Space is the place
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- OBBTKN0
- If you are claustrophobic, the space is not your placeOBBTKN
- When we have rugs in space, we'll know that we've truly arrived.Nairn
- Russian space stations look comfy as fuck.face_melter
- the new normalutopian
- grafician3
"First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star Captured by ESO Telescope"
- yuekit1
Virgin Galactic offers preview of space tourism plane
For $250,000 a ticket, passengers who have signed up for the suborbital flight aboard the air-launched plane VSS Unity will strap into six tailored seats and be able to peer out of the cabin’s 12 circular windows as they ascend 97km (60 miles) above Earth.
- I'm gonna be that guy, but imagine how many mouths one ticket would feed.SteveJobs
- would be a sick experience thoughSteveJobs
- ^ Yeah well, imagine what Jeff Bezos could do with one week of earnings. ONE fucking week.Maaku
- I don't like to think about that. Hopefully he's following in Gates' footsteps and does a lot of philanthropic workSteveJobs
- His ex-wife just listed all the charities she's already given $1.7Bn away to since her divorce.Nairn
- Nairn0
An arms race is brewing in orbit (from The Economist)
"KOSMOS 2542, a Russian satellite that was launched in November, was “like Russian nesting dolls”, said General John Raymond, head of America’s newly formed Space Force, in February. Eleven days after its launch it disgorged another satellite, labelled Kosmos 2543. Then, on July 15th, Kosmos 2543 itself spat out another object, which sped off into the void"
- Gnash-1
Space Is Not a Frontier
We’ve barely addressed the legacies of colonialism and racism on Earth. Must we now export these things to the stars?
- utopian0
- In a way, it's quite good that we only live ~80 years or whatever. The essentially infinite gulfs of time ahead of us are dysmally bleak in their scaleNairn
- I mean, can you imagine being as sentient as you are and somehow subject to that length of existence? My stomach cavitates at the mere beginnings of a thought.Nairn
- Given enough time, we can escape this Universe Nairn and live on in 5D, haven't you watched Interstellar man?!grafician
- Yeah fuck evolution for giving us only approx 80-90 years when the universe is so damn vast in time and space.NBQ00