The Space Thread

space photos remind me of the doom 3 engine.

  On 8/6/2015 at 3:44 AM, very honest said:

space photos remind me of the doom 3 engine.

 

When you see photos of space you think of the Doom 3 engine?

yeah i read something about how the doom 3 engine simulates the way light actually behaves pretty well. earths atmosphere complicates the way things look a lot, but other celestial bodies with little or no atmosphere look just like doom 3, they got it right.

Some scientists have determined that the universe is past its half life, and is now on the decline.

http://nypost.com/2015/08/12/the-universe-is-past-its-prime-and-slowly-dying/

With those timescales the universe might as well be eternal from a human perspective.

new 3D renderings of Ophir Chasma on Mars by an Indian probe:

 

 

 

http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25-mars-orbiter-mission/3d-portrayals-of-ophir-chasma-terrain

fly over mars' atlantis basin

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sglcA_HpwsQ

Edited August 22, 2015 by Nebraska

NASA teasing a major discovery on Sept 28th, some are hoping they have found underground liquid water on Mars.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved

On a side note, I recently rediscovered these brilliant films from Disney circa the 1950s, they were so spot on about space travel, and the Space Shuttle program, it was scary.  Mostly using captured German scientists from WWII that helped develop the V-2 Rocket and Atom Bomb.  It pisses me off this brilliant animation has been lost to history, as the only way you could own it was on limited edition DVDs I acquired back in the 90s.  Really good stuff for science nerds.  And yes, that's Orson Welles narrating it.
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEg7dF5rg8Y
 
BTW, I've sampled the shit out of these DVDs, LOL.

The Lunar eclipse was nice. Can't wait to hear what NASA has to say about Mars tomorrow.

  On 9/28/2015 at 5:21 AM, Hail Sagan said:

The Lunar eclipse was nice. Can't wait to hear what NASA has to say about Mars tomorrow.

 

+1

I woke up at 5am....went out and it was cloudy. Guess 2033 is the next chance.

  On 9/27/2015 at 4:22 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

BTW, I've sampled the shit out of these DVDs, LOL.

 

sampled? you have tunes?

they found signs of liquid water on mars y'all

 

Sweet, there is no way we are alone in this universe.

  On 9/28/2015 at 10:30 AM, azatoth said:

I woke up at 5am....went out and it was cloudy. Guess 2033 is the next chance.

My son woke up at 3am so I got the chance to stare at the moon for a few minutes. It was a weirs crescent and slightly red. Looked quite cool

  On 9/28/2015 at 9:05 PM, Nebraska said:

they found signs of liquid water on mars y'all

 

 

Fucking incredible. The probability of discovering another form of life, or sustaining life as we know it on another planet just increased. And it's our neighbor planet, which is actively being explored as we speak.

awesome =]

so in 15 years they maybe are gonna go to mars, yaay

who knows what awesome shit they are gonna find when we are already dead

 

Edited September 29, 2015 by Ivan Ooze

Hopefully the life discovered on Mars, if any is discovered at all, doesn't end up being an endospore transported on a rover from Earth; those things are so resilient!

Now, NASA is concerned with infecting Mars with our bacteria, the reverse War of The Worlds...

http://gawker.com/nasa-scientists-concerned-about-infecting-mars-pristine-1733437662

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3mq1wl/were_nasa_mars_scientists_ask_us_anything_about/

  On 8/6/2015 at 2:37 AM, caze said:

the green could be from the moon's atmosphere (it has a very small one)?

 

It's most likely an image processing artefact (the color image is generated by combining three seperate exposures for the red, green and blue color channels)

This really is a boner jamz '03 for science nerds.  If you saw the movie version of Contact back in 1996, they used a clip of Clinton commenting on the microbe discovery on Mars way back in the 90s, and it was prophetic.  Will this change the course of action at NASA in terms of exploration?  They have a pretty concrete and budget wise plan extending out for several decades I believe, and space exploration hasn't been a priority to Obama, George Bush Jr. made a bullshit commitment to NASA back during the Irag invasion, but only to save his ass with public opinion.

 

 

I hope JPL and Cape Canaveral really have a contingency plan to maximize our exploration of Mars, this might change the entire human mission to that planet, but what do I know?  Let NASA speak for themselves.  I hope if a Republican gets elected into office, they don't try to discount hard scientific evidence because of their 2000 year old christian super hero / zombie bullshit.

Water ice confirmed on Pluto.

http://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto

pretty