I can't believe they hid this from us Cina.
Astronomy & Space Exploration
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I'm not sure he realises the scale of what he's looking at. You can fit 4 planet Earths in that storm. All these structures he's pointing out would be the size of entire countries.
If this technology goes live I'm pretty sure we will find quite a few more of these.
Then we "only" have to build some spaceships who are fast enough to bring us to these planets.
That's great. The best thing is it looks doable with existing technology, and no massive cash investment required.
I always assumed we'd never be able to learn much about exo-planets beyond their existence alone because everything would be obscured by their sun's light. With that shield, we might even be able to detect signs of life.
Cue massive frustration - life on another world 100 light years away which we can never visit.
Yeah like I said somebody now better come up with a warp drive.
Scotty is gone, but Geordi is still around. He knows how it's done.
Thing with that shade is that it would be an awful slow process to image each individual star, cataloguing the planets and atmospheres. Kepler basically just stares gormlessly at a small patch of dark and analyses the light it gets back which amounts to thousands of stars at once. I guess you could use it better gauge what the average Sun-like star holds, pick out a few hundred at random and see the ratio that have Earth-size planets in the habitable zone... Or use it in combination with something more broadsighted like Kepler, focusing on the most interesting individual cases. Okay I've gone from being skeptical to being intrigued, get it built immediately.
Yeah like I said somebody now better come up with a warp drive.
We need a global cold war between the US, Europe, Russia and China so that serious money will flow into space programmes once again. With current technologies (plus those of the future) who knows what they can come up with...
Seems like it's really getting to a serious stage with the whole "finding life on other planets" thing.
Sounds cool but the name made me laugh. European Extremely Large Telescope........located in Chile.....South America
Thought the same when I first read it but well it's a European organisation who just chose the driest place on earth to build it's telescopes and that happened to be in Chile. Still sound a bit wonky though.
Was watching a NASA's Unexplained Files today and there was a segment about this.
The Klingon ship!
Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
The Klingon ship!
Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
They are de-cloaking, preparing to fire.
Then we need to take our questioning to a whole new level to find out. Can't just sit back and go, well we did all we could guv'nor.
It amazes that people like this think that if 'they' wanted to fake it to make it look like something else they couldn't do a better job than half covering it up with a bad photoshop.
The same can be said about many a conspiracy theory.
Some pics I took from a recent trip to the space and rocket center in Huntsville, Alabama. Saturn V, Pathfinder Shuttle moon rover
Some pics I took from a recent trip to the space and rocket center in Huntsville, Alabama. Saturn V, Pathfinder Shuttle moon rover
Wow nice pics, would love to visit that place myself.
Its an amazing place indeed. Took hundreds of pics and spent all day there. They even have a Space camp for youth (a movie called 'Space camp' was actually shot there in 86) and facilities for astronauts to train. Huntsville is actually the birthplace of NASA
Is this the remake of Carl Sagan's series?
Yes it is
I googled a stream of it last night. Really good watch. I like Neil deGrasse Tyson, he has a real passion for astronomy/space exploration, you could see what an affect Sagan had on him when he was a lad. He must've been a special kinda fella!
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It does go a bit to much into the sagan love though and it also has a kiddy feel to it. The Wonders series is better.
Sagan's was better. Tyson comes across as too preachy I thought.
Didn't watch it but I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were the case. There's a reason 'Sagan's was better', is how most people react.
I've been watching Cosmos as well. Sagan's was probably better but the important part that critics miss is that it is bringing those ideas and ideals to a new audience who have not been exposed to it before.
Preachy in what way specifically?
Nothing specific; might be the way they over-dramatise everything Hollywood style (which didn't happen in Sagan's), and his slightly smug demeanour.
I've seen bits of it and thought it was fantastic. Sagan's work is bound to be more impressive as most people saw it through a lens of wonder when they were kids, whereas they're now viewing Tyson's work as adults.
Just watching episode 13 and I really like the show despite it being a bit basic for my taste it's still great show for what it's supposed to be. Educate people and get young people interested in science. I wish I had the opportunity to see such a show when I was a kid it might have sparked my interest in science before I left school.
NDT's Cosmos is more specific in what it chooses to tell, whereas Sagan's went through the different scientific disciplines in a more general and universal way. There also weren't any of the more abrasive references to evolution, which NDT clearly pits against fundamentalist worldviews, or the references to the corporate machinery driving us off a cliff. That said, it's a different climate, and those things are kind of necessary to bring up. Sagan's time was a different time, and I welcome Tyson's standing up for science literacy, and what science damn well knows to be true.
Gorgeously made, though. And I can watch it with my wife, who hated the production values of the original Cosmos, and lost interest after 5 mins *sigh*
Gorgeously made, though. And I can watch it with my wife, who hated the production values of the original Cosmos, and lost interest after 5 mins *sigh*
Would be nice to put all the space stuff in one thread...
Russian stray dogs in space
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/world...-conquer-space/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Hibernation travel to Mars
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/tech/innovation/mars-hibernation-flight/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Russian stray dogs in space
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/world...-conquer-space/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Hibernation travel to Mars
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/tech/innovation/mars-hibernation-flight/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
I would be against Hibernation. Hibernation you'd still age and you'd have a year taken away from your life (more with deep space travel), it just seems wrong to do on a human-being.
I read somewhere that NASA are working with Oculus and looking into Virtual Reality for future space travel, i think that's a better solution, virtual reality could be used to stop astronauts going mad, astronauts could use it to talk to families/feel like they are still sat in their living room, maybe sat on a beach somewhere.
I read somewhere that NASA are working with Oculus and looking into Virtual Reality for future space travel, i think that's a better solution, virtual reality could be used to stop astronauts going mad, astronauts could use it to talk to families/feel like they are still sat in their living room, maybe sat on a beach somewhere.
Pope's Astronomer wins Carl Sagan Award
Great story. We need more like him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/guy-consolmagno-carl-sagan-medal-astronomy_n_5588687.html
Great story. We need more like him.
Insane.
That is incredible. Each point of light a star and this is just one of billions of galaxies. It's incredible how small and insignificant we are. There must be millions of forms of life out there.
Could anyone explain to me how J002E3 entered and then exited Earth's orbit? I've tried Google but it's useless (or rather I am useless at using Google).