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Such-Echo6002 t1_jdpf080 wrote
Reply to Black holes may be swallowing invisible matter that slows the movement of stars by Maxcactus
Can we give up on the idea of invisible matter and find a different idea for what “dark matter” is? Matter that doesn’t interact with normal matter feels like sloppy theorizing
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Reply to My camera setup on the International Space station. More details in comments. by astro_pettit
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d_barbz t1_jdpey9h wrote
Reply to comment by dreamchains in [NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT) by ICumCoffee
The same reason you spoke up in the first place mate. We're all a bunch of pedantic fucks
MD_Tarnished t1_jdpega0 wrote
Reply to My camera setup on the International Space station. More details in comments. by astro_pettit
How do you survive with just a head?! Amazing!
the_fungible_man t1_jdpe9gg wrote
Reply to comment by EarthInteresting9781 in I would really love to see how the oceans of Jupiter look like. by EarthInteresting9781
Liquid hydrogen oceans. Liquid hydrogen is a colorless liquid, and Jupiter's erstwhile oceans are far beyond where sunlight reaches anyway, so there would be nothing to see.
Secret_Section6280 t1_jdpdqw5 wrote
Reply to My camera setup on the International Space station. More details in comments. by astro_pettit
OMG! They cut off his head and stuck it in the Cupola!
Jakebsorensen t1_jdpdfzm wrote
Reply to comment by MartianRover42 in I would really love to see how the oceans of Jupiter look like. by EarthInteresting9781
Aren’t there theories that Jupiter has metallic hydrogen oceans?
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HolyGig t1_jdpccwj wrote
Reply to Latest video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter kicking up dust and taking off for Flight #47. Ingenuity is well beyond its warranty at this point. The video was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on March 9, 2023. by ICumCoffee
That's a great video. I wish they had a way to do a tracking shot with the mast camera
Anthony_Pelchat t1_jdpbt4u wrote
Reply to comment by Charming_Ad_4 in Rocket Lab targets $50 million launch price for Neutron rocket to challenge SpaceX’s Falcon 9 by cnbc_official
Also don't forget that SpaceX has very little reason to lower Starship's pricing at first. Sell more expensive flights to first for super heavy launch needs (Falcon Heavy and SLS replacement options). Once they are ready to start replacing the Falcon 9, then expect prices to come down.
Anthony_Pelchat t1_jdpbg48 wrote
Reply to comment by Charming_Ad_4 in Rocket Lab targets $50 million launch price for Neutron rocket to challenge SpaceX’s Falcon 9 by cnbc_official
RL has something SpaceX didn't. They can see in hindsight all of the failures SpaceX made and learn from them. SpaceX only had the Shuttle's failures to really learn from. SpaceX was also trying to improve as a launch provider in general during that time. RL has already had a decent bit of experience.
With Starship, SpaceX actually has reasons to take it slow before signing up customers on it. Not positive they will of course. But they have a huge amount of flights for Starlink first. They also really need to get reusability nailed down, so waiting on customers allows them to take more risks.
When it all comes down it, Rocket Lab may move faster than expected and Starship may take longer before signing up customers even if it's flying a bunch first.
dreamchains t1_jdpbeoa wrote
Reply to comment by d_barbz in [NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT) by ICumCoffee
You clearly don't understand what "not quite" means, so not sure why you're being so pedantic. It's not contradicting anything. It's saying his comment was "not completely or entirely" (definition straight from google) true. Really don't understand why you guys feel the need to get so defensive on behalf of someone I wasn't even attacking.
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redphoenix932 t1_jdpa4ew wrote
We can’t know if there are actually oceans in the sense we know them. Jupiter likely has no surface for liquid to pool.
The oceans under the ice of their moons? Now we’re talking! Let’s go scuba diving.
TheDamus647 t1_jdp9h5r wrote
Reply to My camera setup on the International Space station. More details in comments. by astro_pettit
That's a neat photo. Love seeing the behind the scenes.
r0ckH0pper t1_jdp93u1 wrote
Reply to comment by Throwawaycuzawkward in [NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT) by ICumCoffee
Legacy counts, so LSD or meteor are a far better story than what I've likely to encounter ..
FTR_1077 t1_jdpfbwu wrote
Reply to comment by morosis1982 in Rocket Lab targets $50 million launch price for Neutron rocket to challenge SpaceX’s Falcon 9 by cnbc_official
>But they have committed serious funds to develop both a LEO satellite constellation for fast internet and also a fully reusable rocket design that would lift 150t to LEO,
Well, the former one changes the business model of the company, from orbital launches to telecommunications. It's a bad sign for a start-up to pivot that late in the game.
And on the later, although it sounds like a natural progression of the launch services, the failure of FH is a bad sign for starship.. SpaceX may end up never making money.
>It's like Amazon, where they didn't 'profit' for 2 decades because they were building AWS.
Sure, but SpaceX is still far away.. let's say it takes another 10 to make starship as smooth as F9. Are the investors willing to wait 30 years? 40 years? At some point money is going to run out.