Space News thread

[harrybarracuda]

Quake my arse. We've woken them up. Now we're in the shit.

[Luigi]

The seismometer is as sensitive as the best instruments we use on Earth and can detect shifts in the ground of less than the thickness of an atom.

That's some serious-ass science.

[BaitongBoy]

Can't slice it much thinner...

And for what purpose...

You could record a Martian fart...

[harrybarracuda]

Can't slice it much thinner...

And for what purpose...

You could record a Martian fart...

Maybe they did.

[OhOh]

At dawn, Look to the East.

[harrybarracuda]

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander being built by his Blue Origin rocket company and touted his moon goals in a strategy aimed at capitalizing on the Trump administration's renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just five years.

The world's richest man and Amazon.com Inc's chief executive waved an arm and a black drape behind him dropped to reveal the two-story-tall mockup of the unmanned lander dubbed Blue Moon during an hour-long presentation at Washington's convention center, just several blocks from the White House.

The lander will be able to deliver payloads to the lunar surface, deploy up to four smaller rovers and shoot out satellites to orbit the moon, Bezos told the audience, which included NASA officials and potential Blue Moon customers.

His media event followed Vice President Mike Pence 's March 26 announcement that NASA plans to build a space platform in lunar orbit and put American astronauts on the moon's south pole by 2024 "by any means necessary," four years earlier than previously planned.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-reveals-15024186

[Takeovers]

The community of space fans has been waiting for this presentation. Particularly on the nasaspaceflight forum. The reaction after the presentation was unlike anything I have seen before on that very levelheaded and backward leaning with caution forum. It was pure derision and ridicule except for a few, a very few, apologists.


https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/in...?topic=48042.0


It all started with this announcement by Blue Origin

5.9.19

Naturally from that photo people realized that this is about moon landing.

Since not everybody comes to that conclusion immediately, some background. This is from the Shackleton polar expedition. A small step from that to Shackleton lunar polar crater which has become a point of interest for lunar exploration because it may contain water as a valuable resource.

[Takeovers]

The actual announcement was a lunar lander Blue Origin is planning to build. It fits right in with the new NASA plans for going to the moon by 2024. So much was already known. The presentation gave some more information like the new small but efficient hydrolox engine they are developing. Landed mass in the range of 3.5t. A later iteration may increase that mass to 7t which may enable manned missions but very unlikely until the NASA goal of 2024, the end of a possible second term of President Trump.

They use hydrolox because with water from the lunar surface they can at least potentially produce that propellant for the return flight on the moon.

The ridicule is about the slow pace of development with a huge amount of money availabe, Jeff Bezos pouring in $1billion a year to support Blue Origin.

[harrybarracuda]

The community of space fans has been waiting for this presentation. Particularly on the nasaspaceflight forum. The reaction after the presentation was unlike anything I have seen before on that very levelheaded and backward leaning with caution forum. It was pure derision and ridicule except for a few, a very few, apologists.

Yeah, and this:

You forgot the elephant in the room: SpaceX-fanboyism. Everything non-SpaceX is being trashed relentlessly on this forum.

[Takeovers]

You forgot the elephant in the room: SpaceX-fanboyism. Everything non-SpaceX is being trashed relentlessly on this forum.

You found that quote

Does not make it true. It certainly is not a SpaceX fanboy forum. Though there are plenty of SpaceX fans. Also all the criticism of Blue Origin is very real. But then there is the chance that SpaceX fails and in that case Blue is better than nothing.

[Dragonfly]

tech forums are full of drama queens, they make fan forums for Justin Bieber and Britney Spears look tame and full of common sense

[harrybarracuda]

You found that quote

Does not make it true. It certainly is not a SpaceX fanboy forum. Though there are plenty of SpaceX fans. Also all the criticism of Blue Origin is very real. But then there is the chance that SpaceX fails and in that case Blue is better than nothing.

it certainly reads like a fanboy forum.

[Takeovers]

it certainly reads like a fanboy forum.

You don't know the owner of the forum, Chris Bergin. He is a stauch fan of NASA. Or at least he used to be. Very recently I got the impression he is somewhat disgruntled with them.

[BaitongBoy]

To the moon, Alice...

[harrybarracuda]

The highly regarded Apollo XI documentary is up in various sizes:

https://rarbgway.org/torrent/x2zg1yo

[OhOh]

Apollo XI documentary

Apollo 11 seems to get more hits.

[harrybarracuda]

Apollo 11 seems to get more hits.

I posted a link you retard.

[Luigi]

To a spam site.



Here it is on a proper site.

https://1337x.to/torrent/3738373/Apo...080p-YTS-YIFY/

Will have a sconce, cheers.

[OhOh]

https://1337x.to/torrent/3738373/Apo...080p-YTS-YIFY/

But that takes you to this:
Apollo 11

DocumentaryHistory



No mention of, Apollo XI

'arrys trying to make us watch a Chinese propaganda movie.

Shame on you 'arry. Looks like your system has been hacked.

[OhOh]

Will have a sconce, cheers.

You are a weird one, t' be sure;



"A form of cider, fermented using a rather unusual method.

Rotten apples are inserted into a particularly active woman's vagina, preferrably from the county of Somerset. The apples ferment with the yeast in the volunteer's genitalia and, when ready, can either be consumed from the vagina itself or 'squinced' out into another container.

Once a month, special 'Strawberry' Sconce can be brewed."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sconce

[Luigi]

Particularly delicious for breakfast.

[harrybarracuda]

To a spam site.

On your shitty malware infested Windows XP Pentium 3 probably yes.

Otherwise it takes you here.

Get a decent adblocker you mong.

[harrybarracuda]

But that takes you to this:
Apollo 11

DocumentaryHistory



No mention of, Apollo XI

'arrys trying to make us watch a Chinese propaganda movie.

Shame on you 'arry. Looks like your system has been hacked.

You're a fucking retard. Go away and waffle in one of your shitty chinky threads or something.

[Dragonfly]

To a spam site.



Here it is on a proper site.

https://1337x.to/torrent/3738373/Apo...080p-YTS-YIFY/

Will have a sconce, cheers.

Thanks, that rarb link from Harry send me to some kind of spam shit infested torrent repository

[misskit]

Close encounters? SpaceX satellites spark Dutch UFO frenzy

A Dutch website set up to record UFO sightings was flooded early Saturday with reports after a "train of stars" was spotted crossing the Netherlands' skies, sparking fears of an alien invasion.

But what some thought to be a close encounter of the third kind turned out to be a string of some 60 satellites launched by US-based SpaceX hours earlier as part of its "Starlink" constellation.



The row of satellites which are part of a plan by billionaire Elon Musk's firm to provide internet from space, glided across Dutch skies around 1:00 am (2300 GMT).


Shortly afterwards, Dutch website www.ufomeldpunt.nl was inundated with more than 150 sighting reports, with astonished spotters describing a "bizarre train of stars or lights moving across the skies at constant speed".


"There's a long line of lights. Faster than a plane. Huh?" one spotter reported, while another called it a "star caravan" and one saying "I have it on film".


One spotter simply texted: "WTF?"


"I didn't know what to make of it," an unnamed witness later told the NOS public broadcaster.


"Is it Russia attacking the US? Are they UFOs? Seriously, I didn't know," the witness said.


One of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets blasted off without incident from Cape Canaveral in Florida at around 0230 GMT on Friday.


An hour after liftoff, the rocket began to release the satellites at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometres).


The satellites then had to separate and use their thrusters to take up their positions in a relatively low orbit of 340 miles (550 kilometres).


Each of the satellites weighs 227 kilograms (500 pounds) and was built in-house in Redmond, near Seattle.


Starlink will become operational once 800 satellites have been activated, which will require a dozen more launches.


One Dutchman who remained unfazed was satellite spotter Marco Langbroek, who knew what the mysterious lights were—and had his camera on hand.


"I cheered them on, the moment they appeared," he told the NOS.

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-encoun...dutch-ufo.html