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FatLegTed, w Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos
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What are the chances of that?

huskypenguin,

It happens every spring, so chances are high.

FatLegTed,
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Not a million to one then?

southsamurai,
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If it’s a million to one, it’s bound to happen. That’s just common sense

Hobbes_Dent,

Duh. It wouldn’t be such a common saying if it wasn’t how to make it work.

samus12345,
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ColeSloth, w NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan

Negative 290f. Little past jacket weather. Will they have to stick a radioactive isotope in the thing to keep the batteries warm, I guess? Seems like a good and hard mission, right there. I want a picture of weatherproof methane aliens, damn it.

Fosheze,

Odds are they’re using an RTG to power it anyways. Titan actually has a much thicker atmosphere than even earth and it’s much farther away from the sun as well so solar isn’t going to be a good option to power anything they send down.

ColeSloth, (edited )

RTG would need batteries to be getting charged to meet power demands of flight, but I guess that should take care of the batteries being kept warm enough.

pissedatyall, w NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan

Send Elon.

I_Has_A_Hat,

Sounds like you’re fed up with Elon and his BS, but I’d like you to take a moment and look around.

This article does not mention Elon. No one in this thread has mentioned Elon, except you. You have linked Elon to this solely because it deals with space, but you are the one propagating that link. You are the one keeping him in the conversation. Maybe, I don’t know, stop fucking talking about him?

pissedatyall,

I only mentioned him in the hope that we could jettison his ass once and for all.

But you’re indeed right. Peace out.

Flyberius, w The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
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I bet they can’t. I’m sure they’ll get a lot of venture capital before they fail though.

Sunsethughes, w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.

Dude! I saw the eclipse from Bouctouche and my God it was incredible. Please let us know what you thought!!

essteeyou, w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.

Hope you got a good view!

kandoh, w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.

I’m going to skip it. I don’t want to risk buying an counterfeit eclipse glasses and blinding myself 😬

Kichae,

You don’t need glasses during totality, if you happen to be in its path. If you’re not, actully looking at the sun is the least interesting part of a pretty eh event, anyway.

Bahalex,

I was camping for the last eclipse. Didn’t make it north enough for totality, but fairly close. Seeing the little wedge of sun filtered and projected hundreds of times through the trees was pretty awesome- and in a way more interesting than looking at directly with the special glasses.

Even if you don’t look up , try to go out and enjoy it.

Kichae,

That’s how I viewed 2017! Went outside on my lunch break to watch the bananas on the sidewalk while everyone around me went about seemingly totally unaware of what was going on right above and below them

BoringHusband, w I want to be among those who deeply thoroughly understand & can accurately predict the path of future eclipses because this is amazing.

Math.

LemmyKnowsBest,

Yesss. I waaaaant it in my mind and in my souuuuuul.

Sprawlie,

Fun Fact:

They discovered Neptune by math. They studied the orbit of Uranus and noticed anomalies in the mavity, so they postulated there must be another planet. Using math, calculated it’s path, aimed their telescopes, and voila, Neptune.

I am terrible at math, so I can’t explain how it works. But it’s all about physics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics is probably a good start.

Blaster_M, w Rainbow-like pattern found on planet outside solar system

We found Equestria? That would be a Harmony event going off. Someone on that planet got hit by the big friendship laser.

OlinOfTheHillPeople,
LimpRimble, w See photos of NASA's suitcase-sized rovers that will soon map the moon's surface
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Did I miss something? I couldn’t see where they said “will soon” and what that means.

Muscar,

“In early March, NASA announced that construction and testing of the three CADRE rovers was complete and the trio was ready for integration with Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, which will deliver the mini explorers to the lunar surface later this year or early next year as part of the company’s third lunar lander mission, IM-3.”

At the end of the article. And here’s the website for the project with more info: www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/cadre

LimpRimble,
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Perfect, thanks.

prole, w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

It’ll be interesting to see just how little this is in the national news given the location of the path compared to times when the path of an eclipse has gone through major metropolitan areas in the northeast or west coast. Almost an indirect measurement of science education in each area. I didn’t even know there was an eclipse coming until this article.

Or maybe I’ll be proven wrong…

XeroxCool,

That sounds more like a normal population density representation. Everyone hears about CA or NY news because they have more significant national and global impacts, through number of affected people and volume of business. News about the state of Arkansas is less visible since it has less population than any of the major cities in the aforementioned states.

Despite that, I’ve seen plenty of coverage specifically because, compared to the 2017 American total solar eclipse, this one is more accessible to a vastly greater population: namely DFW TX and NYC. NYC has a longer drive, but the northeast is an incredibly dense portion of the country.

maculata, w Daily Telescope: Peering into the remnants of an 800-year-old supernova

Cosmic sphincter

lordmauve, w A Mysterious Impact Left 2 Billion Craters On The Surface of Mars

Real scientists would say two gigacraters.

Shdwdrgn, w Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms

But the solar flare was yesterday, if there was going to be any good viewing of auroras it would have been last night, or more likely a couple nights ago (from US time zones). The peak of it occurred shortly after lunch yesterday and it’s calmed down back to normal today.

mihnt,

I mean, these are highly funded government agencies reporting this from both sides of the planet. You know something they don’t?

Shdwdrgn,

The agencies were correct about the information, however unlike OP apparently I know how to adjust for time zone differences. Monday morning in Australia is still Sunday in the US, so yes that would have been the correct time for the warning. But this article was posted here a day after the event occurred, all of the warnings expired, and the Kp index had dropped back down to more moderate levels. At the peak of the event the Kp index reached around 8.0. When I posted my comment yesterday it was sitting at 1.66, well below the threshold for seeing auroras anywhere in the continental US. If you had any chance of seeing auroras here it would have had to be Sunday night, not Monday night.

ringwraithfish, w Most Astronauts Get ‘Space Headaches.’ Scientists Want to Know Why

If Constellation on Apple TV is right, then it’s an indication that the person has become quantum entangled with their alternative self in another universe.

Good show btw if you are looking for something more psychological with a sci-fi background.

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