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  1. 11-04-2011, 08:40 PM #1
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    ***Space Thread***

    Don't know if it's worth a thread but why not ?
    When I was a child I wanted to be an astronaut and with a friend we drew sketches imagining our spaceship and made stories out of it.

    I'm not a scientist, something I wish I studied more science, I'm mostly ignorant. However, I love looking at amazing pictures of stars, asteroids, new planets and so on... Kind of made me dream again...

    Anyway, this summer I read an article about the discorevy of new planet orbiting two suns, which presents double sunset... doesn't make you remember of something...
    Well, unlike of Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, gaseous and not with possible life.



    see 2 videos of the planet here on NASA site

    A picture I've just looked today, which I found really beautiful :

    Asteroid Lutetia. Some parts of its surface are around 3.6 billion years old. (information can be read here)
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  2. 11-04-2011, 09:02 PM #2
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    i love space discussions... but i dont like trying to comprehend the size of our universe. To help me convey this point, I bring you my favorite youtube video.

    [youtube]mcBV-cXVWFw[/youtube]
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  3. 11-05-2011, 02:35 PM #3
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    Don't know why but the video made me remember of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... :P
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  4. 11-10-2011, 01:00 PM #4
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    Russian Mars probe stuck in Earth's orbit after engines fail to fire
    Spacecraft was to visit Martian moon of Phobos and bring back soil sample but looks like joining list of failed red planet missions
    read more here

    The probe’s plan was to circle Mars for a few months and then land on Phobos to take samples of a couple hundred grams of soil and finally return to Earth in 2014.
    It's also carrying China’s Yinghuo-1 satellite and a load of micro-organisms in order to examine how they could survive in the pressures of space.



    Phobos (Fear in Greek), discovered in 1877, and whose origin is still unknown, is one of Mars moons (the other one, being Deimos). At a distance of 5826 miles (9380 km) from Mars, it takes a bit more than 7 hours to orbit Mars.
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    Here's that thread I was trying find last week. After playing through Mass Effect 2, I was just web surfing... and was blown away by this graphic. Crazy stuff

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  6. 02-25-2012, 01:57 PM #6
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    Wow, the picture is so big!
    Actually, there are some amazing pictures about Earth taken from space...
    http://www.spaceimages.com/earth.html
    http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
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  7. 10-08-2012, 11:37 AM #7
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    http://www.redbullstratos.com/

    I guess this belongs here. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt a freefall jump from 12000 ft tomorrow, tuesday october 9th, to be the first person to smash through the sound barrier. I'm not sure the above site has the live footage, but it is the official site of the event.
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    That should be 120k feet. This is the guy whose record they're trying to break, when he jumped from 108k.

    Joe Kittinger was a supreme badass.

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    Quote Quoting shaun (view post)
    That should be 120k feet. This is the guy whose record they're trying to break, when he jumped from 108k.

    Joe Kittinger was a supreme badass.

    Amazing pic Shaun, but I was under the impression Kittinger failed to reach Mach 1 speeds due to a malfunction.
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    Amazing pic Shaun, but I was under the impression Kittinger failed to reach Mach 1 speeds due to a malfunction.
    Correct. He only made 614mph. I was referring to the height record of the jump, which is still Kittinger's as far as I'm aware.
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    http://www.redbullstratos.com/

    I guess this belongs here. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt a freefall jump from 12000 ft tomorrow, tuesday october 9th, to be the first person to smash through the sound barrier. I'm not sure the above site has the live footage, but it is the official site of the event.
    That's so funny. I just finished a book this morning that included an interview with him looking forward to this jump, which they predicted would happen in 2012 and I wondered if it had happened yet. SYNERGY.

    The book, by the way, was Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. It was pretty good.
    ...and the milk's in me.
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    Go, Hot Dog, GO!!

    sorry. couldn't help myself.

    This is very exciting. Anyone know what kind of a view we'll get when he starts to fall, if any?
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    What link are you using?
    It's over now. Was on the redbullstratos website live stream.

    Very awesome. Not sure he went speeds high enough to go supersonic but that was supremely awesome nevertheless.
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    Bummer. Good for him though.
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    He's on his way up now. Amazing.
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    He's on his way up now. Amazing.
    I'm supposed to be doing a paper, and instead I'm watching the stream.
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    Quote Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
    I'm supposed to be doing a paper, and instead I'm watching the stream.
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    The gauges on the site are a nice touch. I like seeing how it's -50 degrees outside. Freakin insane.
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    What are you guys making of this ex-NASA employee claiming that we've already sent a manned mission to Mars and back?
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    What are you guys making of this ex-NASA employee claiming that we've already sent a manned mission to Mars and back?
    Nothing. She's a lunatic.
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    Pretty cool breakdown of why we don't have Flying cards, teleportation and space colonies yet as predicted in the 50s.

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    He looks like Aaron Paul's nerdy brother.
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