** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

wildest_jjk said:
What was the conclusion of it? Missed most of it unfortunately :(
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I haven't read much more than what has been speculated on, don't think we have any solid info from them yet, it'll probably be a while for Rocket Lab to post their conclusions. Always a shame when things like this happen.

To be fair I tend to just watch Scott Manley for updates/speculation/information on things like this, he has posted about it, but he like everyone else is waiting on further information.

 
VaderDSL said:
I haven't read much more than what has been speculated on, don't think we have any solid info from them yet, it'll probably be a while for Rocket Lab to post their conclusions. Always a shame when things like this happen.

To be fair I tend to just watch Scott Manley for updates/speculation/information on things like this, he has posted about it, but he like everyone else is waiting on further information.

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Great will check it out, thanks!
 
I was thinking about this recently and figured I'd pose the question on the likelihood that this may one day be a reality. I know the chances are slim, the Drake equation fits the present time frame but doesn't factor in the past or future and we can only work on the knowledge of life as we know it, not some other exotic life out there that evolves intelligence but....

... Light needs time to travel the far reaches of space, assuming a system out there had the right conditions to evolve life as we know it (or maybe even exotic life we cant' even imagine yet), they may have evolved to an advanced enough level to optically record other worlds, super advanced telescopes or probes that can get close enough then spend an equal amount of time (relative to the observer) to travel back with whatever they recorded?

My thought was that assume that one of these civilisations visited our solar system during its early life, like when the dinosaurs were still roaming, and they recorded images of those times. Once we advanced enough to be able to reach far enough into the stars to come across one of their probes we may well be able to see images/video of Earth in its early days.

There's a lot more in-between to detail but in its simplest form that was my thinking, that light from our area of the universe took so long to reach their side, that by the time it reached them they were advanced enough to capture it and record it even if they were not advanced enough to physically travel there whereas we one day may be and then come across their technology which hopefully they make easy to access in a universal fashion like we have with the golden records and other media on the various NASA probes out there.
 
Malevolence said:
Yeah, sad fact is that by the time I'd have enough saved to have a go suborbital/orbital flights will be offered free with every purchase of Walkers crisps or something.
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Maybe the local fair raffle will offer one as a second place prize once Elon declares himself king of Mars and everyone leaves earth for redder pastures.
 
The last two have been great, because of the Jellyfish effect and then the camera angle of the landing, but I must admit I'm losing interest due to the success rate and frequency of the launches. The Starship launches are far more interesting because of the uncertainty of the outcome.
 
Yeah, I know what you mean. These Falcon 9 launches and landings are impressive as hell, but the Starship, New Shepherd and VSS Unity flights are proper food for us science fiction nerds.
 
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