Well it’s nice that people from Philadelphia get to know what it’s like to have something to look forward to.

I fuckin love that Shotwell is the source for this and not Musk. She is the most critical element in SpaceX's success. Without her, SpaceX would have never left the mariachi party, and it is absolutely appropriate and fitting that she is the source for the news regarding the test. She really deserves so much more attention and admiration than she gets. Hate to sound like a fanboy but she's more than earned it. Absolute rock star in building and running a complicated business.

If Shotwell said it I'll set my clock on her word. Elon is on record saying his timelines are aspirational streams of consciousness and not vetted.

Elon's latest public statement is sometime next month. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1621998434289942529

Looking way more forward to this than the superbowl, and I'm from Philadelphia...

IIRC, Shotwell now oversees Starship R&D in addition to the rest of the business. So maybe (speculation incoming) this is her emphasising that Starship is "real" now — i.e. something people should start building payloads for, etc.

Nobody knows when it's going to launch. If the static fire test goes well, they might try to launch next month, but most likely something will go wrong which will cause delays. Hopefully they launch it this year.

Serious, does anyone know when it's supposed to launch? Last I heard was November last year, lots of conflicting dates being thrown around

Edit: downvoted for asking a genuine question? Stay classy reddit

Didn't they have somebody else announcing things not that long ago?

Weird. wonder what happened to them to change it up.

Here's hoping they don't melt their launch pad!

When it absolutely, positively has to be on the moon overnight.

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NSF indicates they will stream the static fire tomorrow on their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kG4AbAcia0

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Wait, what?! Woah that's unexpected. I thought they still had at least one spin prime to do and was thinking the fire might be next week at best.

The single most powerful rocket blast in human history. Truly a sight to behold. "Success Is Far From Certain, But Excitement Is Guaranteed" indeed.

That does not - at all - resemble the work my colleagues and I are doing with JWST data. MIRI MRS has a FoV of 6.6'' x 7.7''; that's really quite large but it's not gigantic by any means (the size of the detector is impressive, but that's because this is an IFU). Also, I haven't seen particularly unusual amounts of machine learning in any of the data processing papers so far. Could you clarify what you're talking about here?

That's just not true. Because time is limited, they use JWST to point at a sector, and then use it to capture hundreds of composite images. Those images are processed by humans using algorithms, and in a lot of cases machine learning.

I think you're coming from the standpoint of a telescope on Earth, which has an extremely narrow view of space. With JWST, the images it takes are truly, truly massive and produce hundreds of gigabytes of data, which can be used to produce images.

The one your wife’s boyfriend forces up your rectum every night seems to work well 🧐

That’s really cool thanks for sharing the link. I remember when the JWST was cooling there was a lot of discussion on the first pictures and it was rarely mentioned that it doesn’t take pictures. Everything shared is a rendering.

One astronomical unit is the distance from the sun to the Earth

I mean, yeah. But this things big brother is out there somewhere, I'd like to know where it is before it lands in the Pacific at a berjillion miles an hour.

>Why don‘t you educate yourself before you share your ignorant opinion? >

Hahaha. Let's break down your comment.

>First: 30% of earth is land and only 45% is inhabited. So not even 15%

So you think an asteroid impact is only bad if it lands on a city? More importantly you think it would only be bad if it hit land?

>Second: Not every asteroid hits earth

Really? I thought every single one hit us ever time. /S

>Third: We have the moon

Yes. Yes we do. And I have a Prius.

>Fourth: There is something called atmosphere

100 miles of air would stop an asteroid? Whuhu we're all saved! But how do you explain the dinosaurs and that iridium layer? Oh and all those giant craters around?

>Fifth: How are you so entitled ? Those are the top scientists on earth and see get most of them. You are just scared blindly. You REALLY need it. Then go do it.

I am assuming English is not your first language? Either way this is kinda incoherent.

>6: What would it even change or matter ?

See, this is an actual valid point. > >Please read books people.

Yeah. WE'RE the ones who need to educate ourselves, not you. Sure thing sparky.

>Sorry that I snapped but this shit is making me mad.

You're ranting because I think we don't spend enough resources tracking potentially human extinction causing objects? Is that you Dr. Moriarty?

I will now be adding “get dinosaured” into my vocabulary.

Thank you for explaining that to me. What does this, or rather, what would I look like with the naked eye, if someone were close enough to see it at this scale?

Actual image of the asteroid: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa45304-22/F1.html