Soldato
Have just been watching the Apollo 15 crew deploying the lunar rover. Fascinating stuff and a bit comical when you think of a space program using rope to unfold and remove a rover.
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Have just been watching the Apollo 15 crew deploying the lunar rover. Fascinating stuff and a bit comical when you think of a space program using rope to unfold and remove a rover.
Soldato
Japan is about to land it's Hyabusa 2 probe on an asteroid and 'harvest' it with a vacuum cleaner (very Spaceballs) and then will fire a projectile into said asteroid to gather more samples.
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190220e_TDPoint/
http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/hayabusa2/
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190220e_TDPoint/
http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/hayabusa2/
Hyabusa 2 has now become....Mega Maid!
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Heads up the SpaceX Crew Dragon test is tomorrow at 7.50am.
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27 hours from now they said for docking so I guess a late night for me! Was a fantastic launch and was awesome droneship footage. Space is getting closer!
Soldato
Live space walk for those that are interested.
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The webcast for the second Falcon Heavy launch is up, it won't be live for around 25hrs but the excitement is building.
I'm really hoping for a triple landing success this time. Even if not, a double landing and even the sheer spectacle of by far the most powerful rocket currently operating is enough to give me serious hype.
I'm really hoping for a triple landing success this time. Even if not, a double landing and even the sheer spectacle of by far the most powerful rocket currently operating is enough to give me serious hype.
Don
First ever photo of a black hole is being published tomorrow apparently.
Yup. Triple landing would be great. It is a massively impressive thing to watch launch online, can't imagine what it'd be like in person.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592
Not what I was expecting, looks pretty mundane considering it's the most destructive thing to exist in the universe
How many light years is 500 million trillion km's ?
Tree fiddy.
Soldato
Just goes to show how accurate our knowledge of Physics really is. We just keep confirming was Einstein figured out a century ago.
Indeed,, some smart people out there who didn't buckle when pressure was in about their ideas being garbage.
Ita like how people think its crazy that we won't be living in a computer one day. It's not that ridiculous!
Its a great thing we have such variety in the species (except the cretins)
Whilst this is impressive (And I think Newton postulated "Black Holes", there may even have been others before him)
There is a part of me that says that saying you can photograph a black hole is a bit like saying you can photograph the hole in the middle of a Polo Mint
You can infer its presence by what is going on around it, but you cant really photograph the hole itself..
Pretty much what I was expecting given the sheer difficulty of observing it - crazy to think it took ridiculous amounts of data just to produce that blurry low resolution image but each pixel represents actual recorded data.
To be honest I'll be more impressed when/if we manage to direct image planets in other solar systems at a resolution that shows recognisable surface features than the first proper resolution image of a blackhole.
Soldato
Not sure if it’s been mentioned but Falcon Heavy launch tonight 22.15GMT