Space is the place
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- grafician-1
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imaging stars size of sun or maybe bigger moving that fastpango - thats the light around the event horizon, not the starcannonball1978
- I don't think that's the case.Nairn
- "What if the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is actually a mass of dark matter?"
oh snapgrafician - ^ https://phys.org/new…grafician
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- Nairn2
Relativity Space.
"Topology optimized support structures"
Oh, be still, my beating heart.- that rocket looks like a sex toy.utopian
- I'm not sure why they used the "v" in their logo as the focal point and graphical symbol? It looks like the top of the rocket crashing to earth.utopian
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- more energy used than bitcoin miningshapesalad
- uan0
- grafician7
Photographer Captures Spectacular Shot of a Shooting Star Falling Into the Mouth of a Volcano
- uan1
launch starts at 2:47I didn't catch it live, but it's interesting to see China doing live launches on youtube too
- utopian2
Forget Rockets. This Insane Space Balloon Will Start Flying Passengers Into the Heavens in 2024
A Florida company is now offering a different space-flight experience than the rocket-based trips from Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and Space-X. Space Perspective said that last Friday’s successful launch of its space balloon, Neptune One, shows that another type of space travel is possible.
- grafician0
"We’ve caught a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first time"
- grafician-1
WATCH LIVE: Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream
"Join us July 11th for our first fully crewed rocket powered test flight, and the beginning of a new space age.
Aboard #Unity22 will be our team of two pilots and four mission specialists, including Sir Richard Branson. They will put our Future Astronaut spaceflight experience to a final test, while giving the world a preview of the life-changing experience."
p.s. this is why you should never announce your plans in public! Bezos must be boiling rn
- Literally the only outcome I want from this third-league dick swinging competition is for both Bezos and Branson to blow up.Nairn
- Nairn this space race is actually good for the people. NASA would never invest this much in space travel...grafician
- Neither have these guys - neither of the machines involved in this 'race' actually go to space. They just go up quite high, then come down again.Nairn
- It's basically useless tech that pitifully mimics useful rocketry for the idle bemusement of the 0.0001%.Nairn
- BO has been in business for two decades and hasn't put a single thing in orbit and are now holding back ULA's, and hence America's non-SpaceX ambitionsNairn
- Virgin diverted into plane-launched small rocketry, so have put something in orbit at least, but that's a different department to <this shit.Nairn
- It’s safe to consider their ticket price and presence to be investments in private space enterprise. Safely.monospaced
- I’ve been following this too, and Branson has managed to get his enterprise publicly funded as well from people as pathetic as me.monospaced
- While it can be called going up really high, it is out of the atmosphere and they are calling it a test flight. It’s low orbit for sure and a step toward legitmonospaced
- 'Low orbit' and going up quite high are entirely different things - the energy requirements are an order of magnitude different.Nairn
- Understood. I was under the impression this launch was out of the atmosphere and free from pull of gravity (feels like true weightlessness). Still learning ;)monospaced
- Well, it is - anything at the top/descent of a parabolic trajectory will provide a sense of weightlessness - hence that 'Vomit Comet' plane thing, which seems..Nairn
- ..to me a much better waste of a chunk of money to gain the sensation.Nairn
- The only company that seems to be in reach of what we'd really want from an expensive space jolly is still... SpaceX.
Starship could change everything.Nairn - And if they sort that out, then they create a new tourism industry thta actually, directly funds the immediate technology being used. Unlike BO and Virgin.Nairn
- Cool. What is BO?monospaced
- Blue Origin! :)Nairn
- That’s rightmonospaced
- 1. For "space tourism" we can just use high-altitude balloons rn
2. BO was subsidised anyway because competitiongrafician - First "space tourism" company would get madly rich just by marketing "is the Earth really flat? See for yourself for $100k"grafician
- Hahaha seriouslymonospaced
- Nairn0
re: Space Jollies:
The per person finances on a couple of actual, full orbits in a Starship would probably be similar, if not less, than Bezos' and Branson's toys here.
The Starships themselves would be cheaper to make and each could fit a good amount more people - perhaps a hundred - in a far larger volume of spaceship to play about in Zero-G.
THAT's where the big money in space tourism is, I think. if I were rich, I'd consider paying a couple of million to do actual orbits and see the entireity of the Earth pass beneath me whilst I sip SpaceG&T in zero G.
Going up to 100km and falling back to Earth again might've been cool a decade ago, but there are for more interesting possibilities just ahead of us. It just seems pointless to me now.
- This guy did it in 2001 for $20M
https://edition.cnn.…grafician - Also the idea is not to get into "space tourism" but in space mining!
A single smallish asteroid mined would make each of us a billionaire or trillionaire even!grafician - But overall, we're more aligned to the scenario from Elysium than anything else in the near future: https://www.imdb.com…grafician
- Anyway, going into "space" when we're already on a rock flying thru space is like going out for a cig out of an airplane...grafician
- This guy did it in 2001 for $20M
- allthethings2
- the irony is that its science and technology that pays for blacky's welfare and his time to make his poemshotroddy
