The Space Thread

[scotchandcigar]

It's like going back to the store to pick up something that you forgot that was what you originally went to the store for anyway.......

You've just described every day of my life.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I'm not sold on the bringing stuff back at all. Look at what happened in 2019 when somebody in China ate a bat they hadn't encountered before. And the bat was on this planet.

 

[JHDK]

It should come as a shock to absolutely no one that NASA scientists are binary nerds.

NASA fans spot hidden binary message on Perseverance's parachute

The code was written into the lining of the parachute, made from a custom material crafted in Devon, and kept under wraps until it was deployed on February 18.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[HecticArt]

Very cool.

 

[JHDK]

Another cool one:

Astrophotographer captures stunning photo of the ISS over the moon

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured the image of the station, which is orbiting 250 miles above the Earth, from a roadside in Sacramento, California at about 10:44 GMT on Monday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[scotchandcigar]

Another cool one:

Astrophotographer captures stunning photo of the ISS over the moon

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured the image of the station, which is orbiting 250 miles above the Earth, from a roadside in Sacramento, California at about 10:44 GMT on Monday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Ironically, that was taken right before it came crashing down in a Denver suburb.

 

[scotchandcigar]

SpaceX Mars prototype rocket nails landing for the first time, but explodes on pad

A SpaceX rocket prototype, known as SN10, soared over South Texas during test flight Wednesday before swooping down to a pinpoint landing near its launch site. Approximately three minutes after landing, however, multiple independent video feeds showed the rocket exploding on its landing pad.

www.cnn.com

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

SpaceX Mars prototype rocket nails landing for the first time, but explodes on pad

A SpaceX rocket prototype, known as SN10, soared over South Texas during test flight Wednesday before swooping down to a pinpoint landing near its launch site. Approximately three minutes after landing, however, multiple independent video feeds showed the rocket exploding on its landing pad.

www.cnn.com

LOL

 

[JHDK]

SpaceX Mars prototype rocket nails landing for the first time, but explodes on pad

A SpaceX rocket prototype, known as SN10, soared over South Texas during test flight Wednesday before swooping down to a pinpoint landing near its launch site. Approximately three minutes after landing, however, multiple independent video feeds showed the rocket exploding on its landing pad.

www.cnn.com

That headline sounds like it's describing the first time I got laid.

 

[JHDK]

 

[semipenguin]

Colliding black holes sound like something kinky you and Wolfie do.

 

[JHDK]

Colliding black holes sound like something kinky you and Wolfie do.

It's the male version of scissoring.

 

[HecticArt]

NTTAWWT

 

[JHDK]

NTTAWWT

 

[JHDK]

space is cool. so there's all that out there and we only explore a tiny bit of it.

we are explorers as a race.

 

[HecticArt]

We're just killing time till we're gone.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Event Horizon Telescope Images Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Supermassive Black Hole

 

[HecticArt]

And to think, all they needed to do is look in my ex-girlfriends eyes.

 

[JHDK]

This could have also gone in the Military Thread but either way it's kinda neat:



I wonder what those things really are? Probably some sort of Russian or Chinese tech, but it would be cool if it was aliens.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Must be a super secret video that they are afraid the Canadians will see.