Let the games begin !!

Free ride to the moon & back - apply here

Excellent stuff for some good worldwide motivation!

Keep searchin'!
Martin

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Massive piece of space junk tossed from ISS sets new record

Mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release an external pallet loaded with the 2.9 tons of nickel-hydrogen batteries into Earth's orbit Thursday morning.

It is safely moving away from the station and will orbit Earth between two to four years before burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere," NASA said in a statement.

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Alien raindrops surprisingly like rain on Earth (infographic)

The results suggest raindrops falling from clouds are surprisingly similar across a wide range of planetary conditions, which could help scientists better understand the climates and precipitation cycles of other worlds, according to the researchers.

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A muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab has confirmed a Brookhaven experiment done twenty years ago. Elementary particle muons do not obey the laws of the Standard Model of elementary particle physics. This may imply the existence of some uncovered new particles appearing as Virtual particles. Physicists are very excited.
Tullio

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Pentagon confirms leaked video of UFO ‘buzzing’ Navy warships is genuine

A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that the photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel and the UAP Task Force has “included these incidents in their ongoing examinations.”

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Gee --another blurry video of a "UFO" how about that. Frankly I don't see a thing.

The space transport/tourism industry is heating up.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin will soon begin selling tickets for rides on its tourism rocket New Shepard.

Cheers.

The space transport/tourism industry is heating up.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin will soon begin selling tickets for rides on its tourism rocket New Shepard.

Following on from this

NASA tells SpaceX to halt lunar lander work.

Elon Musk's SpaceX must halt work under a contract it won to develop a lunar spacecraft, NASA said on Friday, pending the outcome of challenges by rival bidders at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Cheers.

The space transport/tourism industry is heating up.

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NASA tells SpaceX to halt lunar lander work.

Elon Musk's SpaceX must halt work under a contract it won to develop a lunar spacecraft, NASA said on Friday, pending the outcome of challenges by rival bidders at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Yes...

A good entertaining and thoughtful summary is given by:

I'm ANGRY about the Blue Origin and Dynetics protests against the SpaceX HLS award! (Find out why)

That includes a fantastic simulation of one of the contenders.


One very significant comment:

Juho Joensuu
wrote:

One factor not mentioned with enough gravitas is that starship is already in active development phase greatly reducing uncertainties about types of problems they will face.

Let's see what flies?

Hopefully without too excruciating a delay...

Fly safe folks!
Martin

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I understand that the lead author of the following paper is controversial (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rhawn_Joseph). Furthermore, the publisher has been accused of being predatory (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Research_Publishing).

Nevertheless, here comes "Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images".

Judge for yourselves.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images

#Satire #BabylonBee Space Returns Unwanted Amazon Delivery

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Hopefully some one will help her refine her ideas and be able to get it on the market.
17-year-old makes color changing sutures that detect infection

All over the world, infections at the site of surgical incisions are a major cause of new illnesses, extended hospital stays and even death. In the U.S. alone, these infections cost more than $3 billion annually, with even worse statistics in developing countries. Stephanie Sy reports on one 17-year-old Iowa scientist who's working on a more affordable way to detect these infections early.

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Record number of new gravitational waves are detected.

A record number of new gravitational waves have been detected by astronomers, including a pair of massive black holes 145 times as heavy as the sun.

The ripples in space time were captured by a global network of detectors, and then catalogued by an international team of scientists, led by British institutions.

These waves are the aftershocks of huge astronomical events, and the 35 catalogued in this release, bring the total spotted so far up to 90 events.

Two Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors in in Louisiana and Washington state in the US, and the Advanced Virgo detector in Italy, allowed for the discovery of these unusual phenomena.

Of the 35 events detected, 32 of those were most likely to be black hole mergers.

That is where two black holes spiralling around each other finally join together, an event which emits a very powerful burst of gravitational waves.

Cheers.

Will the Parker Solar Probe last another 4 years?

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Getting Absolutely Clobbered by Dust.

NASA’s historic mission to “touch the Sun” has encountered a heavy bombardment of dust, surprising mission scientists and resulting in some fascinating new data about the Parker Solar Probe’s increasingly hostile environment....

....Thought it’s still early in its mission, working conditions for the spacecraft are starting to get a bit intense. Tiny grains of dust are increasingly slamming into the high-speed probe, resulting in plasma explosions and debris clouds. The constant collisions are now having a measurable effect on the probe and its ability to do work, but scientists aren’t expecting these impacts to threaten the mission.

Cheers.

International Space Station fires rockets to dodge chunk of destroyed Chinese satellite

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New Jersey plane crash kills Blue Origin astronaut who flew with William Shatner
Glenn M. de Vries, age 49, flew on Blue Origin's Oct. 13 rocket with William Shatner

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have taken to their lifeboats after Russia destroys a satellite whose debris has endangered the space station as well as those onboard.

Russia slammed as anti-satellite weapons test causes massive space debris.

Talk about brain dead morons.