The Space Thread

[t yst r]

2 hours ago, Walter Ostanek said:

RIP Voyager 2

It's not definitely lost yet, is it?

[Rubin Farr]

Russian moon probe crashes

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

[auxien]

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

[auxien]

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

[EdamAnchorman]

45 minutes ago, 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.

Edited August 23, 2023 by randomsummer

[Limo]

1 hour ago, 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.

[cloud capture]

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

 

[Squee]

53 minutes ago, cloud capture said:

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

 

The weather has been violating me all summer.

But yeah, successful launch.

[Squee]

Serious docking question. 

[Rubin Farr]

 

[auxien]

two good videos from today

 

[chim]

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. 

[Rubin Farr]

4 minutes ago, 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. 

Looks similar to the crystal skull in the British Museum. 

[Ivan Ooze]

Why does it have 3 eggs

[Rubin Farr]

 

17 hours ago, Ivan Ooze said:

Why does it have 3 eggs

 

[auxien]

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

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

[iococoi]

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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/

[Rubin Farr]

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

 

[may be rude]

 

[EdamAnchorman]

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

[Rubin Farr]

 

[cwmbrancity]

1 hour ago, Rubin Farr said:

 

was it vaxxed?

[auxien]

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

You Are Here

[EdamAnchorman]

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

Edit:

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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.

Edited September 28, 2023 by randomsummer

[auxien]

1 hour ago, randomsummer said:

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

Edit:

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.