I was really looking for a budget telescope so the AWB would make the most sense. Unfortunately, it’s not available in Canada.
kerzain
October 30, 2018, 3:24pm
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ineffablebob:
Last night, #ParkerSolarProbe surpassed 153,454 mph becoming fastest-ever human-made object, relative to the Sun!
Woohoo, that’s 0.000228825223% the speed of light! We’ll be colonizing the rest of the galaxy in no time.
Enidigm
October 30, 2018, 3:28pm
2620
I imagine the probe rushing by the sun going ‘Ooo hot hot hot hot!’. No wonder it was so fast.
Matt_W
October 30, 2018, 4:26pm
2621
During its final 5 perihelion approaches, after its 7th Venus flyby in November of 2024, it will be going about 430,000 mph. When the probe passes the sun for the first time in about a week, it will be half of the distance of Mercury’s closest approach. During its final flybys, it will be about 8x closer than Mercury ever gets.
Anyone following the OSIRIS-REx mission to bring back a sample from an asteroid? Pretty cool stuff.
This isn’t recent or anything, but it’s always worth a minute to look at some of the great photos taken of Earth from space.
YakAttack:
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If he were on the ISS, his post would be deleted in just 92 minutes.
YakAttack:
Wallapuctus:
It looks like a d10.
God does not play dice.
I thought that was only about the universe. I figured he’d enjoy an occasional game of craps.
God developed a serious case of gambling addiction during his days of playing MtG. Now he has to stay away from chance-based games to ensure he does not relapse.
Planetary Resources is, hilariously, pivoting to the blockchain , with possibly the greatest cryptobabble quote of all time.
In a statement, Lubin said that Planetary Resources’ expertise in space would be folded into ConsenSys. “Bringing deep space capabilities into the ConsenSys ecosystem reflects our belief in the potential for Ethereum to help humanity craft new societal rule systems through automated trust and guaranteed execution,” he said, referring to the “smart contracts” enabled by Ethereum. “And it reflects our belief in democratizing and decentralizing space endeavors to unite our species and unlock untapped human potential.”
A great example of how to say nothing with as many empty buzzwords as possible. I would love to see a concrete example of how “deep space capabilities” contribute to the “ConsenSys ecosystem.”
Well, crypto boosters are always talking about going “to the moon!”
RISKY (to productivity) CLICK OF THE DAY
http://stuffin.space
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light — a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
The research, which author James Clark calls a “feasibility study,” appears today in The Astrophysical Journal . The findings suggest that if a high-powered 1- to 2-megawatt laser were focused through a massive 30- to 45-meter telescope and aimed out into space, the combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun’s energy.
What could possibly go wrong?
jpinard
November 6, 2018, 10:58pm
2637
I’d tell them to come pick me up.
As we talk about humans returning to the moon and the Trump administration forming the Space Force, it’s easy to think about the less-sexy bodies in the solar system, particularly Neptune and Uranus. But a group at NASA aims to change that, with...
The headlines just write themselves.