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[deleted] t1_j62wvz7 wrote
barneyman t1_j62wbrf wrote
Reply to NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
Jan 26th is doing some heavy lifting
- this
- Australia Day
- India's Republic Day
- Holocaust memorial Day
Edit: added #4
ggabitron t1_j62w9cc wrote
Reply to comment by shotsfired3841 in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
Wow, thanks for sharing. It’s both heartbreaking and heartwarming to read his perspective, so inspired and hopeful thinking about returning to earth, knowing what happened.
SeriousPuppet t1_j62w1mr wrote
Reply to Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
If we get all the hamsters on their wheels and hook the wheels up to the core we can get it spinning again.
[deleted] t1_j62vud5 wrote
Reply to comment by grishno in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
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SeriousPuppet t1_j62vrxd wrote
Reply to comment by oalfonso in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
How do they know the spin of the core? (ie the pace, direction, etc)
HumpaDaBear t1_j62vph7 wrote
Reply to comment by shotsfired3841 in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
He sounded so happy. What a memento.
Justonian12 t1_j62umiy wrote
Reply to NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
I saw the Columbia take off when I was a kid and was obsessed with space. I remember seeing it come down on tv and was so sad.
[deleted] t1_j62udqn wrote
Limited supply on earth keeps theses prices up, bringing these resources down the well will impact prices. Hmmm
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Tritiac t1_j62u7d1 wrote
Reply to comment by shotsfired3841 in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
> I will make one more observation - if I'd been born in space I know I would desire to visit the beautiful Earth more than I've ever yearned to visit to space. It is a wonderful planet.
This is something that I think too many of us get lost in because Earth is all we will ever know--there will never be a more perfect place for us. It isn't out there far away in space, it's right here.
Varsect t1_j62t8xf wrote
Reply to comment by grishno in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
Why should you?
RavynArcadia t1_j62ssp4 wrote
And now I see with eye serene, the very pulse of the machine.
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Sharlinator t1_j62quod wrote
Reply to comment by Kenshkrix in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
You’d have to be gentle enough not to blast away too much of the core in the process. so I’d think many, many smaller bodies over a longer period of time could work better.
Uneducated_Engineer t1_j62q4ot wrote
Reply to comment by EasterBunnyArt in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
There is also proof of this occuring in Mid-Ocean Ridges. Another link here in case the first doesn't work.
alancake t1_j62pp4r wrote
Reply to NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
My son and I are Apollo nuts. Reading about the Apollo 1 fire is heavy stuff. Gus Grissom was the man everyone at NASA wanted and expected to be the first man on the moon. It's a miracle that anything went ahead after the crew died.
pushpoploadstore t1_j62np9b wrote
Reply to comment by therestruth in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
It’s all the same my fellow fungus!
Hyperi0us t1_j62nkng wrote
Reply to NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
I was in Lake Tahoe when it happened, it was an incredibly crisp and clear early morning so you could hear the sonic boom as the shuttle traced the upper atmosphere directly over the top of Northern California on a trajectory down towards Texas. I'm pretty sure the initial breakup started directly over us and fireballed all the way into Western Texas.
It ruined my birthday...
b4dhabits t1_j62n84l wrote
Reply to comment by AmateurAviator in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6
Yeah it's called the industrial revolution
WrexTremendae t1_j62n1wc wrote
Reply to comment by graboidian in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
It is very strange what affects us deeply, and what doesn't.
For what its worth, even though the poem isn't truly anything spectacular in literary terms, it strikes me as being a very good thing for what it is. One human, trying to do anything to help another, trying to lessen the burden that one knows the other is feeling even when they could not recognise each other at all. Trying to lash out against the unfeeling cold that the world too-often seems to dish out to those who did not ask for it, who did not deserve it.
I hope you never feel the same need to write again, but don't be scared to try to write more poems. Even when erased afterwards, I find that getting words out of my head can help all sorts of emotions settle down.
Anderopolis t1_j62x23n wrote
Reply to comment by Tritiac in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
See it like growing up, as a Kid we are unseprable from our mom, but as we grow it we move on.
We still love our mom, and we will visits, and make phone calls, but one day, without really noticing, 'Home' becomes where we are, not where we came from.
Earth will always be special to us, but that does not mean we can't or shouldn't grow beyond her.