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Posted: Jan 2, 2025 - 6:10pm
islander wrote: Meteor showers tonight. stay up late, look up. Too many trees & ceilings, but thanks for the heads up.

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Posted: Jan 2, 2025 - 5:24pm
Meteor showers tonight. stay up late, look up.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 9:07pm
Suck it China!

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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 6:28pm
Wild view! 16 20 story skinny office tower comes screaming out of the sky and performs a perfect parallel park.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 10:28am

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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 6:53am

miamizsun wrote:

yes, musk and the spacex team have pulled off a remarkable task
some of the video is spectacular
kudos to them

I was not in the camp of believers thinking he would pull this off on the very first try. I figured an abort and land in the ocean, possibly even a crash and some destruction to stage 0, for the first attempt. To pull this off on the very first try is a testament to just how much they've modelled their hardware.

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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 3:48am
Beaker wrote: Absolutely in-fcsking-credible. yes, musk and the spacex team have pulled off a remarkable task some of the video is spectacular kudos to them

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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 10:22pm
Making history

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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 5:36am
rgio wrote: Putting the booster back on the launch pad is an amazing bit of engineering. Absolutely in-fcsking-credible.

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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 5:35am
Putting the booster back on the launch pad is an amazing bit of engineering.

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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 5:10am
IFT 5, yo. Gonna try to catch a 16.65 story (233 ft) tall booster. 7:25am CT current liftoff time

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Posted: Oct 2, 2024 - 2:19pm
Voyager 2 shuts down science experiment as power stores dwindle

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Posted: Sep 26, 2024 - 2:59pm
NASA crashes DART into asteroid

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Posted: Sep 22, 2024 - 3:06pm

Here's a fascinating program that is/was on PBS that includes Marc Buie (he was awarded the Order of the Lion by the Sengalese government). He's working with a local astronomer to do something incredibly controversial: tell the Muslim community what the right time is to pray. The clerics there have their times, but the planet shifts and those times are wrong. Now, science abuts religious practice. Wow.

Here's Marc explaining what the consequence would be if you don't get the right measurements at the right time in the right place (maybe because of weather or other logistics). Well, maybe you can get it later?

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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 8:11pm

Steely_D wrote:

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since.

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive rÃ©sumÃ© while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...

thumbs up

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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 6:50pm

Steely_D wrote:

Very cool and Arrokoth would be a great band name

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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 6:25pm

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Posted: Sep 10, 2024 - 9:23am

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Posted: Aug 27, 2024 - 9:06am
Beaker wrote: Great explainer by the dean of space reporting, Miles O'Brien. Wait! That doesnât look like the Miles O'Brien from DS-9.

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