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(fyi that was a reference to the movie "star wars" where han solo notices the death star for the first time)
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dad gay. so what posted:that's no moon... (this was)
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Apr 22, 2015 20:19
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this is a picture of an "owl bear"
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Apr 22, 2015 20:21
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thats no moon...
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Apr 22, 2015 20:30
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Apr 22, 2015 20:31
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man I wanna go to space so loving bad
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Apr 22, 2015 20:46
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pwnyXpress posted:Just wanted to post here that I love Saturn's moons. yeah, saturn has the best moons. jupiter's moons are mostly boring except io, uranus i can't even remember anything about any of its moons, and neptune only has triton and a bunch of lamers.
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Cubey posted:yeah, saturn has the best moons. jupiter's moons are mostly boring except io, uranus i can't even remember anything about any of its moons, and neptune only has triton and a bunch of lamers. that's no moon...
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Cubey posted:yeah, saturn has the best moons. jupiter's moons are mostly boring except io, uranus i can't even remember anything about any of its moons, and neptune only has triton and a bunch of lamers. Uranus at least has this:  Miranda, it looks like it might have been shattered in some apocalyptic event in the past and reformed (badly) or is under the effects of extreme tidal friction. The problem with Neptune and Uranus is that all we know about the moons close up are limited to brief flybys by Voyager 2, there could be lots of cool stuff, especially on Triton (which appears to be a rouge Kuiper belt object grabbed by Neptune's gravity judging from its retrograde orbit) but nothing's there to see it. Remember that we only really noticed that Enceladus is a pretty cool place blasting out water into space from a possible underground ocean when Cassini got there.
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Apr 22, 2015 21:04
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i hope we send more probes to the other planets because like a lot the pics we have of them are super cool, but they're also way old. like some of the raddest pictures jupiter and saturn and all came from the 70s. cassini was cool but we should be doing like way more of those for all the planets. anyway our space program is bullshit, so it won't happen till like 2020 or something. do we even have any rad space projects to look forward to? honest question cuz idk.
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Apr 22, 2015 21:12
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khwarezm posted:Uranus at least has this: Miranda's awesome. Tallest cliff in the solar system at 5km.
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Apr 22, 2015 21:13
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khwarezm posted:Uranus at least has this: True, and I do hope that we send probes to each planet someday in the near-ish future; even if we don't find anything cool, more knowledge is always a Good Thing. But I still do doubt that Uranus and Neptune's systems would be anywhere near as interesting as Saturn's is; after all, we did study Jupiter and all we found there was that Io is cool and Europa maybe possibly has life but we'll probably never know.
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One major problem with outer solar system exploration: We're running out of power! Basically the best way to power all those cool crafts so far out (unless you listen to stupid people concerned that it will containment notoriously radiation free outer space) is to use a plutonium 238 battery(decaying plutonium produces a nice lot of energy), but we don't make much plutonium 238 since the cold war ended and we stopped building nukes, so we're running out. It looks possible to build solar panels good enough to work as far out as Jupiter, JUNO uses them, but beyond that we'll need more plutonium, as well as for any more energy intensive projects closer to earth (particularly large rovers or the Europa Drill-bot dream project I one day hope to see). There is enough remaining fuel for three more craft, but one of those is tied up in the next Mars rover so options are limited if we want to seriously explore the outer regions of our solar system unless we produce more, which will be very expensive for an already cash-strapped NASA. On the bright side, if we ever get serious with Thorium reactors then they could create a steady amount as useful byproduct. khwarezm fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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Apr 22, 2015 21:33
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khwarezm posted:Uranus at least has this: thats no moon...
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Apr 22, 2015 21:53
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this thread has been very informative and cool and has reminded me that space is really really cool. I love the idea of these giant rocks getting hosed up and flying around for eons
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Apr 22, 2015 21:54
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Mr. Pumroy posted:i hope we send more probes to the other planets because like a lot the pics we have of them are super cool, but they're also way old. like some of the raddest pictures jupiter and saturn and all came from the 70s. cassini was cool but we should be doing like way more of those for all the planets. New Horizons gets to Pluto this summer
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Apr 22, 2015 22:01
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PotatoJudge posted:New Horizons gets to Pluto this summer thats no planet... and i mean literally!! 
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Apr 22, 2015 22:02
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Miranda looks like baby's first normal map. I think god must have made it first before he got good at the whole creation thing.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:02
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jiharlequinade posted:Miranda's awesome. Tallest cliff in the solar system at 5km. I hadn't actually seen pictures of Miranda before, and it's awesome. Kind of makes whatever caused the Tycho crater to be downgraded a bit.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:17
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Ogive posted:I hadn't actually seen pictures of Miranda before, and it's awesome. Kind of makes whatever caused the Tycho crater to be downgraded a bit. thats no moon...
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Apr 22, 2015 22:22
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khwarezm posted:One major problem with outer solar system exploration: You must construct additional pylons
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Apr 22, 2015 22:46
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Kanthulhu posted:You must construct additional pylons Do you guys get it I referenced a videogame 
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space is kewl
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