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Someone colored and added depth to a black and white photo from the surface of comet 67p

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A before image can be found here: Feast your eyes on comet 67P's surface, with depth cues added
 
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Is the reports of the iss leak being sabotage fake-news? Insane if not
 
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Ya, legit. If you look carefully at the HD images, you can clearly see the threads. You can also see the powdered metal after the pull out.
And 3 strikes trying to enter in the first place.
Like the user wasnt comfortable with drilling in zero G, or perhaps having second thoughts.

Not the highest quality image, sry.

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MusicForFish said:
Ya, legit. If you look carefully at the HD images, you can clearly see the threads. You can also see the powdered metal after the pull out.
And 3 strikes trying to enter in the first place.
Like the user wasnt comfortable with drilling in zero G, or perhaps having second thoughts.

Not the highest quality image, sry.

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Well... you gotta bring em all down at this point ya?
 
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Kiroy said:
Well... you gotta bring em all down at this point ya?
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I would think so.
At the least the Russians may bail from the current space program.
But I have a feeling it was a bad actor trying to sabotage the joint to create this issue....probably for politics as I cant think of any other reason to do that in the first place.

Remember Trump announced we would be working with the Russians on the moon base?
Russia and US will cooperate to build moon's first space station

I'm probably looking at this wrong but 'politics' sounds plausible if you consider how badly the globalists want the rift/cold war/chess game between the Russians and America to continue instead of pushing forward to new heights.


Then again, maybe it was a lovers spat.
 
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the spacex private passenger announcement is happening, bit meh but spacex
 
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god damn musk is looking and sounding rough

edit: upon further reading apparently he is always awkward at live events
 
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dis fucking guy LOL

he's gonna bring random artists to all die on the first trip

motherfucker's doing god's work.
 
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I figured it would be some Chinese or Emirati billionaire. It's easy to forget the Japanese had been doing conspicuous consumption for decades while China was still a commie shithole and Dubai was just a desert town.
 
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khorum said:
I figured it would be some Chinese or Emirati billionaire. It's easy to forget the Japanese had been doing conspicuous consumption for decades while China was still a commie shithole and Dubai was just a desert town.
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I missed it, did they happen to give the price he paid?
 
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pretty interesting tidbit for shareholders - he just said he dumpstered what he made to sound like a perfectly working design ("on par with current design and possibly more stable") because he didn't like the ascetics.
 
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I missed it, did they happen to give the price he paid?
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I didn't hear it. I dunno if they'd disclose that but he's got years to scrounge up for it---the first unmanned flight isn't till 2023.
 
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