Merrith
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The Astronomy Thread
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Big Phoenix
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Rime
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This is fun. The bill that was used to getCISApassed included abudgetincrease for NASA.
Now that CISA is passed, the budget (which went from $18.01 Billion to $18.7 Billion is being slashed down to $18.4 Billion)
I will be shocked if it is anything higher than the 2015 Budget by the time 2017 rolls around.
Now that CISA is passed, the budget (which went from $18.01 Billion to $18.7 Billion is being slashed down to $18.4 Billion)
I will be shocked if it is anything higher than the 2015 Budget by the time 2017 rolls around.
Khalan
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Do you think for one second that a republican congress would increase NASA spending over say the military? If a republican gets voted in as the pres, NASA is done since they dont believe in science.
Palum
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Yea those Repubs sure hate the military industrial complex. They'd never award more money to Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon and Aerojet Rocketdyne, Teledyne, Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen, Honeywell and others.
Big Phoenix
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Dont forget things like SDI. Democrats loved to mock Reagen over that.
Budget of NASA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You realize this is a matter of fact, notfeelsright? Here ill help you out;
Budget of NASA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ukerric
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They do believe in SLS, though. So much it's nicknamed Senate Launch System, because even NASA doesn't believe in it (but they have to make it because they get told to).
Lithose
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Gravitational waves detected.If true, this is nobel prize territory for sure (One of the researches colleagues made a tweet about future nobel prize winners being around or something).
Edit: Shit didn't see this posted in the Science thread, heh.
Edit: Shit didn't see this posted in the Science thread, heh.
BUT "climate scientists" say those are wrong... now back to the gravitation thingy..
that is so cool. and shows that einstein (provided the paper is right etc) was awesome- well more awesome.
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Yeah, the satellite data keeps contradicting the land based data all the time. If anything republican's should fund NASA more and cut off funding to the people doing the models.
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First Detection of Super-Earth Atmosphere | ESA/Hubble
For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is revealed to have a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapour. The results, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, indicate that the atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen and helium.
For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is revealed to have a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapour. The results, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, indicate that the atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen and helium.
Ukerric
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So basically, it's a slightly smaller version of Uranus with the small traces of H2O that we found in Uranus boiled off by its proximity to the star.
Dandain
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So this documentary is difficult for me to chose a category. I love astronomy so I'll make the post here. I found it well worth my two hours, the visualization of the data is remarkably well done. PBS Spacetime is so boss, PBS I feel has earned more shilling from me on this one.
The youtube link is not a PBS user, the video is also clipped. I wasn't sure if international people can access the pbs website, as it did ask for my local station identification.
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365530573/
The youtube link is not a PBS user, the video is also clipped. I wasn't sure if international people can access the pbs website, as it did ask for my local station identification.
Russias New Ballistic Missiles to be Tested on Asteroids - Universe Today
What could possibly go wrong?
Cad
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Apophis isn't big enough to cause an earth calamity anyway. It'd be a nice boom but nothing lasting. So says wikipedia.