iannis
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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!
Kiroy
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anyone who supports nasa as anything but a governmental investment research firm into space based commercial industry / study / research is a fucking fool
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Ukerric
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I'm still salty that no less than two distilleries (Ardbeg and Nikka) sent whiskey to the ISS to see how it affected maturation, and none of them tried to send a full barrel for the mandatory 3 years and get it back to sell Space Whiskey.
That would make me drink again. At least once.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Surprise, Saturn has 20 more moons.
carnegiescience.edu
Saturn surpasses Jupiter after the discovery of 20 new moons
And you can help name them!
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
Hungry Ogre
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khorum
Murder Apologist
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One of the emergent opportunities afforded by reusable falcons is that it reduces the costs so much that it makes REFUELLING satellites in orbit so that they can reboost to higher orbits cost-effective. NASA's Goddard has been working on this for some time and is poised to do a demonstration refuelling of Landsat-7 sometime soon:
As for servicing/repair missions on damaged satellites, DARPA has the RSGS project that was slated for a 2020 demonstrator until their contractor (MAXAR, the same folks working with NASA) backed out. They've got another vendor and are supposed to announce something by the end of this year:
As for servicing/repair missions on damaged satellites, DARPA has the RSGS project that was slated for a 2020 demonstrator until their contractor (MAXAR, the same folks working with NASA) backed out. They've got another vendor and are supposed to announce something by the end of this year:
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Ukerric
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175g. It's more of a hitlerjugend rather than a full-blown nazi.
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Kharzette
Watcher of Overs
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Some alternative theory that red shift might not just be about distance, but correlates with the age of the material.
physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com
Digesting Arp's Kebab
There is a certain comfort in these uncertain times, and I like doing this at any time, in focusing on a non-human puzzle that has a chance...
physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com
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pharmakos
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Some alternative theory that red shift might not just be about distance, but correlates with the age of the material.
Digesting Arp's Kebab
There is a certain comfort in these uncertain times, and I like doing this at any time, in focusing on a non-human puzzle that has a chance...
So many billions of man hours of thought put into red shift and it's implications, if this ends up being accurate, it's going to go down as one of the biggest scientific misunderstandings ever, up there with "the Earth is flat" to future humans.
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pharmakos
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This makes my brain hurt a bit:
www.newscientist.com
NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics
A NASA engineer has published plans for an engine that could accelerate a rocket without using propellant. But there are questions over whether it could work
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pharmakos
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How the Universe Stopped Making Sense
We're getting something wrong about the universe.
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