added details.

This story starts at 7:57

i knew they would go for it.....first m87...now ours

My brain just can’t process this…I simply don’t know enough basic shit to let me do more than remember it & go ‘wow’.

here is something for Scientific American about it too........


now if you wanna find it youself...first you must find Sagittarius constilation.....look for the bow and arrow....follow the arrow to the milky way and there it is the center of our galaxy......(and if you use a telescope there is a lot of hidden stuff there, Nebula's, clusters...etc)


once you follow the arrow to it here you will find Sag A....



enjoy the night sky....

Can’t see the night sky where I am.

I mean, I can look up of course, but the light pollution renders constellation-spotting impossible most nights (and I’m 50 miles *outside of town*). Plus, the trees get in the way(ish). I’ll give it a shot, though.

I’ve known about Sag-A for a long time, still find black holes impenetrable (umm…), and I’m fairly decent with celestial mechanics, at least locally…but much beyond basic physics, it becomes trickier to understand things like these images. When I look at them, I ‘understand’ that they’re ”black holes”, but on a gnawing level that doesn’t tell me what I’m seeing, I can’t read the image, I can only store it & look at it in my head.

Kinda like looking at a chart with no idea of scale, time, volume, intensity, anything. I’m wired to dig into things I don’t understand, to sift out the crap, to gather the gold, and even with all my self-control, I can’t really control this. I’ve got to unravel the snarls, straighten out the kinks, make the machine run right (so to speak)

Time to go hang with my physicist buddies (I’m very lucky - I have smart friends)

Camera Films Itself Getting Launched Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000mph
MAY 07, 2022

JAMES DERUVO

It’s called SpinLaunch, and it’s a novel approach to launching small payloads into orbit. The idea of a kinetic launch system translates to spinning a payload in a centrifuge to over 1,000 miles an hour and then releasing it for its journey to the stars.



SpinLaunch

Larger Version to Launch Payloads to Orbit
What’s even more interesting is that the SpinLaunch suborbital mass accelerator is a one-third scaled-down model for testing, and so far has only fired projectiles at a fraction of the speed it is capable of achieving. The company plans on building a larger version of the accelerator, which is capable of launching a payload in excess of 440 pounds (200 kg) and at speeds of over 5,000 miles an hour, plenty of speed to reach low earth orbit.



More details here:

What were the last words from the Challenger space shuttle?

The shuttle broke apart in a fiery explosion just 73 seconds after liftoff. All seven crew members were killed, including teacher Christina McAuliffe whose students were watching on television. In a transcript from the crew's voice recorder, pilot Michael J. Smith's last words are "uh-oh" before all data is lost.





Some have different views of what may have occurred on January 28, 1986 .

I was my son's age and remember watching it happen

lokie said:

What were the last words from the Challenger space shuttle?

The shuttle broke apart in a fiery explosion just 73 seconds after liftoff. All seven crew members were killed, including teacher Christina McAuliffe whose students were watching on television. In a transcript from the crew's voice recorder, pilot Michael J. Smith's last words are "uh-oh" before all data is lost.





Some have different views of what may have occurred on January 28, 1986 .

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It's usually the deceleration that gets you.

curious2garden said:

It's usually the deceleration that gets you.

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What is the last thing that goes through a bugs mind when it hits the windshield?

It's ass.



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