phart Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 http://www.wired.co.uk/article/solar-system-scale-model-desert see a proper scale model in that link, it's interesting and a bit mindblowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Don't know if anyone's seen anything from the 'NASA Travel Agency' before, but they knock up fantasy travel posters like you used to get in the first half of the 20th Century for planets and exoplanets etc. They've already done one for Trappist-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Some others  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 2 hours ago, biffer said: Some others  You do realise that someone will be along very soon to 'analyse' the imagery in those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 32 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said: You do realise that someone will be along very soon to 'analyse' the imagery in those. Hope so, that'll be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 17 hours ago, Scotty CTA said: Live with your post. (God help you.) Take your thinly veiled threats and shove them up your aris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty CTA Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I've never threatened anyone on here. (My post means... If you want to be willingly ignorant, then go right ahead.)Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Hmm so if moon landing were hoaxed as is space travel then please explain why NASA would claim responsibility for the many astronaut deaths? The Challenger disaster, the astronauts who died when their rocket burst into flames on launch pad in the sixties and others that died in test launches etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesy Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 On 25/02/2017 at 10:23 AM, Caledonian Craig said: Hmm so if moon landing were hoaxed as is space travel then please explain why NASA would claim responsibility for the many astronaut deaths? The Challenger disaster, the astronauts who died when their rocket burst into flames on launch pad in the sixties and others that died in test launches etc. Â It's pointless attempting to use logic. I'd just ignore him. Â An RIP thread for someone that has achieved something that only 11 other people have done and it turns into another conspiracy thread. Jesus wept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 I saw astronaut Brian Duffy on the telly over the weekend. He was quite entertaining. In other news....https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Stokesy said: An RIP thread for someone that has achieved something that only 11 other people have done and it turns into another conspiracy thread. Jesus wept. I see what you did there Well played Well played indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesy Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Ally Bongo said: I see what you did there Well played Well played indeed  Believe it or not but that was accidental. I use that phrase a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 Fake news http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/772321/donald-trump-nasa-mission-moon-apollo-astronauts-asteroid-orion  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 7 hours ago, Flure said: I saw astronaut Brian Duffy on the telly over the weekend. He was quite entertaining. In other news....https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/# An interesting article but it doesn't explain how we should deal with wind-up merchants. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 4 hours ago, Orraloon said: An interesting article but it doesn't explain how we should deal with wind-up merchants. Â I find the "ignore" function a soothing influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecie Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 5 hours ago, Orraloon said: An interesting article but it doesn't explain how we should deal with wind-up merchants. Â I find the "ignore" function a soothing influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 2 hours ago, deecie said: I find the "ignore" function a soothing influence. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 It's a new space race, Trump v Musk... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/27/spacex-moon-private-mission-2018-elon-musk  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 11 hours ago, Flure said: I find the "ignore" function a soothing influence. I have to agree Only used it for one person but I never realised something can be so good and make the TAMB experience better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 20 hours ago, Orraloon said: An interesting article but it doesn't explain how we should deal with wind-up merchants. Â It works up to a point, but not when what they believe in is barking. Even though I'm an atheist, I see no reason why science and religion should be in conflict. They're different discussions. What we discover in science is far more beautiful and astonishing than any construct that insists that a god has to intervene regularly to keep things working. A god who could create the universe as science describes it is far more astonishing and powerful than one who created a universe in the kind of simple models that are otherwise put forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Excellent example of "Earthshine" outside the now... Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 You've not been paying attention in "flat earth", "no such thing as light years" class, D -. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty CTA Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 I'm still playing catch-up with this thread, but in the meantime I'd like your thoughts. The trick here is to disprove the 'proofs' without going "I know that's not true because that wasn't what I was indoctrinated with." Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 6 hours ago, Scotty CTA said: I'm still playing catch-up with this thread, but in the meantime I'd like your thoughts. The trick here is to disprove the 'proofs' without going "I know that's not true because that wasn't what I was indoctrinated with."  Only had time to watch the first minute of that, will look at more later. Regarding not witnessing the Earth's curvature even from a plane, the Earth is a pretty big object. If you imagine the Earth as being the size of a football then the International Space Station is orbiting around 7 millimetres from the surface. Travelling just a few miles up is not going to alter your perception of the surface much other than giving you a wider field of view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydoo Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Toepoke said: Only had time to watch the first minute of that, will look at more later. Regarding not witnessing the Earth's curvature even from a plane, the Earth is a pretty big object. If you imagine the Earth as being the size of a football then the International Space Station is orbiting around 7 millimetres from the surface. Travelling just a few miles up is not going to alter your perception of the surface much other than giving you a wider field of view. gtf out of here with that sensible pish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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