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Post by crowschmo on May 28, 2020 12:49:37 GMT -5
Launch was scrubbed until Saturday, arrggghh. (Weather).
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Post by crowschmo on May 30, 2020 19:04:10 GMT -5
Well, they launched. You know, I'm not one for conspiracy theories where space travel is concerned, but they don't do themselves any favors by always "losing the feed" right before important sh*t happens.
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Post by mylungswereaching on May 30, 2020 20:35:39 GMT -5
Well, they launched. You know, I'm not one for conspiracy theories where space travel is concerned, but they don't do themselves any favors by always "losing the feed" right before important sh*t happens. It's one of two things. Either the rocket landing shakes things so much that they can't hold the signal. It's only the landings at sea that they tend to lose. Or they don't want to show failure live. This launch was so important that a lot of people watched it weren't regulars. I've watched most of the launches and landings for the last 5 years or so and know that they will lose a rocket once in a while. Going to space is hard and landing a rocket was considered impossible 5 years ago by most of the experts. So if one rocket in 50 or 100 misses the mark it is to be expected. They've really only lost one unexpectedly in the last 3 years or so. The center rocket on a Falcon Heavy launch landed properly but fell over in high sea's because they hadn't upgraded the ship to clamp down the center rocket yet. The first Falcon Heavy launch missed the ship because they miscalculated the amount of fuel it would use on the first launch. They lost a third because they pushed it to its limits and it came in too fast. They figured they would probably lose it but gain a lot of data from trying it. The only unexpected loss was one rocket on its fourth landing had something break inside. So they've only failed to land one rocket in the last 3 years or so that was the rockets fault. With so many new viewers they didn't want to take the chance of showing a botched landing. Too many people would have a heart attack and be sure that somehow it would mean that Bob and Doug would die. Now losing the feed whenever the launch satellites is certainly on purpose. There's something they don't want to show because they lose that signal every single time.
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Post by crowschmo on Jun 1, 2020 13:05:07 GMT -5
I don't know where else to put this. I guess it's a science question - entomology. Has anyone else ever seen a bug that is kind of like a dragonfly, but it's really thin, barely there. One can hardly notice it when it goes by. And it seems to fly vertically, you can hardly notice how it's wings work. Whenever I look this up online, it's hard to describe and no matter how I word it, nothing comes up - only regular dragonflies or damselflies.
Anyone know what the heck that is?
Edit: It kind of looks like an X in flight.
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Post by crowschmo on Jun 19, 2020 19:23:49 GMT -5
Whaaa..?
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jun 20, 2020 16:36:45 GMT -5
I heard there were also some babboons who tried riding dogs as a kind of war horse thing, but I don't know if there was any truth to that.
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Post by crowschmo on Jun 21, 2020 14:34:36 GMT -5
They'll be jousting soon.
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 2, 2020 11:54:48 GMT -5
Flight company Space Perspective is working on a pressurized capsule suspended from a blimp to take passengers to the edge of Earth's atmosphere, 100,000 ft. up, to view the Earth from the edge of space. They're hoping to run test flights as early as next year.
It would be a 6 hour trip. A gentle ascension that takes two hours, another two hours to enjoy the view and a two hour descent where they splash down in the ocean and make the return trip by ship.
About 6 passengers at a time or so. Cost: $125,000.
That's frickin' awesome.
First passengers should be flat Earthers.
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 11, 2020 8:11:45 GMT -5
Comet NEOWISE should be visible with the naked eye in the northwest horizon about 80 minutes after dusk in the northern hemisphere from 7/12 - 15. It was supposed to be visible 80 minutes before dawn this morning, but I'm late with this post. And, of course, where I live it was cloudy. It's always cloudy when we have a celestial event visible from where I am.
Has anyone seen it yet?
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 25, 2020 18:12:30 GMT -5
Here's a botany question: Have dandelions mutated? I seem to remember when I was a kid, dandelions had somewhat thick, fuzzy stems and there was one flower per stalk, though stalks could clump together. When I see them now, the stems are thin and there seems to be multiple flowers on one stalk. Am I remembering wrong or have they changed?
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 30, 2020 12:33:42 GMT -5
Hey! I bought a boarding pass back in May of last year for my name to be included on a microchip ON THIS FLIGHT! My "frequent flyer" miles earned: 313,586,649 friggin' miles!!
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 2, 2020 15:17:04 GMT -5
Bob and Doug have safely landed back home (on Dragon 1, or whatever it's called) after being in the ISS for 64 days. Welcome back Bob and Doug, you hosers! (BTW, I have a subscriber on my YouTube channel, and I don't even have any videos, hah-hah).
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 3, 2020 19:11:45 GMT -5
This could've gone in the COVID thread or here. I figured it was mostly science-y stuff.
Hopeful or scary? The line is fine, my peeps.
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 31, 2020 20:37:14 GMT -5
Just don't aim those at your legs. Eesh.
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Post by crowschmo on Sept 1, 2020 16:13:48 GMT -5
These little things are amazing. And actually cute for a microscopic animal. How do people put them back in some kind of environment, I wonder, after looking at slides of them? Do they just let them die, or do they rinse them off into a bit of moss or a pond and hope for the best? How would one know a microscopic creature is "okay" after that?
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