Old Man Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 You mean I have to wait another five years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Livestream of NASA's Insight lander landing (or not landing) on Mars Monday 11/26 starting at 2pm EST with actual landing expected at 3pm EST, not that there will be actual live coverage of anything except Mission Control edit: Space.com link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 It'll probably reach the surface, one way or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 4 hours ago, Old Man said: You mean I have to wait another five years? 5 Years? I am still waiting for the 2000, 2006 and 2012 Appokalypses. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 The disturbing fate of a planet made of blueberries ... don't invest in real estate there. DShomshak and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 ... Mmm, blueberries ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 At least Galactus will enjoy eating that planet. In other space news, InSight Lander has touched down on Mars Cancer and pinecone 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 All Things Considered just reported on InSight's apparently flawless landing. Woohoo! Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Even the Russian judge holds up a grudging 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 On 11/26/2018 at 9:26 AM, Cancer said: The disturbing fate of a planet made of blueberries ... don't invest in real estate there. In addition to the other interests the article lists, Anders Sandberg is (or at least was) a gamer. I encountered him way back when on Alt.Games.White-Wolf and Rec.Games.FRP.Storyteller, where he contributed the best stuff I've ever seen for Mage: the Ascension. A man of truly wide-ranging intellect and imagination. Dean Shomshak Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Announced last week --- four more black hole mergers detected by gravity-wave observatories This somehow eluded the popular press that I was more or less paying attention to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Woot! And there's a meteor shower on tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Great, before long there's just going to be one big black hole with a monopoly, and then the price gouging starts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Zeropoint said: Great, before long there's just going to be one big black hole with a monopoly, and then the price gouging starts. It thought the center of our galaxy is a black hole "to big to fail" already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Space-X had another successful launch this morning, with a Dragon Resupply mission to the ISS. https://www.spacex.com/webcast However the recovery of the Falcon 9 First stage was marred by the returning stage going into an unrecoverable spin, shortly after completing it's re-entry burn. [EDIT: Additional Information ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 11 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said: Space-X had another successful launch this morning, with a Dragon Resupply mission to the ISS. https://www.spacex.com/webcast However the recovery of the Falcon 9 First stage was marred by the returning stage going into an unrecoverable spin, shortly after completing it's re-entry burn. [EDIT: Additional Information ] Every landing you can walk away from, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Heard on the evening news: InSight sends back the first audio from Mars. The seismograph and, IIRC, wind gauge register the sound of the Martian wind. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 2 hours ago, DShomshak said: Heard on the evening news: InSight sends back the first audio from Mars. The seismograph and, IIRC, wind gauge register the sound of the Martian wind. Dean Shomshak I read about it as well. Here's the story. And in other space news, China launches the first surface mission to the moon's far side. DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 On 12/5/2018 at 7:40 AM, Cancer said: Announced last week --- four more black hole mergers detected by gravity-wave observatories This somehow eluded the popular press that I was more or less paying attention to. My local newspaper, the Tacoma News Tribune, reprinted this story from the Tri-City Herald on Sunday: Hanford observatory detects black hole waves | Tri-City Herald www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article222554785... The LIGO Hanford observatory near Richland has detected gravitational waves in space from 4 more black hole collisions. The black hole detections were in collaboration with Virgo and LIGO Livingston. Possibly more for the "local news" angle than for the pure science angle, but I won't complain. Dean Shomshak Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 I find it just a little bit frightening that black hole collisions are so frequent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 It's sheer luck that our planet has avoided cosmic catastrophes for as long as our species has existed. I'm just hoping that streak will last longer than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Second Voyager now interstellar tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 17 hours ago, Zeropoint said: I find it just a little bit frightening that black hole collisions are so frequent. The nature of the merger events and gravitational wave detectors means that once you can detect them at all, you detect more or less all of them in the near half of the Universe or so. By contrast, we seem to have missed half the supernovae in our own Galaxy over the last two or three thousand years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Russians discover International Space Station is holy. https://www.apnews.com/f770a821e8b24e38b1a9abb5d4aec9d2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 7 hours ago, Cancer said: Second Voyager now interstellar Fun fact: I ocassionally read questions on programming forums about "why is this networking code not working in scenario X". The thing is, that this is never a programming issue, always a networking one. And just to drive the point home I say: "For the code it does not mater if the other end is on the same computer, the same swtich, or the Voyager 2 probe." Thus far it got everyone to look into the right direction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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