Destination Moon: The 350-Year History of Lunar Exploration
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July 16, 2014 || Space.com
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Why isn’t anybody on my dash, like, super pumped about the Orion launch this morning? This ship is built to go farther than any manned ship ever built before. This is the ship that takes humans to deep space. This is the ship that takes humans to Mars. It had its test launch this morning and its kind of a big deal because this is the ship that’s gonna bring in a new era of space travel. Welcome to the Mars age.
Anonymous asked:
I love space exploration and it's 100% something I want to be part of and I'm a computer science major right now (only a freshman) but I wanted to know your opinion on what you think would be right because I don't know how to be involved in space exploration. I'm good at math, but don't enjoy it and math is a big part of most space sciences. Do you have any thoughts?
get your computer science degree and try to get into grad school for a degree in computer engineering/cps and then go for something like nasa or spacex or esa depending on where you live
bioshock infinite is about to become reality
#nO BUT#WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN ASTROBIO#BASICALLY VENUS’S ATMO IS LIVEAble#oxygen nitrogen some noble gases the whole shebang#and the only problem is the shITTON OF SULFURIC ACID COMING DOWN AS RAIN ALWAYS#and if you could create something secure and stable above the cloud layer but within the atmosphere#you could literally have people on venus without exosuits#and if you don’t think that’s the coolest shit then geT OUTTA MY FACE#SPAAAAAACE
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THAT IS ONE OF THE COOLEST FUCKING THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD
when Valhalla is canon
Here’s the article from 2008 detailing the concept of floating cities on Venus that inspired “Iwo Donatsu” in Ragnarök-
http://www.universetoday.com/15570/colonizing-venus-with-floating-cities/
A star-forming filament in Taurus
This image from the APEX telescope, of part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense clouds of gas are on the verge of collapsing to form yet more stars. The cosmic dust grains are so cold that observations at submillimetre wavelengths, such as these made by the LABOCA camera on APEX, are needed to detect their faint glow. This image shows two regions in the cloud: the upper-right part of the filament shown here is Barnard 211, while the lower-left part is Barnard 213.
The submillimetre-wavelength observations from the LABOCA camera on APEX, which reveal the heat glow of the cosmic dust grains, are shown here in orange tones. They are superimposed on a visible-light image of the region, which shows the rich background of stars. The bright star above the filament is φ Tauri.
Credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/A. Hacar et al./Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
bioshock infinite is about to become reality
#nO BUT#WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN ASTROBIO#BASICALLY VENUS’S ATMO IS LIVEAble#oxygen nitrogen some noble gases the whole shebang#and the only problem is the shITTON OF SULFURIC ACID COMING DOWN AS RAIN ALWAYS#and if you could create something secure and stable above the cloud layer but within the atmosphere#you could literally have people on venus without exosuits#and if you don’t think that’s the coolest shit then geT OUTTA MY FACE#SPAAAAAACE
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THAT IS ONE OF THE COOLEST FUCKING THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD
There’s actually a really cool sci-fi short story with this premise - The Sultan of the Clouds by Geoffrey A. Landis!
I NEED TO LIVE IN A FLOATING CITY YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I WANT IT
We talk about curiosity, the thrill of exploring, but rarely its purpose, particularly regarding space exploration. It’s necessary for the survival of life and to perpetuate our existence. Period. We must go. There is no backup plan and we owe it to our evolutionary lineage to preserve the genetic fabric of Earth life. As Tsiolkovsky said: “Earth is the cradle of mankind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.” No matter your “opinion” on Elon Musk, someone right now in this era is on a mission to see this task through by taking the risks needed without pandering to the stifling methodologies of old. Musk is the proverbial “Sputnik” of entrepreneurs, and is spurring others to reach higher, see further. The goal is to survive and flourish, not to temporarily exist and whither.
Image by DecoEchoes @ deviant art.
Rich always provides incredible perspective on the space program and its importance to humanity. Also, this image would make an incredible postcard or poster.
It has been over 50 years since we left Earth. We are now almost 14 trillion miles away from home. Out here, where the stars are distant, and faint, is a place no one has ever seen before. The Alpha Centauri system, with its seven planets, the farthest worlds to ever be explored by humankind.
Half a century ago, we left our home in search of another. We had left our planet in waste and ruin. A dark chapter in human history, where we threw away our home. Our only home. We poisoned ourselves, and we drove ourselves to the brink of extinction, over money and resources and power. While some accepted the fate of the human race, a bright young generation of scientists, with the stars in their eyes and the universe in their hearts, led us down the only path we have left. To leave our home. To fight for our right to exist.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
From an unpublished story of mine by the same name. The basic concept was the story of a generation of kids born on a starship, they never saw Earth, and they won’t live long enough to see their destination. It’s the story of them struggling to find meaning and a purpose. Listen here.
Anonymous asked:
(same anon) also sorry ur just the only astrophysicist ive ever had the opportunity to talk to, what other options are there when it comes to working with space science? that sounded rly dumb. what i mean is like, say im killer at chemistry, can i make that abt space and get a legit job w space chemistry. honestly this is word vomit im sorry to bother u w horribly articulated questions i just rly want to work w space/space exploration (nasa??) and have no resources for real world info
You can get a job as a chemist but your chances of working with anything in space is slim. You’d be working on stars and their chemical composition, mostly.
