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SpaceB#8869: (Oo they turned off the spotlights.)
SpaceB#8869: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/379932270624112640/image.png
SpaceB#8869: Now the whole field is lit up.
SpaceB#8869: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/379932531404963840/image.png
SpaceB#8869: De-tanking.... |
SuchPain - Brent#4999: what time is the launching?
Hwaet#4348: good question
Hwaet#4348: I hope they didn't postpone it again
SpaceB#8869: Sorry, wasn’t able to cover it last night.
SpaceB#8869: Buuut
SpaceB#8869: THEY SCRUBBED AGAIN.
SpaceB#8869: So...
SpaceB#8869: https://youtu.be/cZo_YJIvQY0
SpaceB#8869: Was going t... |
GodHacker#9854: @deleted-role I wish I had discord when I was in high school
Hwaet#4348: well you had msn
Noodles#3448: oh god AOL
Cheloniidae#5041: Hottest thing on astro-ph today, LIGO found its lightest BHs yet! https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05578
Cheloniidae#5041: not as light as we wanted it to, but still pretty good... |
Salt#1137: Infinity, it's impossible with our current understanding of Physics
Master Chief John-117#0117: We need an AI
Master Chief John-117#0117: That would definitely help us bringing more knowledge to the world, would be risky, but ...
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: Thats not how AI works
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#84... |
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: You literally have an entire spaceship worth of shielding between you and the nuke
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: It's safe to go outside and to the pusher plae shortly after the drive is off
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: And most of the radiation isn't neutron radiation but X-rays
General Dar... |
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: Thats like asking if an airplane pilot would get out of his plane and stick his head in the engine
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: well, in this case, assuming there is a war in space
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: That's even less of a reason to go outside
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: or yo... |
QwertyThePie#1615: Getting out of the ship while it's running is a bad idea no matter what spaceship you're in
QwertyThePie#1615: Accelerating, I should say
Master Chief John-117#0117: @Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if taught to have unlimited knowledge and to learn for themselves won't be long until they can figure out stuff... |
Hwaet#4348: venusquakes
SpaceB#8869: @here The FalCon 9 launch has been postponed. In the mean time the Delta II is expected to take off in about 6 hours.
SpaceB#8869: I'll cover that.
SpaceB#8869: If it dosent get scrubbed .-.
Epoctal#1157: umm
SpaceB#8869: T-2 hours.
SpaceB#8869: T-1:06:00
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969... |
SpaceB#8869: Weather is 100% Go.
SpaceB#8869: 1:47:37 AM PST Launch time
SpaceB#8869: No technical issues
SpaceB#8869: 1:15 seconds till picking up count
SpaceB#8869: Count down clock T-15 minutes and counting
Eve#4758: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIiYL1ePo3s
SpaceB#8869: Just use the NASA TV Link instead of giving... |
SpaceB#8869: L-7 minutes
SpaceB#8869: All is GO. (FINALLY)
SpaceB#8869: Hold release in T-2 minutes
SpaceB#8869: L-5:30
SpaceB#8869: Spacecraft configured for launch
SpaceB#8869: T-4 minute hold ended, T-4:00 and counting
SpaceB#8869: 2nd stage internal
SpaceB#8869: T-3:10
SpaceB#8869: All stages armed
SpaceB#8869: T-2... |
SpaceB#8869: T-20
SpaceB#8869: 10
SpaceB#8869: 5
SpaceB#8869: 4
SpaceB#8869: 3
SpaceB#8869: 2
SpaceB#8869: 1
SpaceB#8869: Liftoff
QwertyThePie#1615: What's the deal with cutting to CGI almost immediately on this one
SpaceB#8869: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/381380241270112266/image.png
Qwe... |
SpaceB#8869: Burnout
QwertyThePie#1615: Wish they had a technical cast like SpaceX does
SpaceB#8869: Ya tru
QwertyThePie#1615: They're cutting to CGI for all the fun stuff
SpaceB#8869: SpaceX puts cameras on em
SpaceB#8869: Burnout of all SEBS
QwertyThePie#1615: Even the ground cam would be more interesting than watchi... |
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"Had"
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: They stopped doing tehcnical streams earlier this year
SpaceB#8869: VECO
SpaceB#8869: Fairing jettison
SpaceB#8869: Trying to pump this out fast makes me have lots of typos
SpaceB#8869: I do want to watch the last Delta II launch IRL Though
SpaceB#8869: Want to see one before it’s r... |
Emanuel#9999: Hello.
Emanuel#9999: I am new but very interested in astronomy, i hope you dont have problems if i want to know some basic questions,
Emanuel#9999: thanks.
Wilii#0967: Ask and you shall receive
Emanuel#9999: How black hole made?
Wilii#0967: Giant stars running out of fuel and collapsing on themselves, cre... |
Emanuel#9999: Download ok.
professor#7519: It has 13 parts
professor#7519: The 4th one is about black hole
Emanuel#9999: I watched "How the universe works"
Emanuel#9999: It was really interesting.
Emanuel#9999: But yeah, i'll watch Cosmos.
█▀█ █▄█ ▀█▀#7901: :smile:
PedroR#6353: Just had a thought, probably been thought... |
█▀█ █▄█ ▀█▀#7901: Yep
Foorack#0001: @PedroR It is not possible to travel at the speed of light. You can travel close to it but never equally nor faster.
Hwaet#4348: because you have relativistic mass
Master Chief John-117#0117: @PedroR That's a topic which is under so many theories that we can only say it's not possibl... |
Maybe there are stuff that can travel faster than light, but they are not in our terms of reality, since everything that could travel faster than light would not be seen and probably wouldn't even exist, maybe reality changes on those velocities, like dimensions, time, everything changes
Andromeda#1200: maybe that stuf... |
Master Chief John-117#0117: But still there's a small decelaration, in stars bigger than ours gravity has time to push photons for a longer period, decelarating even more
QwertyThePie#1615: F=ma
QwertyThePie#1615: So what about massless photons?
QwertyThePie#1615: What acceleration do they get from the force of gravity... |
Granny Smith#6951: I see, thanks
SuchPain - Brent#4999: @SpaceGrandpa is this for real?
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: an asteroid that can pull itself into a sphere (300-500km in diameter I think?) is a dwarf planet @Bladedsuperior
If it "cleared its neighborhood" it would be a planet according to the IAU
So an aster... |
defunct#6876: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/382537647127658497/lTcj5Tj.jpg
Hwaet#4348: ...
Salt#1137: Tru
Bladedsuperior#5777: @General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ thanks
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: @professor @Granny Smith IAU = International Astronomical Union
professor#7519: Thanks @General Dar... |
Patrick the Plastic#0063: Hello Astronomy, I have trouble interpreting the following excerpt:
“Those stars which
are kindled and extinguished ought to rise and set for observers everywhere,
while those which are not kindled and extinguished ought always to be visible
for observers everywhere.”
For context, the autho... |
bloom#0001: @Qⓤⓞⓝ yeah, but i deleted it because the picture was appearing all black on my phone, will reupload it one i get home
Hwaet#4348: @bloom your pictures are great
bloom#0001: if anyone wants to discuss about astrophotography and stuff im here 😄 just love taking some pics and just got a new telescope as well
... |
Hwaet#4348: yeah
Hwaet#4348: we are actually in paradise
gone with the cacti#9290: The earth is flat
Hwaet#4348: flat can also mean uninteresting
Hwaet#4348: so the spherical Earth is flat
gone with the cacti#9290: What if the earth is flat but interesting
Hwaet#4348: This is a grammatically correct sentence.
General D... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: solar eclipses? oh that is because the sun turns off once in a while due to a power outage
Wilii#0967: But then at the same time there's other places on earth with sun
Wilii#0967: I'd like to see them explain how lunar eclipses work tho
--#5019: it is earth shadow
--#5019: not that it tur... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: why would a rock have so much energy?
--#5019: ???
Wilii#0967: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/383701466113638420/image.gif
Wilii#0967: What force accelerates the sun in a circular motion?
--#5019: lol
--#5019: well
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: fly from south ... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: isnt it obvious? the governments put giant cars underneath the continents
--#5019: lol
--#5019: Yeah
--#5019: Our goverment leader is lucifer after all
Deleted User#0000: Lol
QwertyThePie#1615: You know what would be dandy?
QwertyThePie#1615: Coming to this chat, and seeing people talk ab... |
Jm2#6572: you realize most of the ppl are just making fun of it right
Jm2#6572: actual flat earthers are a reaaaaally small part of the population
Jm2#6572: and many of them don't actually believe it in the first place
QwertyThePie#1615: I know, but it gets annoying that that's apparently the only topic I see discussed... |
In practice a typical, circular orbital ring around a terrestrial world consists of a continuous ring of dense material, often a silicate (glass-fibre) hoop or cable, which is coated on the outside with a ferromagnetic or paramagnetic material. On the other hand, larger rings, elliptical or otherwise irregular rings u... |
QwertyThePie#1615: You could name one basically anything at this point
Caviar#6440: True
Caviar#6440: I found one called Beowulf
Caviar#6440: Time to go read everything about it
Caviar#6440: You could just throw something heavy at a small asteroid and say that you found a new one
QwertyThePie#1615: http://www.planetary... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: what do they hope to find there?
gone with the cacti#9290: Probably water or life
gone with the cacti#9290: One of them has water + geothermal activity
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: life on an asteroid though?
SpaceGrandpa#6827: This makes me so happy http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/... |
--#5019: kinda
Wilii#0967: Some weird stuff would happen if you tried to build a ring
Wilii#0967: It'd be best to build it from multiple points and connect them
Wilii#0967: But idk I'm just a high school student
Spy#5131: maintaining a ring that rotates at 7.66 km/s and is longer than the earth's equater
Spy#5131: that... |
--#5019: lol
Spy#5131: i said a `step towards`
--#5019: we are not even type 1 yet
Master Chief John-117#0117: I know
Master Chief John-117#0117: XD
Master Chief John-117#0117: I just wanted to cause some drama in the topic
Master Chief John-117#0117: (Seems cool sometimes)
Spy#5131: :GWcfcThonk:
Master Chief John-117#... |
SpaceGrandpa#6827: DECREASE YOUR KAPPA VALUES
SpaceGrandpa#6827: anyways
SpaceGrandpa#6827: I'm trying to read about observational data and model fitting from the Keck telescope observing TW Hydra (a K8 star with a circumstellar disk around it) and I am totally lost when it starts talking about "visibility" and these r... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche This asteroid could probably build an iron sphere across the planet
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: No but I thnik we have a couple Astrology Majors
Hwaet#4348: and flat earth majors because they're spamming it here
Augustus#0236: @Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_... |
Jm2#6572: he wanted to be ON the rocket
Deleted User#0000: I know
Jm2#6572: idk i think he wants to broadcast it
Deleted User#0000: Why cant he launch the rocket with him inside it?
Jm2#6572: for like, a bigger source
Jm2#6572: to do that u probably need a permit
Deleted User#0000: Hmmm, yeah probably
Deleted User#0000... |
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: He just says flay earth bs
Deleted User#0000: Lol, I seriously doubt they would hire a flat earther
Deleted User#0000: I doubt any sensible person would
Deleted User#0000: 🤔
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: So flat earth earthers give him money
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: He tried to raise mo... |
Deleted User#0000: Yes unfortunately, even if join nasa and show them evidence, they will still claim that its a conspiracy to prevent him from seeing the truth
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: They'll cry conspiracy no matter what
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: He just has to agree with them and they give go him money
Qwert... |
Deleted User#0000: Write on the phone
Deleted User#0000: Using the built-in notes app
Deleted User#0000: Its 2018 (almost) and astronauts must have a lot of advance technology to fly to space, so there is a 100% chance that they have a phone or some sort of a technology that they can write on
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#696... |
Poynting#2966: why not just use pencil
Poynting#2966: are the shavings dangerous or something
Deleted User#0000: Zero Gravity conditions. The Graphite present in the pencils was prone to cause a disturbance in the electrical conduction of the intricately designed systems. The graphite in the pencils had a tendency to c... |
Inquisitor General of America#0918: @Spy do you like lamb
Master Chief John-117#0117: @Inquisitor General of America Best question for an astronomy Channel! Aproved!
Inquisitor General of America#0918: i want an answer
Deleted User#0000: What’s a dyson swarm?
Wiskeyweasel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#6969: A dyson sphere where instead of... |
--#5019: If you do it with the right material it won't.
Capnarchie#7767: could anyone explain time dilation
Poynting#2966: when you move fast everyone else moves faster
Salt#1137: When you move super duper fast, you experience less seconds pass by
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Hm so
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Interferometry is just a dou... |
SpaceGrandpa#6827: @Capnarchie you’re moving through four dimensions all the time. If you mover faster spatially, you have to “borrow” from your speed through time, meaning the processes that the atoms in your body do will go slower from the point of view of others that are moving slower than you. Conversely, you will ... |
Nyx.#0870: Okay, so, assuming the black hole I'm headed toward isn't of enough mass to turn me into a spaghetti outside of itself, and I enter the thing unharmed, and I go on floating for a bit before turning into spaghetti. During the period where I'm floating *inside* the black hole, unharmed, what do I see?
Deleted ... |
Hwaet#4348: That's why they use big telescopes and scientific instruments.
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I would assume that the only exoplanets that you would be able to find are hot jupiters and maybe hoptunes
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: and the only way you would be able to detect it is with changes in luminosit... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: homemade exoplanet project: launch a telescope into space to directly image planets
K41RY#4864: Greetings, fellow Humans!
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: okay my fathers telescope has an 8 inch mirror
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: you think that would be enough?
Epoctal#1157: woah
Achille... |
Thomas#9514: Here's the paper. https://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0609/0609599.pdf
Thomas#9514: So they were able to get data from a .35 meter telescope with 600 second exposeures and a CCD camera chilled to -25c.
Hwaet#4348: 8 inches are 20 centimeters
Hwaet#4348: or .20 meter
Thomas#9514: oops. meant to type .35
H... |
Augustus#0236: @Thomas SCTs and very finely polished/figured don't typically go in the same sentence lol
Thomas#9514: Also, I included the "equivilant .85 meter telescope ( 33.5in)" becuase to my knowlege trappist runs off of two 25 inch telescopes.
Augustus#0236: If someone could get me the couple of thousand bucks ne... |
Augustus#0236: Yeah
Augustus#0236: It's from Swift Glass
Augustus#0236: If you order five blanks, they'll do $60 for each
Augustus#0236: So a guy on Cloudy Nights gathered 4 people, one of them me, to do a group order with him
Augustus#0236: They're plate glass, only 1" thick
Augustus#0236: @Hwaet
Hwaet#4348: that's a ... |
Augustus#0236: If you can just get the mirror blank cheap, you save a lot of money compared to buying
Augustus#0236: The blank was $80 shipped, plus $120 for the grinding/polishing kit, plus $50 for the secondary, plus $90 for the focuser, plus ~$150 for aluminizing, plus $150-$200 for the materials for the scope and m... |
Augustus#0236: And then probably another 24 on building the actual scope
Augustus#0236: so probably 100-125 hours for a 6". I did the entire mirror over the course of about 2.5 weeks on summer break
Augustus#0236: For the 12", I predict I'll spend twice as long, maybe more
Hwaet#4348: not too bad
Hwaet#4348: I'll proll... |
Hwaet#4348: Is zambuto of good quality?
Augustus#0236: Zambuto makes the finest mirrors on the planet
Augustus#0236: for amateurs anyway
Augustus#0236: It costs like $1100 for an 8" mirror alone though
Augustus#0236: he doesn't go smaller but a 6" from him would probably be $900
Hwaet#4348: geez
Augustus#0236: Also, to... |
Deleted User#0000: Jesus
Deleted User#0000: Cool
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/366003446513664000/386360081287086083/8w7vjh5ged101.jpg
Gabby#4983: very mean spirited answer
QwertyThePie#1615: I assume the original question was partly a joke
Yuuka#1475: ????
Deleted User#0000: onl... |
phy#7477: weee space
IshanD#0997: sun goes round earth or earth round sun right?
Sunaabh#0880: Earth is flat
phy#7477: Lmao
SyrupSplashin#5443: @Sunaabh You spelled hollow wrong
Sunaabh#0880: Lol
Thomas#9514: @Augustus have any pics of Mars?
Pontus#7011: What are some great documentaries about space?
GOTS-RIVKYX#8695: ... |
Deleted User#0000: Who has studied Relativity
Moist Mayonnaise#5570: Everyone that's done a physics degree
Pontus#7011: Do you guys know any good Astronomy/Cosmology books from 2015-2017?
Endlin#0563: @Pontus Is there a reason for the given publication-date constraint?
Pontus#7011: Not really, just wanted to see some n... |
Endlin#0563: :^)
Spy#5131: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs
yaet#0647: yeah """gravity""" wouldnt matter cause the plane is flying
yaet#0647: I don't trust balding peoples view on flat earth cause they are always biased by their head becoming more globe shaped
ZYABh4fkQ1NtLLJ4BgsQGLRwB0Gor5oM#7955: Who is Vs... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: Hey, is 25 euros a good deal for a martian meteorite?
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: same shop that sold me my chelyabinsk sample
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: Its the Tissint meteorite btw
ccckk#2140: its the Tiduigrui meteorite
Hwaet#4348: if it is a true one then I think so
Photonic_P... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: oh wait i know
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: earth is flat
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/387285018147291136/oiGZWJk6jkpt0D9c2mWM_iT73B616Fjcfm-UoM_7j7g.png
Hwaet#4348: I came here for science and not flat earth
General Darian ✓ᵛ... |
Deleted User#0000: S5 0014+81,even though its a hyperluminous line quasar(basically a blazar) i like its my favorite stellar object(obviously below black holes)
Rosette#1378: My astronomy Prof just said "Intergalactic nothing" BIG mood
Patrick the Plastic#0063: Hello Astronomy, I have trouble interpreting the following... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: 0.8 light years away to the oort cloud
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: they wont reach that for a loooong time
Hwaet#4348: >The rotating sun theory is also a bunch of BS.
well it really rotates 😉
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: idk what they call it
Master Chief John-117#0117: Dude really ... |
Hwaet#4348: does whatever a moon can
Patrick the Plastic#0063: Can someone help me with my question? Or redirect me somewhere else
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: @QwertyThePie Obviously, but its still a nice piece to listen to
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I mean, constellations are based on astrology, and we still na... |
QwertyThePie#1615: Supermoon doesn't come from astrology, but it's about as relevant as astrology
Hwaet#4348: it helps astro news editors to have some work
QwertyThePie#1615: Astro news editors should stop pretending and just start calling things "Crimson ultra blood moons"
Hwaet#4348: lol yeah
Augustus#0236: @QwertyTh... |
Moist Mayonnaise#5570: A centre is defined as a point
Hwaet#4348: it's just something relative
Deleted User#0000: The whole universe is just sorta... infinite in all directions everywhere so couldn't you can say everywhere is the center and nowhere at the same time?
Moist Mayonnaise#5570: A centre is by definition a po... |
Addax#7033: Wat
Salt#1137: dumbo pokemon
Salt#1137: be a real pokemon
Salt#1137: like rowlet
Rigged Pack#6879: 🌝
Nave#3577: Voyager 1 going so fast but yet so slow in our universe
Nave#3577: 17km a second is not fast enough
Thomas#9514: Well, you're the middle of your observable universe.
Nave#3577: “middle”
Primetl#9... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: teacher: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/388268009946480640/Youhaveapointthereop_7ac1732003f73ccd82593f72018407a6.png
Hwaet#4348: lmao
Hwaet#4348: did the teacher accept the answer
Hwaet#4348: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/38834070257... |
Augustus#0236: teaching astronomy w/o math is one thing
Augustus#0236: teaching non-scientific garbage is another
Salt#1137: I took a basic astronomy course at uni to fill a credit, the only equation brought up was
Salt#1137: =tex P = \sigma T^4
MathBot#7353: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/3... |
GuyInGrey#4066: what are the requirements for something to be considered a planet?
Epoctal#1157: i heard about the new planet 9 anybody got a link
Salt#1137: According to the IUPAC a planet must orbit a star, be sphereish and have cleared its orbit of other major bodies
QwertyThePie#1615: @Epoctal I gotchu https://www.... |
wsdm#8196: And id think 100000 years
wsdm#8196: But
wsdm#8196: There would be supervolcanic eruptions and asteroid strikes
Salt#1137: if there were no lifeless planets then settle on one of the lifeful ones
Salt#1137: and if you ran out of those, implement birth control
Deleted User#0000: to make your own planet you'd ... |
SpaceGrandpa#6827: i mean
SpaceGrandpa#6827: in the long run, making a planet would be a good idea
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Get exactly 9.8m/s^2 for gravity
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Choose composition of interior and surface
SpaceGrandpa#6827: choose how much water there is
SpaceGrandpa#6827: Choose atmospheric composition
SpaceGr... |
SpaceGrandpa#6827: The spinning would not prevent that
Pyrogen#5442: why not?
SpaceGrandpa#6827: It has its own gravity??
SpaceGrandpa#6827: i don’t know that spinning it is gonna be enough
Pyrogen#5442: right, and the centripetal force counteracts the inward force
Pyrogen#5442: sorry, centrifugal
Pyrogen#5442: wrong r... |
Salt#1137: =tex y = \frac{m \lambda D}{d}
MathBot#7353: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/388913492012302346/latex.png
Salt#1137: there are twenty slits, in what ill estimate to be venusian orbit around the sun, and the slit width appears to be 1/20 the circumference + 1/40 for the gap in betwe... |
GOTS-RIVKYX#8695: Fake ass grandpa
GOTS-RIVKYX#8695: Rip off
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: @SpaceGrandpa you make it seem so easy
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: like on universe sandbox 2, where you can just drag a planet and customize mass, atmosphere, composition, etc.
'🆁🅾🆈🅰🅻'#5260: https://youtu.be/Fnf_f4rogtg... |
Augustus#0236: @Pontus yes, the 8" omegon is great
Augustus#0236: The NexStars are too small and expensive; computerized scopes are a gimmick
Augustus#0236: don't buy one
Augustus#0236: @Nyx. if you don't know, don't give out potentially misleading advice
Nyx.#0870: Well, I did mention I have zero clue.
Nyx.#0870: My b... |
Mykolas#1655: well, if we simplify and assume that earth rotates exactly 24/365, then yes, we would have daylight in winter when it's midnight 00:00.
Mykolas#1655: the thing is that we have more than 24 hours in a day and more than 365 days in a year
Mykolas#1655: and that's why we don't actually "have" that
Salt#1137:... |
Deleted User#0000: I've actually already seen that video. haha
Deleted User#0000: @Mykolas isn't it 23hr56m sidereal day so slightly under 24 hours not over?
Mykolas#1655: oh, might be
Mykolas#1655: Thanks for correcting me
Wilii#0967: Saw a star in the night sky blinking orange red and blue and really bright? Wasn't m... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: it is almost certainly not a star. my second thought would be a geostationary satellite, but you cant see those from earth either
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: its most likely a helicopter
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: @Wilii
Pontus#7011: How are these compared to each other?
https://w... |
Augustus#0236: no, but it's a truss design and needs a shroud, loses collimation more often, and assembly is hard
davedubya#6732: @Sulfur The big, white tubed Dobbo is a tried and tested telescope setup.
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: Big NASA press conference coming up
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: and of course the ... |
Salt#1137: Obvi
Moist Mayonnaise#5570: I've touched lots of radiation and not exploded
Salt#1137: Well that's because you don't explode
Deleted User#0000: only certain people explode
Nave#3577: Carl Sagan > Bill Nye
Nave#3577: The son is very very hot, but when its night, you can go possibly
Nave#3577: its cooler
Salt#... |
door#3635: Do you guys recommend universe sandbox 2?
Wilii#0967: @Thomas yes early in the night, about 9:30 pacific time zone
Wilii#0967: It was in the eastward direction about 40 degrees above the horizon
Wilii#0967: Maybe 50
Deleted User#0000: ok when I saw the signature on that policy directive and shared it with pe... |
Pyrogen#5442: bananas are radioactive
Shurikun#8619: 1 gram of banana gives you 0.0000003936 grams of K-40, i think thats tooo low(but still radioactive)
Deleted User#0000: I'm gonna go eat 10,000,000 bannanas
Triangle#6022: There is ambient radiation in the air due to trace amounts of i.e. Radon.
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠ... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: they didnt find it yet...
Primetl#9722: yeah
Vik#3639: indeed. But nevertheless it's so incredibly stable that its radioactivity has been proven not very long ago.
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: its hypothetical
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: @Vik same with tungsten
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦ... |
SpaceB#8869: Ariane 5 launch in 3 hours
SpaceB#8869: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va240/
Hwaet#4348: you had one job, atmosphere
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: could you see the moon from mars with the naked eye?
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I saw earth in that pic
Hwaet#4348: I have the descripti... |
Hwaet#4348: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/390182856145633280/fkldjflk.PNG
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: and I would assume that if we evolved on mars (assuming it was habitable) we would figure out that one dot orbits the other
Hwaet#4348: if we have the same intelligence, yes
General Dari... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: if earth were to be covered in clouds it might help
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: #MakeEarthBrightAgain
Hwaet#4348: lole
Hwaet#4348: but I want to stargaze
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: then go to ceres
SpaceB#8869: T- 55 minutes
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: we were discussing trig to... |
Pyrogen#5442: my usual answer is "tenured ones."
door#3635: Ha
door#3635: Gtg
Gekigami#9413: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/12/is-this-visitor-from-beyond-our-solar-system-an-asteroid-or-a-sign-of-life/
Hwaet#4348: noice
Deleted User#0000: @Gekigami wait seriously?
Deleted User#0000:... |
Artze#6163: Or I suppose the idea of it.
Salt#1137: because planet X has been conspired to be Nibiru for a long time until scientists pointed out that major kuiper belt objects orbit's is best explained by another planet out there by several orders of magnitude
Salt#1137: the problem for discovery is that its so far ou... |
QwertyThePie#1615: There's been a lot of Planet Xs through time
QwertyThePie#1615: Finding actual solid information is pretty hard with all the conspiracy garbage in the way though
Primetl#9722: i recently watched a show about planet x
Primetl#9722: its the theoretical "9th planet"
QwertyThePie#1615: That's only the la... |
Primetl#9722: is there like a link or something about it?
QwertyThePie#1615: Oh sure, let me find a good link
QwertyThePie#1615: I hear this one is popular here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune
QwertyThePie#1615: Wait
QwertyThePie#1615: Dangit wrong link
Primetl#9722: lol
QwertyThePie#1615: Here we ... |
Primetl#9722: try private messaging it to me
Epoctal#1157: Aww you didn’t get the meme
Epoctal#1157: Is the meteor shower visible around the world?
Primetl#9722: huh that works
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: Is it true that if you add heat to a star it cools down?
Pyrogen#5442: yes. same as anything.
Pyrogen#5442: over... |
Marl#2037: Most universities have a license for matlab
Marl#2037: Here they have VPN licenses
SpaceB#8869: spacex launch in 30 mins
SpaceB#8869: http://www.spacex.com/webcast
SpaceB#8869: nvm pushed to fri
Artze#6163: Oh, I’ve been following Space X for some time now but I haven’t checked them out recently to see what ... |
Pim#2651: 😦
Pim#2651: RIP
Hwaet#4348: no there isn't unfortunatelyt
Hwaet#4348: if you have tatsumaki on another server it can help you
Artze#6163: Are there any good articals out there on black holes?
Primetl#9722: yes
Artze#6163: Do you mind guiding me to them?
Deleted User#0000: Any one know of any good websites fo... |
Pyrogen#5442: i say "theoretical" only because they can't be directly observed
Artze#6163: RIght.
Pyrogen#5442: so that's what they are
Artze#6163: Thanks, I am still trying to expand my knowledge of Astronmy currently and I am thinking about taking it up as my major
Pyrogen#5442: no problem
Pyrogen#5442: sorry the ans... |
Pyrogen#5442: yeah, I know some people with masters degrees. they wash dishes for a living.
ashholeketchum#0158: That sucks
ashholeketchum#0158: I know someone with a PhD who does that part time alongside actual research
Pyrogen#5442: ah, but is it a worthwhile PhD?
ashholeketchum#0158: Marine ecology
ashholeketchum#01... |
door#3635: @/home/flame how you do that
door#3635: Ah cool
door#3635: `yup thanks`
door#3635: ***THATS COOL***
door#3635: ```diff
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door#3635: O
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: of course! https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/241626066693783554/390775518850580481/smh.PNG
QwertyThePie#1615: You know th... |
Hwaet#4348: lol
Hwaet#4348: if they ever discover planet 9, they should call it nibiru lol
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: they should call it george
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: like uranus should have been called
Hwaet#4348: that would break the theme though
Hwaet#4348: there is no george in the mytholgy
Augustus#02... |
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I was joking when I suggested george
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: wow
General Darian ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ#8498: I am going to bet $1000 that there is another planet around it
Meh#9127: Would it still be possible to see geminids today?
Meh#9127: It was really cloudy last night
Hwaet#4348: yes
Artze... |
Meh#9127: and then when it isn't and I sit down I see maybe two in half an hour because I live close to London
Hwaet#4348: two isn't bad
QwertyThePie#1615: It is for the Geminids
Artze#6163: Its hard for me to do this becasue of the light pollution from the city.
Hwaet#4348: you can see some meteors but not a big show
... |
two in half an hour was during the perseids
Meh#9127: before that I saw 1 in half an hour during the draconids
Hwaet#4348: I mean, I haven't ever seen many meteors during a meteor shower. A couple is already good.
Hwaet#4348: btw, why do I see orange light on the building?
( 😉 )
Salt#1137: Why are you watching meteor... |
Artze#6163: Isn’t Space X doing a launch today?
Hwaet#4348: inb4 it's been delayed
Hwaet#4348: I'll check it out
Artze#6163: Alright thanks
Hwaet#4348: https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2017/december/rocket-launch-spacex-crs-13
Hwaet#4348: well I don't say it's delayed
Artze#6163: A... |
Artze#6163: So I know they have done the test with the Falcon 9 but is it the same idea for the Falcon Heavy?
Pyrogen#5442: "the same idea" meaning?
Pyrogen#5442: it's reusable, if that's what you mean
Pyrogen#5442: it's just three falcon 9s strapped together
Pyrogen#5442: same idea as the OTRAG but with less furfuryl ... |
Artze#6163: @Hwaet have you heard about the possible alien ship? Im not so sure I can buy into it.
Hwaet#4348: >Why scientists say Oumuamua could be an alien spaceship
Hwaet#4348: >Scientists led by Stephen Hawking are today using high-tech scanners to discover if a huge, cigar-shaped space object currently hurtling th... |
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