Space is the place
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- Nairn
There's a lot more to the new space race than SpaceX, so here's a thread for everything else. And SpaceX too, whatever.
- Nairn0
Footage from the recent Sputnik misflight shows how fucked up this business still is, despite how easy some companies are making it look...
- hotroddy3
Slow start this morning. watching total recall in bed. Watched it a million times but this time I recognize so many TNG actors in it. Probably be another 10 years before I watch it again
- utopian4
Mystery interstellar asteroid Oumuamua 'could be gigantic alien solar sail sent to look for signs of life'
- Hide your whales.Continuity
- haha_niko
- No. Bring out yo damn whales. Lack of whales was the whole plot.ETM
- Nairn0
"NASA will offer billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner help on the first private deep-space mission: a journey designed to detect life, if it exists, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, according to documents acquired by New Scientist."
- Not that I want to pick nits — I love, love, love space exploration — but, err ... are the confines of our own solar system really technically deep space?Continuity
- I always though deep space was just interstellar space.Continuity
- I always thought it was everything beyond our Earth-Moon system. I suppose the context will change as the practical extent of our horizons do...Nairn
- ...and may depend upon how much Star Trek one has consumed!Nairn
- Hm, hm. I reckon deep space is outside the solar system, when one has left the Oort cloud.
Kind of like going from a civlised country to, say, Albania.Continuity - Or the US.Continuity
- Well, give it a couple of hundred years and your definition will be the right one, For now though: https://www.merriam-…Nairn
- Oh.Continuity
- Nairn0
Will Israel be the fourth country to soft land a device on the Moon?
- Fuck all that. I want someone to send PEOPLE to the moon again, this time with iphones. I want clear pictures and videos of all that shit.Maaku
- there are countless clear photos of the moon, ffs, taken by rovers and satellites over the yearsmonospaced
- negative, they did not have filters Mono. =Pdibec
- ?monospaced
- Moon selfies would flood instagrammicrokorg
- utopian0
- probably not like some wank playing a jazzmastersection_014
- ^what he saidhans_glib
- There are actual recordings of the stars. None of them play guitar.robthelad
- ^ Tell that to Jimi Hendrix.CyBrainX
- utopian2
^^^
- chukkaphob3
- Radmonospaced
- awesome, so no more ridiculous bouncing ball?_niko
- this is awesomecolin_s
- No live footage, just 3d renderings, what is NASA hiding? What a sham!utopian
- I agree with utopian.....
I needz live footage.Ramanisky2 - Never
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- i_monk2
- I was about to post the first video. Nice Youtube Channel, subscribed!Bennn
- I've subscribed to this channel as well.pango
- yeah these guys do an amazing job,_niko
- Those look great but I had to stop watching the first one. That was too depressing. It was like learning about climate change for the first time.CyBrainX
- utopian-3
