The Space Thread

  On 8/2/2023 at 4:40 PM, Walter Ostanek said:

RIP Voyager 2

It's not definitely lost yet, is it?

Russian moon probe crashes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66562629.amp

nice overview of Oppenheimer's (surprisingly important) non-bomb physics contributions. 

initial reports are that India’s south pole rover landing was a success! 

  On 8/23/2023 at 3:56 PM, auxien said:

initial reports are that India’s south pole rover landing was a success! 

Great, now India just needs to put someone's uncle on the moon and there will be 100,000 Indians moving there within 2 years [/sarcasm].

To be clear, I kid because I love, I spent 4 months living in India and loved it.

  On 8/23/2023 at 4:42 PM, randomsummer said:

Great, now India just needs to put someone's uncle on the moon and there will be 100,000 Indians moving there within 2 years [/sarcasm].

To be clear, I kid because I love, I spent 4 months living in India and loved it.

Someone already recycled the joke (from 1969) that when they arrived they encountered a Malayali tea salesman.

Only this time people were not amused. Sigh.

all good for launch in 45 minutes with 5% weather violation:

  On 8/26/2023 at 8:43 AM, cloud capture said:

all good for launch in 45 minutes with 5% weather violation:

 

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The weather has been violating me all summer.

But yeah, successful launch.

Serious docking question. 

two good videos from today

Mexican congress have produced (literally, it seems) two alien corpses. 

The bodies are on display in little coffins. Photos include x-rays featuring eggs and the all-important, uh, shoulder glands. 

  On 9/13/2023 at 3:49 PM, chim said:

Mexican congress have produced (literally, it seems) two alien corpses. 

The bodies are on display in little coffins. Photos include x-rays featuring eggs and the all-important, uh, shoulder glands. 

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Looks similar to the crystal skull in the British Museum. 

Why does it have 3 eggs

  On 9/13/2023 at 3:59 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

Why does it have 3 eggs

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-66807814

Astro photography of the year: cool (mostly) space shots

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On Sept. 5, 2022, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared gracefully through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2023/09/15/parker-observes-powerful-coronal-mass-ejection-vacuum-up-interplanetary-dust/

https://www.deseret.com/2023/9/22/23885601/how-to-watch-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-earthbound-could-shed-light-on-4-5-billion-year-mysteries

Dimethyl sulfide...  Are they sure someone just didn't fart near the detector??

  On 9/27/2023 at 4:09 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

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was it vaxxed?

https://kottke.org/23/09/the-plot-of-all-objects-in-the-universe

You Are Here

Damn.  I'm definitely going to read that paper.

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Thus, a Schwarzschild black hole the same size as our Universe has the same mass and density as our Universe. This seems to suggest that the entire Universe is a black hole. Although this idea has been explored in Refs. 34–37, Fig. 4 illustrates why this is not the case.

  On 9/28/2023 at 12:55 PM, randomsummer said:

Damn.  I'm definitely going to read that paper.

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it's mostly readable and was pretty interesting in that it's such a view from far out, and sticks pretty closely to just the hugest moments and classifications.