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procyons2stars OP t1_j5wo12d wrote

Reply to comment by twilightmoons in 2024 Eclipse - Best Locations by procyons2stars

Awwsome! Thank you! I work at a museum with the astro team in our planetarium and observatory. I got lucky last time bc we are in Columbia, SC and were right in totality. We had thousands of ppl on-site and a front row seat with Charlie Duke!

But now I actually gotta plan! Thanks for this info!

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Accomplished-Crab932 t1_j5wnywd wrote

Reply to comment by CoconutBuddy in Mycotecture — the use of mushrooms and other fungal substances for architectural purposes — could be key to building affordable, fire-resistant, insulated habitats on the Moon and Mars. NASA aims to experiment with the technique on the Moon in 2025. by clayt6

It’s not really going to be that much of an issue, we’ve proven time and time again with our various rovers that dust is a minor issue for equipment that has been pretty much solved.

Crewed systems are also being developed as to reduce dust exposure, and the actual risk is minimal. It was an issue for Apollo because we didn’t know the severity of the problem until we got there. We now know what the surface is like, and so, we can plan ahead.

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_toodamnparanoid_ t1_j5wmkpk wrote

Reply to comment by Jehehsjatahneush in Mycotecture — the use of mushrooms and other fungal substances for architectural purposes — could be key to building affordable, fire-resistant, insulated habitats on the Moon and Mars. NASA aims to experiment with the technique on the Moon in 2025. by clayt6

Yes and at some point they evolve bipedal bodies and claim painting things red makes them faster, and somehow, it does.

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testingtestingtestin t1_j5whsn2 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in In 1971, three cosmonauts Dobrovolski, Volkov, and Patsayev passed away due to a valve malfunction in the Soyuz 11 capsule. They remain the only people who have passed away above the Kármán Line - the defining line of space. by sciencekenyon

No, it isn’t. It’s full of grammatical errors and spurious punctuation, has no flow and I’d already read several sentences that either didn’t make sense or required multiple readings to grasp the point the author was making before I gave up.

This sentence is a good example of one that wouldn’t be accepted in a high school essay:

>Whilst the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and space is of course a blurred one, much of the international scientific community agrees on the 100km Kármán line, but, as it is with many ‘international’ measurements, does not apply to the US.

I’m honestly amazed it doesn’t start with “the dictionary defines space as….”

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micahfett t1_j5weoo5 wrote

Reply to Exo planets, what are they? by Brown_Monkeykr

Planets, by definition, orbit the Sun. A celestial body that meets all of the requirements to be a planet with the exception of orbiting the Sun would be an extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet".

So basically just planets outside the solar system. Tatooine or Hoth would both be considered exoplanets. Pandora (from Avatar) is an exoplanet.

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