Space is the Place (6 Viewers)

[pete]

highlights:

the fun stuff starts about 32:30
separation is at 35:30 minutes
booster catch starts at about 39 minutes
ship starts reentry at about 1:19:00
fins start burning through about 1:32:00
landing burn starts about 1:38:00
splashdown/buoy cam/SPLOSION at 1:39:00

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[Cornu Ammonis]

Did anyone see that comet last night? Missed it myself, I'll catch it next time, thousands of years from now.

Also the SpaceX thing was impressive, annoyingly.

Didn’t even know there was a comet. I wish it automatically got flagged in weather apps or something day-to-day like that as the news seems to be very selective and last minute when it comes to astronomy.

 

[Cormcolash]

I figured there was a comet passing nearby because my chakras have been misaligned all week

 

[seanc]

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Didn’t even know there was a comet. I wish it automatically got flagged in weather apps or something day-to-day like that as the news seems to be very selective and last minute when it comes to astronomy.

I usually use this, the guarniad or the housemate for info on these things.
I assumed that you guys all know more about this stuff than I do. But I'll keep my peepers peeled for other space things and post here.

 

[nuke terrorist]

When do billionaires start going into space and exploding on re entry?

Sorry but as long as we cannot look after the planet, it is senseless to squander resources on space projects.

 

[ann post]

When do billionaires start going into space and exploding on re entry?

Sorry but as long as we cannot look after the planet, it is senseless to squander resources on space projects.

All this musk space x crap will be used by the american government for murder within a few years. He's been in contract with them for ages. I used to enjoy looking at the things and then realised it was just gonna turn into another grand horror.

 

[nuke terrorist]

All this musk space x crap will be used by the american government for murder within a few years. He's been in contract with them for ages. I used to enjoy looking at the things and then realised it was just gonna turn into another grand horror.

The absence of a sad emoji of some sort is a problem here.

 

[hydromancer]

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[pete]

Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

On 15 October 2024, ESA’s Euclid space mission revealed the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing millions of stars and galaxies.

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[Cormcolash]

Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

On 15 October 2024, ESA’s Euclid space mission revealed the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing millions of stars and galaxies.

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I was at Valencia Science Museum today and there was loads of cool space stuff. Big Mars exhibition, Moon Exhibition, Spaceflight exhibition, models of rockets etc. They had cool Hubble pictures similar to the above too.
One of the best space things I saw was one of the simplest, they had this little kind of binocular box with a wheel attached, and the wheel cycles through different pictures of the ISS – but the box gives them this 3D depth effect that's makes the pictures way fuckin cooler than any ISS pictures I've seen before. The weightlessness really looks wild when you see it like it's 3D.

 

[pete]

Cork company prepares for Ireland's first rocket launch

Cork-based SUAS Aerospace has announced a partnership with Netherlands-based T-Minus Engineering for Ireland's first commercial rocket launch next year.

www.rte.ie

 

[pete]

Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981

The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected at an unexpected radio frequency

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[pete]

they're going again in 40 minutes

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[hydromancer]

Pluto at 0" Aquarius today and not returning to Capricorn until the year 2271

 

[ann post]

myself and UTM were looking at the 'casual travel to other planets' math yesterday while watching the above military excercise and essentially unless somehow gravity is removed from the equation (that is acceleration, not earth gravity) you'd just be either melting people or taking a few months in each direction because you need mad shit like 24 hours at gravity level acceleration to start getting to interplanetary speeds.

At a quarter G acceleration it's months. So casual mars is once again, bullshit.

 

[ann post]

In terms of being able to bring 100 tonnes of murderous drones to anywhere on earth in twenty minutes and then blow up horribly then it's very useful though, especially when the CEO or whatever is now in the govt.

 

[Cormcolash]

myself and UTM were looking at the 'casual travel to other planets' math yesterday while watching the above military excercise and essentially unless somehow gravity is removed from the equation (that is acceleration, not earth gravity) you'd just be either melting people or taking a few months in each direction because you need mad shit like 24 hours at gravity level acceleration to start getting to interplanetary speeds.

At a quarter G acceleration it's months. So casual mars is once again, bullshit.

But like isn't that why they're researching nuclear/ion/etc propulsion? NASA is anyway.

 

[ann post]

But like isn't that why they're researching nuclear/ion/etc propulsion? NASA is anyway.

The point is that even if you can get the mad acceleration to get to these places, you are going to turn humans into soup doing it. that acceleration would be more suited to mining drone type shit that wont care.

example:

Most of us can withstand up to 4-6G. Fighter pilots can manage up to about 9G for a second or two. But sustained G-forces of even 6G would be fatal. Source

it'll be totally for mining drones or for spice or tardigrades, nokias and late 90's japanese cars.

 

[pete]

what spacex (say they) are going for isn't speed, it's frequency. It'll take months for a ship to get to Mars, but (they claim) they're aiming to be launching multiple ships *a day*, albeit not all going to Mars - most will be carrying fuel to orbit for transfer to the ships that are going to the moon/mars.

 

[Cormcolash]

The point is that even if you can get the mad acceleration to get to these places, you are going to turn humans into soup doing it. that acceleration would be more suited to mining drone type shit that wont care.

example:



it'll be totally for mining drones or for spice or tardigrades, nokias and late 90's japanese cars.

Pretty sure the idea is to accelerate at 1G for half the journey, then turn around and decelerate at 1G for the other half. That's the most logical way to go from Earth-Mars anyway, but it would take an engine/power source that would require minimal propulsion mass.

Journey of that nature would take around 6 months. Probably the technology to do that is still a long way off, but Nasa etc have been working on stuff for years so who knows how far along they might be.