Makes you wonder what we're missing out on from ventures that did fail on the brink of life-changing success, or if we could have had existing developments decades or centuries earlier if circumstances had been more generous.
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Makes you wonder what we're missing out on from ventures that did fail on the brink of life-changing success, or if we could have had existing developments decades or centuries earlier if circumstances had been more generous.
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They had some launch attempts before that fail and it all costs money. That successful launch was theirr last one they had money for, after that they were going to be broke.
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Kiroy
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Musk is known to bloviate exaggerate and goof around on twitter so im not sure how much people should really be taking him at his word
I have a feeling if that one failed theyd find the funding/backing for another try or three
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I agree but we really don't know. It's more of a thought exercise about the great man theory as it relates to scientific progress than anything.
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pharmakos
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Maybe for testing they intentionally put it through a less-than-ideal launch to see how it reacts if things don't go perfectly?
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A Crashed Israeli Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon
The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?
They accidentally contaminated the moon with the one organism that can probably survive there. So weird to think about. In some number of years, is the moon going to be fully propagated with tardigrades? It's just gonna be tardigrade world?
Yeah the tardigrades need to somehow get rehydrated, but hey all it would take is a couple and enough time so maybe some day?
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Launch abort system needs to be able to accelerate away from a rocket that may itself still be accelerating, so if the rocket's accelerating at 3-4g you probably want to be able to get the crew module to something like 6g to get away quickly. If it can't out-accelerate the rocket (without the crew module weight) it would just remain sitting on top of it.
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1 billion years from now the sentient descendants of dolphins land on the moon only to be greeted by an army of aggressiveA Crashed Israeli Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon
The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?www.wired.com
They accidentally contaminated the moon with the one organism that can probably survive there. So weird to think about. In some number of years, is the moon going to be fully propagated with tardigrades? It's just gonna be tardigrade world?
Yeah the tardigrades need to somehow get rehydrated, but hey all it would take is a couple and enough time so maybe some day?
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That's about 50% more acceleration than a normal launch, so right on for what Lambourne was speculating.
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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A Crashed Israeli Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon
The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?
They accidentally contaminated the moon with the one organism that can probably survive there. So weird to think about. In some number of years, is the moon going to be fully propagated with tardigrades? It's just gonna be tardigrade world?
Yeah the tardigrades need to somehow get rehydrated, but hey all it would take is a couple and enough time so maybe some day?
Well, let's not get carried away here. Being able to not immediately die in space is not the same as thriving in space. They're not immortal or anything either, so after a period of time they can't revive or reproduce.
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Environmentalists in Canary Islands: We’ll seek legal action to stop TMT from coming here
The group says it has “no less reason or less determination than the Hawaiian TMT opponents.”
Surprise! A minority group in the 'perfect site' opposes the TMT as well. So will Jason Momoa and The Rock advocate for this now or are we just gonna hope that the Volcano gods can grant us the wisdom instead of science?
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They found a lot of Dark Galaxy with the ALMA telescope. Cool shit, even cooler if you consider that the current model did not predict galaxies to appear so soon.