
See all the planets shortly after sunset for the next week.
Found a great Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NASASpacefl...
They had a wonderful video called "Great launch to landing timelapse video from onboard the Falcon 9 first stage"
Neat stuff but of course Facebook videos can't be embedded.
Found a great Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NASASpacefl...
They had a wonderful video called "Great launch to landing timelapse video from onboard the Falcon 9 first stage"
Neat stuff but of course Facebook videos can't be embedded.
They have a YouTube channel as well.
Sadly, I can only support SpaceX as a vehicle for research, learning and inspiration for NASA.
Everything else Muskian can DIAF because in this instance, I cannot separate the art from the artist.
Sadly, I can only support SpaceX as a vehicle for research, learning and inspiration for NASA.
Everything else Muskian can DIAF because in this instance, I cannot separate the art from the artist.
Eh. Musk is just the figurehead and purse-holder. He's not the artist, he's the artist's patron.
There's thousands of engineers and technicians at SpaceX who don't require separation from their art.
I say this as I've now been at the coal face at Blue Origin for 6 months. Sure, Bezos is ultimately signing my paychecks but I'm working with a huge number of very smart, very motivated people doing great work.
farley3k wrote:Found a great Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NASASpacefl...
They had a wonderful video called "Great launch to landing timelapse video from onboard the Falcon 9 first stage"
Neat stuff but of course Facebook videos can't be embedded.
They have a YouTube channel as well.
I love NASA Space Flight... their chatter in the background is way better than most other streams...
As for the whole Musk Bezos thing... This is why I support NASA so adamantly... leaving the knowledge base to corporate entities is a mistake until we are better at it... Space ain't simple or easy and as can be seen... it takes billionaires more than a decade of research and talent acquisition to get started, let alone progress things... Without the knowledge base centralized in some way things will be much more difficult.
I mean I like and appreciate the new life/innovation they have brought... but they aren't the folks we need taking over things right now.
As for the whole Musk Bezos thing... This is why I support NASA so adamantly... leaving the knowledge base to corporate entities is a mistake until we are better at it... Space ain't simple or easy and as can be seen... it takes billionaires more than a decade of research and talent acquisition to get started, let alone progress things... Without the knowledge base centralized in some way things will be much more difficult.
The talent IS the knowledge base. Almost everyone I work with is either ex-NASA or more likely ex-Boeing (there's a reason SpaceX and Blue Origin both have Seattle offices - there 's a wealth of aerospace engineering talent there). Those NASA folks didn't leave all their knowledge at NASA when they left.
What Blue and SpaceX have done is massively broaden that knowledge base - cos now there's a shit-ton more people with experience in that field, who NASA could feasibly hire.
I'm certainly no advocate of billionaires being in charge of anything, but my engineering gut says that in some ways, this approach is better than being single-threaded through NASA, because there's more redundancy now. Competition also drives down price (lowering the price of access to space is literally the mission statement of Blue), and makes the industry at large more flexible.
I get it. But I think you also have to contrast the exploration and adventure aspects of it with the colonizing desires. We already have enough issues with the proliferation of landfill. With our throw away culture, imagine how cheapening access to space will create spacefill. (I already know there is a problem with space junk but we aren't at the point where we are building space stations on top of it...)
Kessler Syndrome... How far away from it are we?
Kessler Syndrome... How far away from it are we?
About 400 kilometers or so?
We were able to see tonight's launch of the Falcon Heavy from here in the Cape Fear area. It was really spectacular to see the fan trail and the rocket shooting away at what looked like a horizontal heading.
More launches at sunset, please!
It makes for interesting philosophical projections of human society.
Maybe the Fermi Paradox as applied to Earth is accurate. We heat up the climate, flood the outer reaches of the atmosphere with space debris until we have a Kessler field trapping us on this rock, then slowly dwindle to an echo of a race as we wait for technological advances and human ingenuity to find an escape path. Work as a nutrient / algae farmer in a hellish surface existence or work in a subterranean drow/dwarven city-mining complex.
It makes for interesting philosophical projections of human society.
Maybe the Fermi Paradox as applied to Earth is accurate. We heat up the climate, flood the outer reaches of the atmosphere with space debris until we have a Kessler field trapping us on this rock, then slowly dwindle to an echo of a race as we wait for technological advances and human ingenuity to find an escape path. Work as a nutrient / algae farmer in a hellish surface existence or work in a subterranean drow/dwarven city-mining complex.
At what point does exoplanet astronomy become capable of detecting hotter than expected climates and/or orbital debris fields?
Bfgp wrote:It makes for interesting philosophical projections of human society.
Maybe the Fermi Paradox as applied to Earth is accurate. We heat up the climate, flood the outer reaches of the atmosphere with space debris until we have a Kessler field trapping us on this rock, then slowly dwindle to an echo of a race as we wait for technological advances and human ingenuity to find an escape path. Work as a nutrient / algae farmer in a hellish surface existence or work in a subterranean drow/dwarven city-mining complex.
At what point does exoplanet astronomy become capable of detecting hotter than expected climates and/or orbital debris fields?
We'd need to be able to determine core temperatures, seismic/volcanic activity, planetary rotation, basic weather patterns... in addition to the atmospheric composition we already can get... I don't think we can get most of those currently.
We heat up the climate, flood the outer reaches of the atmosphere with space debris until we have a Kessler field trapping us on this rock, then slowly dwindle to an echo of a race as we wait for technological advances and human ingenuity to find an escape path. Work as a nutrient / algae farmer in a hellish surface existence or work in a subterranean drow/dwarven city-mining complex.
Is this a new game idea you are pitching or a streaming series?
I dont think your source paper says 'dont use it for anything' it says it's misattributed, a bit of a misnomer, doesn't represent Fermi's views, and shouldnt be used to justify depriving SETI-like efforts of resources. (based on a reading of the abstract)
Clarifying the origin of these ideas is important, because the Fermi paradox is seen by some as an
authoritative objection to searching for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence—cited in the U. S. Congress as a
reason for killing NASA’s SETI program on one occasion—but evidence indicates that it misrepresents Fermi’s
views, misappropriates his authority, deprives the actual authors of credit, and is not a valid paradox
That's a lot of problems with it, but none of these problems has much to do with general usage today, when tends to be looking at various reasons civilizations fail to be noticeable from a galactic/local perspective.
I would agree, however, that academics should change. Once they change, the rest of us can adapt.
Bfgp wrote:We heat up the climate, flood the outer reaches of the atmosphere with space debris until we have a Kessler field trapping us on this rock, then slowly dwindle to an echo of a race as we wait for technological advances and human ingenuity to find an escape path. Work as a nutrient / algae farmer in a hellish surface existence or work in a subterranean drow/dwarven city-mining complex.
Is this a new game idea you are pitching or a streaming series?
I promise I didn't use ChatGPT for this idea! I have been itching to write something for years.
More seriously, yes I would pay for another "not so dystopian" work in the spirit of the Windup Girl but not necessarily a GM crop hell yet still plausible given how much space junk is increasing and vast swathes of land that will become inhospitable as a matter of time.
Back to space and astronomy - has anyone here got a more than entry level telescope? I bought a Celestron several years ago and it was cool enough to spot some of the moons of Jupiter and its red band on the most recent event a couple of months ago, but aside from that viewing, I've only used it twice for moon gazing during lunar eclipse events.
I'm wondering how the pricing points work for example for something to look at Mars or Venus and which has auto tracking / GPS location capabilities on a mechanised mounting. If we're talking tens of thousands then I'd have to give up on this.
Well, for example, the Celestron NexStar 6SE aligns in a few minutes on 3 objects and has computerized object location and tracking for more than 40,000 celestial features. $1100 USD.
This dude posted video of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn taken with that telescope and various attachments, this past August. Interesting thing is that he shot from about 15 minutes from me, in a heavy suburban area with tons of light sky.
Wow that's pretty amazing! Amazon has that at $1400 local dollars here. The shots of Jupiter are far better than what I saw - I could barely discern a reddish line across Jupiter. I love how in most published images the planet is rotated so the band is horizontal but telescopically from the ground your perspective may vary.
I think it's a six-inch? Seems like a good buy. Celestron has always been dependable quality stuff, if a little pricey.
I was more thinking:
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Well it's the anniversary of the Challenger disaster today. And my annual reminder that the astronauts lived for 3 minutes after the explosion.
Whoa, I didn't know that.
I was in third grade and I remember the teachers crying.
I was working my first professional coding gig at home, and decided to take a break to relax and watch the liftoff... Yeah. Lost a few hours that day.
Holy crap, I had no idea. I was in 8th grade science class when I heard about it. Awful, awful day.
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