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Hacking a Russian lunar lander is like me tripping a toddler on the playground. The kid will fall on their own and it'll be funnier when it happens naturally.
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The Astronomy Thread
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I'll put this somewhere else if need be. My father passed away a few years ago. As we lived in a small town he knew basically everyone.
One of his stranger friends I knew in my childhood gave me this recently. He authored it himself. As far as I can tell it's a design for some kind of structure he called the North Star Window. This concept uh... Manuscript is like 150 pages long and full of diagrams. Angles and instructions on how to build this thing. I'll fully PDF it as it's amazing in its insanity.
Sample.
One of his stranger friends I knew in my childhood gave me this recently. He authored it himself. As far as I can tell it's a design for some kind of structure he called the North Star Window. This concept uh... Manuscript is like 150 pages long and full of diagrams. Angles and instructions on how to build this thing. I'll fully PDF it as it's amazing in its insanity.
Sample.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Damn, I can't count the number of times I've wanted to create my own coordinate system with my fireplace as a global origin, but couldn't because I can't see the North Star from a window near my fireplace.
It would be cool to have a mechanized telescope mounted as an observatory to my roof though, that had some kind of mechanized lens and dome protection so I could crack that open and look at Uranus from the comfort of my home. Too bad I live in an area wit ha bunch of light pollution so it'd be a waste of $$$.
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Tuco
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Yeah the concept of a fixed window to see a specific direction is beyond me.
But this vid of an wooden shed observatory is pretty cool.
If I lived in bumfuck Michigan I'd be tempted to yeet a
on top of my house. Then I could use Starlink to livestream whine about Starlink constellations ruining my junior astronomy setup.
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I had a 12" Meade telescope and I live in a dark sky area. I had the parts priced out for the 2nd (dome w/ panels) observatory to put in my back yard. Wife was fully behind it but I think that had as much to do with her hating to help set the damn telescope up as anything. Never did it and my back got so bad I had to sell the telescope. It was an awesome telescope but the damn thing weighted 80 lbs and you could only pick it up at certain points.
Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India'
An Indian spacecraft became the first to land on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India's standing as a space power.
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Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India'
An Indian spacecraft became the first to land on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India's standing as a space power.www.reuters.com
I really hope the idiotic fucktards that comprise American mainstream media aren't celebrating the Russian space failure. A swing and a miss in space, for any nation, is a miss for all of us when it comes down to it.
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pharmakos
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You're using Terence McKenna as your avatar but you've never done hallucinogens? Why not? Lol
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Depressing is knowing how much of a piece of shit the space shuttle was and the saturn v was canceled for it.
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