Live rocket launch in 10mins here

 

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

6 hours ago, Cheese said:

Some achievement that. A direct hit 11,000,000km away from Earth.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63039191

It is, we've got to wait about a month I think to see if it's actually worked, it'll be a bit of a damp squib if it's actually done fuck all

15 minutes ago, Sweep said:

It is, we've got to wait about a month I think to see if it's actually worked, it'll be a bit of a damp squib if it's actually done fuck all

Plenty of damp squibs on the road to success.

20 minutes ago, Sweep said:

It is, we've got to wait about a month I think to see if it's actually worked, it'll be a bit of a damp squib if it's actually done fuck all

If that is the outcome, then it will provide learning. 

6 hours ago, Cheese said:

Some achievement that. A direct hit 11,000,000km away from Earth.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63039191

Aye. Some might say too good to be true.

#capricorn1

You'd be pissed off if you lived on that asteroid, mind you

1 hour ago, jmjhb said:

You'd be pissed off if you lived on that asteroid, mind you

Or had money on it hitting earth

2 hours ago, Cheese said:

Plenty of damp squibs on the road to success.

I agree, but I'd imagine if you've been working on the project, and it hadn't achieved much, then you'd feel a bit deflated.

As you say though, what an amazing achievement actually getting it to hit the thing in the first place, I dread to think how complex that must be when everything is moving at such massive speeds across such immense distances

If it doesn't work then that would more likely be an underestimate of the momentum of the asteroid, rather than the quality of the dart.

As they know the speed fairly accurately (they did hit it) then that would suggest a poor estimate of the mass. 

Some mathemician/physicist getting a clip round the ear for that. 

 

8 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

If it doesn't work then that would more likely be an underestimate of the momentum of the asteroid, rather than the quality of the dart.

As they know the speed fairly accurately (they did hit it) then that would suggest a poor estimate of the mass. 

Some mathemician/physicist getting a clip round the ear for that. 

 

to be fair, it's probably pretty tricky to work out the exact density, mass and weight of a bit of rock that's millions of miles away in deep space.

we should certainly celebrate the fact we hit it, had we flown right past, that would have been a bit shit

2 minutes ago, Sweep said:

to be fair, it's probably pretty tricky to work out the exact density, mass and weight of a bit of rock that's millions of miles away in deep space.

we should certainly celebrate the fact we hit it, had we flown right past, that would have been a bit shit

Indeed.

I reckon they will have a good idea of an approximate mass of the thing. On the video and comments there is a sort of confirmation that it appears to be formed in the way they expected.

Some great brains over there for sure.

4 hours ago, Sweep said:

It is, we've got to wait about a month I think to see if it's actually worked, it'll be a bit of a damp squib if it's actually done fuck all

Looks like they fucked it over big time according to the little mini sat travelling with it. 

 

CGI

1 hour ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Looks like they fucked it over big time according to the little mini sat travelling with it. 

 

It's all bollox!

33 minutes ago, Underpants said:

It's all bollox!

29 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Fake news. There's a difference. 

11 hours ago, Underpants said:

Fake news. There's a difference. 

Prove it, Donald.

And don't adopt the "prove its genuine" crap. Sometimes you have to accept that stuff that is beyond your Ken, is nevertheless factually correct.

You never met a living dinosaur but that doesn't mean they never existed.

 

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Prove it, Donald.

And don't adopt the "prove its genuine" crap. Sometimes you have to accept that stuff that is beyond your Ken, is nevertheless factually correct.

You never met a living dinosaur but that doesn't mean they never existed.

 

I was addressing your Luddite reference. Which was of course, in this context, incorrect.

Anyway aren't birds living dinosaurs? Or so they say 🤔

Got a couple of living dinosaurs on here

On 28/09/2022 at 12:18, Underpants said:

I was addressing your Luddite reference. Which was of course, in this context, incorrect.

Anyway aren't birds living dinosaurs? Or so they say 🤔

Nah. It's a reasonable analogy of your attitude towards such things. Not the first time you've expressed disbelief of things science and technology have provided us.

7 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Nah. It's a reasonable analogy of your attitude towards such things. Not the first time you've expressed disbelief of things science and technology have provided us.

No it is an incorrect analogy. I'm more of a cynic than a Luddite. The world needs cynics or we will all believe everything that is told us.

Edited September 30, 20223 yr by Underpants

1 hour ago, Underpants said:

No it is an incorrect analogy. I'm more of a cynic than a Luddite. The world needs cynics or we will all believe everything that is told us.

The world needs people with critical reasoning skills......

25 minutes ago, kent_white said:

The world needs people with critical reasoning skills......

Behave. If people want to believe everything that is fed to them then the world is screwed.

Edited September 30, 20223 yr by Underpants

23 minutes ago, Underpants said:

Behave. If people want to believe everything that is fed to them then the world is screwed.

You do know what 'critical reasoning' is, don't you?

Edited September 30, 20223 yr by Cheese

6 minutes ago, Cheese said:

You do know what 'critical reasoning' is, don't you?

I know it's unimportant on WWs.

The big brains once said the earth was flat and we were at the centre of the universe. Some people disagreed. How dare they.

The Pac-Man theory of the modern day flat earthers is one of my favourite things ever I think.