Yeah, but the moon was named after the god.
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Possibly because Ares (Mars) is the progenitor.
Ferocitus
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Tears before bedtime...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Is Delayed—Again
A Halloween launch for the space agency’s long-awaited flagship observatory is all but certain to slip into mid-November or later.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-is-delayed-again/
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Is Delayed—Again
A Halloween launch for the space agency’s long-awaited flagship observatory is all but certain to slip into mid-November or later.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-is-delayed-again/
I'm reading this as the launch platform being called Deimos, since it appears to be a vessel of sorts. As much as an oil rig is a vessel that is.
EnglishEdward
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That moon exists, not many people believe that that god existed.
Latin terms (also names) are used in a few disciplines, such as plant and animal life groups. The local system planets too, but that is hardly an order; just a few names. For the rest the greek names are used either because they were already used in antiquity (eg by Aristotle when he created the respective discipline) or were picked up or coined later on by non-greeks (a large number of cases, this is ongoing).
The moons Deimos and Phobos would have been named much later, and it seems no one cared what they were called in latin, but it made sense they would be sons of Ares
Often you would see the latin and greek name together, but as supposed group and subgroup. I think "corvus corax" (a crow) just means "crow (latin) crow (greek)".
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It is irresponsible to not de-orbit something this large, and it doesn't happen very often. This core stage is not as heavy as Skylab was but it was in the same class - things this big don't come down very often and given this was the core stage of a rocket (rather than a decades old space station), it is pretty trivial for it to be made to be able to de-orbit itself. The Chinese just didn't bother, because they don't care.
That's not good, but the Ariane 5 upper stage is very small and very little of it (if anything) survives reentry. It's also a very old rocket design from a time before any government cared about the environment. That doesn't excuse this behavior, but it does put it into context compared to the massive (and brand spanking new) Long March 5 core stage which was designed in an age where governments (and laypeople) are very much aware of how crummy it is to drop rocket stages on other countries. But China regularly dumps rocket stages on their own villages (filled with toxic fuels no less) so it's no surprise they took such a blase attitude to de-orbiting this new rocket.
It does not happen all the time. Very few objects this large are placed into orbit, much less placed into orbit and then allowed to decay naturally. Yes, second stages do make it to orbit, but modern ones (like the Falcon 9) are nearly always deorbited. And this Chinese core stage is not a tiny second stage, it's the massive core stage of the rocket, minus the side boosters. It's an order of magnitude larger than second stages and thus a hazard to anything on the ground. Most second stages that are not de-orbited will completely burn up on reentry, but not this rocket. That's what makes it so irresponsible and notable.
The visualizations in Interstellar look very similar to this and for good reason - Kip Thorne (famous astrophysicist) wrote papers on the visualization software he helped write as it was based on real black hole physics. At the time it was the most accurate visualization of a black hole ever made even though ultimately it was just a special effect for a movie.
EnglishEdward
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Their ego is so high, they are off into space!
I doubt that that will stop them from snowing me with emails.
Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket | Jeff Bezos | The Guardian
I doubt that that will stop them from snowing me with emails.
Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket | Jeff Bezos | The Guardian
nvm
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/galaxy-giant-arc-3-billion-light-years-long-cosmology-space
A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be real, it would challenge a bedrock assumption of cosmology: that on large scales, matter in the universe is evenly distributed no matter where you look.
“It would overturn cosmology as we know it,” said cosmologist Alexia Lopez at a June 7 news conference at the virtual American Astronomical Society meeting. “Our standard model, not to put it too heavily, kind of falls through.”
A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be real, it would challenge a bedrock assumption of cosmology: that on large scales, matter in the universe is evenly distributed no matter where you look.
“It would overturn cosmology as we know it,” said cosmologist Alexia Lopez at a June 7 news conference at the virtual American Astronomical Society meeting. “Our standard model, not to put it too heavily, kind of falls through.”
Betelgeuse is not about to blow up after all (Paper, paywalled)
A team using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile say the cause of the abruptly darkening in late 2019 / early 2020 was almost certainly a giant dust cloud between us and the star.
Our overall idea is that there was a cool spot on the star [caused by large convective cells] which, because of the local drop in temperature, then caused gas ejected previously to condense into dust. So, the cool spot on the surface would initially make the star look dimmer to us. But then this condensation of dust would add to the rapid drop in brightness of the star. - Emily Cannon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
Our overall idea is that there was a cool spot on the star [caused by large convective cells] which, because of the local drop in temperature, then caused gas ejected previously to condense into dust. So, the cool spot on the surface would initially make the star look dimmer to us. But then this condensation of dust would add to the rapid drop in brightness of the star. - Emily Cannon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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Berzerker
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what happens if you swing a bat thru the air? It creates a vacuum behind it sucking in air outside of the bat's path. Maybe any 'linearesque' pattern might indicate the bat's path.
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pentagon denies they intercepted any Chinese Stealth bombers , despite the 2012 or 3 overflight of the original American prototype in company of two B-2Cs pictured over Texas and posted online in daylight . lt was Russians exercising in the Pasific and some plane American military was not tracking which hadc become noticeable to civilian FAA . Funnily enough ı was reading the original blog release with the latest Pearl Harbour movie on TV ...
