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SpaceX and other space stuff
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I’m just reading between the lines…it probably ran out of fuel on descent.
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Also…I just got this notification…
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I'm still half expecting one of the mini-rovers to appear over the rim of the crater, and start transmitting data, as if nothing had happened.
Sweet! That is the first time I've seen where the stage 1 landing coverage did not cut out for a couple seconds on touchdown!
Well, this is what I miss by staying off the internet and actually doing some work. 
yeah, great touchdown footage
...it just doesn't look real at times, lol
...it just doesn't look real at times, lol
yeah, great touchdown footage
It's not real. They used footage from 1950s scifi movies.
I think my favorite part of the landing footage is where you can see the trajectory is pointing slightly off from the drone ship until the computer verifies that the engine has relit.
Not to worry; It'll be back.
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The distances involved still amaze me.
Us folk on Earth are 8 light-minutes away from our Sun. If the sun suddenly extinguished, we wouldn't see it blink out for another 8 minutes.
Voyager 2 is currently almost 18 light-hours (12 billion miles) from us (thanks Internet LOL).
Our closest neighbor star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away. It would take Voyager 2, at it's current speed of 35,000 miles per hour (9.7 miles per second), about 20,000 years to get there.
But Voyager 2 isn't heading to our neighbor star. A near rendezvous with any star will be in about 42,000 years to a star named Ross 248. It'll pass about 2 light years away from that star. Eventually, it might pass a star within 1 light-year's distance in about 5 million years.
I've posted some of the above before from here.: These are the stars the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft will encounter
Just neat stuff that trips me out on occasion.
Of course, all of that is moot if it gets intercepted by a living machine civilization whose unbelievably advanced technology reprograms it to come home and consider carbon-based life as an infestation.
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They’ll dig that mix tape golden album. All killer, no filler.The distances involved still amaze me.
Us folk on Earth are 8 light-minutes away from our Sun. If the sun suddenly extinguished, we wouldn't see it blink out for another 8 minutes.
Voyager 2 is currently almost 18 light-hours (12 billion miles) from us (thanks Internet LOL).
Our closest neighbor star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away. It would take Voyager 2, at it's current speed of 35,000 miles per hour (9.7 miles per second), about 20,000 years to get there.
But Voyager 2 isn't heading to our neighbor star. A near rendezvous with any star will be in about 42,000 years to a star named Ross 248. It'll pass about 2 light years away from that star. Eventually, it might pass a star within 1 light-year's distance in about 5 million years.
I've posted some of the above before from here.: These are the stars the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft will encounter
Just neat stuff that trips me out on occasion.
Of course, all of that is moot if it gets intercepted by a living machine civilization whose unbelievably advanced technology reprograms it to come home and considers carbon-based life as an infestation.
Once he broke up with Grimes there’s nobody inside willing to tell him to play better music.Space-techno music and obligatory infomercial is on!
Be cool if Ingenuity is still running little missions in 45 years, and causing general havoc with Mars air traffic control / commuters.
Doesn't Jessie have a recording career of sorts? Maybe using a literal launch platform, as a career launch platform is a little on the nose.
