austenandrews Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Re: More space news! And "Riding the Booster": From launch to landing, a space shuttle's solid rocket booster journey is captured, with sound mixed and enhanced by Skywalker Sound. Wow, that'd make a cool dark ambient track. Done by Benny Burtt, awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 Re: More space news! Geological map of Io. [ATTACH=CONFIG]42325[/ATTACH] There's another map, more schematic in nature, on the site. It was too large for the boards, alas. Also, The Strange Innards of Mercury. Note: not Freddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 Re: More space news! Space flight 'may damage eyesight' Brain and eye problems have surfaced in astronauts who spent more than a month in space, marking a potential setback to plans for longer deep space missions, a US study has found. Just means that we need long-duration missions to have some sort of artifically induced 'gravity'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: More space news! Space flight 'may damage eyesight' Just means that we need long-duration missions to have some sort of artifically induced 'gravity'. Anyone know why they gave up on the whole spinning satellite concept? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: More space news! Anyone know why they gave up on the whole spinning satellite concept? Well, sattelites don't need gravity. And the space station where built because of the micro-gravity environment. Actually spinning would mena you have to built it more robust - the forces also apply to all joints of your station, with more force the further away from the rotation axis you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Re: More space news! Space junk forces ISS astronauts to take shelter in lifeboats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Re: More space news! And for some different "space" news: Filmmaker James Cameron Completes Journey to Ocean’s Deepest Point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Re: More space news! Space junk forces ISS astronauts to take shelter in lifeboats You can even see a 30 minute special on Nasatelevision: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Re: More space news! http://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-fusion-real-possibility-models-suggest-200610438.html Not exactly space news, but conceivably has a direct bearing on the future of space travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! And in other news: Don't be on the receiving end of an Alcubierre Drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! http://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-fusion-real-possibility-models-suggest-200610438.html Not exactly space news, but conceivably has a direct bearing on the future of space travel. WoooHoooo. Magnetic containment, like I expected. Wonder if they're using Dr. Bussard's new arrangement for the containment bottle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! And in other news: Don't be on the receiving end of an Alcubierre Drive! Some games require starships to drop out of warp/hyperspace outside the fringes of a solar system and travel to the planet they want to reach via STL methods. This is a good explanation for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! It also means that a navigation error could wipe out ... just about anything. Alternately, interstellar wars of extinction become trivial to do, and nearly impossible to defend against. Maybe N = 1 for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! ... Them Others are bastards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Let's put it this way: if species with star drives are anything like the kind of folks who wish the movie Smokey and the Bandit was about them, it's astonishing there's any Galaxy left at this point in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! ... Man, that movie was ace ... But Cannonball Run was better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Well, just imagine twenty million space rednecks with star drives speeding around the Galaxy, incinerating planets with the backwash radiation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Let's put it this way: if species with star drives are anything like the kind of folks who wish the movie Smokey and the Bandit was about them' date=' it's astonishing there's any Galaxy left at this point in time.[/quote'] You are aware that the light the closest galaxy (andromeda) needs around 2.6 Million Years to get here? So ours could be the last galaxy around. If there even is a galaxy left - we only catalog stars for under 1.000 Years, so only everything in 1k Light Years is certain to still be there. The light from the Sun needs 7 Minutes to earth. If the sun would go supernova now, we would only know it a second before the shock wave hit us.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! ... GRBs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! You are aware that the light the closest galaxy (andromeda) needs around 2.6 Million Years to get here? The light from the Sun needs 7 Minutes to earth. If the sun would go supernova now, we would only know it a second before the shock wave hit us.... Are you aware that you are responding to an astronomy professor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Shhhh! You're killing my plausible deniability! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Hah, it died of natural causes last October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Besides, whatever happened to the two lesbians around here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Re: More space news! Dun dun duuuunnnn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Re: More space news! Martian dust devils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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