Toepoke Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 Snoopy's been found! https://news.sky.com/story/snoopy-lunar-module-from-1969-apollo-10-mission-may-have-been-found-11738299 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 (edited) Scientists have discovered a 25-mile crater produced during the UK’s worst ever asteroid impact and warned ‘there’s a possibility’ of another space rock causing a similar level of destruction in the future. Evidence of the ancient disaster was first found near the Scottish town of Ullapool more than a decade ago, but the huge hollow left behind by the 13 billion ton space rock has now been pinpointed. https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/10/asteroid-hit-uk-possible-doomed-suffer-another-impact-9880326/ Edited June 10, 2019 by phart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 New image of Ceres and its intriguing mountain (upper rightish). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Huge mystery blob found under the moon's far side The massive find promises to help scientists better understand how all rocky bodies—including our own planet—came to be. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/06/massive-blob-discovered-moon-surface/ Must be bad news day is NASA releasing all this speculation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 Just been to see Apollo 11 at the IMAX. Incredible viewing, the launch sequence was ferocious! Amazing to see so much footage that's remained in the vaults for so long. It really didn't look or seem like 50 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 52 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Just been to see Apollo 11 at the IMAX. Incredible viewing, the launch sequence was ferocious! Amazing to see so much footage that's remained in the vaults for so long. It really didn't look or seem like 50 years ago. It's always the footage you've never seen before that amazes. I watched the Senna film in Spanish and still thought it was great even though i couldn't understand it, the cinematography is amazing. I expect this would be doubly so. What the Imax was made for i would suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Since 2007, astronomers have been finding very brief, powerful signals from across the cosmos in observations gathered by radio telescopes. In the past week, researchers pinpointed the location of a non-repeating signal for the first time, and two days later, another group announced they'd discovered nine more. The sources of these so-called "fast radio bursts" remains a mystery, but recently researchers have been honing their ability to locate their origins. https://www.cnet.com/news/another-mystery-deep-space-signal-traced-to-the-other-side-of-the-universe/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 On 6/8/2019 at 1:40 PM, thplinth said: Would not get you half way across the Atlantic in a private jet alas. 60m for the flight I read. The us (Tito?) guy paid the Russians 20m and that was a good while ago when Russia was still wild. Current tech (soyuz). In the next few years this is what Musk, Branson and to a lesser extent Bezos want to do. It'll be half a million to amillon quid in ten years. I'd charge them a fuckwad more than what's quoted. Tourists subsidising space missions and science. Damn right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty CTA Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 On 6/30/2019 at 5:46 PM, Toepoke said: Just been to see Apollo 11 at the IMAX. Incredible viewing, the launch sequence was ferocious! Amazing to see so much footage that's remained in the vaults for so long. On 6/30/2019 at 5:46 PM, Toepoke said: It really didn't look or seem like 50 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 5 hours ago, Scotty CTA said: I should've clarified that the unseen 70mm film footage was taken on the ground. Unless people are thinking NASA have CGI created Johnny Carson in a sun hat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/06/everyones-going-to-the-moon-again-apollo-11-50th-aniversary (contains references to the far side of the moon, and Antarctica) Edited July 6, 2019 by exile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 15 minutes ago, exile said: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/06/everyones-going-to-the-moon-again-apollo-11-50th-aniversary (contains references to the far side of the moon, and Antarctica) Thanks for the warning, conspiracy blah, never happened blah, cgi, blah, internet link blah, bible blah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Loads of Apollo related stuff on the telly right now. Thought this was brilliantly made... https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p5f/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 On 7/5/2019 at 1:27 AM, Scotty CTA said: Just to repeat, all conspiracy theories are based in antisemitism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 A large asteroid just zipped between Earth and the Moon Astronomers missed the asteroid until it was nearly on top of them, but the space rock has already passed harmlessly by. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/07/a-large-asteroid-just-zipped-between-earth-and-the-moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty CTA Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 On 7/17/2019 at 3:55 AM, biffer said: Just to repeat, all conspiracy theories are based in antisemitism. Khazers aren't really Jews though, are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/universe-galaxies-milky-way-hubble-nasa-discovery-breakthrough-latest-a9045951.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 16 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/universe-galaxies-milky-way-hubble-nasa-discovery-breakthrough-latest-a9045951.html I saw this as well. Pretty interesting how Hubble couldn't see it, but other methods can. I wonder what else we can see using the new method/telescope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 20 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/universe-galaxies-milky-way-hubble-nasa-discovery-breakthrough-latest-a9045951.html Aye, the "observable universe" just got a wee bit bigger than what we were able to observe before. It will account for a wee bit of the so called "dark matter" which can't, as yet, be explained. Don't know how much it will account for but maybe one day we might be able to explain it all away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Some good shit https://newatlas.com/space/galaxies-suddenly-fire-up-quasars/ Normally things happen slowly out in space. It can take thousands, millions or even billions of years for stars and galaxies to evolve. But now astronomers have spotted an event that was thought to happen over millennia play out in a matter of months, as a usually-quiet galaxy suddenly fired up into an energetic quasar – and not just once, but in six different cases. The galaxies in question started off in a class known as low-ionization nuclear emission line region (LINER) galaxies. Accounting for about a third of the galaxies in our neighborhood, these LINERs are characterized by mild activity in their center (or nucleus) – more than you’d see in a galaxy like the Milky Way, but far less than a blazing quasar. Existing theory says that quasars should take thousands of years to fire up, but now, astronomers have witnessed it happening live, right before their eyes. And it wasn’t just a one-off event either – six different LINER galaxies were seen to suddenly roar into quasars, within the first nine months of observations by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 The high ranking highly decorated navy pilot actually who saw the 'tic tac' (along with 4 or 5 others) was recently on Joe Rogans' show. Putting all the speculation aside. It is weird shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 11, 2019 Author Share Posted October 11, 2019 RIP Alexey Genuine space legend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMore Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Aye there is. Well I'm in the dam recoving from Moscow and crazy diamonds shine here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 "Leaked NASA photo of the Sun being taking away for maintenance" (Nicked from Twitter. May not be true) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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