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!
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Sad day.
www.nsf.gov
Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction workers and staff at the facility, the U.S. National Science Foundation will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope, which for 57 years has served as a world-class resource for radio astronomy, planetary, solar system and geospace research.
NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope due to safety concerns
UPDATE: NSF has provided a report to Congress, as required by the report language accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, describing “the causes…
www.nsf.gov
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a c i d.f l y
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Damn. That's the James Bond one, right? And Contact, apparently.Sad day.
Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction workers and staff at the facility, the U.S. National Science Foundation will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope, which for 57 years has served as a world-class resource for radio astronomy, planetary, solar system and geospace research.
NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope due to safety concerns
UPDATE: NSF has provided a report to Congress, as required by the report language accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, describing “the causes…
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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It's been addressed.
I'm no rocket scientist but i think all the legs should be on the boat
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Neat.
"It's as if there is a void at its center, within which you could fit a couple of football fields,"
www.businessinsider.com
"It's as if there is a void at its center, within which you could fit a couple of football fields,"
The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft orbited the asteroid Bennu for two years, monitoring pebbles flying off of it. The data shows a hollow space rock.
www.businessinsider.com
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MrHolland420
KRA! KRA!
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Saturn is probably my favorite planet to look at through my telescope, I really need to invest into a nicer scope soon. Unfortunately the only good time to observe for me is during the winter as the humidity is so much lower and can get a lot of nice clear nights. Summertime I don't even attempt to take my telescope out. I am still salty about the 2017 total eclipse, it was going right over where I live and guess what comes right during totality, a fucking pop thunderstorm! I was waiting on that one event for at least 5+ years, so I am not going to be fucked in 2024 and I will be headed to Bandera, TX where one of my uncles lives.
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Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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It's still a bit saturating in term of camera on the droneship, but almost all the recent landings were seen live without a cut due to lost transmission when the ship moves too much and the satellite alignment is lost (or whatever).
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It must be some kind of phase he is going through, right? Like that Tesla truck abomination?