The Space Thread

Same for last step, he does lots of 7/4, 7/8, 5/8 etc... There's always an extra/last step...

If only his music was as good as his artist names... 

Just kidding i like his music...:)

  On 9/14/2020 at 6:26 PM, Quiet penis said:

This is 2020, invasion is imminent.

yep, if we can get free wifi there, then count me in.

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A huge planet about the size of Jupiter (WD 1856b) has been spotted orbiting a tiny white dwarf star 80 light-years away. The discovery by an international team of astronomers is puzzling because the planet should have been swallowed-up long ago, when the star expanded to become a red giant before contracting to a white dwarf.

This is the first planet known to orbit a white dwarf and its existence suggests that at least some of the Sun’s planets could survive when our star becomes a red giant in five billion years.

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https://physicsworld.com/a/jupiter-sized-planet-found-orbiting-tiny-white-dwarf-star/

https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite

What's the point of planets surviving it if every life form is extinct... 

NASA will buy token amounts of lunar soil, ice, or rocks from a private company to bootstrap international discussion on space mining law.
 

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/nasa-says-it-will-pay-private-companies-to-gather-moon-rocks/

  On 9/16/2020 at 7:31 PM, Tim_J said:

What's the point of planets surviving it if every life form is extinct... 

for future colonization by life forms from other planetoids? maybe it can be used as a vacation planet for mining? 

But planets who survive this kind of events are probably/mosdef not inhabitable... There's a whole universe out there... 

  On 9/16/2020 at 8:23 PM, Tim_J said:

But planets who survive this kind of events are probably/mosdef not inhabitable by humans.....

fixt

currently, the head of the russian space agency wants to claim venus as a russian planet because now astronomers believe they have may have found a life signature on the planet. not too bad for a planet that's 900°F/482°C

Infest the Rats Nest continues to predict 2020 with Superbug and now Venusian.

  On 9/17/2020 at 1:16 AM, Nebraska said:

fixt

currently, the head of the russian space agency wants to claim venus as a russian planet because now astronomers believe they have may have found a life signature on the planet. not too bad for a planet that's 900°F/482°C

But you said for future colonization and mining, micro organisms are not gonna do that... Intelligent life forms maybe? 

nvrmnd i didn't click the links...

Hospitable planet
“I think the most exciting part of this work is what it means for both habitability in general – can there be hospitable regions in these dead solar systems – and also our ability to find evidence of that habitability,”

still...

Latest Hubble images of Jupiter and Europa: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2017/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/nasa-moon-announcement-when-watch-mission-b1209506.html

  On 10/22/2020 at 5:23 PM, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/nasa-moon-announcement-when-watch-mission-b1209506.html

As guessed, there is more water on our Moon:

https://gizmodo.com/nasas-big-moon-news-theres-water-all-over-the-place-1845482847

https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html

Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been scanned and are available here as small, medium, large, and publication quality jpeg images. Scans by David Brandt-Erichsen.

Skip to 9:43 if you want to just watch the touch n' go part. 

  On 11/2/2020 at 7:31 AM, ManjuShri said:

https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html

Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been scanned and are available here as small, medium, large, and publication quality jpeg images. Scans by David Brandt-Erichsen.

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well Hawkwind

Arecibo received its 2nd damage this year 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-good-arecibo-telescope-just-003500905.html

They've decided to decommission the site...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03270-9

Only read it just now, but the platform over the dish collapsed two days ago...

https://www.ucf.edu/news/arecibo-observatorys-telescope-collapses/

RIP Arecibo...

  On 12/3/2020 at 10:49 AM, t yst r said:

Only read it just now, but the platform over the dish collapsed two days ago...

https://www.ucf.edu/news/arecibo-observatorys-telescope-collapses/

RIP Arecibo...

  On 12/3/2020 at 2:46 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

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Some videos of the collapse in this article

https://www.livescience.com/drone-footage-arecibo-observarory.html?utm_source=notification