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I found this the other day, it shows which space probes are currently talking to NASA's ground stations http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html New Horizons has been busy sending stuff all day at a whopping 2.11kb/sec
![]() The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a massive data rate of 1Mb/sec in comparison! Rosetta is chatting too at 104.86 kb/sec. |
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That's a great link, thanks
![]() The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a massive data rate of 1Mb/sec in comparison! Rosetta is chatting too at 104.86 kb/sec. |
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I found this the other day, it shows which space probes are currently talking to NASA's ground stations http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html New Horizons has been busy sending stuff all day at a whopping 2.11kb/sec
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That download progress bar must be so frustrating!
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And Voyager 2 is still working away at 159b/sec. Voyager 1 was transmitting earlier today. NASA certainly got their money's worth with the Voyager probes!
![]() Despite all the marvels revealed by Cassini, Galileo, Mars Curiosity and New Horizons, etc., the Voyager 'Grand Tour' will always be, for me, one of mankind's very greatest scientific and technical achievements. |
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Earth, Pluto & Charon Size Comparison
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While Pluto's been stealing the limelight, things have been happening on Ceres
http://www.nature.com/news/mystery-h...-spots-1.18032 |
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Another mountain range on Pluto
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/n...-pluto-s-heart |
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When I saw this headline I thought Buzz had gone a stage further than hitting the moon hoax nutters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...theorists.html
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When I saw this headline I thought Buzz had gone a stage further than hitting the moon hoax nutters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...theorists.html![]() Talking of cool dudes I love the fact that Brian May has been so prominent at NASA recently. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/rock-sta...h-new-horizons Brian or Bubba Bieber - tough choice. |
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'Earth 2.0' found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33641648 Never knew it had been lost. |
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'Earth 2.0' found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33641648 Never knew it had been lost. ![]() An interesting article from the National Geographic sums up the discovery. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...space-science/ |
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Sadly Buzz's sister and first wife both died yesterday.
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Sadly Buzz's sister and first wife both died yesterday.
He must be totally devastated. |
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What a terrible shame - two deaths at once.
He must be totally devastated. "I lost two very important women in my life yesterday. My sister Maddy & my first wife Joan - the mother of my three children. They both passed on opposite sides of the country within hours of each other. They were two classy respectable ladies who were both the family glue holding our clans together with love. I will miss them dearly. #AldrinFamily" |
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Sad to hear about Buzz's family.
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bless him, he wrote a lovely post about them:
"I lost two very important women in my life yesterday. My sister Maddy & my first wife Joan - the mother of my three children. They both passed on opposite sides of the country within hours of each other. They were two classy respectable ladies who were both the family glue holding our clans together with love. I will miss them dearly. #AldrinFamily"
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Sadly Buzz's sister and first wife both died yesterday.
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'Earth 2.0' found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33641648 Never knew it had been lost. Is the search for Earth-like exoplanets now so unremarkable now that they feel they have to 'sex up' the story by adding attention grabbing rubbish? Given that Kepler-452b is likely to be a 'super Earth' I'm surprised they didn't describe it as being 'on steroids'. *rolls eyes*Interesting story though, despite the BBC journalism. Perhaps one day mankind might visit one of these worlds.
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Where's the news about those deaths?
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I wonder who's responsible for that ludicrous headline.
Is the search for Earth-like exoplanets now so unremarkable now that they feel they have to 'sex up' the story by adding attention grabbing rubbish? Given that Kepler-452b is likely to be a 'super Earth' I'm surprised they didn't describe it as being 'on steroids'. *rolls eyes*Interesting story though, despite the BBC journalism. Perhaps one day mankind might visit one of these worlds. ![]() I doubt it - even in the far future. The distances are simply far too vast - we are effectively alone in the universe no matter how many possible civilisations there could be in our own galaxy. Even the Oort cloud is probably beyond us. |
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I doubt it - even in the far future.
The distances are simply far too vast - we are effectively alone in the universe no matter how many possible civilisations they could be in our own galaxy. Even the Oort cloud is probably beyond us. |
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You're assuming that our technology could never improve so radically. Perhaps an understanding of dark matter and dark energy might provide some new approach to propulsion, or an artificial intelligence might solve the problems for us. If mankind is still around in another 1000 years its technology will be indistinguishable from magic. The hardest part will be not wiping ourselves out first.
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I doubt it - even in the far future. The distances are simply far too vast - we are effectively alone in the universe no matter how many possible civilisations there could be in our own galaxy. Even the Oort cloud is probably beyond us. |
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But the speed of light is still the barrier - even if we approach it with probes in the far future the visible universe is just so impossibly massive
Which do you think we'll solve first (if any); the hard problem of consciousness or mega propulsion technology? |
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Is the search for Earth-like exoplanets now so unremarkable now that they feel they have to 'sex up' the story by adding attention grabbing rubbish? Given that Kepler-452b is likely to be a 'super Earth' I'm surprised they didn't describe it as being 'on steroids'. *rolls eyes*