The Astronomy Thread

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iannis

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I was all "that's kinda neat" but then I realized that you can look up and down and even behind your starting POV as well and I was all "OOOOHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT"
 
Borzak

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Click on the "i" at the bottom to label stuff and you can hover over most stuff and it will pop up and tell you what it is.
 
iannis

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So like.. there are areas of interstellar space where you probablycouldnavigate with a 3d compass, an astrolabe, and dead reckoning?


ARRR, THAR BE SPACE PIRATES IN THIS HERE SECTOR.
 
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dassem_sl said:
Magnetars are pretty cool, just read about them a bit. They can have magnetic fields of something like 100 000 000 000 Tesla. For comparison Earth's magnetic field is like 0.000065 Tesla.
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Magnets!? How the fuck do they work, right?
 
Tuco

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exoplanet_neighborhood_large.png
 
Lenas

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Didn't Lumie say that was gonna kill us? Lumie, why are you wrong about everything?
 
iannis

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Salvage mission for our Apollo moon buggies.


Which aren't there because we faked it. Troll Level: International
 
Araysar

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chinese are the worst at naming things

jade rabbit?

its a fucking spaceship, not a restaurant with $4 appetizers
 
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Copy-pasta from the article- "Its name - chosen in an online poll of 3.4 million voters - derives from an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of the lunar goddess Chang'e."
 
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VariaVespasa_sl said:
Copy-pasta from the article- "Its name - chosen in an online poll of 3.4 million voters - derives from an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of the lunar goddess Chang'e."
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What does the rabbit have to do with Ben Chang from Community again?
 
Tuco

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Stupid question: what's the risk in contaminating that water? Are we afraid we'll unleash life on Mars that will evolve and take us over? Or are we afraid we'll corrupt potential testing areas?
 
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