I keep making up my own stories about what came up:
- Boss needed him on an important zoom call
- Forgot to check with the wife before booking
- Had promised to help a friend move
Posted 20 July 2021 - 08:59 AM
I keep making up my own stories about what came up:
Posted 10 August 2021 - 04:36 AM
Every summer Earth plows through the trail of a comet creating the Perseid meteor shower.
The comet and its tail are so spread out, residents of this planet get to see the comet itself once every 130 years or so, but the shooting stars are on display each August. Last seen in 1992, the comet Swift-Tuttle creates the meteor shower as bits of dirty ice and other detritus trailing the comet burn up, explains the president of the Victoria arm of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
The particles hit about 100 km above the earth and the atmosphere slows them, heats them and that’s when we get the glow of ‘shooting stars’ streaking across the sky. Some are even as small as a ballpoint pen tip, said Randy Enkin.
“We’re not going to see those really tiny ones here,” the Victoria resident added.
The show is already underway, but peaks the night of Aug. 11. Enkin suggests finding dark sky the next day around 4 a.m.
https://www.vicnews....eater-victoria/
Posted 10 August 2021 - 07:24 AM
The show is already underway, but peaks the night of Aug. 11. Enkin suggests finding dark sky the next day around 4 a.m.
Well I guess all the #VanLifers will have a front row seat to the show.
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Posted 16 August 2021 - 12:26 PM
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Posted 29 August 2021 - 04:03 PM
Know it all.
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Posted 12 September 2021 - 09:25 AM
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Posted 14 September 2021 - 06:07 PM
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Posted 14 September 2021 - 07:16 PM
If Inspiration4's orbit carries its passengers over BC will they have to show proof of vaccination?
Posted 15 September 2021 - 11:31 AM
Great, now we can infect other planets with our pathogens.
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Posted 15 September 2021 - 05:13 PM
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Posted 18 September 2021 - 04:48 AM
The SpaceX flight taking four tourists on an extraterrestrial jaunt has also helped raise more than $147 million for children’s cancer research, and aims to bring in $200 million total.
Jared Isaacman, the 38-year-old billionaire who paid for the space trip and is commanding the mission, pledged to donate $100 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital when he announced plans for the flight in February. Isaacman set a goal of using the publicity around the flight, dubbed Inspiration4, to raise an additional $100 million for St. Jude, a Memphis, Tenn., hospital where children receive free cancer treatment.
https://www.marketwa...rch-11631823909
Posted 18 September 2021 - 04:04 PM
Elon Musk is 100% for manned flights.
SpaceX safely returned its Crew Dragon spacecraft from orbit on Saturday, with the capsule carrying the four members of the Inspiration4 mission back to Earth after three days in space.
Crew Dragon capsule Resilience splashed down off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida in the Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.cnbc.com...on-returns.html
NASA's space shuttle blew up an killed everyone onboard about 1.5% of the flights.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 September 2021 - 04:06 PM.
Posted 18 September 2021 - 05:48 PM
Don’t get the appeal of going into space unless you’re landing on a planet. if you want the zero g experience a parabolic flight on a more average aircraft is much more cost-effective. Either way flight to nowhere
Posted 18 September 2021 - 11:04 PM
Don’t get the appeal of going into space unless you’re landing on a planet. if you want the zero g experience a parabolic flight on a more average aircraft is much more cost-effective. Either way flight to nowhere
For NASA astronauts, McAlister says, orbital trips can have a $58 million price tag, based on averages calculated from commercial contracts with SpaceX and Boeing.
While $58 million may seem like a lot, it's actually a great bargain for NASA.
After retiring its space shuttle, NASA had to pay Russia around $80 million for each seat on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
https://www.usatoday...vel/8350606002/
they were up there for over 4,500 minutes. so $12,888 per minute. a zero-g flight on a 727 costs $6,700 for 12 to 15 20-30 second loops.
https://spaceadventu...gravity-flight/
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 September 2021 - 11:13 PM.
Posted 04 October 2021 - 09:11 AM
Star Trek's Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone before.
Jeff Bezos' space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that Canadian actor William Shatner will blast off from West Texas on Oct. 12.
https://www.cbc.ca/n...rigin-1.6198720
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 October 2021 - 09:11 AM.
Posted 13 October 2021 - 06:11 PM
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Posted 13 October 2021 - 06:23 PM
Posted 13 October 2021 - 07:16 PM
Shatner went to space BTW.
He looks amazing for 90. I can’t understand what’s wrong with me I can’t stand Star Trek or Star Wars it’s haunted me my entire life.
Posted 09 November 2021 - 05:57 AM
Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began last spring.
Their capsule streaked through the late night sky like a dazzling meteor before parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Recovery boats quickly moved in with spotlights.
"On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home to Planet Earth," SpaceX Mission Control radioed from Southern California. Within an hour, all four astronauts were out of the capsule, exchanging fist bumps with the team on the recovery ship.
https://www.ctvnews....light-1.5657034
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 November 2021 - 05:58 AM.
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