The Space Thread

[Red Phoenix]

On the NASA announcement : Nasa announces discovery of 'second Earth' in deep space

 

And more details from the BBC :

 

Kepler-452b, however, orbits a parent star which belongs to the same class as the Sun: it is just 4% more massive and 10% brighter. Kepler-452b takes 385 days to complete a full circuit of this star, so its orbital period is 5% longer than Earth's.

 

The mass of Kepler-452b cannot be measured yet, so astronomers have to rely on models to estimate a range of possible masses, with the most likely being five times that of Earth. If it is rocky, the world would likely still have active volcanism and its gravity would be roughly twice that on our own planet.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33641648

[Stickman]

It makes me laugh when they say we need more money to send people to Mars, why do we? If we have te resources why can't we use them? It's insane that everything has to be bought and sold, even something for the betterment of mankind - absolutely insane. That's why we're running out of antibiotics, there's no money in them - great world eh. 

 

 

That's why Star Trek would never happen, it's not because of the transporter or the photon torpedoes or travelling at light speed it's because the world will still be owned by greedy fucks who only care about themselves like now and who won't part with their money to benefit the world for the greater good. .

I remember both Kirk and Picard alluding to the fact that money is obsolete in the 24th Century....my arse.

[Stickman]

Is Pluto a planet anymore??? Surely it can't be if it ain't even as big as Australia?

 

[Section_31]

That's why Star Trek would never happen, it's not because of the transporter or the photon torpedoes or travelling at light speed it's because the world will still be owned by greedy fucks who only care about themselves like now and who won't part with their money to benefit the world for the greater good. .

I remember both Kirk and Picard alluding to the fact that money is obsolete in the 24th Century....my arse.

In the remake though they have Nokia mobile phones and Budweiser, that's why it's shit.

 

The original star trek society was technically utopian socialism. There were no private businesses, only Starfleet and the unified government.

 

Although strangely, the USSR still exist in the future, a starfleet ship called the Tsiolkovsky was built there at Baikanur cosmodrome. Leningrad is also mentioned in Star trek 4.

 

Maybe Roddenbery was a pinko.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Is Pluto a planet anymore??? Surely it can't be if it ain't even as big as Australia?

 

 

It hasn't been classed as a planet for years and years

[Dougie Do'ins]

The Sky At Night : Pluto Revealed

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0638ysn/the-sky-at-night-pluto-revealed

[Anny Road]

The Sky At Night : Pluto Revealed

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0638ysn/the-sky-at-night-pluto-revealed

Where did they find those two presenters. She is hilarious.

[Dougie Do'ins]

Where did they find those two presenters. She is hilarious.

I think she used to be an Umpa Lumpa. Or she wants to be.

[Anubis]

Has NASA found 'another Earth'? Space agency could reveal new planet capable of supporting LIFE

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/nasa-found-another-earth-space-6109322

Ace. Another planet ripe for neo-liberal resource-rape.

[magicrat]

"Basically expand free enterprise to the moon"

 

Translation: we'll fuckin destroy the moon too as long as we make a profit. Cunts.

 

I can't get excited about exploitation of the moon. I don't have any desire to go there on account of the the lack of any atmosphere, lethal radiation or even a decent boozer.    

[Bobby Hundreds]

It will have a wetherspoons soon enough. Pluto was owned by goofy a real symbol of human slavery that.

 

I wish I could belive all that mad alien arse probing stuff, how exciting must the world seem to people who belive in all kinds of mad funky shit for real.

[Elite]

How can people live in the moon when it changes shape and size every night?

[Stickman]

It hasn't been classed as a planet for years and years

Years and years means fuck all..that's just a millisecond in time....Pluto will have it its day after all it was named after a Disney character .

[Bobby Hundreds]

ive never looked at the moon through a telescope, well I have, I asked for one when I was a kid and my mum bought me some argos special, my Nan's glasses magnified more. Such a disappointing piece of shit, when I finally managed to keep the piece of shit still enough to see the moon I could actually see the whole shape of the fucking moon through it.

[magicrat]

It will have a wetherspoons soon enough. 

 

No way, far too cold for the punters to go outside for a rollie

[Red Phoenix]

From Wired :

 

$100m Breakthrough Listen is 'largest ever' search for alien civilisations

 

 

A pioneering new $100m (£64m) attempt to search the skies for signs of intelligent life has been unveiled by Russian tech investor Yuri Milner, Professor Stephen Hawking and Lord Martin Rees.

Funded by Milner, the Breakthrough Initiative was launched at the Royal Society in London as the largest-ever effort to search for alien civilisations.

The 10 year project will use open data and software, and work with teams at the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, United States, and the Parkes Telescope in Australia to try to find signals that might be being broadcast by civilisations across the galaxy, whether from planets or machine-based AI.

The Breakthrough Initiative will be a 10-year study using two of the world's largest telescopes, with a $1m (£642,000) prize for anyone able to find evidence of aliens. A larger component, Breakthrough Listen, will widen the search using open data and open source software.

Andrew Siemion, a director at the University of Berkeley’s SETI research centre, said the new search was between 50 and 100 times more powerful than previous attempts.

"This was once a dream, it is now a truly scientific quest," Milner said. "In the 21st century we will find out about life at a galactic scale." The $100m investment is separate to Milner's $160m funding of the Breakthrough Prize, a high-profile science award that recognises major advances.

If a civilisation was broadcasting anything with the power of a "common aircraft radar" from the closest 1,000 stars, the Breakthrough Listen team believe they will find it.

"We believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth, so in an infinite universe there must be other occurrences of life. Somewhere in the cosmos perhaps intelligent life may be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean," said Professor Hawking at the launch. "It’s time to commit to finding the answer to search for life beyond Earth. The Breakthrough Initiate is making that commitment."

"It is sure to bear fruit," Hawking said. "If a search of this scale and sophistication finds no evidence of intelligence out there it will be a very interesting result. It will not prove that we are alone, but it will narrow the possibilities."

 

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/20/breakthrough-listen-project

 

This page gives links to an app you can download too that you can help with, for either phones or pc's/laptops : http://www.techtimes.com/articles/71925/20150726/stephen-hawking-joins-yuri-milner-in-100-million-hunt-for-alien-lifeform-how-you-can-help.htm

[Dougie Do'ins]

Space telescope catches the moon crossing the Earth from the 'dark side'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3186203/Watch-far-moon-million-miles-away-Stunning-animation-shows-satellite-moving-Earth-s-sun-lit-face.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[Russ Atmosphere]

Space telescope catches the moon crossing the Earth from the 'dark side'

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3186203/Watch-far-moon-million-miles-away-Stunning-animation-shows-satellite-moving-Earth-s-sun-lit-face.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[Bob]

It makes me laugh when they say we need more money to send people to Mars, why do we? If we have te resources why can't we use them? It's insane that everything has to be bought and sold, even something for the betterment of mankind - absolutely insane. That's why we're running out of antibiotics, there's no money in them - great world eh.

What nonsense. Who are all the people that should work for nothing in order to better mankind?

 

We should bring back slavery but to build spaceships, not plant and sow tobacco.

[ZonkoVille77]

"With a $1m (£642,000) prize for anyone able to find evidence of aliens."

 

1 mil? 1 fuckin mil for that discovery? There's shitty apartments in London worth more. I'd day the tech would cost more. Gobshites

[Sut]

Perseids meteor shower is visible this time of year, reaching their peak around the 13th or so. Sat out in the garden with the girlfriend watching them for a bit last night as it was so clear.

[Tyler Durden]

What nonsense. Who are all the people that should work for nothing in order to better mankind?

We should bring back slavery but to build spaceships, not plant and sow tobacco.

I don't think that's quite what he meant

[Dougie Do'ins]

Man builds 11km scale model of the universe. Not a bad video.
 
 

And.

2015 ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR WINNERS

http://www.sciencefocus.com/gallery/2015-astronomy-photographer-year-winners?

[Anubis]

Lunar Eclipse in early hours tomorrow.

 

Will begin 1.10am UK time and will be completely in the Earth's shadow causing it to go blood red between 03.11 and 04.24hrs.

 

Next time it happens is 2033.

[Anubis]

Man builds 11km scale model of the universe. Not a bad video.

 

 

 

And.

 

2015 ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR WINNERS

 

http://www.sciencefocus.com/gallery/2015-astronomy-photographer-year-winners?

You have to love people who put a shitload of effort into something so we can sit on our arses in wonder of it.