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Stratolaunch: 'World's largest plane' lifts off for the first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-u…
"Built by Stratolaunch, the company set up by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, the aircraft is designed to act as a flying launch pad for satellites.
According to their website, Stratolaunch aims to 'make access to orbit as routine as catching a commercial airline flight is today.'"
- NBQ00-1
- oh fuck off with this negative shit.Nairn
- Kill the messengerNBQ00
- Also what's so negative? He's just saying all the hype isn't fair to her and not fair to the team who worked on it.NBQ00
- Messenger? Regurgitator of crap YouTubery. As for your bleating, she's made a lot of noise about sharing credit, so your whinge about hype isNairn
- the same tired old shit about misplaced media focus. So what? It's age old news. Instead you're just spouting negative crap not in the spirit of this threadNairn
- spouting negative crap? Seems you're very thin skinned.NBQ00
- Is yours a personal attack? No, so how on Earth can my reaction be thin-skinned? Is your video here a positive post? No, so..?Nairn
- lemmy_k1
Way to go, SpaceX. All three boosters landed.
- sted0
- fadein113
40 billion km across and 500 million trillion km away.
- Nairn2
So we all know that the movie Interstellar had a 'true' rendering of a Black Hole, and I recall a lot of editorial implying it was the first time it'd been done. Clearly they meant 'in a movie', rather than generally.
It turns out that how a Black Hole should look (visually, upclose - not with radio, from afar as today) was actually modelled way back in 1978 - https://blogs.futura-sciences.co…
The one in Interstellar should've looked a lot more bezerk than it ended up being, with extreme doppler shifting making the result lop-sided and torn
- Well, I guess none of these actually show a black hole, rather .. https://consequenceo…Nairn
- fascinating!monospaced
- Oops, that nature link again: http://blogs.nature.…Nairn
- Nairn1
Tonight is the second launch of the Falcon Heavy (its first commercial launch) and tomorrow, all being well, Israel will become the fourth country to [soft] land something on the moon.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-…
Fun times in Spaaaace!
- ok_not_ok12
- "They finally managed to take a pic of your mom's anus"Nairn
- out of focusuan
- Original is 185MB https://www.eso.org/…
Why?drgs - seriously science, learn to focusGnash
- yeah, how hard is it to focus on something 100,000 light years away, ffs?monospaced
- That's what happens when you open up the aperture too much, kids.Continuity
- There are sooo many bad jokes I can think of right now...SimonFFM
- Let down. Looks like most black hole artist renderings ive seen lolCygnusZero4
- It is a render from data, not a photo capturing visible light... right?robthelad
- guys... http://www.canon.ca/…aliastime
- ^ SimonFFM, I'm sure you've seen your share of these over the years?
; )ideaist - Is this from the penis cam someone posted?BH26
- https://i.imgur.com/…BH26
- at the other end of it doctors are waiting.. .lol all the.comments.sted
- M87 is 55 million light-years from Earthutopian
- been there.neverscared
- So M87 isn't just a crappy band?futurefood
- https://techcrunch.c…imbecile
- Soundgarden Supernkown cover.stoplying
- its just a blob, could be anything. The Earph is flat anyway!!!!1Bennn
- So, the gravity of the discovery here is that black holes are not black?Krassy
- Well, their event horizons and accretion discs certainly aren't.Continuity
- This article talks about the accretion disc having a color/intensity shift due to the direction of spin... could that be the asymmetry we see?monNom
- ^ https://io9.gizmodo.…monNom
- LOL.. my entire Facebook has been nothing but this all morning.. but it took until qbn that the first “your mom” comment .. never change QBNautoflavour
- HHhhm space donut_niko
- Seems almost non news worthy... i feel like its a prelude to chinas 70'th communism bash. A US PR releasedeathboy
- china has been pushing the space lately, chinas the wandering earth reminds me of shit i read early in the space race with politicsdeathboy
- personally i prefer more theory than photos of relevance to blackholes in our concepts of reality and time and matter.deathboy
- It's a hole in the dome.robthelad
- It's an incredible nothing. Carry on with your praises...robotron3k
- it's practically the opposite of nothing robo. it's so massive that not even light can escape its gravity. pull your head out of your own black hole anussarahfailin
- But then again a singularity is 'physically impossible' and everything beyond the event horizon is taken from our universe, so he's also sort of right.Nairn
- uan1
first image of a black hole press conference in 20mins...