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 This is the Space Thread. Talk about outer space, other planets, evidence of UFO’s leaked by the military, pulsars, "yeah we could build a Dyson sphere but who's gonna pay for it?", the Space Force, which alien race you would rather be abducted by, the heat death of the universe, the space race, the best way to terraform Mars, soviet attempts to colonize the moon, that weird freeze-dried ice cream, vacuum toilets, that astronaut who drove across the country in a diaper to murder someone, those deeds to acres of martian land that people give as birthday gifts, asteroid mining, Space X, etc., etc. 3... 2... 1... Start posting! twoday has issued a correction as of 12:51 on May 28, 2020 |
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So yesterday there was supposed to be a launch and even Trump was there, but it got canceled because of the weather. Check out those suits: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1265835205115498496?s=19 https://twitter.com/Politidope/status/1265736427339501568?s=19 https://twitter.com/Astro_Doug/status/1265843262943825921?s=19 https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1265955750939156480?s=19
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May 28, 2020 11:41
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https://youtu.be/BVn1oQL9sWg Dad, are you space?
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May 28, 2020 12:12
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why don’t we see evidence of other alien civilizations it’s wierd
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May 28, 2020 12:12
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Space Force
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May 28, 2020 12:13
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euphronius posted:why don’t we see evidence of other alien civilizations you don't
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May 28, 2020 12:13
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will musk’s rocket fail horribly saturday? maybe! that’s just how 2020 works
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May 28, 2020 12:16
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euphronius posted:why don’t we see evidence of other alien civilizations Well, when stars die they go supernova, and that sends out a giant explosion of radioactive death all around it. That happens in the Milky Way once about every 50 years or so. If it’s too close to you, your planet pretty much gets sterilized. They think that one may have hit earth 2.5 million years ago, and while it wasn’t close enough to kill all life on earth, it seems like it may have caused a megafauna extinction event. So colonizing mars won’t really help avoid this either, to avoid this you have to travel to different part of the galaxy if you want your species to survive, and one theory is that they all just go extinct before they manage to do that
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May 28, 2020 12:23
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A Rocket To Nowherequote:In the thirty years since the last Moon flight, we have succeeded in creating a perfectly self-contained manned space program, in which the Shuttle goes up to save the Space Station (undermanned, incomplete, breaking down, filled with garbage, and dropping at a hundred meters per day), and the Space Station offers the Shuttle a mission and a destination. The Columbia accident has added a beautiful finishing symmetry - the Shuttle is now required to fly to the ISS, which will serve as an inspection station for the fragile thermal tiles, and a lifeboat in case something goes seriously wrong.
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May 28, 2020 12:25
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Trump makes all this possible
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May 28, 2020 12:40
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being thousands of miles from earth is the most effective form of social distancing
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May 28, 2020 12:49
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wolfs posted:will musk’s rocket fail horribly saturday? maybe! the most 2020 thing would be if they bring COVID to the ISS and then burn up on reentry
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May 28, 2020 12:53
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musks rocket uses a touchscreen instead of a joystick  just unfuckinreal
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May 28, 2020 13:34
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I think the only reason the old USA space program worked is because they weren’t run by boomers
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May 28, 2020 13:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
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May 28, 2020 13:45
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space is awesome
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May 28, 2020 14:06
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space is cool, too me (space colonies are dumb tho) ps i hate elon musk
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May 28, 2020 14:39
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euphronius posted:why don’t we see evidence of other alien civilizations Might I point you toward the climate change and doomsday economics threads?
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May 28, 2020 14:41
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StratGoatCom posted:Might I point you toward the climate change and doomsday economics threads? I understand that and that many civs kill themselves but it would only take a few to leave observable evidence and there are countless planets on which life can happen it’s really wierd
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May 28, 2020 14:45
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Turns out "the great filter" is not sudden catastrophic nuclear war, just slowly and avoidably running the planet into the ground.
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May 28, 2020 14:51
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euphronius posted:I understand that and that many civs kill themselves It's probable that FTL isn't real and that the rest that make it just do a cost benefit analysis where they only colonize a couple of systems and then stop because there isn't any reason to go a long any farther. 2: it's likely that most intelligent life evolves on super earths and basically that makes spaceflight extremely expensive unless you wanna go full nuclear. 3: We are not looking in the right places and looking for the right stuff.
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May 28, 2020 14:54
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twoday posted:Well, when stars die they go supernova, and that sends out a giant explosion of radioactive death all around it. That happens in the Milky Way once about every 50 years or so. If it’s too close to you, your planet pretty much gets sterilized. They think that one may have hit earth 2.5 million years ago, and while it wasn’t close enough to kill all life on earth, it seems like it may have caused a megafauna extinction event. So colonizing mars won’t really help avoid this either, to avoid this you have to travel to different part of the galaxy if you want your species to survive, and one theory is that they all just go extinct before they manage to do that our magnetic field and ozone layer would protect us from everything short of a star in the Centuri system going nova. Space is big. euphronius posted:why don’t we see evidence of other alien civilizations Space is again, big and we are cheap. There could be an earth clone orbiting the nearest star ( alpha centuri) and we would not know, even if it was using 1950’s era radio ( the easiest kind to hear because it was less efficient)
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May 28, 2020 14:54
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Xakura posted:Turns out "the great filter" is not sudden catastrophic nuclear war, just slowly and avoidably running the planet into the ground. It's legit not even that, they honestly probably just lose interest.
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May 28, 2020 14:55
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Re: super earths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amjuJJwI3iM
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May 28, 2020 14:58
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one step closer... bless you space heroes
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May 28, 2020 14:59
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Space is really big, and so is time, they are definitely out there
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May 28, 2020 14:59
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twoday posted:Well, when stars die they go supernova, and that sends out a giant explosion of radioactive death all around it. That happens in the Milky Way once about every 50 years or so. If it’s too close to you, your planet pretty much gets sterilized. They think that one may have hit earth 2.5 million years ago, and while it wasn’t close enough to kill all life on earth, it seems like it may have caused a megafauna extinction event. So colonizing mars won’t really help avoid this either, to avoid this you have to travel to different part of the galaxy if you want your species to survive, and one theory is that they all just go extinct before they manage to do that That's an interesting article. Thank you
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May 28, 2020 15:01
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Lawman 0 posted:Re: super earths What’s really interesting to me are super-habitable planets, https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=7PIxA2-D900 Basically it seems our sun (Yellow G class) isn’t the ideal sun, and that Orange K class suns have less harsh light, live longer and are more common. The folks in the YouTube video propose that stars with less mass than the Sun, classified as K stars, are probably the best candidates for diversity since they’re long-lived and relatively stable. A K-type star will have a lifetime of 20-70 billion years without those pesky red dwarf megaflares. Also, I personally believe that pop myth is wrong, and that the existence of Jupiter is bad for the solar system, because it starved planets of mass and doesn’t actually do poo poo to redirect asteroids. PawParole has issued a correction as of 15:05 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 15:01
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PawParole posted:What’s really interesting to me are super-habitable planets, https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=7PIxA2-D900 That reminds of this article from Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shocking-colors-of-alien-plants/
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May 28, 2020 15:05
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Lawman 0 posted:That reminds of this article from Scientific American. https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/01/13/orange-dwarfs-goldilocks-stars-for-life/ This is a better one, unpaywalled and from a blog I love https://www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/STSCI-H-p2006a-d-1280x720.jpg
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May 28, 2020 15:12
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Also worth noting that if varient Bussard NAFAL ships are the order of the day for most species, our area of space is uniquely poo poo for operating such things, as the interstellar medium is unusually hot and thin.
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May 28, 2020 15:26
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Bussard ramjets loving own though so maybe they got the right idea? 
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May 28, 2020 16:00
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why does it have to be Space Force, why not a portal to another dimension, or investigating the secret continent that the air force found decades ago we need to develop military space culture because of the potential for rogue US military actors who are space pirates and ongoing threats from Space Nazis. we aren't competing with Russia and China for space dominance, we're competing with ourselves https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia3/ciencia_flyingobjects197.htm
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May 28, 2020 19:13
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spiss the final fucktier these are the voyages of the starshit enterpiss
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May 28, 2020 20:14
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The Expanse TV series is very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8
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May 28, 2020 20:16
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i think it'd be cool to have space habitats
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May 28, 2020 20:19
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i'm going to gently caress an alien
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May 28, 2020 20:30
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Stairmaster posted:i think it'd be cool to have space habitats Low gravity would be pretty annoying though, if you accidentally elbow the coffee mug on your desk it's going to fly across the room
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May 28, 2020 20:43
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Jose posted:i'm going to gently caress an alien please do not have sex with mitch mcconnell
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May 28, 2020 20:49
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euphronius posted:why don’t we see evidence of other alien civilizations space is really loving big and old and we haven't looked at 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of it yet
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May 28, 2020 20:53
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