Meteors tend to flame out in less than a second or two and they fade in fast and wink out. Seemed like your description was a fastish moving object for a long while. If it was really bright, could have been the ISS. That will be the brightest thing in the sky and moves across in 1 to 5 minutes, usually.

My world crumbles before me

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What’s up with the name EROS? Kinky phallic rocket?

None of that sounds like a bad thing. If the AI is smart enough to manage resources better than us, with the end goal of improving human quality of life in mind, I see no problem. Who cares what's running everything so long as things get done and the people are prospering?

Even more so if it can do it in a way that denies resources from its detractors while providing infrastructure to those that allow it to work for them. Visibly improving society as it does so. Effectively shutting down our more violent, power-hungry, and suicidally independent natures without firing a single bullet.

The The Challenger Disaster was a great fictionalised TV series including (the then) newly declassified documents about the creation of the Space Shuttle and the Challenger disaster.

William Hurt, as Richard Feynman, is the main character.

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I don't think SI was invented by US

to me, it's from the French Revolution, from the need to homogeneize the weights, lengths, ...
many sciencists participated to the construction of this new system

Earth orbit to lunar orbit, sure.

But you could also also use them for other things. The engines are about twice as efficient as chemical rockets for solid core designs, and since the fuel is generally hydrogen and no oxidizer is needed, that simplifies refueling, and also means you can loft that much more fuel per launch, because hydrogen is the lightest element, all other things being equal.

But you could also use something like that for maintenance of geosynchronous satellites, something we simply don't do now. And for even higher missions. Imagine being able to service the Webb Space Telescope like we've done with the Hubble Space Telescope. Having a near-Earth tug capable of getting astronauts to the Moon and back would also allow missions like that.

I kind of get the impression that you're not really imagining the possibilities here. Kind of like looking at a Wright Flyer in 1904 and asking "What use is it?", not seeing that something like that just opens the door for further development and that the jobs will be attracted to the application.

Heh, kind of reminds me about how the "killer app" for personal computers back in the early 1980's was organizing your recipes.

In short, if you build it, creepy ghost players will emerge from the maize.

China is fully capable of making the finest quality of pretty much anything. The reason so much product from China is shit is because the buyers don't want to pay for the top quality. They want to pay the absolute least they can for product that is as close to the mark of "passable and marketable" as they can. It doesn't have to be good, just good enough to sell.

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So you don't die. You just stop

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Once you pass the event horizon doesn’t time stop? And wouldn’t that mean all brain function stop as well, such that even if you could see things your brain couldn’t interpret it?

I know but Im just excited about the

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg/1280px-Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg.png

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope

which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter.

Instead the biggest in 2027 will be 40 meters

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

The observatory aims to gather 100 million times more light than the human eye, 13 times more light than the largest optical telescopes existing in 2014, and be able to correct for atmospheric distortion.

It has around 256 times the light gathering area of the Hubble Space Telescope and, according to the ELT's specifications, would provide images 16 times sharper than those from Hubble.

Author has a big single lens, but man will it be small compared to everything already under construction.

Nearest peer ready 2023 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory

Directish comparison https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/elt_giant_optical_telescopes_infographic.jpg

For fun if u got this far: https://xkcd.com/1294/

Funny thing is US invented SI units lol. I don't think people understand what "freedom" means.

yes, more or less

US units are based on SI, SI is decimal, so simpler

but, what is the stranger to me is hearing US people saying their system is freedom system, whereas in its name, it's "imperialism" and a testimony of the English Empire

Are astronomers going down a rabbit hole with black holes? Every astronomy programme or article bangs on about black holes. To regular folk they are not interesting. Obviously if you are super intelligent they are fascinating and intellectually challenging. But is cosmology getting side tracked by them?

One you cross the event horizon, you are traveling faster than the speed of light. The spacetime you occupy is traveling faster than the speed of light.. any information generated would not get from you to the observer next to you because it would all be heading towards the singularity, faster than the speed of light, faster than the speed of causality.

I'm with you on that, but this was only a conversation about hypothetical possibilities on something we don't understand, not something I've got my heart set on.

You mean US needs to integrate with the world and use SI units?

You know the article is written by the author right? He/she is the one pumping it up. There's only one short sentence where the official announcement was made its really a simple sentence.

I think the information would be severely warped and condensed, though. It's like saying the best way to see an IMAX movies is by shrinking the screen down to the size of a postage stamp. Sure all the info is closer in terms of angular resolution, but discerning individual parts becomes much harder.

Or just the difference between looking at the sky at night versus looking at a tiny section with the Hubble.

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Hmm...looks like I pissed off a s1ngularity