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Yaldabaoth posted:At the rate the wealthy are hoarding up all the money in the world, civilization will have crumbled to dust due to lack of funding long before a solar storm hits us
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Sep 18, 2014 16:38
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redshirt posted:Hmm. Interesting. Well, no doubt comets brought a great deal if not not the vast majority. Eh, I'll wait for 3.0. You know it'll be way better.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:39
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Sep 18, 2014 16:48
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Zzulu posted:oh hey a lovely pic of a rock how impressive lol get your rear end to fyad
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Sep 18, 2014 16:51
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Wild T posted:What's weird and creepy about these is that usually when you think space, you think all black with stars and swirly galaxies and poo poo everywhere. This is just pitch black, lit from one side, like something out of Eraserhead. This is space, and it's empty as gently caress. i feel bad about her because would
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Sep 18, 2014 16:57
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gary oldmans diary posted:i feel bad about her because she'd probably just lay there
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Sep 18, 2014 17:01
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Oldstench posted:she'd probably just lay there she at least has all the best equipment
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Sep 18, 2014 17:05
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 what arent they telling us
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Sep 18, 2014 17:16
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gary oldmans diary posted:when youre photoshopping aliens out of every single pic its easiest just to get rid of all the stars instead of patching the spots you cut out dude she hasn't decomposed go get some
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Sep 18, 2014 17:37
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Space is a dirty, littered place.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:42
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R-Type posted:Space is a dirty, littered place. Over a hundred tons of space dust falls onto Earth every day.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:43
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in space a rock can fly around and do whatever. sucks to be a rock on earth.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:46
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Demonachizer posted:What loving morons. They circle around poo poo like 20 times instead of going right there. They could have gotten to the comet in like 1 year if they just flew straight to it. Hey I am going to the store so I will pass by my house 3 times on the way... sure when youre navigating by a map that shows earth as big as the sun and impossibly close to it
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Sep 18, 2014 18:41
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ahhh what a cool gif
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Sep 18, 2014 18:44
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Think of all the science they could get done if they weren't playing Kerbal all the time.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:01
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in the future we will be able to fire missiles at any comet that invades our solar system
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Sep 18, 2014 19:16
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GrrrlSweatshirt posted:in the future we will be able to fire missiles at any comet that invades our solar system blowing up a comet mainly leaves you with a big cloud of rock and poo poo that's still travelling in the same direction. better but less cool to land some engines on one and push it out of the way.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:54
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Sep 18, 2014 19:59
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Splatmaster posted:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110613-space-science-star-water-bullets-kristensen/ We are the Star Killers.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:10
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Ron Paul Hype Man posted:We are the Star Killers. One day, hopefully. But as it is now, we're just star trash.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:31
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Like three hours ago NASA announced gently caress Russia and had a press release saying lockheed and Space-X are going to be making new astronaut taxis and that they're developing the world's largest welder to make the bigass rocket thatll take dudes to mars. Who's ready for Space Race 2.0 US vs China
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Sep 18, 2014 20:37
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Robo Reagan posted:Like three hours ago NASA announced gently caress Russia and had a press release saying lockheed and Space-X are going to be making new astronaut taxis and that they're developing the world's largest welder to make the bigass rocket thatll take dudes to mars. Who's ready for Space Race 2.0 US vs China Wrong. It was a couple of days ago. And it has little to do with the current situation in Russia, as this has been in the works for many years.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:38
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Either way places are picking up on it now and the Ruskies said we should use a trampoline to get to space if we don't like the pricing so gently caress 'em
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Sep 18, 2014 20:39
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Robo Reagan posted:Either way places are picking up on it now and the Ruskies said we should use a trampoline to get to space if we don't like the pricing so gently caress 'em The Ruskies have been making noises about separating their ISS module from the rest of the station, which, while possible, would not be easy. However, it'd be a pretty sweet breakup... in space!
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Sep 18, 2014 20:42
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Robo Reagan posted:Who's ready for Space Race 2.0 US vs China Actually it's more like a bunch of corporations are racing each other to see who can be the first to monetized spaceflight So it's space NASCAR basically
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Sep 18, 2014 20:47
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I Greyhound posted:The closeup shots are the ones that made my jaw drop. This is a loving comet nucleus in glorious high resolution. (Click for large) Comets: space's floating balls of poo
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Sep 18, 2014 20:47
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 Not as pretty, perhaps, but this is a picture of a truly alien world, Titan.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:50
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Yaldabaoth posted:Actually it's more like a bunch of corporations are racing each other to see who can be the first to monetized spaceflight Space Uber
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Sep 18, 2014 20:51
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gently caress Titan send a probe to Europa so we can find some Europeans
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Sep 18, 2014 20:52
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Robo Reagan posted:gently caress Titan send a probe to Europa so we can find some Europeans Ain't poo poo gonna happen on Europa for a long time except maybe a fly-by. They won't land until they can drill, and we're nowhere near the tech necessary to drill reliably into that ice while also not contaminating it with Earth junk.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:55
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redshirt posted:Ain't poo poo gonna happen on Europa for a long time except maybe a fly-by. Why not trail deep sea drillers to be astronauts?
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Sep 18, 2014 20:56
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redshirt posted:Not as pretty, perhaps, but this is a picture of a truly alien world, Titan. So, fact that the electricity from the probe didn't set the whole moon ablaze pretty much confirms that Titan having a methane atmosphere is bullshit.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:58
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redshirt posted:Ain't poo poo gonna happen on Europa for a long time except maybe a fly-by. Nah, fly over the geyser and have some simpleish detectors on board for basic organic life. Easy peasey no landings required
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Sep 18, 2014 20:58
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Cool. Space rules. If everybody in the world was forced to contemplate space we'd probably be better off
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Sep 18, 2014 21:01
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Robo Reagan posted:Nah, fly over the geyser and have some simpleish detectors on board for basic organic life. Easy peasey no landings required There's no geysers on Europa. You're thinking of the Saturn moon Enceladus, and the Cassini spacecraft has already done this and detected organics in the water.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:02
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Yaldabaoth posted:So, fact that the electricity from the probe didn't set the whole moon ablaze pretty much confirms that Titan having a methane atmosphere is bullshit.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:04
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redshirt posted:There's no geysers on Europa. You're thinking of the Saturn moon Enceladus, and the Cassini spacecraft has already done this and detected organics in the water. Nah dude this caused a pretty big commotion a few years ago http://m.space.com/27037-jupiter-moon-europa-geysers-mystery.html But it looks like the geyser has ~mysteriously disappeared~ so who knows at this point
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i'm staunchly anti-space i'm not against the space program as long as its goal is to destroy as many celestial bodies as possible and kill/enslave any aliens we find
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