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Freeman Dyson passed away RIP.

The first launch of the SLS has officially been delayed to Q2/Q3 2021. It was supposed to go up this year.

Today, Astra is going to try again with an orbital launch for DARPA out of Kodiak, Alaska. It should stream on YouTube around 1230 PST.
 
The hole in the ground where the martians might live:
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Nasa has shared a picture of an "unusual" hole in the Martian surface that could serve as a home for life.
The hole appears to be the entrance to a larger underground cavern, which can be seen a little in the image and could serve as protection
The image was discovered in 2011, by chance – it was spotted as art of a broader series of images, taken of the slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano, using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that continues to orbit around the planet to this day.
When the hole was discovered, Nasa conducted further analysis that suggested the cavern goes around 20 meters deep. It could not find an explanation for the circular crater that surrounds the hole – or a proper estimate of just how far the underlying cavern might extend.
"Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life," Nasa wrote on its Astronomy Picture of the Day page, where it shared the image this week.
"These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers."
 
Freeman Dyson passed away RIP.

The first launch of the SLS has officially been delayed to Q2/Q3 2021. It was supposed to go up this year.

Today, Astra is going to try again with an orbital launch for DARPA out of Kodiak, Alaska. It should stream on YouTube around 1230 PST.

My whinging about the SLS is limitless and known, but my displeasure is unlimited and my day is ruined. The bloody thing may never take off more than once. It is nothing more than a political beast gone haywire. NASA should had gone back to the X33 or even a new SSTO or TSTO system in tandem with SpaceX or someone.
 
My whinging about the SLS is limitless and known, but my displeasure is unlimited and my day is ruined. The bloody thing may never take off more than once. It is nothing more than a political beast gone haywire. NASA should had gone back to the X33 or even a new SSTO or TSTO system in tandem with SpaceX or someone.
We should talk about the SLS because I've been working on payloads for it since it was conceived and it's been a bit of a nightmare. Crazy thing is, I've never interacted with the Boeing side, all my experiences were working directly with NASA and you'd think they'd have it together more.
 
We should talk about the SLS because I've been working on payloads for it since it was conceived and it's been a bit of a nightmare. Crazy thing is, I've never interacted with the Boeing side, all my experiences were working directly with NASA and you'd think they'd have it together more.

Why would anyone think that? Just sayin'.
 
An imminent planetary alignment of Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter means now is the right time to plan a trip to the ice giants. The rare celestial arrangement occurs next in the early 2030s; that’s a tight deadline for planetary scientists eager to seize the opportunity to study the least-explored planets in the Solar System. NASA’s Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, with brief fly-bys in the 1980s.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00619-y
 
Speaking of Voyager 2 - they are about to lose contact with it for a year. There is currently one antenna capable of transmitting to Voyager 2 and they have to shut it down to upgrade it in a process that will take a year. They'll still be able to hear Voyager 2 on other antennas but they won't be able to talk to it. This is a bit long to be incommunicado but I don't know if it's really extraordinary given the probe is mostly on autopilot for lack of a better word. It doesn't have energy/fuel to do much but passively collect data and send that back to Earth which it can likely do for a year without ground contact.

I wonder if Sagan and the others that worked the Voyager program ever hoped they'd stay alive this far out!

Also @Samson - if the SLS survives as a thing, it will greatly reduce the need for these flybys since it is such a beefcake with a very efficient upper stage. It can dump waaaaaay more payload into deep space than even the Falcon Heavy.
 
NASA just named their new Mars rover they are launching this year Perseverance. I think Percy is a nice name.
 
we are of course aliens to you people . ı also hear Australians are somewhat likely to boast that they could be invaded only by Martians , that's why ı am establishing A Brazilian task force for the job .
 
we are of course aliens to you people . ı also hear Australians are somewhat likely to boast that they could be invaded only by Martians , that's why ı am establishing A Brazilian task force for the job .

If you want to invade Australia beware of the inhabitants. The wild life is also a bit rough.
 
don't take any issues with it , it's not a personal attack . ı simply hate stopping WW III .

yeah , one has to rant about IMF and Coronavirus pandemic and IMF's credit allowance of a trillion dollars .
 
don't take any issues with it , it's not a personal attack . ı simply hate stopping WW III .

yeah , one has to rant about IMF and Coronavirus pandemic and IMF's credit allowance of a trillion dollars .

Not offended I didn't understand the cartoon/point.
 
after the end of the Great War , quite a few of the Germans rail against the incapability of Berlin to resist Allied demands and the nascent Turkish War of Independence or Liberation is quite envied . So much that Adolf's march on a Munich beerhouse is so much inspired by Kemal . So he has Ludendorff with him and it's "average" that Adolf will run at the first round fired , Goering to be shot in the belly , instead of the head and be done with that while it's only Ludendorff that marches ahead ...

and 21st Century asks this country to accept the situation on the ground . Against that ı gotta be creative , parroting the same on and on is boring . The qoute thing would take to the Turkish election thread but ı wouldn't really advise it in case you don't like walls of text .

edit: not writing the posts at home are terrible , you make so many spelling mistakes !

edit2 : a year and a half later , using this post to write another which ı will post later .

weekly bazaar , groceries tend to be bought on Sundays and ı have to cross the street twice . He must be close to 20 , and looks agitated . ı was the laughing stock of an entire city of millions . Until the day they discovered that if they bloated my fame with lies , making me THE Superman , they would be much more glorious , because even sorriest loser can feel superior after taking one look at me . It is the concealed carry thing ı do , some non-existant pistol that must be one of those ceramic ones , because ı have never been stopped at the doors of the mall , where they have metal detectors . Much angry ı am , might shoot him right there . Like ı never saw the kid before , but who cares they know ! Me better than ı know myself ! A less popular variant has me as a martial art master , ı have heard there was a discussion that my claims about knowing Kara Te must be wrong , because they have heard it from people who have "seen" me , the style is not that ... Which arises from a single post that ı had swung that damned nunchaku device in the air once or twice before ı was 10 years old , with enough knocks on my head for a lifetime .

by my second passage , he has discovered ı will not shoot him . Either means that ı can't or am afraid of him . Works in the same format , always it does . Two hours time he will start bragging , two weeks he will be the expert on my fallacies and perversions , two months he will be posting daily series of messages to the Police . That r16 is a public enemy and a , no , THE traitor . This happens because he will test his greatness against others , will suffer some indignities . If he is not afraid of r16 , while everybody seems to be so , everybody must also fear him !


seems this low level person has been dispatched , to visit the bunch of people that should have been visited as a courtesy call , ages and eons ago , possibly really happened in real life . Perhaps and maybe . This ı deduce from everybody once again claiming that whatever women ı fancy will be sent to me , by Washington D.C... For just an hour of you know what . They want to believe that . Because they know they are better 100 , 10 000 times better than r16 . They will get the same treat , when something they don't know yet happens . They love the idea . That the parents of those women will fly here so that those women can have an hour . They think that happens . They will of course deny that they would ever do anything like this , when their daughters are supposed to be away for just an hour . And no , they won't try that , asking some guy to deliver . This is what the lauded Anatolian Wisdom has lately become . Avoid the strong , oppress the weak , if not yet possible make up stuff that you do . ı wasn't much surprised about some handicapped guy having a loud stereo thing on his wheelchair , playing this song from the 1990s . A day or two after yours idiotly had referred to the singer who was the vocal for that . Noticed the security guard running to guy to get him turn down the volume as ı was walking away , because people (not seeing me) would think it was some guy making a very brave musical protest in front of headquarters of the Party in the big city nearby , it was the same show as in the past and the subject of the funny song was just a show-off ... This post will be mistranslated to claim that ı unjustly accuse the good people of willing to sell their daughters for a profit , even if ı don't . And no , ı would be too young to be the subject of that song ...

but they are losing control , after 15 or so years , the numbers of doubters of the true word are on the rise . The kinda extreme summer heat in Augusts makes me wear this t-shirt type fatigues ı still keep after the compulsory military stuff of 26 days back in the year 2000 , and oh my , there are some who now think ı do not carry a concealed gun . Leads to idealizations , which can be equally dangerous . Apparently they believe there has been a new deposit in the bank account ı do not have . Supposedly because there is bad money , ı refuse to spend a single dime . Don't know whether that's supposed to be drug money or human trafficking of various stripes . The reason for the quote actually . Which should be about 12 times of what an engineer in the US in his/her first year and almost 6 times of a Lieutenant Colonel of 17 years of service in the Marines at 11K per month . Yeah , ı read the blog that dispenses Pentagon lies .

even the visit is becoming a legend , for reasons ı don't know . The young American , naturally , very beautiful , is flown to the jungle (because we are all monkeys) and the plane gives an "airshow" ! Which has apparently already evolved into a claim that ı designed it !?...!

and the eery stuff that happenz elsewhere . To cut it short in some site where am unwanted some guy links some post of mine from 10 or 12 years ago , some garbage that should have been cut off gets assambled into a new thread , perhaps because it shows ı don't understand 80% of what ı read and they allow fanboys to talk of Nazi atomic bombs despite the general negativity that rightly prevails ... Some people are stunned that there is even a poll that shows a majority want nothing of such foolish things , considering it is practically in their "constitution" not to ... Come on , r16 doesn't know anyone from the ClA and on this night when ı broke an already useless teeth of mine , am pretty sure they would really love to assign a drone to deal with me , you know , instead of making inroads with like avenging me , for stuff that happened so long ago .
 
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