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Time to make the donuts.
arstechnica.com
SpaceX lands the same rocket for the fifth time [Updated]
Company is also now operating two rocket-catching boats in the Atlantic.
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Blazin
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It is not recovered and it falls back to earth. I don't know if is destroyed or just falls into ocean.
LachiusTZ
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Didnt know if it was low enough to fall back quickly or if it was going to float for X amt of time.
Or if it would fire again to drop faster etc.
They try to decelerate the second stage so that it falls back into the atmosphere and immediately burns up. Depending on the target orbit for the mission, though, there may not be enough fuel left to do so. For those missions, the second stage is left in a "graveyard" orbit where it hopefully doesn't interfere with other known space activity and will eventually decay on its own over months/years.
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I remember reading an article about how many first stages from the Saturn V era were on the ocean floor off the coast of Florida. Jeff Bezos helped fund a team that found the Apollo 11 first stage. An historic graveyard.
www.cnn.com
Amazon CEO says discovery is Apollo 11 rocket engines | CNN Business
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has verified that he recovered two engines from NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission.
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Neat.
www.space.com
Record breaker! Briefcase-size satellite spots alien planet
Small satellites may soon start making big contributions in exoplanet science.
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Scientists discover distant 'mirror image' of the Earth and the sun
Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are a “mirror image” of the Earth and the sun.
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Hopefully still sometime in 2021.
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Ukerric
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Until it gets delayed to 2022.
Because it's the James Webb curse. Overruns and delays.
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There could be more than 30 alien civilizations in the Milky Way, shocking study says
A new study from researchers at the U.K.'s University of Nottingham suggests there are 36 planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a calculation the experts have dubbed "the Astrobiological Copernican Limit."
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Merrith
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There could be more than 30 alien civilizations in the Milky Way, shocking study says
A new study from researchers at the U.K.'s University of Nottingham suggests there are 36 planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a calculation the experts have dubbed "the Astrobiological Copernican Limit."www.foxnews.com
Fermi Paradox thread would have a ball with this.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Ukerric
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I haven't kept the link around because it's fucking old by now, but there was an older study that made a curve between number of civilizations and probability of being able to see at least one, and there cut-off was 8 at 50%. Basically, if you had 8 or more civilizations in the galaxy, there would be a 50% or greater chance to have seen indications of the existence of at least one.There could be more than 30 alien civilizations in the Milky Way, shocking study says
A new study from researchers at the U.K.'s University of Nottingham suggests there are 36 planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a calculation the experts have dubbed "the Astrobiological Copernican Limit."
30 active ones? Based on what I remember, there should be a sub-1% chance of not having seen traces of at least one.
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At the same time, life even on our own planet is so varied and wild, that we may not even know what to look for. Even if they were carbon based, they could still be tribal or they could have technology that could eclipse our own so far that we could not even look for it, etc.
pharmakos
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the Drake Equation can only be so accurate at this point just due to lack of human knowledge, basically any of these big "studies" that come out ever 5-10 years claiming new numbers are just click bait...
tho yeah Fermi Paradox thread probably could use a bump brb
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Ukerric
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/solidarity!the Drake Equation can only be so accurate at this point just due to lack of human knowledge, basically any of these big "studies" that come out ever 5-10 years claiming new numbers are just click bait...
tho yeah Fermi Paradox thread probably could use a bump brb
The study I'm referring to was a monte-carlo simulation based on amount of technological civilizations (either detectable by radio for low-Kardashev numbers or infrared for median... at the time, they didn't account for tabby star-like behaviour for high kardashev, I think).
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