So, did no one spot this thing until it was on top of us or did they keep it a secret to avoid mass panic?

well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite_conspiracy_theory

https://www.space.com/what-is-the-black-knight.html

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a34981277/black-knight-satellite-conspiracy-theory/

Haha I've had conversations like that before. In a way we're so isolated but at the same time surrounded by a massive universe. If that happened I don't know how I'd react. But in that nearly impossible hypothetical world I'd probably want to ask questions. Though there's far better minds than mine to ask questions.

Usually 7.

Early missions were less, but it usually flew with a full component (technically it could do 8, but they had to attach an extra seat whenever they did).

Probably out of respect for its age, filters were used to conform it to our twisted beauty standards.

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Your being needlessly pedantic. Your payment to your local ISP pays for their connection to the broader internet, but that pays NOTHING to any person hosting a website or operating a server on the other side. I assume you know that, but you’d rather justify not watching a 5 second video or clicking the ‘x’ on a pop up window.

Glad you liked it 👌

Omg i literally just yelled at the phone "this is so g Fucking stupid" and gave up lmao. Glad to see im not alone

As an advice, i think you better get a refractor telescope because the quality of image you can get compared with a reflector, is HUGE. Probably a bit more expensive than reflectors.. but the better the telescope, the expensive it is. Mine is a 102mm one, with 1000mm focal

NASA committed to working with Von Braun in the spirit of peace and burying the past.

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Yeah, I kind of pigeon holed the discussion by referring strictly to "intelligent life", but any life would be great to identify. Isn't there some evidence that life existed on Mars?

Xenobiologist. Earth is their only pitri dish, so they study all the extreme environments and understand the life that lives in them. Including sources of energy other than starlight. It’s important foundational work for the Mars and future missions on how to even identify and define “life” and potentially find microbial life in our own solar system. And whether that life could survive planet hopping from collisions. The Earth constantly passes through extraplanetary meteor debris.

I’m sure there is life in the galaxy. Us finding it in our lifetime is still unlikely. Our radio only exists a hundred years. If other life has discovered radio today but live 1000 Lightyear away, we won’t discover them any time soon. Or if they discovered it 10000 years ago but live 20000 Lightyear away …..

Rigel always needs that helping foot.

Any chance you could point out that other stardust planet. I’m looking to make a move.

It was in the asteroid's contract: no HD filming.

My comment isn’t nearly as deep as your post but I’m still going to share a conversation I had with a good friend around a campfire one night staring up at a pin cushion evening sky. We talked about aliens and my friend said he would freak out if a alien ship landed in front of us…like a total mental breakdown. I responded by saying I would love to witness such a thing. I wouldn’t even care if they set their guns to vaporize…as long as I got my answer finally. Still feel that way.

I remember some of the evolutionary terms from my college biology course, like convergent, divergent, etc. But that course strictly concerned life on Earth. I think it's awesome that there are scientists who study these things.

Thanks for the clip, but why does this video look like it was from the 60’s?

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But did they measure thrust and ISP? This has been the issue with testing I’m aware of so far.

The universe has a long long long time to wait