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ToeMissile said:
Makes me a little sad (and excited?)to think one day an experience that will be like taking a 2 hr flight today.
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Yeah but not in our life time*. I was excited to think we would all get to experience people on Mars in our life time. Technically I saw people on the moon but the program ended when I was 2 , so I was more concerned with potty training I guess.
But with all the NASA will be this, and NASA will be that and NASA will do this, I've given up hope.







*Unless you are really really fucking rich.
 
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ToeMissile said:
Makes me a little sad (and excited?)to think one day an experience that will be like taking a 2 hr flight today.
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I was thinking that on a recent flight. I'm looking out the window somewhere over Northern Canada at all this majestic frozen wasteland and thinking how this experience was completely unattainable for anyone until the 20th century. Look around and see a hundred other people looking at brainrot on a screen. Then the flight attendant made everyone shut the window shades so people could watch their brainrot better.

People have no idea how good they have it and cast aside things their ancestors would have given a fortune for.

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Lambourne said:
I was thinking that on a recent flight. I'm looking out the window somewhere over Northern Canada at all this majestic frozen wasteland and thinking how this experience was completely unattainable for anyone until the 20th century. Look around and see a hundred other people looking at brainrot on a screen. Then the flight attendant made everyone shut the window shades so people could watch their brainrot better.

People have no idea how good they have it and cast aside things their ancestors would have given a fortune for.

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Had a flight from Chicago to Anchorage before entertainment systems in a plane would show where you are. I asked the stewardess if she could tell me where we were with the ice fields and mountains below. She asked the pilot who announced it over the PA. When we deplaned she introduced me to the pilot and he said he flew that route all the time and nobody ever ask what they are looking at.

Back then with luck you might get on a flight that was half full. It wasn't packed every flight like now. On the way back went Anchorage to Seattle to Denver and then to Houston. The flight from Denver to Houston had maybe 7 people on it and I was related to 2 other people on the flight.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
That is with a Samsung Galaxy S22 ultra. 30x digital zoom. The phone did all the hard lifting.
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Is Samsung still doing that bit of fuckery where the camera app recognizes that you are taking picture of the moon and adds in detail that the camera cannot capture? I know they were caught doing that s few years ago.
 
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Denamian said:
Is Samsung still doing that bit of fuckery where the camera app recognizes that you are taking picture of the moon and adds in detail that the camera cannot capture? I know they were caught doing that s few years ago.
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hmm maybe? at 10x (last optical zoom on the camera) the moon is a super bright blown out dot, zoom more than that and it's all digital. Go 10 to 30 like I did last night and you can watch it going from big bright dot to what I posted. All I did with the pic was shrink it a bit.
I was out getting images for stacking on my Seestar and saw the moon. 1 more good night and I'll have a banger of a pic to post here.
 
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M13 or NGC 6205 is a cluster of several hundred thousand stars. Estimated to be 145 light years in diameter , it is located 25,000 light years away from earth.

Processed Using Siril, & GraXpert.
Since this is all stars, I could not use Starnet ++ it removed well everything!

Imaged with ZWO Seestar S50

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Next Starship flight test planned for Sunday at 630pm CT

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They could really use a win. After the last explosion I saw multiple articles speculating that Starship might not actually be doable, at least by Spacex. That's going to get a lot louder if this one fails as well.
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
Have they come out and said what caused the last couple of starship failures?
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I had my cousin from SpaceX over for dinner on Monday. He said the next two Starships (after this one) will have the "fix" for some of these explosions, which is to increase tension on bolts that have been sealing pieces of a fuel vapor manifold together, which have failed due to thermal expansion and contraction cycles during use. Fuel-air mix gets into places where it's not supposed to be and... boom. In the future these parts will be welded. Those versions of Raptor should launch towards the end of the year, or early next year.

There are already 3-4 more Starships constructed waiting for launch, with more in the pipeline. Fixes are applied dynamically to existing models, as possible, as new data comes in from these failures.
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Weather not looking great. Some good pics here though, you see how big this thing actually is. I saw the Starship catch tower at KSC last year and it's so much bigger than you think it's going to be. It's like the first time you visit Manhattan, the sheer size of the buildings just hits you.

 
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Latest paper on 3I / Atlas from a team using SphereX observations Aug 8-12 have it with uniform CO2 coma, no water gas in the coma which they are puzzled about at that range, and no tail in any direction. Most massive estimate of its nucleus yet - 46 km diameter ! Note - we have never seen a single comet that was outgassing CO2 and nothing else.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15469

Loeb ends his musings on the data with a point I made in the UAP thread the other day - still silence on the JWST data which was taken Aug 6. Everybody waiting to see what that data shows.

 
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Lambourne said:
Weather not looking great. Some good pics here though, you see how big this thing actually is. I saw the Starship catch tower at KSC last year and it's so much bigger than you think it's going to be. It's like the first time you visit Manhattan, the sheer size of the buildings just hits you.

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