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Libluini posted:"what the heck, this is just Broccoli-DNA, those fuckers!" Look, buddy, the plant aliens are real, and they are our friends
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# ? Sep 15, 2023 19:40 |
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neutral milf hotel posted:they look real to me
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# ? Sep 16, 2023 01:51 |
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Footage from the parker solar probe flying through a CME: https://youtu.be/FF_e5eYgJ3Y
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# ? Sep 20, 2023 01:42 |
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Shaddak posted:Footage from the parker solar probe flying through a CME: What are the "sounds" that we're hearing in the video? Is it somehow translating the radio frequencies into noises?
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# ? Sep 20, 2023 01:47 |
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DrSunshine posted:What are the "sounds" that we're hearing in the video? Is it somehow translating the radio frequencies into noises? That, or charged particles from the solar wind, I'd guess.
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# ? Sep 20, 2023 02:06 |
DrSunshine posted:What are the "sounds" that we're hearing in the video? Is it somehow translating the radio frequencies into noises?
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# ? Sep 20, 2023 02:38 |
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Nessus posted:I remember seeing a similar probe video about the rings of Saturn (or Jupiter?) but the 'sound' was a lot more intense. It kind of ruled. The current champion of this kind of thing is still the Titan lander, thanks to it sending honest-to-good audio of the descent through Titan's atmosphere. Listening to that noise still gives me the chills.
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Hello space buddies, today is an space buddy day as Osiris Rex (what a name) is about to poop its payload of asteroid sample material into our atmosphere. BBC explains: Auntie Beeb posted:Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule will come screaming into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at more than 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet. Bennu's looking pretty dusty, good job that NASA sent a vacuum squad over there, huh?
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Rappaport posted:Hello space buddies, today is an space buddy day as Osiris Rex (what a name) is about to poop its payload of asteroid sample material into our atmosphere. I wonder if, twenty years from now, some bored Italian director will take this as an inspiration for a cheap alien comet virus movie
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# ? Sep 24, 2023 20:47 |
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Libluini posted:I wonder if, twenty years from now, some bored Italian director will take this as an inspiration for a cheap alien comet virus movie I mean there's a lot of places on earth they could take the exact same inspiration from if your just talking visually. Turns out big balls of rock floating through space aren't always the most visually interesting! Just because of how many there are their probably are the odd exceptions, but yeah. I feel sorry for all the space pirates who have ever been marooned on them.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 09:50 |
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dr_rat posted:I mean there's a lot of places on earth they could take the exact same inspiration from if your just talking visually. Turns out big balls of rock floating through space aren't always the most visually interesting! Just because of how many there are their probably are the odd exceptions, but yeah. how to tell someone you don't know how B-movie directors roll, without saying that you don't know how B-movie directors roll alternate joke: how do you not know that there are enough space rock virus movies by now that they're forming their own little subgenre?
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 18:18 |
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Europa Clipper launches in a year*, JPL just put out a public talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYjGLPUo8OQ *theoretically
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 07:26 |
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Sort-of-space-news, Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, has died at the respectable age of 95 CNN posted:Apollo astronaut Col. Frank Borman, who commanded the first mission to orbit the moon, has died in Billings, Montana, NASA announced. He was 95. Perhaps the most (pop-)iconic thing of the Apollo 8 mission is the 'Earthrise' photo
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 07:42 |
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Man, is it just me, or did a lot of the original moon landing astronauts end up living to incredible age? ... I wonder... If there's something up with that.🤔
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 15:47 |
DrSunshine posted:Man, is it just me, or did a lot of the original moon landing astronauts end up living to incredible age? e: It would be incredibly funny if the answer was cosmic radiation though
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Rappaport posted:Sort-of-space-news, Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, has died at the respectable age of 95 The Apollo 8 mission was regarded by the astronauts as being the most daring and the crew as supremely brave even by their own standards. (At least according to the space rocket history podcasts). So much of what they did were the big firsts, and it's a shame it's often overlooked by the public.
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In order to divert more funding to manned space exploration, I'm going to start an ivermectin-style conspiracy theory that cosmic radiation adds +30 years to your life span.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 16:31 |
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Symbiotic dormant chestbursters give all astronauts an unusually long lifespan.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 16:33 |
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Bug Squash posted:The Apollo 8 mission was regarded by the astronauts as being the most daring and the crew as supremely brave even by their own standards. (At least according to the space rocket history podcasts). So much of what they did were the big firsts, and it's a shame it's often overlooked by the public. Apollo 8 I know mostly from the German SF-series Perry Rhodan, so I always take a minute to remember that Apollo 8 in real life didn't end catastrophically.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 18:31 |
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“Perry Rhodan” is such a great example of “this name sounds American”.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:35 |
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DrSunshine posted:In order to divert more funding to manned space exploration, I'm going to start an ivermectin-style conspiracy theory that cosmic radiation adds +30 years to your life span. Hahahaha.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 17:03 |
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Chicken Butt posted:“Perry Rhodan” is such a great example of “this name sounds American”. We added the "h" to make it sound more American -Clark Darlton
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/24/amaterasu-extremely-high-energy-particle-detected-falling-to-earthquote:Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth that is causing bafflement because it is coming from an apparently empty region of space. Ok which of you guys just beamed a signal to Trisolaris
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 16:03 |
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DrSunshine posted:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/24/amaterasu-extremely-high-energy-particle-detected-falling-to-earth With this kind of distance involved, either that's their first attempt at contacting us , or our original signal was send by the dinosaurs
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 16:21 |
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If there were a precursor civilization on the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, we would be able to tell because they would have used up all the oil and already mined a bunch of things interesting to us, right?
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 17:08 |
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There would presumably be a quite interesting depositional layer in a lot of rocks, yes.
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 17:17 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:If there were a precursor civilization on the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, we would be able to tell because they would have used up all the oil and already mined a bunch of things interesting to us, right? OwlFancier posted:There would presumably be a quite interesting depositional layer in a lot of rocks, yes. The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 17:31 |
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If they ever popped a nuke in the atmosphere we'd know it.
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 18:03 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:If there were a precursor civilization on the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, we would be able to tell because they would have used up all the oil and already mined a bunch of things interesting to us, right? Not if they were psionic. We don't have any way to detect the residue of magic spells, after all.
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# ? Nov 24, 2023 19:45 |
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Libluini posted:Not if they were psionic. We don't have any way to detect the residue of magic spells, after all. I thought fairy screams left a unique phosphorus isotope when terror-based.
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I AM GRANDO posted:If there were a precursor civilization on the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, we would be able to tell because they would have used up all the oil and already mined a bunch of things interesting to us, right? Similarly, on a long enough time frame, geological turbulence would mix up their artifacts and produce ore-bearing strata where it didn't all wash into the sea.
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Apparently I just can't deal with Google anymore , so I pose my question to the thread: What is the projected life-time of Nixon's signature on the Moon? Presumably the solar wind will erode it at some time-scale, but how long is that?
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# ? Dec 2, 2023 02:24 |
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Rappaport posted:Apparently I just can't deal with Google anymore , so I pose my question to the thread: What is the projected life-time of Nixon's signature on the Moon? Presumably the solar wind will erode it at some time-scale, but how long is that? space.com posted:From past studies of moon rocks collected by astronauts during the Apollo missions, researchers have learned that the rocks erode at a rate of about 0.04 inches every 1 million years. Depending on how much trust you want to put into the source, you're just some napkin algebra away on guestimating it. Though that's just for the raw material. You're probably looking at the tens of thousands of years for the surface of the plaques to be rendered blank short of a significant event acting upon it.
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# ? Dec 2, 2023 20:23 |
I suspect the plaque as a detectable manufactured object would last significantly longer -- I am guessing that sans meteor strikes, the Apollo landers and the handful of other robots we've thrown on the moon would be observable for a very long time, even if they would become much less obvious once, for instance, the gold foil poo poo gets porous and dusty.
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# ? Dec 2, 2023 20:30 |
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Yeah it really is determined as what you mean by remain. Do you mean if something were to look at it with our approximate vision seeing what we would identify as Nixon's signature vs same thing but obvious artificial origins vs detectable at all.
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# ? Dec 2, 2023 21:05 |
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As Nessus said, the objects themselves probably will remain identifiable as artificial for quite a bit, I just find it funny that there's a time-line in a potential future where the hyper-intelligent octopuses who will rule the Earth after us will find Richard Nixon's autograph on the Moon. It's not exactly Contact, but hey.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/voyager-1-is-returning-a-mishmash-of-1s-and-0s-from-space-nasa-is-baffledquote:Voyager 1 Is Returning a Mishmash of 1s And 0s From Space. NASA Is Baffled. Goddamnit, Trisolaris, leave us alone wouldja??
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# ? Dec 14, 2023 15:41 |
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Oh I know this one. Obviously someone was accidentally on voyger when it launched, and after a long nap their finally getting around to sending a message back to earth in binary. This is why you don't take naps when your working on space probes!
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"NASA data experts have translated the stream to an image format, and .. oh god, what is that man doing to his anus?"
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