The Space Thread

[rocwell]

Moment 61-year-old limo driver blasts himself off the ground on a homemade ROCKET at 325mph to prove that the earth is 'shaped liked a frisbee' - before coming back down to Earth with a bang

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-875-feet.html

[Nilanka]

The guy who stared at the sun during a total solar eclipse without proper eye protection thinks he is qualified to nominate someone to lead NASA.

Ok. pic.twitter.com/GFteQnW7dO

— Rogue NASA (@RogueNASA) April 23, 2018

[Joey]

Super cool footage from the surface of a comet:

Super cool stuff.

Stuff flying around in the foreground is thought to be comet dust, but stuff moving the background is Stars ... which is super cool.

[RandomGuy]

It's an under the radar show, but definitely worth your attention, if you're a Sci-Fi fan. It's reasonably realistic scenario of humanity in a few centuries.

https://www.netflix.com/lt/title/80029822

Spread the word if you like it

[Nilanka]

Amazing image of the surface of Venus.

We are living in amazing times. pic.twitter.com/zm0xZIMb0U

— Barb Wire (@d_watters) May 3, 2018

[Joey]

Amazing image of the surface of Venus.

We are living in amazing times. pic.twitter.com/zm0xZIMb0U

— Barb Wire (@d_watters) May 3, 2018

That's definitely not Venus ... that's Jupiter ... still friggin cool, but huge difference. Lol

[Joey]

Another super cool achievement by Humanity! Go Humans! Specifically Japan in this instance though.

Back in 2014, Japan’s space program JAXA launched an asteroid probe that had a long journey ahead of it. The spacecraft, called Hayabusa 2, spent over three years cruising towards its destination, a massive asteroid called Ryugu. The trip was long, but JAXA just announced that Hayabusa 2 has arrived at the rock, and now the real fun begins.

The goal of the mission is to study the makeup of the asteroid itself. Unfortunately, scraping a sample from the surface isn’t acceptable because debris from its countless years in space has likely sullied its exterior. Instead, Hayabusa 2 will need to go deeper, and that means an explosion is in order.

Hayabusa 2 will release a small impactor that will land on the asteroid’s surface. After it lands, the spacecraft will reposition to a safe distance and then a charge on the impact will detonate, which will shove the small projectile deep into the rock, forming a hole. That hole, or crater, will become Hayabusa 2’s target, and the spacecraft will carefully maneuver itself so that it can touchdown and take its own subsurface samples.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-ast...180628997.html

They better be getting video of all of this, because that sounds awesome!

[Joey]

Coming up on the 3 year anniversary of when New Horizons flew past Pluto and this thread was born ... and just seeing this picture now of Pluto and it's moon Charon, which is absolutely incredible:

[Nilanka]

12 New Moons of Jupiter Discovered https://t.co/c5VmxlpDar pic.twitter.com/QSWEpBI22P

— Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) July 17, 2018

[Joey]

12 New Moons of Jupiter Discovered https://t.co/c5VmxlpDar pic.twitter.com/QSWEpBI22P

— Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) July 17, 2018

One of the coolest things about this though, is that one of them is going the wrong way compared to all 78 others. Lol

[rocwell]

Fu*k everyone, I'm moving!

Scientists believe they've found liquid water on Mars for the first time, a potential game-changer in the search for life on the Red Planet https://t.co/sidpoRPedE

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 25, 2018

[Joey]

Fu*k everyone, I'm moving!

Scientists believe they've found liquid water on Mars for the first time, a potential game-changer in the search for life on the Red Planet https://t.co/sidpoRPedE

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 25, 2018

LOL This made me laugh:

[rocwell]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...eep-space.html

[Mack North]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...eep-space.html

Experts are still investigating what causes FRBs, with possible explanations including exploding black holes and advanced extra-terrestrial civilisations.

I wish they would find out in my life time.

[Joey]

Experts are still investigating what causes FRBs, with possible explanations including exploding black holes and advanced extra-terrestrial civilisations.

I wish they would find out in my life time.

So frigging cool. My only thing with tracking Radio Waves, is would an advanced extra-terrestrial civilization really be using Radio Waves to communicate ... I mean we have reduced the amount of Radio Waves we emit drastically over the last couple decades, and expect that to continue .. would any sufficiently advanced civilization really use something so relatively primitive?

Conversely, I would expect that they've probably moved on the "mp3's" while we are still on "vinyl records", so I guess if their intent was to communicate, they'd have to dig out the pile of old records? Hence "Radio Waves"?

I can't wait for the future. Lol