Cancer Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: More space news! This seems appropriate at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: More space news! Science fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: More space news! What happens if there is a solar maximum, but nobody notices... (Also, why Solar Storms will not Destroy the earth) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: More space news! (Also' date=' why Solar Storms will not Destroy the earth)[/quote'] No worries. We have a rubber chicken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: More space news! CAll me back when someone can adequately define the word "time." We infer time from our experience of sequential displacement, but how this experience comes about is an utter mystery. We can predict the behavior of objects as their speed changes in relativistic ways compared to other things, but we still haven't the foggiest idea of what causes "intervals." Oh, that's easy . . . there's no such thing as time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: More space news! Time is emit backwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: More space news! Time is money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Re: More space news! And money is the root of all evil.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Re: More space news! And money is the root of all evil.. It'd be nice to have roots... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Re: More space news! Roots are possibly overrated. Look at Spanish Moss and Mistletoe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Re: More space news! Private spacecraft launch to ISS delayed. New launch date Martian lava flows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Re: More space news! Hubble is completing it's 22nd year. Do we realize that means Hubble was launched right around the same time that Windows 98 was coming out? That CPUs for home computers only had one core that ran at sub-gigahertz speeds? Here are some of Hubble's Greatest Hits: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1984100,00.html?iid=sl-article-moreontime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Re: More space news! Life hidden in Martian rocks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Re: More space news! Life hidden in Martian rocks? We need a sample return mission, followed up by a crewed one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Re: More space news! Do we realize that means Hubble was launched right around the same time that Windows 98 was coming out? Try Windows 3.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Re: More space news! Hubble was sent up about four years after I got my PhD, and it's difficult to grasp now just how much it has accomplished. It will be a very, very sad day when it finally comes down. Like a few other things that came out of the US in the last half of the 20th Century, it ought to be looked upon in retrospect not as heroic, but as superheroic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Re: More space news! Try Windows 3.0. Ah yes, I remember Windwos 3.11. Hubble was launched April 24, 1990. Back then I was jsut 6 and the end of the Berlin Wall was less than 1 Year Ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Re: More space news! Try Windows 3.0. Ah yes, I remember Windows 3.11. Hubble was launched April 24, 1990. Back then I was just 6 and the end of the Berlin Wall was less than 1 Year Ago. Windows 98 ... was released to manufacturing on May 15' date=' 1998 and to retail on June 25, 1998.[/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 Re: More space news! Full moon and Aquarid meteor shower tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 Re: More space news! beware werewolves with capes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Re: More space news! Spitzer space telescope detects light from 55 Cancri e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Re: More space news! Nice place to visit, but ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Re: More space news! hmmm....it can be mined for resources. Which corporation do you think will claim it first? It's onl 41 light years away. What's a few decades on a generation ship? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 Re: More space news! Who needs a generation ship? A few von neumann machines to build the mining bots, smelters and launchers - resources extracted, no human cost! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 Re: More space news! Human beings are still the cheapest von Neumann machines we have. Heck, they're the only von Neumann machines we have. That being said, it's hard to imagine crewing a generation ship to mine a faraway star system. You'd have to have an originating society that has no problem in railroading populations into permanent incarceration in an inhuman, punitive extractive labour system bordering on slavery. Say. Do you think they have any good drugs over there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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