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Your drive sounds kinda like the teleportation drive in Battlefield Earth also.
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khorum
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There's a super-tiny model of the Alcubierre drive that is actually more feasible than the NASA mockup since if you oscillate the field and shrink down the warp envelope, you bring down the requirements for exotic matter down to something we can already observe via casimir effect.
We're talking like one-person sized tho. So they'll need to replace that Alcubierre-drive ship in the NASA mission patch with a TARDIS box.
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Astromike23 comments on I most likely caught an impact on Juptier on March 17
asteroid impact against jupiter caught on camera, pretty cool
from 2009, pic from hubble a few hours after a similar impact
asteroid impact against jupiter caught on camera, pretty cool
from 2009, pic from hubble a few hours after a similar impact
Dandain
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I liked Terry Pratchett's take on it: "one particular planet whose inhabitants watched, with mild interest, huge continent-wrecking slabs of ice slap into another world which was, in astronomical terms, right next door -- and then did nothing about it because that sort of thing only happens in Outer Space."
Brad2770
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khorum
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So the Japanese found their black hole satellite, but it's flipping the fuck out andnoone knows exactly what went wrong with it. But the little data it DID return was "transformational":
Space News_sl said:
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bitchute.com/video/EvyOjOORbg5l/
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Burnem Wizfyre
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Supermassive black holes might actually be super common - The Washington Post
OK,
I can imagine twice, 10x, maybe even 100x bigger, but 10,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun? That is incomprehensible...
OK,
I can imagine twice, 10x, maybe even 100x bigger, but 10,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun? That is incomprehensible...
Ukerric
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You're thinking of stellar blackholes (i.e. black holes created from stars). Those are galactic black holes, whose formation is still relatively mysterious, but who almost certainly appear along their galaxies, or maybe before.
Fun bit: The black hole Gargantua in Interstellar is one such supermassive black hole. But smaller than the one in the article.
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As they plan the final acts of Cassini, who will enter Saturn's atmosphere in September of 2017, I was wondering what planetary science looks like around then and was pointed to this helpful blog:Planetary Exploration Timelines: A Look Ahead to 2016 | The Planetary Society
...there are no main belt / comet missions that will be active in 2018 and likely 2017 (depending on how long Dawn's fuel lasts); and no more giant planet missions beginning in 2018. There is a period in the beginning of 2018 when the only planetary target from which NASA or ESA will be returning science data is Mars. That's sobering. So enjoy 2016's bounty of space missions, because we're at peak planetary.
...there are no main belt / comet missions that will be active in 2018 and likely 2017 (depending on how long Dawn's fuel lasts); and no more giant planet missions beginning in 2018. There is a period in the beginning of 2018 when the only planetary target from which NASA or ESA will be returning science data is Mars. That's sobering. So enjoy 2016's bounty of space missions, because we're at peak planetary.
