Space Never Fails to Blow My Mind, 2nd Edition

“One small hop for frogs. One giant leeeeeeeeeeeee”

 

caught 3 meteors on my various sky cams the last 2 weeks

Spoiler

 

Just started this and it appears to be free on YT

 

there’s several episodes posted. Seems to be a rip off the BBC solar system doc, which is great btw

 

It aired on BBC 2 and I think PBS has the US rights?

 

Ok that makes cus it’s the same format, some of the same astronomers but different narrator.

 

This is the one I downloaded. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33679603/

Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries on the diverse worlds that orbit the sun.

I guess I linked the wrong one. This program was produced by WGBH, which is solely responsible for its content.

 

This is it

 

I fucking love science

 

The Soviet Union: Am I a joke to you?

 

Forgot about the Russian pictures linked in this.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever

 

Nah… lil guy was definitely singing rocket man

 

Earth after trump part 2

 

Please consume our disaster planet ASAP. THX

 

So they are observing something that happened 12 billion years ago, right?

 

yes

 

I read those words on a screen, and I know what those words mean, but I cannot exactly comprehend that sentence

Like, does it stop? If it's consuming everything in it's vicinity at 40x faster than we thought possible, then in however many billion years could it consume earth?

 

Even if this were possible our solar system would be long dead.

 

they’re not vacuums, we’re moving away from it so I doubt there’s any chance of that even over infinite time

 

So it got there in 10 years.
Did it take that long to send the images back..? Or did it just get close enough to send em back, or how did that work?

 

It got there in 10 years, May of 2014. They received photos as early as July of that year. Then received more photos and data through 2015 when it finally actually landed on the comet. They sporadically received more data until it lost all power in 2016.

 

The sixth flight test of Starship is targeted to launch Tuesday, November 19. The 30-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT.

A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app. As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change, so be sure to check in here and stay tuned to our X account for updates.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6

 

10 minutes

 

So they had to abort catching the booster.

 

It looks like something out of a sci fi movie

 

Can’t Elon just overdose already?

 

Got home late from the bars. Went outside and watched the Geminid meteor shower. Saw about 8 “shooting stars” in ten mins

 

That seems pretty hot. Can someone confirm that 941.7°C is indeed, hot?

 

Per reading 8 Little Planets to my 18 month old about 500 times, and I quote "Fiery Venus must feel rather fraught, 900 degree temperatures sure are hot"

So yes, I can confirm. Hth

 

fun video if you got 30 minutes to burn