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Thought this was interesting.

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You want elder gods? I'll show you elder gods.

http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613

the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273–373 K (0-100◦C), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from a star...allowing the chemistry of life to possibly begin when the Universe
was merely 10–17 million years old.

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A possibly habitable Earth-size planet discovered

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Fire up the hibernation chambers!

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I guess Brian is already packing?

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So today's the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 11 leaving Earth for its historic voyage. This Sunday'll be the day it landed. I'm going to celebrate by watching the appropriate episode of From Earth to the Moon and In the Shadow of the Moon documentary (which I recommend to anyone who has yet to see it).

Apparently, NASAtv will be showing restored footage of the moonwalk at the exact moment. Also, they will be renaming the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center the 'Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building', which is pretty cool.

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The exciting space news for later this year is the Rosetta craft orbiting a comet and landing a probe on it. Stayed tuned in November.

http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2013/12/philae_on_the_comet_front_view/13467154-1-eng-GB/Philae_on_the_comet_Front_view_node_full_image_2.jpg

not long to go now...

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Thing is, it was discovered a few days ago that comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko is actually made up of two (maybe even three) nuclei, making the landing of the probe a harder task. Exciting, though.

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The Rosetta craft arrived at the comet today. And here it is...

http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2014/20140806_Comet_on_3_August_2014.png

The exogorth must be hiding on the right hand side.

not long to go now...

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If you look closely...

http://i.imgur.com/1LOpEc1.jpg

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OK, that looks a lot like a space ship from the Japanese manga/anime 'Outlanders'.

http://www.animeclick.it/prove/manga/Outlanders/Outlanders8.jpg

If so...

http://i11.mangareader.net/outlanders/12/outlanders-2303049.jpg

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Well that happened...  hmm

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Whoa.

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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My friend worked on that rocket. He said it looks like the fuel leaked, and that was the last hardware he worked on. Whoops...

I was at school in Baltimore working on a group project. We went outside to try to see the rocket.

http://www.publishingcrawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Disappointed-300x213.jpg

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Elon Musk, in Wired, Oct. 12, 2012

The results are pretty crazy. One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s—I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/all/

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From the video, I swear I heard the announcer guy say the engine was a 108% when it blew. There's your problem smile

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Another angle.

http://planelopnik.kinja.com/see-the-an … 190194/all

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Anthony was on console in Mission Control when it happened. He described the atmosphere afterwards as "awkward."

108% probably means that at full throttle, the engines produced more thrust than they were originally designed and calculated too. Like, on paper they expect they'll produce 100 m/s at full throttle, then in real life they end up producing 108 m/s, then you end up with 108% thrust. Similarly, the Space Shuttle engines produced 109% thrust at full throttle.

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Elon Musk, in 2012, wrote:

One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s—I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/all/

Yes, it's coming from the head of SpaceX, a competitor, but this was an interview from two years ago, not an after-the-fact "I-told-you-so".

Edit: Totally missed or forgot that paulau said this already >.<

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Which I noted.

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Oh frickin- sorry, I read it elsewhere and forgot I'd seen you post it first. Sorry!

Anyway. Bad couple of days for private space ventures. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two crashed during a test flight today, killing one of the two pilots aboard.

http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/virgin-g … 1653361506

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Boter wrote:

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two

Also known as VSS Enterprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1yBSUev7g&t=73s

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Rosetta probe's lander Philae has landed on the 67P/G-C comet

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This is great news. I've this feeling that this is going to be considered an historic milestone in years to come. The kind of 'first' that's on the timeline of humanity's journey to the stars.

I think this is particularly significant because landing on a comet, aside from actually being pretty darn difficult, represents a key stage in their mineral exploitation (which we will have to do at some stage in our development).

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