Outer space thread

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Can we ask them if they are taking earth ex-pats?

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Can we ask them if they are taking earth ex-pats?

https://bsky.app/profile/tribelaw.bsky. ... xtdzxgpk23

Can we send them MAGA? Would that be seen as a hostile act?

No paywall:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o

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https://futurism.com/military-whistlebl ... crop-photo

Self-styled Pentagon whistleblower and former US Army counterintelligence officer Luis "Lue" Elizondo showed off a peculiar image of what appeared to be a gigantic, disc-shaped object floating hundreds of feet above the ground, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee meeting this week.

The briefing, which took place on Thursday, was hosted by the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Fund, a nonpartisan political advocacy group "committed to uncovering the truth about UAPs," a less-stigmatized term used by government officials to refer to UFOs. Also present at the meeting was Harvard professor and noted UFO hunter Avi Loeb....



"This was taken by a civilian pilot," Elizondo claimed during the meeting. "But again, you'd think this information would be important for somebody to look at," he added, while holding up a printout of the image.

According to Elizondo, "an average person with an average camera" took the photo at "21,000 feet."

"The object is potentially anywhere between 600 and 1,000 feet in diameter," he added. "It's a lenticular object, and it is silver." ...

They're real, and they're here!!!

Oh wait . . .

At first glance, it does indeed look like an alien ship from a Hollywood movie. But as eagle-eyed users on Reddit quickly pointed out, Elizondo's purported smoking gun has a hilariously simple explanation. On the platform's otherwise conspiracy theory-friendly r/UFOs community, user mattperkins86 traced back the satellite image to two adjacent, perfectly circular fields, with the nearer, much darker one perfectly lining up to look like the second circle's shadow.

The two circles, located an hour east of Colorado Springs, can be spotted on Google Earth here.



(lots of content trashing Luis "Lue" Elizondo)

OPPS! Never mind.

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(lots of content trashing Luis "Lue" Elizondo)
OPPS! Never mind.

Was it Big Block of Cheese Day?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvwneDPgm4

Area 51 my friend...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ1nbo9LKjI

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(lots of content trashing Luis "Lue" Elizondo)
OPPS! Never mind.

Was it Big Block of Cheese Day?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvwneDPgm4

Area 51 my friend...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ1nbo9LKjI

Woh, I had no idea Sam Lloyd (RIP) was on West Wing...... now I have to watch west wing.

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Woh, I had no idea Sam Lloyd (RIP) was on West Wing...... now I have to watch west wing.

Just the 2 episodes. S1.E5., S3.E13.

If you're being serious it's worth watching all 7 seasons. IMO one of the greatest TV dramas ever made. I saw most of it when it first aired. Aaron Sorkin is a genius. Then, my mom had taped all of it. After I moved to NC we watched it together.

Relevant to our forums:


Lemon Lyman Josh Discovers the Internet

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Who's Nurse Ratchett?

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Elon is a 3-time loser:

SpaceX Starship rocket tumbles out of control after launch

TV news says that SpaceX is paying all costs, not NASA. Good.

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Elon is a 3-time loser:

SpaceX Starship rocket tumbles out of control after launch

TV news says that SpaceX is paying all costs, not NASA. Good.

Looks like Elon and company have exercised their own personal Peter Principle.

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Looks like Elon and company have exercised their own personal Peter Principle.

https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1935582164390969717

You beat me to it. "tern" is funny.

You, too, there is a literal physical limit to how far he can rise.

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Looks like Elon and company have exercised their own personal Peter Principle.

https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1935582164390969717

You beat me to it. "tern" is funny.

You, too, there is a literal physical limit to how far he can rise.

Redefining "unscheduled disassembly."

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Looks like Elon and company have exercised their own personal Peter Principle.

https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1935582164390969717

You beat me to it. "tern" is funny.

You, too, there is a literal physical limit to how far he can rise.

Redefining "unscheduled disassembly."

TIL: There is a hierarchy of anomalies. This was a "major anomaly". Opps.

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Earth has a quasi-homey it didn't know about:

Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research.

The newly discovered celestial object, named 2025 PN7, is a type of near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun but sticks close to our planet. Like our world, 2025 PN7 takes one year to complete an orbit around the sun....

“The Solar System is full of surprises so we keep looking.”

Cool. I briefly thought about astronomy in college, but decided that it was going to be more tedious than I had imagined or could handle.

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Astronomers want to blow up this asteroid before it likely strikes Moon

Let the rock live! NO NUKES!

... Estimates of the asteroid’s trajectory suggest it has a 4 per cent chance of hitting the lunar surface in December 2032, with the likely Moon-impact predicted to produce a crater about 1km in diameter....

Cool. Send cameras, instead.

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Commercial space companies turn earth’s atmosphere into industrial dumping ground, new study warns

A groundbreaking study published Thursday reveals alarming evidence that commercial space companies are treating Earth’s atmosphere as an unregulated waste disposal site, dumping potentially toxic industrial byproducts that could harm both human health and the climate.

The research analyzed pollution plumes from commercial rocket launches, including debris from a crashed Falcon rocket, and found that the rapidly expanding space tourism and satellite industries are releasing harmful chemicals into the atmospheric commons with minimal oversight. Unlike traditional aviation, which operates under strict environmental regulations, the commercial space sector currently faces few restrictions on the toxic emissions generated during launches and re-entry....

DonOLD
Climate change
AI
Now this. We're screwed.

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DonOLD
Climate change
AI
Now this. We're screwed.

We will probably survive.....

Our children's children are going to have a rough go of it.

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I don't think I'd get on a ship that's had only one successful test flight.

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I don't think I'd get on a ship that's had only one successful test flight.

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3miaab5cb3k2m

Main engine separation, so far so good. It wasn't an April Fools joke. More than 50 years since any human has left low Earth orbit.

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I don't think I'd get on a ship that's had only one successful test flight.

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3miaab5cb3k2m

Main engine separation, so far so good. It wasn't an April Fools joke. More than 50 years since any human has left low Earth orbit.

I stand corrected.

It was impressive.

Nice to have a piece of good news for a change.

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Main engine separation, so far so good. It wasn't an April Fools joke. More than 50 years since any human has left low Earth orbit.

I stand corrected.

It was impressive.

Nice to have a piece of good news for a change.

Gorgeous, and it preempted the mostly bad network new shows.