The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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As this is key for the plan of how SpaceX will fund expensive things like their next rocket design and such, I am very happy to see visible progress toward that goal. Fingers crossed.
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"All that is required for advanced civilizations to avoid extinction is for men of wealth to not build a glut of LEO commercial rocket technology." -- Carl Sagan, 1983
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Brahma
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iannis
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lol.
The weird shit about the moon landing is that we wouldn't do it today. It was so fly by night. And that's not derragatory, they made it as safe as they possibly could. But you look at what they were using... and there's just no way we would. All those test pilots that died in the ramp up, the apollo mission that almost went extra-solar, the rockets that we're going to have to raid the Kennedy estate to find the blueprints for, the computers were basically TI calculators.
I mean they were honestly doing crazy shit. Their crazy shit worked. Makes it even more impressive.
The weird shit about the moon landing is that we wouldn't do it today. It was so fly by night. And that's not derragatory, they made it as safe as they possibly could. But you look at what they were using... and there's just no way we would. All those test pilots that died in the ramp up, the apollo mission that almost went extra-solar, the rockets that we're going to have to raid the Kennedy estate to find the blueprints for, the computers were basically TI calculators.
I mean they were honestly doing crazy shit. Their crazy shit worked. Makes it even more impressive.
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LachiusTZ
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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There's a documentary of Apollo 11 out on the digital stores, made from a lot of film never really been seen before some of it scanned at 8-16k so it can be used for future reference.
Bummed I missed this in theaters.
Bummed I missed this in theaters.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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My whole life the USA has had this defeated attitude about returning to the moon, but with SpaceX for the first time ever the attitude among space enthusiasts is that it's not only plausible to return, but inevitable and wouldn't even require that dramatic of specific technology, just a large expenditure that is still an order of magnitude less expensive than the Apollo missions.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Related to the normalcy of space exploration in 2019, the first Starlink launch is maybe going up today:
This is a notable launch for a couple reasons:
1. It's the start of a new enterprise that could be hugely lucrative for SpaceX and beneficial for mankind in a big way.
2. It's a heavier load, 30klbs, which is an increase from 22klbs earlier this year. For reference the Saturn V had a 100k lbs payload and the space shuttle had a payload of around 27k.
This is a notable launch for a couple reasons:
1. It's the start of a new enterprise that could be hugely lucrative for SpaceX and beneficial for mankind in a big way.
2. It's a heavier load, 30klbs, which is an increase from 22klbs earlier this year. For reference the Saturn V had a 100k lbs payload and the space shuttle had a payload of around 27k.
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LachiusTZ
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A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe
A new experiment confirms the existence of superionic ice, a black and hot form of water that might make up the bulk of giant icy planets.
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