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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
- Ramanisky21
- ?Nairn
- Just a dumb picture of space I took last night. :)Ramanisky2
- Ah! Nice :)
I was trying to work out if it was a still from a movie, or something!Nairn - and you did that with a handheld phone probably :) +1!uan
- Placed iPhone down on flat surface face up and with long exposure feature set to 10 seconds.Ramanisky2
- jagara1
Tip: Don't watch space documentaries while lonely and clinically depressed :-/
- What's the use... it's all so unsignificant *opens another bag of cheese doodles*jagara
- watch this quick https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- I know. Our existence is both completely irrelevant and completely relevant. It's all relative.jagara
- watch this https://www.youtube.…tank02
- Krassy0
First interplanetary probe from an Arab nation - U.A.E.’s Hope Mars Mission Puts SUV-Size Craft in Orbit Around Red Planet
- good for UAE. Lean a little on science and technology.hotroddy
- I’ll have to agree with hotriddy on this one though I think they’re much more progressive in general than most regimes in the middle east._niko
- Wait, wait, plot twist:
It’s actually headed for Israel!_niko - Designed and built in America, launched in Japan, but it's a start, I guess.Nairn
- Lol nikoGuyFawkes
- utopian2
- let me guess without watching: space is denser outside the heliosphere?grafician
- So... dark matter is actually regular matter.cannonball1978
- grafician0
"NASA TO MAKE MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF ‘EXCITING NEWS’ ABOUT THE MOON"
"Nasa will hold a major event to announce an “exciting new discovery” about the Moon, it has said.
The space agency did not reveal details about the discovery, but said that it “contributes to Nasa’s efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration”.
It also said that the discovery had come from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or Sofia."
"The event will take place at noon eastern time, or 5pm in the UK, on Monday, 26 October, Nasa said. Audio will be streamed live on its website.'
- It is made of cheese after all!_niko
- Hollow moonutopian
- 'Exciting news'... Nasa is learning from AppleOBBTKN
- There's a fleet of Klingon vessels massing on the far side, and they're about to bombard us?Continuity
- PonyBoy2
NASA is attempting to land on asteroid Bennu today @ 5pm EST...
A live feed should pop up on these links shortly:
- hell yehmoldero
- ahaahha mask of the daysted
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- Nairn2
I mentioned the other week that I could foresee their being privately-funded Venutian missions - well, it looks like it'll happen even sooner than I imagined.
https://www.theregister.com/2020…
For now these are just wee probes, but if they turn up anything interesting, I can totally see some MegaCorp booking a Falcon Heavy or a Starship for a sampling mission in a short-few years.
- 'their'? nngh.Nairn
- +1 for 'wee probes'kingsteven
- hehe, well it is quite yellow down there..Nairn
- Nairn1
re: Venutian life
I've read speculation about its origins, should it actually exist.
There are two camps - either it developed locally, or could have come from Earth, the result of some asteroid impact that sent life-laden material to Venus. Not unlikely, we've found Martian and Lunar meteorites on Earth.
The latter seems unlikely, not because Terran stuff couldn't get to Venus (actually, it would be easier than getting to Mars) - rather, even if it survived the entry and made impact, it would be entirely unsuited to that environment and would be sterilised instantly. Even as it went through the atmosphere, it seems likely to me that the process of burning up as it passes through would mean that nothing useful could settle and linger for enough time to establish itself.
So, I prefer the former option - it developed on Venus.
If so, finding another form of life that presumably isn't based on DNA but has similar or comparable reproductive capacity would be of extremely high scientific interest. Not just for the awesome majesty of it, but also if we can either work on it locally, or have some sent back to Earth (or, preferably, something on the Moon or in Orbit - I've seen enough movies to know that bringing Alien DNA onto planet Earth is a good idea for absolutely no one) we can have another data-set for bio-tech development.
If we can then edit that [life] to make use of the Venutian atmosphere for our own benefit, we can set about the beginnings of terra-forming, or at the very least making use of the huge amounts of atmopshere Venus has. There's an abundance of super-useful elements at altitudes Humans could conceivably live at, even if inside some sort of dirigible.
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A couple of hundred (thousand, etc) years of earnest atmosphere modification and perhaps we can make the surface a little more bearable.
Then it's just the very minor matter of spinning Venus up so that instead of it being one day for every 243 on Earth, it's something a little more useful...
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Also, I used to worry about the idea of finding life on Mars - not for any pulp Sci-Fi reasons, more that if there are two instances of different life evolved in one system, then that statistically implies that there is a huge abundance of life potentially in our galaxy. The further implication that given we've not seen any evidence of such, something 'BAD' happens to most if not all civilisations that prevents them evolving much beyond what we have.
Finding life on Venus is different to me. If it's something that could only have evolved at some specific atmospheric strata, its pathways to evolving beyond our level are limited.
Venus is a high energy environment - not much unlike our deep sea hydrothermal vents in many ways.
- I think I saw Grafician mention the Great Filter the other day, so I guess thanks for making me consider that in terms of life in Venus' atmosphere!Nairn
- Valiant ThorMaaku
- Nairn I personally think is easier to "terraform" Mars than Venus - easier to go from cold (Mars) to temperate (Earth) than very hot (Venus) to temperate again.grafician
- Oh, venus is a cunt - we'd need to spin the entire planet up to make it anything like 'Earth-like'. Still, it's, I think, a more interesting target.Nairn
- yuekit1
Virgin Galactic offers preview of space tourism plane
For $250,000 a ticket, passengers who have signed up for the suborbital flight aboard the air-launched plane VSS Unity will strap into six tailored seats and be able to peer out of the cabin’s 12 circular windows as they ascend 97km (60 miles) above Earth.
- I'm gonna be that guy, but imagine how many mouths one ticket would feed.SteveJobs
- would be a sick experience thoughSteveJobs
- ^ Yeah well, imagine what Jeff Bezos could do with one week of earnings. ONE fucking week.Maaku
- I don't like to think about that. Hopefully he's following in Gates' footsteps and does a lot of philanthropic workSteveJobs
- His ex-wife just listed all the charities she's already given $1.7Bn away to since her divorce.Nairn
- OBBTKN0
- If you are claustrophobic, the space is not your placeOBBTKN
- When we have rugs in space, we'll know that we've truly arrived.Nairn
- Russian space stations look comfy as fuck.face_melter
- the new normalutopian
- grafician1
- Is it because I'm avoiding the news I heard nothing about this before it happened or was it all 'under the radar'?webazoot
- Normally its weeks of articles and programs if the moon is going to look a hair bigger then normal. For this nothing.webazoot
- Not really in the news-news, more in tech/astronomy news with some mainstream news spillgrafician
- http://neowise.whats…uan