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Post by Ulythium on Sept 6, 2024 15:26:55 GMT
Ancient asteroid 20 times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs likely hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
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Post by gibroon on Sept 10, 2024 11:40:10 GMT
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 12, 2024 10:04:44 GMT
Space walk should be happening soon, amazed at how poor the picture quality is for an expensive mission like this!
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 13, 2024 7:22:08 GMT
This kind of went unnoticed yesterday.
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 13, 2024 7:59:13 GMT
Space walk should be happening soon, amazed at how poor the picture quality is for an expensive mission like this! That's because it's filmed in a remote studio somewhere. They don't want you to see the wires. |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 17, 2024 8:48:30 GMT
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Post by lukasz on Sept 23, 2024 13:12:35 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 25, 2024 19:51:09 GMT
Earth to briefly gain second 'moon', scientists say
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 1, 2024 10:01:53 GMT
'Human race needs to expand beyond Earth,' says Prof Brian Cox
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 1, 2024 10:19:48 GMT
That was pretty cool. Would have been better if the drone had stayed a bit more still. I love the "Ok, that's close enough, drop it!" ending  |
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Post by grey_matters on Oct 1, 2024 11:00:05 GMT
'Human race needs to expand beyond Earth,' says Prof Brian Cox
Fuck off Cox. |
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 1, 2024 11:18:36 GMT
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Post by grey_matters on Oct 1, 2024 11:34:20 GMT
Not in general, I quite like him typically. I just really really dislike that particular proposal as it's a complete waste of energy, figuratively and literally. |
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Post by dangerousdave on Oct 1, 2024 11:43:28 GMT
I don’t see it as a short term plan, but it would be essential in the long term. If we were to survive, as a species, as long as Dinosaurs, that is.
We’re predicted mass starvations this century and a population decline of nearly 50%, globally. We’re looking at a pretty miserable time in which the world will get uglier the more desperate it becomes. Maybe fund preventative measures in those respects first.
But, fast forward 300 million years, when our next and likely last supercontinent forms, and crops/grass dies out, along with most living livestock, then perhaps that would be a good time to have our space exploration shit together.
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 1, 2024 12:26:54 GMT
grey_matters Fair enough! I'm a big fan of Cox--
Wait, that came out wrong.
I really like Cox--
This is hard.
Hang on: it's difficult.
What I mean is, I like Brian Cox (the physicist, not the actor, although I'm sure the latter is great too) - he's a fantastic science communicator, and advocates for causes in which I believe.
On this particular topic, I'm with dangerousdave : it's not a short-term project, or even a medium-term one, as we obviously have more pressing issues to fund and address. In the long run, though, it's something we'll have to consider.
That said, I don't like the 'Manifest Destiny' implications of us conquering the solar system, never mind the wider galaxy; I also think that as we're clearly unfit to run the planet we have, we'll need to get our shit together before we think about moving to another one. (Not killing each other en masse over ancient, tribal disagreements would be a good place to start... and it'd save billions of dollars that we could spend on a space program, to boot!)
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Post by minimatt on Oct 7, 2024 17:11:41 GMT
reminder that you can see big cox on your big telly* tonight bbc2 @ 9pm (or iPlayer)
if it's anything like previous programming it'll be entertaining enough while absolutely rinsing the BBC travel budget
* if you have a small telly your cox might be tiny
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Post by Fake_Blood on Oct 13, 2024 10:35:16 GMT
SpaceX is about to perform the first landing attempt of their new rather large rocket (in about 90 minutes), should be spectacular either way it turns out. www.youtube.com/live/YC87WmFN_As |
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Post by myk on Oct 13, 2024 12:35:43 GMT
ok, that was pretty insane
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Post by X201 on Oct 13, 2024 13:11:12 GMT
Yeah, what technology are YouTube using so that they can get adverts to play at critical moments so that I miss them
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 14, 2024 11:10:21 GMT
Countdown to mission hunting alien life on a distant moon
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Post by X201 on Oct 14, 2024 11:33:16 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 21, 2024 9:23:45 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 24, 2024 14:45:06 GMT
Mission to study the ‘dark side’ of the universe just revealed the first piece of unprecedented map
Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
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Post by X201 on Oct 25, 2024 20:00:07 GMT
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Post by dangerousdave on Oct 25, 2024 20:13:11 GMT
What happened to that company?
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Post by X201 on Oct 25, 2024 20:19:31 GMT
Loads of fat Govt. contracts for too many years.
Suddenly introduced to the real world.
With a side order of “To big to fail”
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 1, 2024 20:48:17 GMT
Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I do so love stories about the Voyager spacecraft - two of our species' most remarkable achievements, in my book.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Nov 2, 2024 7:19:02 GMT
In that case, you should check out the JPL and the Space Age documentaries on youtube, but start with this one:
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 6, 2024 22:52:40 GMT
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Post by X201 on Nov 7, 2024 12:16:05 GMT
Persephone!
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