The Astronomy and Physics thread. And things of the like.

[Blzer]

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https://gizmodo.com/new-horizons-spa...d-o-1828258683

Nice. Oort cloud, here we come.

[PVarck31]

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Today's fun fact: The Perseids meteor shower peaks tonight at 9PM EDT in the Northeastern sky.

I actually saw one last night.

[pietasterp]

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Today's fun fact: The Perseids meteor shower peaks tonight at 9PM EDT in the Northeastern sky.

I actually saw one last night.

Tried to see it for about 2 hrs the other night. Mostly I just have a million mosquito bites to show for it, but I think I saw a few. They're just gone so fast you always wonder "did I just see that?". But no real awesome fireworks in the time I looked.

[Dave_S]

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I saw maybe 20 or 30. I was trying to get pictures.

[PVarck31]

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They may be talking to us. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ali...learning-code/

[Dave_S]

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They may be talking to us. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ali...learning-code/

Not being able to look for patterns in time periods shorter than 10 milliseconds seems not very good. 10 milliseconds is a pretty long period of time.





In other news about 2 weeks ago my Dad said someone told him Mars was going to be the size of the moon. Is that a neverending Facebook hoax?

Once I told him about the size and distance of mars he realized how silly it was. (Seeing as Mars is roughly twice the size of the moon)

[PVarck31]

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Not being able to look for patterns in time periods shorter than 10 milliseconds seems not very good. 10 milliseconds is a pretty long period of time.





In other news about 2 weeks ago my Dad said someone told him Mars was going to be the size of the moon. Is that a neverending Facebook hoax?

Once I told him about the size and distance of mars he realized how silly it was. (Seeing as Mars is roughly twice the size of the moon)

Yeah, the Mars thing is definitely a Facebook hoax. It's been going around for a couple years now.

The funny thing is like a year ago my mom calls me and tells me Mars is gonna be the size of the moon whenever it was supposed to be. And I'm like mom, stop believing everything you see on Facebook. She basically believes everything on there. UGH.

But anyway, if those signals were sent by aliens they are probably long gone by now.

Sometimes I get a little frustrated with the fact we haven't heard or found anything regarding to extraterrestrial life. But we've only been looking for 50 years. Not a very long time. We only discovered the first exoplanet in 1997. Now we are finding dozens almost every month.

And we are finding complex organics in our own solar system. I think it's only a matter of time. It has to be.

It's too bad the James Webb telescope got delayed. I think it's going up in 2021 now. It will be able to image exoplanets directly and see the composition of their atmospheres.

We also recently learned that water world planets could harbor life when we previously thought it wouldn't be possible.

Sorry for the long winded post. Late night/early morning thoughts pouring out.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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I still choose to forgo the Kolinahr so I can apply to Starfleet.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-09-newly-planet-spock-home-world.html

[TripleCrown9]

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Here you go, fellas.

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[Blzer]

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Everyone repeat after me:




We.




Are.




Not.




Alone.

[SPTO]

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Plants sprout on the moon for 1st time ever as part of Chinese moon mission


Well...Humanity is laying an ecological footprint in the solar system now.

[BurghFan]

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They must be in some sort of enclosure and in soil brought from Earth as the lunar surface is completely inhospitable to life with no atmosphere and constant exposure to hard ionizing radiation.

[slickdtc]

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Plants sprout on the moon for 1st time ever as part of Chinese moon mission





Well...Humanity is laying an ecological footprint in the solar system now.

It seems like this was already done, but I guess only in movies. Someone’s been watching Matt Damon!

China is really moving the needle lately. I’m very interested to hear more about their findings...

[BurghFan]

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Plants sprout on the moon for 1st time ever as part of Chinese moon mission


Well...Humanity is laying an ecological footprint in the solar system now.

And it's dead, couldn't survive the lunar night.

https://www.space.com/43025-china-moon-mission-plants-dead.html

[DocHolliday]

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If life only goal is to survive, I think what we are seeing now with AI and computers/digitizing is just another step in evolution.

Organics are not made for space or traveling long distances. Digital storage, whoever, is perfect for it. Store the information in a hard drive of sorts and send it out to seed among the stars!

Maybe the end game of life is to digitize itself so it can never die....