The thread for space cadets!

[Samson]

This is where someone thinks it will land:

And when, with error bars showing history of predictions:

A picture of it, it is apparently easily visible if you live within 40 degrees of the equator:

Where it is now, on the globe.
Another site with stuff

 

[Imaus]

So, the south Indian ocean? What a surprise.

 

[r16]

if it has already crashed ı told you people ı would shoot it down .

 

[Michkov]

if it has already crashed ı told you people ı would shoot it down .

How are you going to shoot something down that is already falling?

 

[r16]

damn , not crashed yet ? Don't worry it will be done , like sometime .

 

[Berzerker]

i'm watching greenland

we're screwed

that was a good movie, it was worth 2 hours

 

[Kaitzilla]

It is landing in 12 minutes.

Watch out Africa >:O

**Edit**
Nevermind, Indian Ocean splashdown. (Says China)
https://news.sky.com/story/out-of-control-chinese-rocket-has-landed-in-the-indian-ocean-12301274

10:24P.M. eastern standard time, near the equator.

Near the Maldives southwest of India?

 

[Berzerker]

good, might kill a fish

 

[Broken_Erika]

meanwhile in the indian ocean, a poor white kid in an orange parka from colorado was on a boat trip

 

[Berzerker]

you bastard

 

[r16]

yeah , ı told you people so . Supposedly with all the tech and satellites it takes China 15 minutes to confirm . Like if it hadn't , it would halfway across the world , with like it taking 470 kilometers per minute or something .


edit : And yes , Americans have seen it entering the atmosphere over the Arabian Peninsula . So , like no witnesses ? No films , no nothing ... Yeah , much better .

 

[The_J]

TIL: While there is right now this kerfuffle about the Chinese rocket's re-entry, it seems that the ESA has let all of their rockets crash down uncontrolled (due to the outdated rockets used).
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/orbitaldebris2019/orbital2019paper/pdf/6090.pdf

 

[r16]

bought some mag for the cover

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everything on the subject of the void around the earth is the name ... Reads The Space Wars / ls our planet ready to become a cosmic battleground ? Because this is the only image ı could save , you must squint a bit to see Galactica battling incoming alien ships , because they have trails at the back to show movement . Naturally geared to laugh at the allegation that the good old America shown as Galactica ; defending the entire Mankind , now that GlNO (Galactica in name only) the lovely TV series struck some raw nerve with America as Cylons and people with towels as headgear as Capricans , because Tigh running a suicide vest business . After irritating Dick Cheney enough , the show had to end with proving that Colonel Tigh and his totally wrong wife were closet Cylons ... Umpfft , just an average good America has to establish a space command against Bad lran , Bad Russia , Bad China narrative ... Nothing lost though , cost just two dollars and ı learned about Steve .

which is some sort of an Northern Light , never seen in the millennias Man has been looking up in the sky ... Only noticed in the 21st Century , as people photographing aurora light shows with specific exposure rates on their cameras . Apparently a straight strip 25 kilometers in width , can be hundreds (?) of kilometers long , different colour , unvisible to naked eye hence a very strange thing to be some Wall/Dome of Light and lasts a typical 20 to 60 minutes ...

and of course people are exasperated with silly r16 , it is totally nothing about me that some new guy in some blog that dispenses Pentagon lies said odd things . Turns out there are lranian (Shiite) evangelists , who want to end the world as much as American evangelists and if missiles can be intercepted , because ı don't know , anything or something , lranians can always do a doomsday bomb ... lf it can not end life on the planet , it can still kill 90% of people in the Northern Hemisphere or something like that ... Khruschev's finest would be a cobalt bomb on a ship to vapourize the Caspian Sea with a cool 100 megatons ; like until they noticed F-104s were going to be in bases in Turkey ...

nothing real and of course not exactly a post to be touched even by the tip of a long enough stick or pole but post-truth also requires to take note that Scarif was Maldives and yeah Star Wars is not exactly big on Chinese market , ı don't know where this Death Star thing came from ...

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also funny how the echo chamber was full with a discussion on the size of the reproductive thing on some famous singer of Kurdish extraction ... With pictures taken from some movie , which was like supposedly re-enacted in a movie of the Aragorn guy from LotR ... While the poster who mispellt a single word in the falling Chinese rocket thread lost his posting privilidges .

 

[Imaus]

TIL: While there is right now this kerfuffle about the Chinese rocket's re-entry, it seems that the ESA has let all of their rockets crash down uncontrolled (due to the outdated rockets used).
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/orbitaldebris2019/orbital2019paper/pdf/6090.pdf

Yea it just seems real fudging odd that this launch is blabbered about everywhere, but this happens all the time.

This was a bit close to the Maldives. but otherwise, was nothing special.

 

[Kaitzilla]

So, the south Indian ocean? What a surprise.

You correctly called it 30 hours in advance.

 

[Broken_Erika]

you bastard

 

[Samson]

This simulation shows how two supermassive black holes distort and redirect light emanating from their accretion disks — the maelstrom of hot gas that surrounds each one. To create the visualization, astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used a supercomputer to calculate the path taken by light rays from the accretion disks as they made their way through the warped space-time around the black holes.

MP4 version

 

[Samson]

They (may have) found some antimatter stars

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space telescope has found 14 stars emitting high-energy gamma rays that we do not have an explanation for. One possible explanation is that they are made of antimatter, and the gamma rays are from matter falling into them. Our current models of cosmology do not allow for these to form, so they are probably not, but they might be. Except for the gamma rays, they look just like stars so it is vary hard to prove they really are anti matter.

If we assume these are all anti-stars then this would indicate that about 1 in 400,000 stars are anti-stars, which is loads. Apparently they may have already found anti-helium with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS, and anti-stars are a possible source of this.

Where they are

Also, another rover going to land on Mars soon.

The attempted landing of Zhurong could happen imminently, and is the biggest test yet of China’s nascent deep-space exploration capabilities.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is remaining tight-lipped about exactly when its rover, named Zhurong — after a Chinese mythological god of fire — will touch down.
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Somewhere here:

Spoiler Rant :

WTH is the point of having a paywall to get Reuse & Permissions information for a scientific figure? If you look at the images of the anti-star paper, it has a link to the permissions, which takes you to a paywall, so you cannot find out if I am allowed to post the above image without paying, but I can see the image?

 

[The_J]

WTH is the point of having a paywall to get Reuse & Permissions information for a scientific figure? If you look at the images of the anti-star paper, it has a link to the permissions, which takes you to a paywall, so you cannot find out if I am allowed to post the above image without paying, but I can see the image?

You mean the "Reuse and permissions" button on the right? Doesn't get me to a paywall .
(I am not logged into my uni right now, so it's not that)

 

[Samson]

You mean the "Reuse and permissions" button on the right? Doesn't get me to a paywall .
(I am not logged into my uni right now, so it's not that)

Really? For me the "Reuse and permissions" button on the image takes me to the SciPris paywall. I am not on my works VPN, just domestic. I wonder if it is that I am out of the EU?

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