What's happening in space (that's interesting)

[HighPlainsDrifter]

We’re (hopefully) coming up on Falcon Heavy launch which had been postponed yesterday due to weather.

I’m sure there’s a zillion live feeds; I and about 15k others are watching one from ‘Everyday Astronaut’. Pretty good video quality for a livestream and he knows his stuff re rockets.

[HighPlainsDrifter]

…and his feed cut out for about 10 seconds just as blast off was happening. When the boosters landed there was a guy standing in the path of the landing site so we could see the descent but not the actual landing. :P

But he sets up 4k cameras to record things so there’ll be better video after he edits/uploads.

[Woolen_Horde]

So a light year is about 5,800,000,000,000 miles, and M87 is 55,000,000 light years away, which means that “blurry” photo was taken from approximately 3190000000000000000 miles away, so that writer can sod-off.

[Jason_Becker]

First successful landing of all 3 boosters!

Seeing the two side ones come down together for a perfect landing is damn cool.

[RichVR]

Chills. Wonderful.

[Jason_Becker]

[HighPlainsDrifter]

And the satellite has separated from the launch vehicle and been placed into the desired transfer orbit. 100% successful launch with every goal hit.

A great day for SpaceX and anyone that wants space exploration to move forwards!

[RichVR]

It’s not just rocket science. It’s a damn dance! So beautiful.

[Rod_Humble]

Breakthrough discuss is on in Berkeley this week. Its all live streamed!

SETI/ Asto biology/ exo planets / missions to Alpha Centauri etc.

current live stream

todays focus has been on astro biology

https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthroughprize (archives will be heree)

[sillhouette]

hot and fresh

[fdsaion]

So how many years out are we from daily launches?

SpaceX seem like a decade ahead of everyone else.

[Tman]

I was just thinking of poor Boeing:

The Atlas Launch stats of ULA:

Meanwhile, Space X did 17 in 2017, 19 in 2018

They are leaving everyone else in the dust.

[Djscman]

I hope this embeds properly. The boosters came home.

bananaramas

[schurem]

Such a glorious sight to see those boosters come down like that. Finally something truly futuristic.

[Strollen]

So how many years out are we from daily launches?

SpaceX seem like a decade ahead of everyone else.

I was just thinking of poor Boeing:

I don’t think of poor Boeing I think of the poor American space/science geek.

The first 50 years of Aviation from the Wright brothers to the first commercial jet was an amazing period of innovation. Progress has slowed considerably, but we have seen some remarkable progress in safety and efficiency.

The first 50 years of computers from ENIAC to the Web 1.0 was even more amazing, surpassing even science fiction in the speed. There is virtually nothing that Star Trek computer could do that we can do today, but hundreds of years ahead of predictions As Moore’s law has slowed the pace of hardware innovation has slowed, but software continues to advance at an amazing pace.

Likewise, the first 50 years of rockets was remarkable from RobbertsGoddard’s little rockets to the Saturn V and lunar rovers on the moon were equally amazing. But man the progress the last 50 years has been so disappointing. We should have been to Mars several times and a space probe should be approaching Alpha Centauri by now. I blame, Boeing, Lockheed, NASA and Congress for this

So yes SpaceX is a decade ahead of the competition, but I really feel they are just making up for the lost 50 years.

[Jason_Levine]

The first 50 years of Aviation from the Wright brothers to the first commercial jet was an amazing period of innovation.[

Two world wars.

The first 50 years of computers from ENIAC to the Web 1.0 was even more amazing, surpassing even science fiction in the speed.

World War II and the Cold War. For example, John Von Nuemann invented stored programming as part of nuclear weapons development.

Likewise, the first 50 years of rockets was remarkable from RobbertsGoddard’s little rockets to the Saturn V and lunar rovers on the moon were equally amazing.

World War Two, the Cold War and the Space Race. In other words, a whole lot of the technical progress of the 20th Century can be attributed to human conflict.

[Lamalo]

That’s a Vorlon-Shadows ideology, and they are long gone from our galaxy.

[ineffablebob]

Pepsi plans to project a giant ad in the night sky using cubesats

A Russian company called StartRocket says it’s going to launch a cluster of cubesats into space that will act as an “orbital billboard,” projecting enormous advertisements into the night sky like artificial constellations. And its first client, it says, will be PepsiCo — which will use the system to promote a “campaign against stereotypes and unjustified prejudices against gamers” on behalf of an energy drink called Adrenaline Rush.

Yeah, the project sounds like an elaborate prank. But Russian PepsiCo spokesperson Olga Mangova confirmed to Futurism that the collaboration is real.

I look forward to this making its way around the planet so all the spam callers and emailers can give up on phones and inboxes, and just blanket the sky with Viagra ads.

[CraigM]

I sense a new business opportunity, sat ad blocker.

[Matt_W]

which will use the system to promote a “campaign against stereotypes and unjustified prejudices against gamers” on behalf of an energy drink called Adrenaline Rush.

Oh my god, it’s gonna be a giant GamerGate hashtag.