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Space: The Final Frontier
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Naked Snake
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Looks like the moon's gravity.
Naked Snake
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Oh yeah just noticed how close together they get at the end.
Guys, Darthmout's College professor Marcelo Gleiser is doing an AMA right now, if anyone is interested. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...iser_ask_me_anything/?st=iyq7i9dm&sh=0a7c43b0
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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On behalf of humanity we're sorry for sending out such crappy TV programming, please let us in the intergalactic club still.
This thread is mostly used for cool space news. But I've got a question that could maybe be answered by one of my fellow space fans.
I was walking outside today when the sun was setting. All of the sudden my eye caught the attention of a really bright star. I thought it was an airplane but it wasn't moving. And as I was observing it it slowly got dimmer and dimmer. After which it disappeared. It lasted for about 10 secondish. What did I see? It was still bright enough outside that only the brightest of stars were visible and it didn't move. It also suddenly grabbed my attention almost like it flashed into existence (though I can't confirm that). It grabbed the attention of my girlfriend at the same time.
Did I see the army shoot down an UFO?! Did I see a supernova? Aliens? What did I see GAF?!
I was walking outside today when the sun was setting. All of the sudden my eye caught the attention of a really bright star. I thought it was an airplane but it wasn't moving. And as I was observing it it slowly got dimmer and dimmer. After which it disappeared. It lasted for about 10 secondish. What did I see? It was still bright enough outside that only the brightest of stars were visible and it didn't move. It also suddenly grabbed my attention almost like it flashed into existence (though I can't confirm that). It grabbed the attention of my girlfriend at the same time.
Did I see the army shoot down an UFO?! Did I see a supernova? Aliens? What did I see GAF?!
Almost certainly a satellite flare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
The most common ones are Iridum flares, which can actually be predicted using this site:
http://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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The ISS view of cyclone Debbie currently down under is something alright:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxNl3RJ0Cgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxNl3RJ0Cgo
Spladam
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Guys, I wanted to share this with you, it's a zip file I've been hosting on my Steam profile page for years that includes the famous Pale Blue Dot excerpt speech, the original photo, all 3 versions of the video and speech (Original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage , The Carl Sagan Series video by Reid Gower, and the new Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey video) and an inspiring animation created by the artist Joel Somerfield
Reid Gower's version of the Pale Blue Dot speech in his awesome and popular Sagan Series on Youtube has since been taken down due to some copyright issues, it's the only part of the series to suffer this fate, however, I was lucky enough to preserve it in the zip file before this happened, so downloaded, post it, spread it, preserve it, it's amazing and should kept for all time. This is one of the only places you can find it.
Pale_Blue_Dot.zip
Reid Gower's version of the Pale Blue Dot speech in his awesome and popular Sagan Series on Youtube has since been taken down due to some copyright issues, it's the only part of the series to suffer this fate, however, I was lucky enough to preserve it in the zip file before this happened, so downloaded, post it, spread it, preserve it, it's amazing and should kept for all time. This is one of the only places you can find it.
Pale_Blue_Dot.zip
Thanks! The simulation they've made that's on the Wiki page is definitely really close to what we saw. Though it didn't appear to move, definitely not as fast as in that simulation. Or what I normally see satellites travel as.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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So Cassini recorded a whistling sound while moving between Saturn and the rings on 04/24....
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/859506581721014276
Apparently NASA thinks it was a plasma wave that created the sound where they expected only popping sounds from dust particles.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/859506581721014276
Apparently NASA thinks it was a plasma wave that created the sound where they expected only popping sounds from dust particles.
Hey dudes - anyone listen to cool space podcasts?
I just stumbled on Are We There Yet? on NPR One. It can be kind of dry at times but it seems to stay very on top of stuff that's going on right now and explores interesting subjects fairly often (space elevators!). Also has the benefit of being based out of Orlando.
I'm hungry for more, though.
I just stumbled on Are We There Yet? on NPR One. It can be kind of dry at times but it seems to stay very on top of stuff that's going on right now and explores interesting subjects fairly often (space elevators!). Also has the benefit of being based out of Orlando.
I'm hungry for more, though.
Dunno if this was posted here before, but this is video is pretty amazing!
https://vimeo.com/24410924
https://vimeo.com/24410924
Melchiah
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It certainly is! Thanks for sharing.
Guys, just a quiet reminder that we have less than ten days left in the Cassini mission.
On September 15th it will suicide against Saturn in a last valiant charge for science, turning thirty years of work into a streak of light in the Saturn skies. All to protect the possibly life bearing Saturn moons from contamination by an Earth made object possibly full of bacteria and water bears and whatever else may have piggybacked on its bus sized frame.
Relevant:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/where-is-cassini-now/ for real-time-ish data on the probe
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/overview/ for info and a short summary
So, if you're into this stuff, nine days, eleven hours and some five-odd minutes after this post you might want to take a moment of silence or raise a toast towards the skies, post on GAF - or whatever else floats your boat.
Keep in mind, the data that it will keep faithfully sending to Earth up until its destruction takes about one and a half hours back to us, so keep an eye on the NASA Twitter account and other sources of news even after the crash has already happened.
On September 15th it will suicide against Saturn in a last valiant charge for science, turning thirty years of work into a streak of light in the Saturn skies. All to protect the possibly life bearing Saturn moons from contamination by an Earth made object possibly full of bacteria and water bears and whatever else may have piggybacked on its bus sized frame.
Relevant:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/where-is-cassini-now/ for real-time-ish data on the probe
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/overview/ for info and a short summary
So, if you're into this stuff, nine days, eleven hours and some five-odd minutes after this post you might want to take a moment of silence or raise a toast towards the skies, post on GAF - or whatever else floats your boat.
Keep in mind, the data that it will keep faithfully sending to Earth up until its destruction takes about one and a half hours back to us, so keep an eye on the NASA Twitter account and other sources of news even after the crash has already happened.
Insane Metal
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I'm definetely gonna tear up
Good bye, Cassy. You will be missed.
Thank you for your amazing science and photos
Heh, had a little laff when a news site uploaded some utterly random pictures that vaguely relate to the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt (Germany), which turned 50 years old today.
Look at those smooth mofos. Just look at them.
And now take a gander at how it looks like nowadays.
Joking aside, props to anyone in the industry, and congrats to that particular bunch today. Party hard. After wörk.
Look at those smooth mofos. Just look at them.
Any second now someone will start to talk into their mic and start twisting knobs and pulling levers while looking at blinking lights and consulting big bundles of printed out documentation because the Alien/Russian/US invasion has begun in the skies above. Serious fucking business.1967ish said:
And now take a gander at how it looks like nowadays.
So generic. Buncha redshirts surrounded by monitors. Probably minimised a minesweeper or WoW window when they noticed a press sneak fuck lurking about. At worst, they will need to doubleclick on something. Boooooooring. ;D2017 said:
Joking aside, props to anyone in the industry, and congrats to that particular bunch today. Party hard. After wörk.
Yep. Even lasted a tiny bit longer than expected. Such a good little probe. o7Poor Cassini. You have served us well.
Press F to Pay Respects (in the official Grand Finale thread).