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[todd]

That puts a new spin on 'stargazing'

i think his career going to blow up because of this

[LJ]

Next time you see Tom Cruise on the screen, note that one of his two front teeth lines up directly under the centre of his nose ... in other words, his teeth are majorly offset inside of his mouth.

He's a bloody mutant.

 

Once you see it once, you'll see it every single time he's onscreen.

So I watched a TC movie and you're right. Damn you.

[Victoria Watcher]

Watch: Blue Origin nails the launch (and landing) of New Shepard spacecraft

Even after a slight wind delay, the 14th test of the reusable suborbital rocket went off without a hitch.

 

https://astronomy.co...pard-spacecraft

 

 

 

 

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin aims to fly first passengers on its space tourism rocket as early as April

 

https://www.cnbc.com...d-by-april.html

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 January 2021 - 07:36 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time on Sunday with a successful test of its air-launched rocket, delivering 10 NASA satellites to orbit and achieving a key milestone after aborting the rocket's first test launch last year.

 

 

The Long Beach, Calif.-based company's LauncherOne rocket was dropped mid-air from the underside of a modified Boeing 747 nicknamed Cosmic Girl about 10,700 metres (35,000 feet) over the Pacific at 2:39 p.m. ET, before lighting its NewtonThree engine to boost itself out of Earth's atmosphere, demonstrating its first successful trek to space.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...orbit-1.5877255

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 January 2021 - 07:58 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

It looks like a scene from science fiction: Two gleaming silver rocket ships standing side-by-side under the Texas sun awaiting their turn to fly. 

 

But the shiny, finned SpaceX rockets — Starship SN9 and SN10 prototypes — actually exist and met at the pad for the first time Friday (Jan. 29) at the company's South Texas facility near Boca Chica Village. The SN10 vehicle, SpaceX's latest in a line of new reusable Starship prototypes, rolled out to the pad as its SN9 counterpart awaits its own test flight, which could launch as soon as Monday (Feb. 1). 

 

"Starship SN9 & SN10," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter Friday as he shared a view of the two suborbital rockets. Video cameras from the tourist site Spadre.com and others also caught the view, including this close-up from NASASpaceflight.com. 

https://www.space.co...n-pad-same-time

 

[Victoria Watcher]

great launch today.

 

landing wasn't as good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.ctvnews....aboom-1.5293088

 

 

SpaceX's second full test flight of its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship ended in another fiery crash landing Tuesday.

 

Elon Musk's company launched its latest Starship prototype from the southeastern tip of Texas, two months after the previous test ended in an equally explosive belly flop.

 

The full-scale stainless steel rocket reached its intended altitude of 6.2 miles (10 kilometres), slightly lower than the last one. Everything seemed to be going well as the 160-foot (50-meter) Starship flipped on its side and began its descent. But it did not manage to straighten itself back up in time for a landing and slammed into the ground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elon Musk and SpaceX announced on Monday that they will send the first-ever fully commercial, non-government space flight into orbit by the end of the year, using the company’s four-seat Crew Dragon capsule for the journey.

 

Billionaire and jet pilot Jared Isaacman, 37, will finance and lead the all-civilian voyage, which he will use to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He plans to round out the fantastic foursome with a female health-care worker from St. Jude, an entrepreneur and the winner of a fundraising contest for the hospital.

 

https://globalnews.c...jared-isaacman/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 February 2021 - 05:37 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Three new spacecraft are due to arrive at Mars this month, ending their seven-month journey through space.

 

The first, the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Probe, should have made it to the red planet this week. It will stay in orbit and study its atmosphere for one complete Martian year (687 Earth days).

 

China’s Tianwen-1 mission also enters orbit this month and will begin scouting the potential landing site for its Mars rover, due to be deployed in May.

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The third spacecraft to reach Mars this month is NASA’s Perseverance rover, scheduled to land on February 18. It will search for signs of ancient microbial life but its mission also looks ahead, testing new technologies that may support humans visiting Mars one day.

 

 

 

 

https://theconversat...d-planet-153791

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 February 2021 - 08:13 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

elon was on rogan the other day talked lots about space.

[Victoria Watcher]

If alien life once existed on Mars, scientists may finally be poised to find traces of it. After a seven-month, 292-million-mile journey, NASA’s biggest, fastest and brainiest rover ever—Perseverance—is nearing its highly anticipated touchdown on the Red Planet.

 

The $2.7 billion rover, which is scheduled to land at 3:55 p.m. EST on Thursday, embodies the latest and most ambitious effort by NASA to find evidence of past life on Mars. Though it is now a barren place of icy dunes, dust devils, dead volcanoes and subzero winds, scientists believe Mars in its remote past may have been a comparatively lush, warm world—one suitable for the chemistry of life.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.wsj.com/...asa-11613595107

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 February 2021 - 04:57 PM.

[Spy Black]

75% of the worlds planetary scientists believe life did exist on Mars.

Of that 75% ... 25% of those planetary scientists firmly believe that life still exists on Mars ... as in right now, as I type this and you read it.

 

Mars is 15% water, enough to cover the entire planet to a depth of half a foot.

Water = life

 

Here's hoping that the evidence is found that we are indeed not alone.

If they can find life on the closest habitable planet to Earth in our own Solar System, it certainly raises the distinct possibility there is much more life to be found in the 125 billion known galaxies out there.

[Mike K.]

A few years ago it was considered laughably junk science to believe life existed on Mars, let alone exists today. How times change, and how quickly they change.

[Victoria Watcher]

elon said something the other day that made sense.  that there is a line of thought that there is either billions of civilizations like us (and we could just be wiped out by another species like an exterminator would take out a bee hive) or there is only us. 

 

and either scenario is kind of scary.  

[Victoria Watcher]

A few years ago it was considered laughably junk science to believe life existed on Mars, let alone exists today. How times change, and how quickly they change.

 

i think maybe we had higher hopes for "life" in the past.   we wanted green men before.  now we will accept some collection of carbon atoms arranged in a certain way.

 

i mean the earth has been around for 4.5 billion years and life for at least 3 billion of those but we (modern humans) only showed up 10-15,000 years ago. rob randall less than 150 years ago.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 February 2021 - 05:33 PM.

[Nparker]

....we only showed up 10-15,000 years ago.

It's been a little longer than that...

Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago.

https://www.khanacad...umans-come-from

[Mike K.]

I thought the aliens were already here?

[Mike K.]

i think maybe we had higher hopes for "life" in the past. we wanted green men before. now we will accept some collection of carbon atoms arranged in a certain way.

i mean the earth has been around for 4.5 billion years and life for at least 3 billion of those but we (modern humans) only showed up 10-15,000 years ago. rob randall less than 150 years ago.

Right. The more we learn, the more we realize how much less we actually understand.

It doesn’t matter, though. Life on earth ends in what, 11 years?

[Victoria Watcher]

It's been a little longer than that...

 

i mean civilizations i guess.  we became civilized after the last ice age only.  

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 February 2021 - 05:47 PM.

[Spy Black]

It doesn’t matter, though. Life on earth ends in what, 11 years?

Easy fix ... just subscribe to the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics and you'll live forever ... you and me (the Mike reading this post, and the me writing it) won't know any of the thousands of other "us's" that happen to survive longer than the end of "this" earth, but we'll definitely be carrying on elsewhere in time as if nothing ever happened to us in the here and now:

 

https://en.wikipedia..._interpretation

[Nparker]

i mean civilizations i guess.  we became civilized after the last ice age only.  

Some would argue we aren't civilized yet.

[Victoria Watcher]

uh oh.

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 February 2021 - 11:04 AM.