Site Supporter Cheese Posted September 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted September 14, 2023 16 minutes ago, Zico said: how come aliens that come to earth are always naked none of them are ever wearing "clothes" Because their version of Eve didn't eat their version of an apple in their version of the Garden of Eden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted October 2, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted October 2, 2023 Absolutely incredible these massive telescopes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted October 29, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2023 https://www.unilad.com/technology/nasa/mind-blowing-animation-shows-speed-of-international-space-station-248852-20231022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 Love a straight talker I do. Bint commentating for Spacex on the catastrophic explosion of their Starship, blowing it to smithereens. "A rapid, unscheduled disassembly". FFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted January 25 Site Supporter Share Posted January 25 🙁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 25/01/2024 at 20:32, Cheese said: 🙁 Shot down by a Houthi missile. Bastards! In all seriousness though - this is very sad. As a species we're capable of some amazing things when we're not trying to blow each other up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted January 27 Site Supporter Share Posted January 27 In a quirk, wasn't the space race started by the two superpowers almost as a tit-for-tat battle in the cold war? If times were completely peaceful, would space exploration have happened as quickly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter fatolive Posted January 27 Site Supporter Share Posted January 27 2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: In a quirk, wasn't the space race started by the two superpowers almost as a tit-for-tat battle in the cold war? If times were completely peaceful, would space exploration have happened as quickly? No, the very fact rocket technology developed from missile inventions shows that. f we didn’t have the need to blow each other to bits we would never have realised that they could also be used to escape earth’s gravity. Think a few German scientists working on weapons in ww2 were recruited by America for the space program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted January 27 Site Supporter Share Posted January 27 Which is pretty much what I said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter fatolive Posted January 27 Site Supporter Share Posted January 27 2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Which is pretty much what I said! Well to be fair , you asked a question and it was a subject I did a project on in 4th year so thought I’d enlighten you with my knowledge on the subject 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted January 27 Moderators Share Posted January 27 3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: In a quirk, wasn't the space race started by the two superpowers almost as a tit-for-tat battle in the cold war? If times were completely peaceful, would space exploration have happened as quickly? Read something in the past where it was Germany and the Nazi's who initially led the space race Then once it was clear they were losing the war the US and Russis had a race to capture as many German rocket experts as they could and make the ones they caught work for them And once the war ended the race was on to get into space and land on the moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted January 28 Site Supporter Share Posted January 28 (edited) 17 hours ago, Zico said: Read something in the past where it was Germany and the Nazi's who initially led the space race Then once it was clear they were losing the war the US and Russis had a race to capture as many German rocket experts as they could and make the ones they caught work for them And once the war ended the race was on to get into space and land on the moon Absolutely correct. The point being, as stated previously, that the space race was started on the back of military action and development. Doesn't matter who those protagonists were, just that it happened. Once in space, there was a feeling of military advantage too The same question: without the conflict and later cold war, would it have proliferated so quickly? Edited January 28 by Tonge moor green jacket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MancWanderer Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Talking to the bloke who works for me in Scotland the other day His BiL was part of the team that designed the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) part of The James Webb Telescope. Once that was done and the telescope was launched he became part of the team that analyses the images that are coming back. It's absolutely amazing what they can now see. Have to admit that he lost me when trying to explain how so many previous theories about the other galaxies that are out there have been blown apart as the James Webb can show how much light "bends" and galaxies are bigger/smaller, nearer/further apart, newer/older, etc One of his BiL's "Bolt-On" jobs is to monitor the temperature of the MIRI. They have to keep it at something like -260degC with only a small degree of variation Just blows my mind that he does that from a room in a building in Baltimore that is a million miles away from the telescope. A million miles away!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted February 21 Members Share Posted February 21 Mind boggling stuff this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 It all makes my head fall off, the numbers/sizes are so big, it's just too difficult to comprehend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted February 21 Members Share Posted February 21 6 minutes ago, Sweep said: It all makes my head fall off, the numbers/sizes are so big, it's just too difficult to comprehend We are little more than specks of dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 This is extraordinary footage. A re-entry plasma field caught on camera for the first time ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted March 15 Site Supporter Share Posted March 15 https://news.sky.com/story/amp/giant-spacex-rocket-goes-further-than-ever-before-after-successful-launch-13094488 Another bit of footage from launch. Bastard big machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter FrancisFogarty Posted March 15 Site Supporter Share Posted March 15 On 21/02/2024 at 11:56, bolty58 said: We are little more than specks of dust. We are little more than specks of dust on a speck of dust then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter FrancisFogarty Posted March 15 Site Supporter Share Posted March 15 On 14/03/2024 at 16:26, Cheese said: This is extraordinary footage. A re-entry plasma field caught on camera for the first time ever. Was it reversing in at first ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc505 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Interesting thread which kind of brings home just how close they came to other disasters on the space shuttle. Basically rode their luck from the first flight to the last. Frozen piss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 That's an Icepop for Little Whitney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc505 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 2 hours ago, gonzo said: That's an Icepop for Little Whitney Not even you have videos of an astro golden shower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted Wednesday at 03:54 Members Share Posted Wednesday at 03:54 Voyager 1. Astounding to me that they were able to send a fix for a dodgy chip over 15.1 billion miles (way beyond the extent our solar system), taking 22.5 hours to get there, which fixed it from sending back messages of garbled gibberish to understandable ones. Headed off in 1977 and still expected to be transmitting for at least another year. No solar panels, just a 'long term' battery. There are/were some properly clever people about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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