tkdguy Posted December 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Britain's First Astronaut at the ISS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 I watched the live stream yesterday as SpaceX stuck the landing of their first stage booster. It felt good. L. Marcus and dmjalund 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 ]quote]I watched the live stream yesterday as SpaceX stuck the landing of their first stage booster. It felt good. the Russian judges were harsh and only gave it 5.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 That's better than Bezos would have given it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Russian rocket streaks across western USA More precisely, what remained of it was re-entering the atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Full moon on Christmas Last one was in 1977; next one will be in 2034. "Sorry, wrong number!" Guess where the call originated. Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 I find it riotously funny that this vertical landing is something that back in the 1960s everyone had this realization that it was bogus and it'd never actually work that way, thus spawning ST:TOS's "beam down" thing and a host of other surface-to-orbit mechanisms in the scifi of the following decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Nova discovered on Xmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Building a Moon village Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 Russia's Plans for a Manned Lunar Mission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 60 years of space pollution summarized in one minute Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Russians launched 21 spacecraft in 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 I just heard a news report about the brightest supernova ever observed. (Granted, it's about 3 billion LY away.) In fact, it's so bright some astronomers think it can't be a supernova, but something new. I hope for more information. Dean Shomshak pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Eh, probably something the Doctor did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Here's a nice light show for you. Pity the weather won't cooperate for me, at least this week. Also, the problem with asteroid mining? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanis Frey Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 I just heard a news report about the brightest supernova ever observed. (Granted, it's about 3 billion LY away.) In fact, it's so bright some astronomers think it can't be a supernova, but something new. I hope for more information. Dean Shomshak Astrophysicist have speculated about Hyper-nova. They usually result from Super-massive stars sometimes called a Hyper Star that burn for less than a million years before going boom. But these Hyper Stars are through to have existed in the early universe, like the first couple of billions of years. I have not heard of astronomers actually observing a Hyper-Star or a Hyper-nova and 3 billion light years is too close for one. The wiki on hyper-nova suggests that a hyper-nova could be from something else. Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 SpaceX mission goes well, until the landing: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/watch-spacex-rocket-explode-coming-painfully-close-nailing-143338819.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 I just heard a news report about the brightest supernova ever observed. (Granted, it's about 3 billion LY away.) In fact, it's so bright some astronomers think it can't be a supernova, but something new. I hope for more information. Dean Shomshak I read that one recently as well. Cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Space news you can use, from Clickhole! DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 The Economist, of all publications, often has some pretty good space science articles. The Jan. 9-15 issue has a pair of them. The first is about various programs to observe the space around supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail.]' The second concerns a new analysis suggesting the advantages of globular clusters as locations for interstellar civilizations. To wit: * The stars are all old and past their supernova/gamma-ray burst/other disruptions, so they are relatively safe. * Even though the stars are close together, "Goldilocks Zone": orbits should be stable and safe from disruption from stellar near-misses. * Because the stars are so closely packed, interstellar travel and communication is merely difficult instead of insanely, ridiculously difficult. Granted, only one extrasolar planet has been detected in a globular cluster, but the search is early yet. (I tried to copy & paste the url for the globular cluster article, but apparently I have not yet figured out how to do this. Google the Economist and "Cluster Analysis," though, and you should find it.) Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Also, January's issue of Scientific American has an article about the extrasolar "Super Saturn." Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 New talk about planet X. Or is it planet IX now. (Not as catchy) http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Warworld is on its way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Yuggoth! tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 http://www.wired.com/2016/01/could-you-live-on-planet-nine/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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