Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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Gotta love that cultural affirmative action with the modern naming scheme for celestial bodies.
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The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Gotta love that cultural affirmative action with the modern naming scheme for celestial bodies.
Pops
Avatar of War Slayer
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Melvin
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Modern science is advanced enough to detect this nearly featureless object the size of an aircraft carrier even though it was traveling 59,000 miles per hour and 15+ million miles away. This object has been been traveling through interstellar space for millions of years. It has existed longer than the human race. You really think it's relevant that your butt hurts about it being given a Hawaiian name by the team of scientists in Hawaii that discovered it? I thought I was setting the bar so low when I took care of the obvious "LOL itz aliens" joke that nobody could possibly say anything stupider than that. But nope, I was wrong.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Muurloen
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pharmakos
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Humans Accidentally Created a Protective Bubble Around Earth
human produced very-low frequency radio waves from Earth have caused surprisingly big changes in the magnetosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts.
human produced very-low frequency radio waves from Earth have caused surprisingly big changes in the magnetosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts.
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Big Phoenix
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You mean that telescope designed by non-Hawaiians and paid for by non-Hawaiians? Probably staffed non-Hawaiians?
This shit has been going on for a while;
90377 Sedna - Wikipedia
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Muurloen
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New meaning to intergalactic kegger.
Budweiser begins space experiments to be first to brew beer on Mars
Budweiser begins space experiments to be first to brew beer on Mars
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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Aaron
Goonsquad Officer
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Araxen
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years - SpaceRef
Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars. The spacecraft, which has been flying for 40 years, relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself so it can communicate with Earth. These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet. Now, the Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980.
"With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft by two to three years," said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Since 2014, engineers have noticed that the thrusters Voyager 1 has been using to orient the spacecraft, called "attitude control thrusters," have been degrading. Over time, the thrusters require more puffs to give off the same amount of energy. At 13 billion miles from Earth, there's no mechanic shop nearby to get a tune-up.
The Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the problem. Chris Jones, Robert Shotwell, Carl Guernsey and Todd Barber analyzed options and predicted how the spacecraft would respond in different scenarios. They agreed on an unusual solution: Try giving the job of orientation to a set of thrusters that had been asleep for 37 years.
"With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft by two to three years," said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Since 2014, engineers have noticed that the thrusters Voyager 1 has been using to orient the spacecraft, called "attitude control thrusters," have been degrading. Over time, the thrusters require more puffs to give off the same amount of energy. At 13 billion miles from Earth, there's no mechanic shop nearby to get a tune-up.
The Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the problem. Chris Jones, Robert Shotwell, Carl Guernsey and Todd Barber analyzed options and predicted how the spacecraft would respond in different scenarios. They agreed on an unusual solution: Try giving the job of orientation to a set of thrusters that had been asleep for 37 years.
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