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- lemmy_k7
- how is this the first manned flight since whenever exactly ? How are astronauts getting into the space station right now then?srhadden
- I think they were going on Russian rockets.lemmy_k
- since NASA decommissioned the space shuttlehotroddy
- Lol when I heard them say Bob and Doug are heading to space I almost spit out my Molson's_niko
- ETA 1 hour "GO FOR LAUNCH!" confirmedgrafician
- Take off you hoser!fooler
- how can they not check the weather in advance?zaq
- dick move Weather! grrrgrafician
- +1 I get my space news from QBNhotroddy
- But climate change is real!!!!!Hayoth
- ^ about the only thing he said that's not bat shit crazypango
- https://www.youtube.…pablo28
- Hayomookutopian
- lol @ _niko
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- PonyBoy0
Scrubbed :(
- Nairn0
"Inside SpinLaunch, the Space Industry’s Best Kept Secret
The company is building a massive centrifuge to accelerate rockets and send them screaming into space."
- Nairn0
‘Oumuamua — hydrogen iceberg... star-seed?
- grafician1
"Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
The find could be a big clue about the nature of fast radio bursts."
"Astronomers have discovered an activity cycle in another fast radio burst, potentially unearthing a significant clue about these mysterious deep-space phenomena.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extragalactic flashes of light that pack a serious wallop, unleashing in a few milliseconds as much energy as Earth's sun does in a century. Scientists first spotted an FRB in 2007, and the cause of these eruptions remains elusive nearly a decade and a half later; potential explanations range from merging superdense neutron stars to advanced alien civilizations.
More than 100 FRBs have been discovered to date, and most of them are one-offs, flaring up just a single time (as far as we know). In January of this year, astronomers reported that one member of the "repeater" class, called FRB 180916.J0158+65, appears to exhibit a 16-day activity cycle: It fires off bursts for a four-day stretch, goes quiet for 12 days and then starts all over again."
- grafician3
"1st U.S. Woman To Walk In Space Dives To Deepest Point In The Ocean
June 9, 2020 4:12 PM ET
Kathy Sullivan has seen her share of highs and lows.
Sullivan, the first U.S. woman to walk in space, a veteran of three shuttle missions and an enshrined member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, took a perilous journey downward this week.
She became the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on Earth, in the South Pacific."
- Nairn1
Some BEAUTIFUL sequences here. Seems I've not been keeping up to date with SX launch footage, as I'd not seen some of this incredible imagery.
- NBQ000
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This basically means that intergalactic space travel will never be possible or anything would be instantly vaporized?: https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel…
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In previous work, researchers at The Ohio State University found that parts of the Milky Way's halo -- the hazy fog of dust, gas and dark matter that surrounds some galaxies -- was at least 10 times hotter than anyone had known before.
This new research found that the extreme temperatures the researchers found in the original analysis -- up to 10 million degrees Kelvin, or about 18 million degrees Fahrenheit -- could possibly be found in the entire halo, said Smita Mathur, professor of astronomy at Ohio State.
- Getting a bit ahead of yourself - there's a good chance that interstellar travel will be impossible, at least in any practical sense within a single culture.Nairn
- well sub-space won't be a problemgrafician
- also there was a SF novel that described rings (zones) in the galaxy where life can thrive as it couldn't thrive all over the galaxy at random places...grafician
- anyway, here's more info on galaxy habitable zone https://phys.org/new…grafician
- NBQ000
There Could Be 36 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy https://futurism.com/research-co…
- Nairn0
Apparently SpaceX is taking its first steps into beginning sea-based launches, likely for Starship
- and for commercial travel too as most cities are on the coasthotroddy
- meh, I don't think that'll come to pass for a long time, if ever. Rockets = very loud = very far from cities = long commute to spaceport = loss of benefitNairn
- even so, having fleets of essentially huge ballistic missiles flinging cross the world all day long will likely not be popular.Nairn
- imagine what a future 9/11 scenario with a 100k kg ballistic mass aimed near a city might accomplish... .Nairn
- grafician1
- Is it because I'm avoiding the news I heard nothing about this before it happened or was it all 'under the radar'?webazoot
- Normally its weeks of articles and programs if the moon is going to look a hair bigger then normal. For this nothing.webazoot
- Not really in the news-news, more in tech/astronomy news with some mainstream news spillgrafician
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