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It would have been out of communication range within a few years anyway, but that sucks for whatever we could learn about interstellar space in that time.
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 19:04 |
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Bug Squash posted:I was talking about poo poo we see through telescopes and record properly, not some guy who totally met someone who saw an alien doing ftl burnouts. Eyewitness testimony has been bullshit in science for over a hundred years after the N-ray debacle. For that to be valid reasoning, you would need to do an analysis of the properties of all possible alien civilisations, and show that they would generate unambiguous, repeatable astronomical observations. It’s not that you are not right, it’s just that you seem excessively certain you are.
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 19:09 |
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radmonger posted:For that to be valid reasoning, you would need to do an analysis of the properties of all possible alien civilisations, and show that they would generate unambiguous, repeatable astronomical observations. Repeated, continuous observations entirely consistent with the hypothesis that "there are no space aliens to detect" should not be considered a checkmark in the "the myriad phenomena we call 'UFOs' might be space aliens" category. That would be invalid reasoning. ashpanash fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Aug 1, 2023 |
# ? Aug 1, 2023 20:20 |
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Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 20:25 |
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Stephen Crane posted:A man said to the universe: Of course a hefty part of the Fermi paradox and UFO (in the space aliens meaning) discussions lean on the inverse of the idea of saving angel aliens, and sees them as an existential threat. "For God's sake, if someone calls, don't pick up", etc.
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 20:34 |
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The Euclid space telescope released its first barely processed images yesterday: higher res here They're not going to be as visually impressive as JWST and consequently won't get as much attention, but hopefully they'll put some fancier color images up on a sky browser service for the public. And presumably they'll release some actually processed images with fewer cosmic rays and surprisingly bright ghosts (the donut-shape things, the brightest of which is in the bottom-left corner of the top-left image, and which are internal reflections and not UFOs).
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 22:35 |
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eXXon posted:donut-shape things Seriously though that's rad as hell, I'm always amazed by the density of information from space telescopes.
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 22:47 |
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eXXon posted:surprisingly bright ghosts (the donut-shape things, the brightest of which is in the bottom-left corner of the top-left image, and which are internal reflections and not UFOs). But what if they are, they're just the afterimage of aliens / the shadow government tampering with our images to conceal their presence?
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 23:47 |
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This is some "where we're going, we won't need eyes to see" stuff But seriously, it's pretty dang cool that both of these new telescopes are coming or already are online and producing awesome data for years to come. Yay space!
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 00:51 |
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NASA hears 'heartbeat' signal from Voyager 2 probe a week after losing contactThe Article posted:More than a week after accidentally cutting off communications with the Voyager 2 probe, NASA officials heard a hopeful signal that may allow them to reestablish contact with the interstellar traveler months ahead of schedule.
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 05:18 |
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Gotta admit seeing it phrased out this way kinda makes it that much more awe-inspiring that we have rudimentary communications with something in interstellar space, that we launched in the 1970s. That thing's operational capacity might very well outlast our own.
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 05:35 |
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GOAT probe
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 15:28 |
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Chad Voyager Virgin Tesla Roadster
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 15:32 |
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cat botherer posted:GOAT probe I thought cattle mutilation alien probes assaulted cows?
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 16:52 |
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GOAT probe still goated Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/voyager-2-phones-home-and-says-everything-is-cool/ Rappaport posted:I thought cattle mutilation alien probes assaulted cows?
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 15:10 |
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cat botherer posted:It's fun to mix up the kind of anuses you core out from time to time. Too bad Richard Belzer passed away, this sounds like an X-files - SVU crossover script pitch!
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 15:38 |
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Hey space buddies! And apologies for double-posting Next week is going to be an interesting space week. Both India and Russia (BBC article) are attempting (non-manned ) Moon-landings. The Indian mission seems very ambitious, as they plan on deploying a rover I will let Auntie Beeb fill us in on the deets: BBC posted:India's space agency has released latest images of the Moon as its third lunar mission starts descending towards the little-explored south pole. The pictures have been taken by Vikram, Chandrayaan-3's lander, which began the last phase of its mission on Thursday. Vikram, which carries a rover in its belly, is due to land near the south pole on 23 August. Obviously that last bit has geo-political (space-political?) implications, and at least in Finnish-language media some commentators have criticized the existing space-usage-treaties as "Cold War relics". I'm not sure if anyone's actually keen on a new space race, but the science missions themselves sound interesting.
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# ? Aug 19, 2023 09:49 |
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Cool stuff!
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# ? Aug 19, 2023 12:38 |
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Welp, one down, badly (BBC) BBC posted:Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 10:38 |
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Here's an amusing 2014 look at the Russian space program. I'm excited for the Mars sample return next year.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 14:11 |
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That's too bad. I feel like I'm a little sad whenever any country loses a probe. On the small silver lining, we do tend to lose them more often than not. I think I recall a statistic somewhere that lander missions have the lowest success rates?
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 17:59 |
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India fared better, as they've announced that the lander made a successful touch-down on the Lunar surface. BBC's live blogging posted:Wow, that was intense! So now what? Firstly, the lander will wait a few hours for the lunar dust to quite literally settle.
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# ? Aug 23, 2023 13:54 |
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Ceased to exist is a pretty metal line though.
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# ? Aug 23, 2023 15:45 |
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Rappaport posted:India fared better, as they've announced that the lander made a successful touch-down on the Lunar surface. Jai Hind! 🇮🇳 DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Aug 23, 2023 |
# ? Aug 23, 2023 15:55 |
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DrSunshine posted:That's too bad. I feel like I'm a little sad whenever any country loses a probe. On the small silver lining, we do tend to lose them more often than not. I think I recall a statistic somewhere that lander missions have the lowest success rates? Out of 111 attempts up to Chang'e 5 in late 2020 of any kind to the moon, 41 failed outright and 8 had partial success. So 44%. Of missions classified as "Lander", "Lander, Rover", "Rover", or, "Sample Return" there were 38 attempts with 21 outright failures and 1 partial success. 57%. ref: NASA mission database
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# ? Aug 23, 2023 18:50 |
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India's moon rover is doing great. quote:India only landed on the Moon last week, but its Chandrayaan-3 mission has already made its first scientific observations of the lunar south pole. I am legitly super happy for them. India has historically been one of the world's great powers, and it's fantastic to see them in space now, doing awesome science, after centuries of imperialism.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 14:46 |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66786611 Possible detection of dimethyl sulphide on exoplanet. It's tentative as of yet, but very exciting if true as it's currently a strong bioindicator.
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# ? Sep 12, 2023 14:23 |
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Bug Squash posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66786611 It could be a Hycean world, by the way, which is pretty neat. We'll never be able to get there in our lifetime, but I can only imagine what kind of bizarre creatures might live on such a world.
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# ? Sep 12, 2023 14:50 |
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https://abc7.com/mexico-aliens-corpses-ufos/13776957/ quote:Scientists in Mexico are pulling back the curtain on what some believe are aliens, and the remains of "non-human" beings were put on display.
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# ? Sep 14, 2023 14:48 |
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Me after sitting through a 2 hour useless meeting
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# ? Sep 14, 2023 14:51 |
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I thought the E.T. landfills were full of gaming cartridges
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Boris Galerkin posted:Me after sitting through a 2 hour useless meeting Who could've known that the face of alien civilization would be withered Wojak?
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# ? Sep 14, 2023 16:16 |
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Never would have expected that the aliens would be made of paper mache
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# ? Sep 15, 2023 02:24 |
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NASA released the Final Report from their UAP Independent Study team, as well as a media briefing/Q&A about the report. The TLDR is that the report found no evidence to suggest any reported UAP sightings are extra-terrestrial in origin, but also they also have some cases that are still unexplained and they'd like to study UAPs from a position of science rather than spectacle. They're encouraging pilots that encounter UAPs to gather as much data as possible and report it to NASA. Even if they find it to be a weather balloon or a drone or whatever, it'll be more data on what those objects look like under unusual conditions, and help filter out any actual anomalies.
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# ? Sep 15, 2023 06:45 |
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This is all so wrong, I don't even know where to start I'm not sure if those guys should be in prison for stealing archaeological artifacts or just plain old scamming But OK, if those "bodies" have "DNA" in them, their claims should be easy to test, right?
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# ? Sep 15, 2023 09:56 |
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Everyone knows only dinosaur have DNA (Dinonucleic acid). Aliens would have ANA (Alienucleic acid) or something?
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# ? Sep 15, 2023 10:18 |
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Libluini posted:This is all so wrong, I don't even know where to start Listen buddy, they gave a sample to the university. No, the university wasn't allowed to take the sample themselves, or see the sample being taken, why do you ask?
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Bug Squash posted:Listen buddy, they gave a sample to the university. No, the university wasn't allowed to take the sample themselves, or see the sample being taken, why do you ask? Already a bad idea for your scam, giving an actual DNA-sample to an university. Because nowadays we have stuff like DNA-databases and poo poo. Though it will at least be a fitting end to the farce when they run the sample through a couple databases and are like "what the heck, this is just Broccoli-DNA, those fuckers!"
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