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QwertyThePie#1615: Why bother developing a theory of everything when we still don't know why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch? Salt#1137: the TOE would include that Ouais#0164: Have you guys heard of planet x Ouais#0164: They changed the name to planet 9 cause Pluto Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: I think so W...
3. Adding X to the end sounds cooler/scarier so conspiritards gave it a nickname and picked a random date where it will supposedly hit earth General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I wonder how many people commited suicide because they were afraid that niburu would hit earth 🤔 Nile blue#1483: Nothing of value was lost Nile blu...
QwertyThePie#1615: 8 inches is awfully long for a sugar rocket Maviras#2454: Does the US Government have a plan for if Extraterrestrials coming to earth? QwertyThePie#1615: They have a plan for just about everything, so probably Brodaha#1616: What do you think would happen Ouais#0164: We’d all be harvested for organs O...
Deleted User 785es519#5571: What would happen if we nuked Venus? Hwaet#4348: a lot of debris for sure Hwaet#4348: it would be a danger for the Earth Wilii#0967: The chances of that would be very small, plus a nuke wouldn't throw that much rock out of Venus's gravity and thick atmosphere SpaceGrandpa#6827: @landsharkxx ...
landsharkxx#9090: How much energy do I need to surf on the wave of spacetime? Gabby#4983: defining it as anything that warps spacetime is begging the question Gabby#4983: so that doesn't work Moist Mayonnaise#5570: Dark energy is a psyop Moist Mayonnaise#5570: Ssssh Gabby#4983: you could define it as anything that cont...
Thomas#9514: liftoff soon Thomas#9514: like now landsharkxx#9090: Can we make Jupiter into a star and have a binary star system? SpaceGrandpa#6827: Add more Hydrogen and Helium Jake From Snake Farm#2112: Which one of you can tell me my horoscope? Jake From Snake Farm#2112: jk, but what is the name of probe were sending...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: @Jake From Snake Farm 300x the speed of voyager is 5100kms, or 0.01c. That means that our improvised voyager probe will take 430 years to get there General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: not bad, but we can do better General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: but can we really hit 5100kms in our solar system...
QwertyThePie#1615: Proxima is part of the Alpha Centauri system. QwertyThePie#1615: That's like saying the sun is more interesting than the solar system. General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: if you had a choice to send a probe to proxima or to alpha centauri a/b, what would you choose? QwertyThePie#1615: I dunno, would you c...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: sending one probe is stupid. it has to pass through the oort cloud, and im pretty sure that some probes will be k.o'd from hitting some of the dust at 0.2c QwertyThePie#1615: Can only hope that none of them actually hit Proxima Centauri B General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: 🤔 QwertyThePie#161...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: a 3 gram probe traveling at 0.2c General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: 1.2kt of tnt General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: 8% of the total energy released in the hiroshima bomb General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: idk if that will punch through our atmosphere but ill do a little more research Hwaet#4348: what...
Salt#1137: Yeah landsharkxx#9090: But how much delta V? Salt#1137: Depends on where your nearest black hole is landsharkxx#9090: Let’s just say it’s a supermassive black hole because the smaller ones are more violent due to event horizons or whatever. What distance would I need to be at to reach near the speed of light...
landsharkxx#9090: I want to die by going inside one tbh. Jin#0001: I studided them during my masters but its been a while, my work isnt on BHs for my phd Jin#0001: But the transfer is not big enough Jin#0001: Gravity assist is nonsense Jin#0001: It would work but you wont get a great result landsharkxx#9090: But it’d b...
QwertyThePie#1615: Astronomy has always been the meme channel. Luckily, I gave up on using this server for serious discussion long ago. landsharkxx#9090: Helios 1 went 70km/s. That’s all we got for now. General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: hey look, if we can use lasers to propel spacecraft to 0.2c its clearly much more effi...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS landsharkxx#9090: >jaxa >naming things after anime. >caring about it QwertyThePie#1615: I don't think solar sails are "basically Star Trek" landsharkxx#9090: They aren’t QwertyThePie#1615: As interstellar proposals go, Starshot is at least physically p...
SpaceGrandpa#6827: That too Pontus#7011: Have you guys heard about "The ultimate fate of the universe"? Salt#1137: heat death SpaceGrandpa#6827: Or the big rip SpaceGrandpa#6827: Or big crunch Salt#1137: or Vacuum meta-stability events landsharkxx#9090: The universe is cyclical Salt#1137: actually its a torus landshark...
landsharkxx#9090: Are you memeing because mining black holes is a meme. Salt#1137: nah Salt#1137: just take a pickaxe and chip away landsharkxx#9090: Go mine a black hole rn Salt#1137: aight get me a rocket and a pickaxe landsharkxx#9090: I’ll just use Hawking radiation. Salt#1137: thats the losers way of doing it Salt...
landsharkxx#9090: I have a way to travel faster than light Salt#1137: I activate white hole Salt#1137: negating his black hole and reversing its effect landsharkxx#9090: But meh information theory Salt#1137: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/368141965080002560/latest.png landsharkxx#9090: Well ...
SpaceGrandpa#6827: So like SpaceGrandpa#6827: I guess i should apply SpaceGrandpa#6827: Even though the northwest scares me because of its convergence boundary being ready to spring whenever and kill everything Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: You were just at JPL, are you in California? Salt#1137: frequent flier Wiskeywe...
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Also i think the San Andreas fault will be a baby compred to when the Cascadia goes Salt#1137: Yellowstone tho SpaceGrandpa#6827: Last time it went, it killed an entire Native American tribe off Salt#1137: RIP Haida Gwaii 🙏 SpaceGrandpa#6827: And the tsunami waves travelled all the way to Japan Spac...
It is possible to quibble with that number. Recurrence intervals are averages, and averages are tricky: ten is the average of nine and eleven, but also of eighteen and two. It is not possible, however, to dispute the scale of the problem. The devastation in Japan in 2011 was the result of a discrepancy between what the...
Gabby#4983: i.e. when compared to itself professor#7519: I didn't get it professor#7519: Can u explain more? professor#7519: Could u draw it? professor#7519: Sadly I'm unauthorized to send the picture professor#7519: Are u authorized? yaet#0647: if you google kepler's second law im pretty sure the first image will give...
Pim#2651: There are some messages which explain all the roles, just read them and take the roles that suit you. Hwaet#4348: coolio Deleted User#0000: ​I have removed that role. Deleted User#0000: ​I have assigned that role. SuchPain - Brent#4999: that wont happen and no country will launch a rocket with a nuclear warhe...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: we dont know yet General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: but I think its legit General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: inb4 flat earthers say "if it orbits our sun then why havent we discovered it yet? therefore earth = flat :GWcfcThonk:" landsharkxx#9090: Nah, it exist Bruh. General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498:...
Hwaet#4348: you could've scrolled up tho QwertyThePie#1615: oh no not again Deleted User 785es519#5571: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/planet-x-nine-9-nibiru-nasa-conspiracy-theory-apocalypse-destroy-life-earth-a7997296.html Epoctal#1157: Sorry my scroll button is Brocken Epoctal#1157: Wait can I have anoth...
SpaceGrandpa#6827: ^ professor#7519: 👀 SpaceGrandpa#6827: Also the color-naming conventions of stars isn’t reeeally based on their actual colors SpaceGrandpa#6827: It’s something called the Planckian Locus SpaceGrandpa#6827: And it just so happens to line up with most of their colors SpaceGrandpa#6827: Not G dwarfs th...
Epoctal#1157: No cubes whatsoever SpaceGrandpa#6827: Yeah gravity. Gravity pulls in all directions so it leads to round shapes. A cube shape would be super unstable because some point would be *much* further from the center of mass than others. Epoctal#1157: Hmm Epoctal#1157: True Epoctal#1157: I heard the closer you a...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: Study skills in a nutshell One kid keeps going on gaming websites, teacher catches him but lets him go 5 times in a row Teacher catches me watching a video about dark matter and she immediately bans me from using my computer Primetl#9722: lmao Deleted User#0000: That seems like a very an...
SpaceGrandpa#6827: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/369546949705072641/image.png DraDeviation#2561: k landsharkxx#9090: Pauli Salt#1137: results inconclusive landsharkxx#9090: lol SuchPain - Brent#4999: dont worry all of us here believed that the earth is really flat. same as the atmosphere is...
C0RNBR34D#4358: How long do you guys realistically think it'll be before traveling to Mars is a normal thing? C0RNBR34D#4358: Think it will be in our lifetimes? General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: 🤔 General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: for scientific purposes or for tourism? C0RNBR34D#4358: Both C0RNBR34D#4358: I mean for anyone...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I think the moon might be a better target General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: both scientifically and economically C0RNBR34D#4358: Venus is definitely a place worth going soon, but the primary focus at the moment is to make humanity multiplanetary. General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: the moon is an...
LittleBixPlanet#7075: nerd talk here LittleBixPlanet#7075: lol C0RNBR34D#4358: While I haven't really done much research into it, why is it worth the time/effort to research fusion? General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: He-3 is 90 times the price of gold, so not only can you build a research base on the frickin moon, which is...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: 3. Chernobyl could have been prevented, had it not been for an inexperienced team and the soviets not evacuating pripyat at the time LittleBixPlanet#7075: Nobody died?! General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: in fukushima no, in chernobyl yes LittleBixPlanet#7075: Oh LittleBixPlanet#7075: dang Gen...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: you should C0RNBR34D#4358: There are many ways life could go extinct on Earth. Mars being much further means the chance of survival is much greater than on the Moon C0RNBR34D#4358: Know any good sources to learn from? General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: um General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: mars i...
To add to this there is another nuclear plant just a few miles away from Fukushima that was hit harder and suffered no major damage at all, as it was a more modern design. Yet the anti-nuclear fearmongers pretend Fukushima is a nuclear wasteland still to this day and no one can go there.... Despite the fact conference...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: to show how stupid some anti-nuclear fearmongers are... this is basically their logic: "Airplanes are incredibly dangerous to the enviroment!" "They emit fuel which is harmful for the enviroment!" "When an airplane crashes, it explodes and kills trees as well as people!" "Airplanes are b...
Hwaet#4348: RIP General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: Next year I will campaign against him Hwaet#4348: 🍿 SpaceGrandpa#6827: Please do SpaceGrandpa#6827: And kick his a s s badmath hype-train (<3 Togg)#6531: no kicking SpaceGrandpa#6827: 💃 Gabby#4983: Run on a platform that the teachers are secretly squirrel people Deleted...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: just realized Hwaet#4348: 7 hours of Q&A?! LittleBixPlanet#7075: Hello General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: hi Epoctal#1157: https://www.seeker.com/space/astrophysics/scientists-wonder-if-the-collision-of-two-neutron-stars-created-a-black-hole GenosArtem#1830: Hmm this is very interesting Genos...
Thomas#9514: That pains me, and I don't even have any knowlege ofther than the 'spookyness' of quantum mechanics. Gabby#4983: quantum mechanics is spooky Salt#1137: 👻 Gabby#4983: this means anything is possible, including using it to sell books with bad medical advice rakr#2435: ^^^^ Moist Mayonnaise#5570: Bad medical...
"Strange things happen in quantum mechanics that cannot be explained by logic, so earth is flat, even though it may not seem like it can be round, if quantum tunneling exists and cant be explained then the earth can be flat as well" Moist Mayonnaise#5570: But quantum tunnelling is really easily explained :( Salt#1137: ...
landsharkxx#9090: https://www.teslarati.com/nasa-us-air-force-endorse-spacex-reusable-falcon-9-rockets/ hmmst Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: Orionoids peak tonight Deleted User#0000: i lor eomrn landsharkxx#9090: they peak today. landsharkxx#9090: Optimal viewing should be around 2AM on Sunday October 22nd SpaceGrandpa#6...
Deleted User#0000: I'm saying I don't believe in the flat earth theories I'm saying I wanna know what evidence they find that makes them believe it. Salt#1137: its simple really Salt#1137: on small scales the earth acts as if it were flat Salt#1137: and then reject any and all counterevidence Hwaet#4348: based on the f...
Salt#1137: this is the law of rocketry General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: first law of rocketry: the bigger, the cooler it is second law of rocketry: the bigger, the more complaining enviromentalists you get. third law of rocketry: more expensive = more complaining conspiritards and "why would you wastr money for this?" co...
End of days#5934: -help Deleted User#0000: @here I have an awesome question, could we cause the sun to revolve around us if all humans started maiting, insest even, to create millions more humans very quickly, somehow adding 20 billion humans on the planet, could we make the earth weigh so much that we have our own mas...
Deleted User#0000: Is it possible that plant like life could exist on other planets but not other forms of life? Salt#1137: no Salt#1137: plants would have to come from single cellular bacteria and protists Salt#1137: also historically, plants developed after animals on earth Deleted User#0000: I was thinking that it w...
Hwaet#4348: *Re^2 Snakeman#2491: Sorry, my bad QwertyThePie#1615: Wouldn't the gravity changes just be linear inside the Earth? QwertyThePie#1615: It's only an inverse-squared relationship above the surface SpaceGrandpa#6827: The gravity at the center of the earth will be less because there is less mass between you and...
Blue#6915: why earth "photos" all of them have dark background without any light like stars, galactic or whatever ? Salt#1137: because its usually day during the photo, the sun far outshines the rest of the sky Salt#1137: if you take a picture behind the earth you can usually see the stars Blue#6915: here is day and ni...
Salt#1137: well its not totally dark, there is still light seeping through :baa: Blue#6915: think about it, i am going to bed Blue#6915: cya Salt#1137: I did, just now, gn Moist Mayonnaise#5570: The Earth is much much much brighter than the background stars Moist Mayonnaise#5570: If you set the exposure of your camera ...
SuchPain - Brent#4999: nuclear is still the best energy source in my opinion. Deleted User#0000: I'm not too into the science of Magnetics, but can't a magnet in term create unlimited energy?, E.x A magnet attracting towards another on a windmill than pushing another magnet away while grabbing another one at the same t...
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: And if you discount that observation than its not interstellar Jo Bach#2856: Time will tell landsharkxx#9090: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/372916926705565707/image.png isabel#4358: Somebody convince me that the earth isn't 6000 years old? CHA#2429: Convince me ...
isabel#4358: Those are just NASA propoganda isabel#4358: The truth is out there isabel#4358: It's in the book isabel#4358: Erdos knew about the book isabel#4358: He read from it isabel#4358: Saw what it said isabel#4358: He knew isabel#4358: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős#Personality Dalek#9506: carbon dating...
isabel#4358: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol Brune#9850: lol Brune#9850: no Brune#9850: super cluster in space Brune#9850: so like I need a reference Brune#9850: e.g. we are here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Earth%27s_Location_in_the_Universe_VERTICAL_%28JPEG%29.jpg isabel#43...
Brune#9850: So in theory if we travel to say the hydra-centaurius supercluster I want to be able to use a time that isn't just earth years Brune#9850: I am not a troll Brune#9850: I am legit trying to find a reference Brune#9850: as time is relative right? Brune#9850: so I figure I'd want to be able to point at say the...
isabel#4358: Did you apprecate my natural gradient stuff? isabel#4358: It follows from Newton's method isabel#4358: It;s actually super cool Brune#9850: peaking at it now Brune#9850: yeah its not bad Brune#9850: reminds me... if I could be off topic for a second, of when I built out a heat simulation system for Mektek ...
Brune#9850: for sure isabel#4358: Fat $80 steak while spinning isabel#4358: Get Microsoft to comp it isabel#4358: 👌 Brune#9850: 80? you haven't seen the new prices isabel#4358: Oh that was over a year ago isabel#4358: Actually haven't been out west on over a year Brune#9850: I went up there with comcast a few years ba...
Brune#9850: nah Brune#9850: I work at inxile Brune#9850: I don't want to work on minecraft vr isabel#4358: Oh RIP games isabel#4358: What specifically do you do? isabel#4358: Please say path planning Brune#9850: I am an unreal engine 4 game developer isabel#4358: you work on the engine itself? Brune#9850: "senior" isab...
Brune#9850: heh yeah Brune#9850: well no its C++ Brune#9850: but its basically C# isabel#4358: Isn't client code C#? Brune#9850: nah Brune#9850: C++ Brune#9850: its just very very special C++ isabel#4358: Also C++ and C# are very much not the same thing Brune#9850: with its own memory management Brune#9850: yes but thi...
Brune#9850: making games isabel#4358: Is everything a shared_ptr? isabel#4358: Ayyyy Brune#9850: actually Brune#9850: kinda isabel#4358: Who needs a stack when they have a heap, amirite? Brune#9850: don't worry we have a lot of things on stack* isabel#4358: I mean I am worrying isabel#4358: lol dat edit Brune#9850: 😛 ...
isabel#4358: Something something undergrads are slaves Brune#9850: lol Brune#9850: peace isabel#4358: byeee Epoctal#1157: Hey does anyone know what they discovered about planet 9? Deleted User#0000: I know they haven't discovered a name Deleted User#0000: @Epoctal According to <http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/870...
landsharkxx#9090: So like the Crab nebula vs like the the ring nebula? davedubya#6732: That would be a clear example of the difference in shape and structure. davedubya#6732: Although some planetary nebulae have a rather complex structure. landsharkxx#9090: Is the difference between a supernova remanent and an emission...
Salt#1137: Dope landsharkxx#9090: ok Blue#6915: how guys can you explain this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN8yhUzqLCA&feature=youtu.be Hwaet#4348: well Hwaet#4348: it sounds ridiculous if they ever wanted to pass a serious message Blue#6915: what explanation you can give me on this what you can see on this video ? ...
Salt#1137: *the sun Salt#1137: between the earth and the observer would mean you're either in space or it crashed Hwaet#4348: oops Hwaet#4348: unfortunately these people reject the "NASA" science (as if they were the fathers of astronomy) and so better theories are completely discarded. QwertyThePie#1615: You know what...
SlowBerry#4050: If I'm not mistaking a BH-NS collision isn't really a thing is it ? The NS would get ripped apart by tidal forces while getting close to the black hole right ? Wouldn't that emit gravitational waves we would be able to detect ? Moist Mayonnaise#5570: No, a star colliding with a black hole like you say w...
AmalM#6443: How do they distinguish if the merging objects are BH&BH or BH&NS or NS&NS? Salt#1137: id imagine you can figure out the masses of the objects involved, and that blackholes and neutron stars only exists in certain mass spaces Salt#1137: i dont know any further details Cheloniidae#5041: Salt is correct, for ...
Epoctal#1157: Nothing is nothing Epoctal#1157: But if I say nothing existed Epoctal#1157: Nothing does exist Epoctal#1157: But nothing cannot exist Epoctal#1157: 😏 Epoctal#1157: Now how do I put it as such that nothing exists but doesn’t exist Epoctal#1157: What is nothing then Epoctal#1157: Or should I say the great ...
DestroyTheSauce#3740: Considering dark energy and dark matter, "nothingness" could be quite a lot in reality. Moist Mayonnaise#5570: Dark energy and dark matter aren't nothingness landsharkxx#9090: Space isn’t nothing landsharkxx#9090: “Nothingness” is real but it’s not nothing Stomachid#9639: Yes, I love virtual parti...
Epoctal#1157: But in my earlier paradox Epoctal#1157: I said nothing exists Epoctal#1157: But Epoctal#1157: How can something that never existed exist Epoctal#1157: But I did tell you it exists so it has to exist right? Epoctal#1157: Hmm 😘 Paradoxica#0001: abstractions SpaceGrandpa#6827: Everyone that checks this chan...
davedubya#6732: Yes. It didn't look like much. Augustus#0236: I forgot to come on here Augustus#0236: I finished the 6" f/4.5 Augustus#0236: Here it is the night I tested the unaluminized mirror on Saturn https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/375460397077233667/finished.jpg Augustus#0236: here's a p...
I agree. It's not for the show but for the satisfaction of perceiving the light of an asteroid. Augustus#0236: @Hwaet the scope, the photo, or both? Hwaet#4348: I was talking about the scope, but the photo is good. Augustus#0236: thx Augustus#0236: Now that the 6" f/4.5 is finished I'm designing its much bigger sibling...
Hwaet#4348: no acquaintances also means more time to explore the surroundings instead of chatting with your friends 😉 Augustus#0236: @Meh @Thomas A little under $900 Meh#9127: damn Augustus#0236: @Meh Well a new 14" from China is $1650 Augustus#0236: and mine will have a quartz mirror Augustus#0236: so Meh#9127: nice ...
Asterius#4996: i think im too dirty minded Meh#9127: hmmm Augustus#0236: So Proxima has a bunch of debris disks Augustus#0236: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/dust-belts-proxima-centauri/ Augustus#0236: and probably another planet at 1.3 AU Tortoise#5295: Hey guys Remavas#3737: hey Tortoise#5295: Anybody excited for 2022...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: says 2022 and magnitude 2 Augustus#0236: meh whatever Augustus#0236: BTW here's a scale comparing the 6" f/4.5 and the planned 14.5" f/5 Augustus#0236: The 14.5" will be huge https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/376111520368558091/crappyscale.png Augustus#0236: the co...
Augustus#0236: There are mirror grinding machines though Augustus#0236: It's not really precision so much as smoothness Augustus#0236: You have to dig out the curve with really coarse grit, which scratches and dents the hell out of the mirror surface, which you fix with finer grit, which you fix with finer grit, and so...
Deleted User#0000: how far have we seen the universe/space through a telescope landsharkxx#9090: 13.7 billion light years Deleted User#0000: dang Deleted User#0000: i need to learn more about astronomy do you got any recommendations were to go Deleted User#0000: 13.7 light years that is quite the feet hapybratt#4495: a...
hapybratt#4495: not sure, it was a while ago. I will try and google it again Gabby#4983: @Deleted User we've seen to the edge of the photon transparent universe (so as far as possible) - this is easier than it sounds Deleted User#0000: oh really Deleted User#0000: that's preatty Gabby#4983: More interesting is like res...
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Depends on what you mean by block out, and even then I don’t know if it would matter seeing as it literally permeates everything Gabby#4983: @SpaceGrandpa it's not true you're misinformed Gabby#4983: it doesn't penetrate things that microwaves from anywhere else don't penetrate SpaceGrandpa#6827: I w...
Maviras#2454: Will the ISS be retiring on 2024? Salt#1137: Nah, the ISS needs to be 65 before it can retire hapybratt#4495: It needs to be? is there some sort of law or something saying it does? (might sound sarcastic but am genuanly curious) Cheloniidae#5041: @hapybratt that joke orbits with a higher angular momentum ...
Augustus#0236: You would need a 32-36" telescope to detect it visually Augustus#0236: Scopes that big are extremely rare, weigh a couple of tons assembled, and cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy (they're too big to build yourself) Augustus#0236: You can photograph it with an 8" telescope and long exposures, and y...
Augustus#0236: @Moist Mayonnaise not really Moist Mayonnaise#5570: What's not really? Augustus#0236: Social Security, the military, and a ton of other government programs spend NASA's yearly budget every week each on their own Augustus#0236: About 0.5% of tax money goes to NASA Moist Mayonnaise#5570: So? Other things b...
Augustus#0236: You're completely wrong Moist Mayonnaise#5570: You're completely wrong Augustus#0236: As I was saying, the public doesn't care about the ISS. Some Americans still think we visit the Moon regularly. The only thing most people hear about our space program these days is the nonsense about "hitching a ride w...
Augustus#0236: Remember Scott Kelly's year in space and how hyped up that was? Cosmonauts on Mir stayed for OVER a year several times Augustus#0236: Mir cost $9 billion over its lifetime and produced about the same science if not more than the ISS Moist Mayonnaise#5570: The ISS hasn't given us nothing scientifically, b...
Augustus#0236: But SLS and Orion were not created because of public interest; they were created by senators to give the Shuttle contractors jobs after the Shuttle program ended Augustus#0236: And those consume MORE money than the ISS now Augustus#0236: and yet still won't fly manned until the middle of the 2020s, and a...
Salt#1137: keep the ISS as a tourist spot Augustus#0236: No one is paying for tours to the ISS Salt#1137: not yet Augustus#0236: No one wants to stay in space for months at a time on a tour Salt#1137: who said they have to be there for months Augustus#0236: ISS crew rotation, duh Salt#1137: they aren't crew, they are v...
Hwaet#4348: CSA Salt#1137: SpaceX :v Thomas#9514: From what I've heard on Reddit, you get worked pretty hard at SpaceX but get paid. Tortoise#5295: You get paid Tortoise#5295: Hmmmmm Augustus#0236: @General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ SpaceX because they actually get stuff done and pay well Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: SpaceX doe...
KatieGoLucky#5765: I heard space x people are really over worked and given crappy sugary food as benefits lmao Daniel#1794: Can I message yet Daniel#1794: Yep Hwaet#4348: gj Deleted User#0000: anyone see the ariane 5 launch? Kenny McCormick#6132: Never heard of it tbh... frankisboredd#2422: No but where's it going fran...
Deleted User#0000: And maybe life died like how they will eventually on our own planet, and could've traveled through gas particles and eventually traveling to our planet. Salt#1137: what Salt#1137: we dont have planets in our atmospheres Salt#1137: and panspermia is an idea that is considered, that terran life started...
Deleted User#0000: I don't get it, black holes destroy matter?, I thought that matter couldent be destroyed nor created, does that mean that we could essentially shoot a rocket into a black hole full of garbage and trash and it would not be an issue?, anymore atleast. QwertyThePie#1615: Black holes do not destroy matte...
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: and a lot more difficult to explain Rasa#6477: Hello Rasa#6477: Anyone here? sid#5857: yea Rasa#6477: How are you? sid#5857: gud Rasa#6477: I need a friend to talk to about astronomy and exchange informations! Wanna do that? sid#5857: hmm sid#5857: y not Rasa#6477: Good, I'll text you now...
צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Wouldn’t you? sid#5857: Yea צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Sounds like a blast sid#5857: I wanna fly there too צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: You can fly on Neptune? sid#5857: Yea I m awesome sid#5857: I CN swim so I CN fly sid#5857: I would rather fly on titan sid#5857: Or Europe sid#5857: Europa צבא ההגנה לישר...
צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Thought so sid#5857: OK I'll tell the best place to fly sid#5857: Potato moons sid#5857: Phobos and deimos צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Why is that? sid#5857: Bcause they re so small u can scale it in a day צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: That would be fun צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: I bet Pluto is nice in the summe...
צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Too hot sid#5857: Nooo to cold sid#5857: Jk sid#5857: My plane would be awesome there sid#5857: I'll rather go directly to the sun sid#5857: Instead of venus צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Mmmm I bet the Sun is nice at night sid#5857: If there was night צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: You never know sid#5857: Yea...
sid#5857: Ikr sid#5857: Planes re diggers in jupiter צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Jupiter has a nice ice core to relax on sid#5857: Yea sid#5857: And it's attractive too צבא ההגנה לישראל#7968: Very attractive sid#5857: Hmm sid#5857: saturn sid#5857: OK bye sid#5857: Gtg sid#5857: Nice talking to u rccar344#8845: Hello :D Pim...
tasha#5603: Francais? mateuscte#0856: Hey guys Moist Mayonnaise#5570: hi mateuscte#0856: Can i get some sci fi movie tips? Deleted User#0000: je suis capable oui Deleted User#0000: @mateuscte akira SlowBerry#4050: Why are people speaking french here ? I'm french so if a translation is needed I can help but, well. Oh an...
😍 Deleted User#0000: heille vive le québec libre Deleted User#0000: 😛 Hwaet#4348: heille ~~esti~~ Deleted User#0000: heille on se calme le toutounne!!! Salt#1137: >french language 🤢 Hwaet#4348: 😡 Hwaet#4348: je vais me calmer le jambon Gabby#4983: i can speak i got this Gabby#4983: baguette Gabby#4983: 🏳 Gabby#498...
Hwaet#4348: lel Deleted User#0000: Hello. Moist Mayonnaise#5570: Hi Anudeep✨#4927: Tell my future Moist Mayonnaise#5570: You'll read this message Anudeep✨#4927: 😮 Anudeep✨#4927: Tell me more Hwaet#4348: You'll also read this message a few hours later. Epoctal#1157: You’ll be dead in a few more decades Augustus#0236: G...
Deleted User#0000: Ty. I've been reading about astronomy for 9 years. XD. Forced myself to. Pretty intresting once I got in the grove though. What ya reading on lately Deleted User#0000: ? Salt#1137: Electromagnetic Fields by Wangsness Modern Physics by Serway, Moses ,and Moyer and Thermal Physics by Schroeder Deleted ...
LoneWolf2185#8820: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTmidUC3BT4 Epoctal#1157: @Deleted User you can ask me too I’ll be able to help 😉 LoneWolf2185#8820: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnwMhvdDcfI SpaceB#8869: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11y8N22Rq0 2 ish mins to launch. SpaceB#8869: http://prntscr.com/h9f77x Space...
Remavas#3737: yeah, I missed the launch :( Deleted User#0000: http://spaceengine.org/ Deleted User#0000: Damn Space Engine has gotten really far AntoineBBL#6991: The Earth is flat. AntoineBBL#6991: There is proof. AntoineBBL#6991: All of you are brainwashed. AntoineBBL#6991: NASA is lying to us. AntoineBBL#6991: To hel...
Salt#1137: canon Thomas#9514: @General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ Yeah, I'm ready for the next season. General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: me too Jo Bach#2856: You're funny Antoine Jo Bach#2856: @General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ I'm ready for season 3 General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: who isnt Josh42A#5160: http://www.iflscience.com/space/uranu...
the god Neptune General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: George would be the Planets weird cousin QwertyThePie#1615: As if the tilt weren't enough Hwaet#4348: >Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day just no Hwaet#4348: > and now we’ve just found out it may open and shut its magnetosphere every day, too. Hwaet#4348: and apparently Ear...
Josh42A#5160: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/379760423148453889/326777.jpg SpaceB#8869: Penultimate Delta II Launch in just over an hour. I’ll try to cover this one like I did with the Antares launch yesterday. SpaceB#8869: Launch is in about 42 minutes time. SpaceB#8869: 15 minutes and coun...