@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.
“We’ve talked in the past about there being academic evidence, engineering studies. What we are actually seeing now with those satellites in operation is empirical evidence. You see the noise floor on our satellites increase to the degree that services cannot be provided.”
After years of searching, astronomers have finally detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet around another star.
But what a strange planet it is! 55 Cancri e seems to be blanketed in carbon dioxide gas bubbling out of a global ocean of lava. Like an image out of Dante's Inferno.
One of the great frustrations in the search for life in the universe: It's much easier to study extreme, hellish planets (huge, hot, etc) than to study the moderate worlds where life could plausibly exist.
Why don't we ever see the far side of the moon? From Earth, it appears as if the moon doesn't rotate at all, but it does spin on its axis, just like Earth does. However, the moon is tidally locked to our planet. That means it takes just as long for the moon to rotate about its axis as it does to orbit Earth — roughly one month.
This is definitely an interesting read about the moon getting its own time zone.
It actually makes perfect sense in so many ways. I really hope since the moon time zone won't honor DST(Daylight Savings Time) that this helps us here on Earth get rid of it as well and not honor it going forward.
@cliffwade the issue is, that I often write time-sensitive programs and apps - Android launchers, custom loggers, alarms, network stuff, etc.
moon TZ sounds crazy to me because from an engineering point of view
@bpavuk I totally get what you are saying. I work for a major Android launcher myself and have for 8 1/2 years. A timezone on the moon seems weird, but interesting.
@65dBnoise
Could that be an abandoned chain mail helmet beside it? Perhaps two warring factions realized the futility of battle, discarded their stuff and went off to the nearest pub together... 🍺 🍺
