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- utopian5
- Can't wait to post here all the articles about new amazing space discoveries made possible by this telescope!grafician
- America is the bestmonospaced
- In this endeavour yes mono, thank you guys so much!grafician
- NBQ002
This is huge. But doesn‘t get the media attention it deserves. Maybe if this was done by SpaceX and tweeted/ hailed by Elon it would be different.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet: https://www.nasa.gov/press-relea…
The device with the size of a toaster extracted 5 grams of oxygen which could make a human breathe air for 10 minutes.
- It's on the BBC homepage at the mo...NonEntity
- Fuck it...we have already destroyed this planet. Let's go fucking kill another!utopian
- Another? Mars is already deadNBQ00
- Cool beans. Thanks for posting thislemmy_k
- Utopian there are limitless planets. Relax.cannonball1978
- uan3
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/scie…
Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space.
Didn‘t know the girl and grandma story...but now I know what influenced back to the future :)
- поздравления!OBBTKN
- Everything great — except why is 60 years a meaningful date to 'celebrate' this? 50 yes, 60...uhNonEntity
- in russia...party every ten years babyStoicLevels
- Poyekhali!renderedred
- Nairn4
There's a lot of shit up there.
'Low Earth Orbit Visualization'
https://platform.leolabs.space/v…I remember adding in satellite position datasets to the Google Earth predecessor, NASA World Wind around 2006, so much that it would just crash.
- Bluejam3
- Project LOLA (Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach) Simulator, NASA, 1961
via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - The ultimate Elite Dangerous setup.face_melter
- Oh my!Nairn
- proof the moon landing was fakedimbecile
- Project LOLA (Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach) Simulator, NASA, 1961
- Nairn2
Nokia tasked with setting up the Moon's first cellular network..
- Ooooh, it can be upgraded to 5G in the future.
Good.
See how those fucking Moonians like Covid. And Bill Gates brain chips.Continuity - They better have 5G near the moon property I bought in '95BH26
- why build it on the surface, aren't satellites a thing? wouldn't that be cheaper?renderedred
- Satellites around the moon are hard, and expensive. Moon's got wobbly gravity, so satellites need to be more complex than the likes of Starlink, for exampleNairn
- Hey - whilst you're here - did you see that request for a haaretz article subscription from Beeswax earlier? Do you know anyone with one, so we could read it?Nairn
- Coronavirus-related...
https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn - please no more satellites, starlink ruins our starlightapi
- You'd not see satellites around the moon from here, unless they were huge - not sure you could even see the glint of the ISS if it were orbiting.Nairn
- See, I respect wood.. astronomy, sorry - but I'm happy for SpaceX to populate Starlink if it a) spreads internet, b) gives $$ for Starship development.Nairn
- if they succeed in creating a super-cheap platform for getting heavy shit into space, we can have a hundred Hubbles or JamesWebbs in no time.Nairn
- We can live without a perfectly unadulterated night sky if it gives us a huge gain for a few decades. Fuck it.Nairn
- The ISS can be seen with the naked eye from the Earth's surface.Continuity
- Ooooh, it can be upgraded to 5G in the future.
- Continuity1
Yeah, so now the Russians have decided Venus belongs to them. What the fuck is up with this year? It just keeps getting more fucking absurd. Is this a job for Trump's fucking Space Force, or what?
'Venus is a Russian planet -- say the Russians'
- (without clicking link) Isn't that expressely forbidden by whatever space treaties everyone relevant has signed up to?Nairn
- https://i.ytimg.com/…_niko
- Americans Are From Mars
Russians Are From Venusutopian - If we're starting to claim planets already...oh boygrafician
- @utopian I think you've switched them, Mars is colder so Russian, Venus is hotter just like California now so US lolgrafician
- lolmoldero
- Sweet, let’s space fight about itscarabin
- 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
- Akagiyama1
- first blackman, first woman, first canadian. what's the white guy in the middle for?hotroddy
- Knobby always triggered and woke!utopian
- I think it's great. Maybe you'll stop talking about how we live in a systemically racist society.hotroddy
- aren't you supposed to be nice this week?hotroddy
- bylaws state that being nice to known racists is not necessaryimbecile
- i admitted it was a great thing but that's still too racist. username checks outhotroddy
- I hope they bring some crypto alongrzu-rzu
- what no elfs?!grafician
- Continuity3
"'Look closely and there’s a tear in Armstrong’s eye": the Apollo space missions as you’ve never seen them before'
Nasa’s original moon mission photographs, kept locked in a freezer in Houston, are some of the most vital artefacts of human endeavour. Now, they have been remastered for a new century. Introduction by Tim Peake. Photographs restored by Andy Saunders
- The tear in Armstrong's eye photo is one of my all-time favourite photos.Nairn
- anyone remember the moon exhibition where they scanned in the images at grain resoltuion and then printed them out at large scale. they were amazing.hans_glib
- http://www.michaelli…hans_glib
- Thanks for sharingOBBTKN
- Nairn1
Oy yeah. Oh yea, yeah. More, please.
- We've gone from penises to tampons. In terms of design shape.shapesalad
- d'oh
"Aww yiss, yiss yiss!"Nairn - we live in a world where we have this, yet we also have the island boys._niko
- Lol @nikoOBBTKN
- he lives in New Zealand, as far removed you can be from the island boyshotroddy
- utopian2
Astronomers see back of a black hole for first time, proving Albert Einstein was right.
- paywall. observed xrays coming off an accretion disk, bent by gravity (gen. relativity), allowing us to detect them tho on the other side. bad headline.sarahfailin
- general relativity has already been "proven" many times. we didn't see "the back of a black hole" black holes spin very fast, so we always see all sides.sarahfailin
- All I want to know is are black holes racists or what?Ianbolton
- not as racist as white holes, cracker!sarahfailin
- White dwarf stars are not only racist, but ableist.monospaced
- https://www.vice.com…canoe
- ^this headline is much more accurate.sarahfailin
- Krassy4
NASA's $2.2bn Perseverance LANDS on Mars: Rover survives 'seven minutes of terror' to embark on 2-year mission to search for extra terrestrial life in crater that was once a lake