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General Space Thread

Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2019 12:39 pm
by GORDON
I hope to be proven wrong.

General Space Thread

Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2019 12:40 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote: As I understand it, those satellites are mainly to bring web to dark corners of the earth. Fine. Those of.us who need low latency will never use it.

So.my reaction is "oh.great, now they last billion peeps on earth can tell me they banged my mom "
Like Troy said, these aren't the geostationary super high orbit satellites, they're planning for much lower latency, so it should be more useful.

General Space Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:58 am
by Leisher
GORDON wrote: So.my reaction is "oh.great, now they last billion peeps on earth can tell me they banged my mom "
To be fair to them, you should just assume everyone on Earth has banged your mom.
Troy wrote: SpaceX could become a global juggernaut.

It's interesting how open they are about their business practices. Live streaming everything, giving info about rocket development.
I love everything they're doing. Sometimes privatization works.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 1:56 pm
by TheCatt
How far is the moon from the Earth? (let's say, in terms of the diameter of the Earth?) Get an answer in your mind.

It's this far.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:04 pm
by Vince
That's pretty far.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:08 pm
by Leisher
Someone in the world just saw that picture and believes that is how the solar system looks.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:12 pm
by TheCatt
Vince wrote: That's pretty far.
Right? I know I've learned this before, and yet I was surprised to see that picture. In my head, it's like 1 or 2 Earths away.
Leisher wrote: Someone in the world just saw that picture and believes that is how the solar system looks.
Got I hope so.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 5:39 pm
by Vince
TheCatt wrote: Right? I know I've learned this before, and yet I was surprised to see that picture. In my head, it's like 1 or 2 Earths away.
Honestly, it is about twice as far as I would have guestimated if given two cut-outs on a sticky board.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:26 pm
by Leisher

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:37 pm
by GORDON
And on a sane note, saw a bright "star" near the moon last night, knew it was a planet. Guessed Venus.

Installed a "sky map" app on my phone, it says it was Jupiter.

Pulled out my kid's cheap telescope, pointed it in the right direction. I could clearly see Jupiter and at least 2 moons. First time I've ever directly observed another planet's moons.

So I have that going for me, which is nice.

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:54 am
by TheCatt
Nice! When we were on vacation last year we could see Saturn, Jupiter and Venus all about once. But we had no telescope for the moons

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:34 am
by Vince
I should probably invest in a cheap telescope. We have so much less light pollution here.

General Space Thread

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:49 am
by Leisher
India officially joins the space race.

Their rover should also finally end conspiracy theories about the moon landing...you know, if those people weren't batshit crazy.

General Space Thread

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:29 am
by Leisher

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:12 pm
by Leisher
Starhopper lifts off.

SpaceX is killing it lately.

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 2:50 pm
by Leisher

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:04 pm
by Leisher

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:09 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: Black moon coming.
Can't wait to see it!

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:22 pm
by Vince
So... a second new moon due to the arbitrary setting of days in a month. Wow. The wife gets a third paycheck this month! Has nothing to do with the black moon, but involves the same amount of science.

General Space Thread

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:23 pm
by GORDON
I bet you wouldn't be snarky if it was called a White Moon, racist.