meStevo
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The Astronomy Thread
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Slaves, sport, fun, because they can?
People like to think that some space faring race has their shit all together and got their differences settled. That they are somehow above barbaric acts or better in some way. If their history or evolution was anything like ours its more likely success came at the end of a pointy stick or blaster as they trampled and exploited the weak.
Sure they could be peaceful intellectuals like the Vulcans or they could be out looking for a new fashion and the Human Skin suit or body replacement just bought them another 6 billion coats.
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Apparently the issue with the new horizons probe was a timing issue in its command sequence. They say there's no hardware or software damage, and things should continue as planned soon (july 7th).New Horizons
Good news, because pictures taken soon should be roughly twice the resoultion of the ones we last saw. We're very close to the point where shit will get exponentially better in a very short time frame.
Good news, because pictures taken soon should be roughly twice the resoultion of the ones we last saw. We're very close to the point where shit will get exponentially better in a very short time frame.
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This probe is a neat exercise in conceptualizing light speed. Its a 9 hour round trip to communicate with the probe using a signal traveling at light speed. That's an astonishing distance. We are like 8.3 minutes from the sun. We are communicating with something 67.5 times further away from us than the sun is from earth with my napkin math skills.
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Jysin
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And to put it further into perspective, Voyager 1 takes about 36 hours for one-way communication!
*edit* My bad, that is for 2-way. Just over 18 hours for one-way.
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Another fun fact I am trying to figure out.. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and travels at ~38,000 MPH. New Horizons launched in 2006 and only travels 9,000 MPH. How has it already covered 1/4 of Voyager's distance (based on communications time napkin maths) in relatively short time?
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Agraza
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Different looping path around orbital bodies? Maybe one's path was more able to go away from the sun?
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Gavinmad
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It's something observable from Earth, yes. About half the moons in the solar system are confirmed to be tidally locked, and we suspect many more are (I don't know why we can't tell). We can even tell a planet 51 light years away is tidally locked to another.
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