General Space Thread
General Space Thread
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
General Space Thread
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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One of the people involved talks about it... from two years ago. "We might have a picture of a black hole in a couple years"
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It's not me, it's someone else.
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How big is that black hole, aside from having the mass of like 6.5 BILLION of our suns?
This big
This big
It's not me, it's someone else.
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It's not me, it's someone else.
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That, literally, made me laugh loud enough that the guy in the office next door came to look.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
General Space Thread
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
General Space Thread
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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It's truly sad that this isn't bigger news.
We're heading back to the moon. This time it's going to be a base to launch deeper space missions.
We're heading back to the moon. This time it's going to be a base to launch deeper space missions.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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I'll be honest, I was kinda hoping when voiceover guy stopped his speech, he would end with "Are you coming with us?"
It's not me, it's someone else.
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You mean Shattner? Show some respect!
This is how kids complicate your life. Before kids, I was an enthusiastic yes. Now I'd be a hard no.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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Holy crap, I didn't recognize him. He's... speaking differently than I'm used to. Even knowing it's him, he sounds somewhat different.
I mean, my kids will be launched eventually...
It's not me, it's someone else.
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“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
General Space Thread
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
General Space Thread
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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NASA just announced their next mission: Titan.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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SpaceX launched the first 60 of their low earth orbit internet satellites last month. Only testing versions, without the vaunted satellite to satellite communication lasers, but if that technology really works and SpaceX get it into orbit faster than anyone else (they sure have the capability) 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.
Cool clip from the detachable fairing in their recent launch. I think fairing means nose cone. It's like science fiction FX, but it's real.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1146546495241371649
It's interesting how open they are about their business practices. Live streaming everything, giving info about rocket development.
Cool clip from the detachable fairing in their recent launch. I think fairing means nose cone. It's like science fiction FX, but it's real.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1146546495241371649
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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 "
So.my reaction is "oh.great, now they last billion peeps on earth can tell me they banged my mom "
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
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Thats true, but because the satellites will be placed into low earth orbit, unlike current satellite internet, the signal should be much faster going from planet to satellites and back.
Then, consider that the signals will travel satellite to satellite in a vacuum. Faster than terrersterial wires.
For shorter, state to state range, wired is likely to still be king. But coast to coast or cross continent should see a substantial improvement. SpaceX is still being mum on official specs, but some of the modeling I’ve seen basically makes the entire world at 50-60ms pings. If they can pull it off - to even get the system in place requires 1k satellites. 10k is what they are going for, in multiple interlinked orbits.