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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20258 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Ahhh but... Like for example how GPS (and other GNSS, space-time-motion) systems work to keep you on the road and to keep airplanes flying even when the pilots are blinded by the weather?... The beauty of Science is that the most obscure physical minutiae do have a huge impact every day on our ever more modern way of life. Keep searchin'! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3207 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Experience the vastness of the solar system on an epic, 6-mile sculpture trail An installation designed by children’s illustrator Oliver Jeffers unfolds at a scale of 591 million to 1, and it only takes one large step to get from the Earth to the Moon. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Something's Glowing at The Galactic Core, And We Could Be Closer to Solving The Mystery. Something deep in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is glowing with gamma radiation, and nobody can figure out for sure what it might be.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
We should find out today if a helicopter can catch a rocket. Rocket Lab will try to catch a falling rocket with a helicopter today. [edit] You can watch it live here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nODVPGHQcc.T-16mins Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well that didn't go to plan, but at least the helicopter didn't fall out of the sky. Rocket Lab catches, drops rocket booster with helicopter in key reusability test. Cheers. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19048 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
So what have the conspiracy theorist said about this image captured by NASA's helicopter Ingenuity of an 'alien flying saucer crash' it doesn’t belong to aliens. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Scientists now have a new theory about how water got to the moon. The Moon May Have Been Covertly Siphoning Earth's Water For Billions of Years. There are water molecules and ice up on the Moon, so how did they get there? Asteroid and comet collisions are likely to have produced some of it, but a new study suggests another source of lunar water: the Earth's atmosphere.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
SOFIA's 747 observatory reaching end of life, but there's no replacement. NASA’s 747 space observatory is reaching the end of its flight plan. One of aviation’s most fascinating marvels is nearing the end of its life in the sky. After operating for only eight years of its planned 20-year lifetime, the unique Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft, a retrofitted 747 with a 17-tonne reflecting telescope on board, is retiring.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well it looks like we'll have to go back to the drawing board on what we know about particle physics. The standard model of particle physics may be broken. Time for some more headaches I bet. [edit] Mars helicopter Ingenuity suffers a glitch, of a natural type. Mars helicopter Ingenuity recovering from communications blackout spawned by dust. Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A 'mixed up' sunspot just fired off a huge solar flare. Scientists are keeping an eye on a sunspot that fired off an X-class flare while "having an identity crisis," according to SpaceWeather.com.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in Western Australia has an amazing surprise. Distant 'galaxy' isn't a galaxy at all — but one of the brightest pulsars ever detected. A speck of light that scientists once wrote off as a distant galaxy may actually be the brightest pulsar ever detected outside the Milky Way.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Oh dear. NASA Suspends ISS Spacewalks Because Its Spacesuits Are Leaking Water. There have been more than 200 spacewalks outside the ISS since it launched in 1998.Yes, what will NASA do? Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well what do you know? The 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactor That Exists In Africa. When we generally think of nuclear reactors, we think of the ones created by humans. They're anthropogenic and technically artificial, designed and manufactured specifically to slow the process of nuclear fission, producing energy as an alternative to coal power (via the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy). But surprisingly, nuclear reactors aren't solely human-made. So far, only one naturally occurring nuclear reactor has ever been discovered as of this writing, but the keywords here are "naturally occurring." Located in Gabon, Africa, this natural reactor has puzzled scientists and appears to have been created under a unique set of circumstances unlikely to be replicated anywhere else on Earth....The things that you learn every day. Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
We have another problem, but maybe a software patch will fix it. The Ingenuity Helicopter Has Vertigo. In the process of setting up the Ingenuity helicopter for its next flight on Mars, NASA engineers found a problem: One of the helicopter’s navigation sensors is not working.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It looks like NASA plans to launch a few rockets from here down under. American space agency NASA will be heading to Australia later this month for a series of rocket launches. Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
As the race is on to get back to the moon GM and Lockheed are expanding their moon buggy into a whole lunar lineup. General Motors and Lockheed announced last year they were teaming up to work on a new lunar rover that would carry astronauts and their gear on the moon. Now the companies say they could develop a whole lineup of vehicles for work on the moon and that these could be available to commercial space companies, not just NASA...Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Momentus troubleshooting problems with newly launched space tug. ...Two days after liftoff, however, Momentus announced that Vigoride had run into "some initial anomalies."Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Another whoops moment. Astra’s failed launch resulted in the loss of two NASA weather satellites. A rocket belonging to the up-and-coming Astra space company failed to deliver two of NASA’s weather-tracking satellites to space after its second stage engine shut down prematurely. Both satellites were lost as a result of the failure.Cheers. |
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