Guest Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, WhereTheSkiesEnd said: T- 10 minutes!!!🚀 https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive This is like waiting for the fireworks on the New Year's Eve 😅 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Just now, Georgi said: This is like waiting for the fireworks on the New Year's Eve 😅 I'm so excited!!!😆 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 So I hope that one day (before I'll be death hopefully) this will be so usual, I would be able to go in the space (and maybe come back😅). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Crew-1 is in orbit iss docking is targeted for 17 November 04:00 UTC 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 It seems that Jupiter and Saturn gonna get really close this December. The last time they got so close was on the time of Galileo (see the end of the article) 😅 https://www.space.com/jupiter-saturn-great-conjunction-2020?fbclid=IwAR1VnK0ynbFgRRB4VzjQLj-GSJrlfXN6AkPoOuOnE8OUp7scfeP_UdKVgsw Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 This happened a couple of weeks ago, but I just found the video. It's kinda beautiful in a tragic sort of way. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Total solar eclipse tomorrow https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-december-14. Unfortunately, I am on the wrong part of the planet 😅 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 For the many of us who missed it, GOES got it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morays Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 46 minutes ago, Unleash the Echidnas said: For the many of us who missed it, GOES got it. This is so cool, thank you for sharing! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 From the article: Quote By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes – that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/12/cornell-postdoc-detects-possible-exoplanet-radio-emission And the video: http://www.cornell.edu/video/postdoc-detects-possible-exoplanet-radio-emission Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Jupiter and Saturn conjunction it's really beautiful... especially as it is rare to see them so close 😅. More about it: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/planets/great-conjunction. And happy winter solstice Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Let Them Beet Cake Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 So sad I missed it! Crap weather here Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blue eyes white dragon Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 4 hours ago, Georgi said: Jupiter and Saturn conjunction it's really beautiful It really was cool! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Forest Spirit Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 7 hours ago, Let Them Beet Cake said: So sad I missed it! Crap weather here Same... but amazing pictures you posted there @Georgi 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Yes, I missed it too, as the sky was quite cloudy and I think there is another curfew going on anyway (I don't know on what planet I am anymore 😅) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morays Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 [Image credit: https://xkcd.com/2401/] 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 I've just found a good cake for this thread 😅 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Ok, I feel like I am overposting here 😅, but I've found this intriguing article that discusses the probability of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) in our galaxy. The article suggests (from my understanding) that intelligent life evolves, comes to a peak, then gradually disappears due to possible self-annihilation, and then reappears in different parts of the galaxy . So this would explain, in the opinion of the authors (or from what I understand), why we are kind of alone for now - there was the peak, then the other kind of ETI kind of self-destroyed themselves, and the new generation is quite young (in many/maybe all cases possibly too young to be observed). But all these are based on some probabilities of ETI to evolve in different parts of the galaxy and some other things I don't quite understand 😅, so it is more a theoretical approach... I think. First I've found about this here: https://nypost.com/2020/12/22/over-achieving-aliens-likely-annihilated-themselves-study/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&fbclid=IwAR0nVS8CCVYfT0rrmM4d0tmR3RpI8b572fpBlzlt3Ou3Js4rTY5K3u0caQk, but I feel like it sends a little bit in a different direction than the scientific article itself (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2012/2012.07902.pdf). And I wish you happy holidays Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 I don't know. With a sample size of one it's all pretty much science fiction at this time. I don't know how much you can really say, even with math and probabilities, based on what little we know so far. Still, it can be fun and interesting to speculate. Happy holidays! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 An article about a Japanese company that wants to produce wooden satellites to reduces space junk around the Earth: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-wooden-satellite-space-junk-b1779829.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR22ikS6LBx9AGpn66_KvFqIKym2v8ibZNLvLON3ulxDQovhl1cN4MB_IZs#Echobox=1609259049 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
michaeld Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 2 hours ago, Georgi said: An article about a Japanese company that wants to produce wooden satellites to reduces space junk around the Earth: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-wooden-satellite-space-junk-b1779829.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR22ikS6LBx9AGpn66_KvFqIKym2v8ibZNLvLON3ulxDQovhl1cN4MB_IZs#Echobox=1609259049 That's a nice idea, though presumably they can't be made entirely out of wood: to be functional they'd need to have electronic equipment in them of some sort. I guess the question is how small these components can be made... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 18 minutes ago, michaeld said: That's a nice idea, though presumably they can't be made entirely out of wood: to be functional they'd need to have electronic equipment in them of some sort. I guess the question is how small these components can be made... Yep. And there is also the issue of wood and trees. But still, the idea is nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Earthrise is pretty cool. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean_Bird Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 8 hours ago, Unleash the Echidnas said: That's so cool! 😍 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Sean_Bird said: when was the last time you watched a moon rotate on its axis while orbiting the earth in real time? It is awesome but, er, Kaguya's initial orbital period was 16 hours 42 minutes (100 km altitude). That's ~2.6% of the Moon's 27 Earth-day long day. Not sure if any of the footage is from the other orbits. Quick math gives me a radius of 88,463 km for a seleneostationary (Moon-synchronous) orbit (86,726 km mean altitude) without the Earth so I think there's a bit of rounding in the calculations here. As discussed at that link, the Earth would prevent a stable seleneostationary orbit even without lunar mass concentrations. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean_Bird Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 @Unleash the Echidnassorry if my initial response came across as inappropriate. I got overexcited. sorry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 11 hours ago, WhereTheSkiesEnd said: Ohhh myyy 🤩 This is one of the most appealing advertisements I have ever seeeen 🤩 @Elevn Looook!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 13 hours ago, Sean_Bird said: sorry if my initial response came across as inappropriate. I got overexcited. This isn't my thread roommate's houseplant but feeling enthusiastic sounds good to me! Hopefully not being off by two orders of magnitude is also OK. 🙃 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
123. Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 I got an ad. of this YT series while playing a game. It's a very interesting series ngl (I have only watched one) ⭐ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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