The Astronomy Thread
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I'll be super pumped when they launch it, but right now they've just created a 3d rendering of what SpaceX is doing, lol.
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Fadaar
That guy
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If you've never been to Kennedy Space Center and seen one up close and personal it's absolutely unreal how massive it is.
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Tuco
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khorum
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Jysin
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I grew up in FL and watched a couple shuttle launches in person at Cape Canaveral. Despite being 2-5 miles away (depending on launch pad), the sound was unbelievable and the FEEL of it from head to toe and the ground was simply indescribable. Something you had to experience in person to truly comprehend. That said, the shuttles were a fraction of oomph that the Saturn V from the Apollo days. I can't fathom what that would have been like to experience in person.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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In 8th grade I was on a science field trip to Florida. We visited KSC as they scrubbed a launch
Taking my kids to see every space shuttle is a bucket list item though.
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khorum
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We've been meaning to truck down to the cape and catch a Falcon-9 landing since it's actually watchable by the public from a reasonable distance.
Just the spectacle of seeing a 22-story metal tube landing is enough but the triple sonic booms from the landing's transonic phase can be FELT if you're close enough to see it. The rocket itself produces the biggest sonic boom as it goes transonic then the landing legs and the guidance fins each produce sonic booms as they deploy. It sounds like a double sonic boom but it's actually three:
Just the spectacle of seeing a 22-story metal tube landing is enough but the triple sonic booms from the landing's transonic phase can be FELT if you're close enough to see it. The rocket itself produces the biggest sonic boom as it goes transonic then the landing legs and the guidance fins each produce sonic booms as they deploy. It sounds like a double sonic boom but it's actually three:
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Wingz
Being Poor Sucks.
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Something really cool here: Could change the way we study matter entirely & may lead to a new scientific revolution in my opinion.
Coldest Spot in Universe Should Soon Be Aboard International Space Station
Check the video :
Coldest Spot in Universe Should Soon Be Aboard International Space Station
Check the video :
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Pops
Avatar of War Slayer
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Ukerric
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The one I remember about that cold stuff was "Heads" by Greg Bear, in which they break reality, and it ends up with "Mars" in which the martian colonists use that technology to teleport and hide Mars somewhere safe in the galaxy because at that point we're fighting a war by converting pieces of each others planet into anti-matter because dropping asteroids on each other wouldn't be enough to end the war.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Watched this video apprehensively thinking it'd just be creating the world's coldest ice cube, but it's actually pretty interesting if it's not all a bunch of quantum bullshit.
The idea of quantum properties expanding their scope at near zero temperatures seems like it could create some interesting phenomenon.
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