"'The history of humanity is where there are military advantages, the military will operate. People will try to neutralize those advantages and try to exploit those advantages. And space is no different.'"
@ai6yr I think that is really smart of them. I am also frustated with the hate for it because “Rich" are doing it... of course they are. Just as the rich helped usher in things like... checks notes sailing over the ocean, rail travel, cars, airplane travel....
So I appreciate the rich for forging forward on space travel so one day I can too.
@AVL_5 it has been some interesting few weeks around here regarding space related phenomena: first we had the auroras (that weren't seen since the 19th century) and now a meteor illuminating the sky XD however both times I was too distracted to know beforehand 🤭
👽 Scientists Identify Seven Star Systems That May Be Hosting Alien Megastructures
— @futurism
"They created a list of seven strong candidates that may be hosting Dyson spheres by analyzing observations from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite an, as well as more infrared survey results from other ground- and space-based telescopes.
The seven candidates are all M-dwarf stars, meaning they're both smaller and dimmer than our Sun."
"'It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken.'"
An initiative by "astrophysicists, policy experts, artists, and stargazers" to help people submit comments on the @FCC proposal to allow direct-to-device cell phone service from LEO satellites: https://www.kesslerrebellion.com/take-action
@65dBnoise
It is a little frustrating that SuperCam isn't taking a break from doing close up shots of wrinkly rocks, to photograph Ingenuity from another angle.
I would think that the helicopter team would want as many photos of that final landing as possible, to help determine what, exactly, went wrong.
@tom30519
I may have turned into a pessimist, but judging by telltales and gut feelings, this might be a result of budgetary cuts. If NASA apply the governing US policy for space privatization, a.k.a. $→"space economy", it only follows that science missions will see dramatic changes. We may be seeing that already.
But to balance it, we may see more of:
"Here is superhero Musk crash-landing a Starship on Mars!
What a great success for space economy!
Humanity, rejoice!"
🙄
Eric Knight KB1EHE @i_eric wrote a book (no longer in print, but maybe we can encourage him to re-release it as an ebook) "The New Race to Space" about CSXT's Space Shots: failed 2000/2002 & success 2004. (Cover photo by me.) https://www.thenewracetospace.com/#NewSpace#rocketry#history
I really respect Eric's approach to his book, how he meticulously made sure to credit every volunteer by name, unless they asked not to be. He led the avionics development. I led the range safety & search teams. We collaborated to get the lists right. #NewSpace#rocketry#history
I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.