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Around the 22 minute mark and then 3:33:00 for them on board the ISS

https://youtu.be/pyNl87mXOkc

Why isn't this in the conspiracy thread?

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Pete Conrad, commander of the Apollo 12 mission would have been 90 today. I am lucky to consult with the company he founded twice a week and work with NASA.
 
Pete would have enjoyed the Space X launch. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1999.
 
When he became the third person to step onto the moon, Pete said:
 
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''Whoopee!'' he exclaimed when his foot touched the dry lunar dust. ''That may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me.''

 

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8 hours ago, Toastrel said:
 
Pete Conrad, commander of the Apollo 12 mission would have been 90 today. I am lucky to consult with the company he founded twice a week and work with NASA.
 
Pete would have enjoyed the Space X launch. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1999.
 
When he became the third person to step onto the moon, Pete said:
 

 

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I can remember being pissed when they broke the TV camera.  I would have loved to have seen live shots of them with the Surveyor 3.

SpaceX at it again tonite. Launching a Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink satellites. 9:25 EDT

43 minutes ago, hey suess said:

SpaceX at it again tonite. Launching a Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink satellites. 9:25 EDT

Can we see it in philly? I got no power right now. 

13 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

Can we see it in philly? I got no power right now. 

I doubt it. Good news though...tax free weekend on hurricane season supplies!! Get that generator!

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Nothing happens for the first 5:17 seconds, just a still image for some stupid reason. Just get past that and the weird Swede talking.

Exotic fifth state of matter made on the International Space Station

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632862-300-exotic-fifth-state-of-matter-made-on-the-international-space-station/

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AN EXOTIC fifth type of matter has been created in one of the coldest places in the universe – a device on board the International Space Station (ISS).

The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) was launched to the ISS in 2018 to investigate a strange kind of matter, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This suitcase-sized device chills atoms of rubidium and potassium in a vacuum chamber, using laser light to slow their movement. Magnetic fields then contain the resulting cloud of atoms, which is cooled to nearly absolute zero at -273°C, producing a BEC.

This chilly substance was initially theorised by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose in the early 1920s as the fifth state of matter, following solids, liquids, gases and plasma. It is a supercooled gas that no longer behaves as individual atoms and particles, but rather an entity in a single quantum state.

"This is pretty remarkable because this gives you a macroscopic-sized quantum mechanical object,” says Maike Lachmann at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany.

BECs have been produced in a variety of experiments on Earth since 1995, but these are hindered by gravity, which collapses the clouds in a split second. The microgravity environment of the ISS keeps them stable for multiple seconds, allowing them to be studied in more detail.

 

 

 

2 hours ago, mayanh8 said:

 

intimidates me. and I have no fear of bees. a bunch of bees working in coordination against me though? I'm gtfo.

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2 hours ago, mayanh8 said:

 

Well, now we know where the wave started.

New study proposes there are at least 36 planets in the Milky Way that host intelligent life.

I think their estimate is off by a little... My guess is there are 42.

2 minutes ago, toolg said:

New study proposes there are at least 36 planets in the Milky Way that host intelligent life.

I think their estimate is off by a little... My guess is there are 42.

I hate these articles because they always show a profound lack of imagination. Life outside this planet may look so foreign to us we would not recognize it as life. Even if we were able to perceive it, which isn't a given.

5 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

I hate these articles because they always show a profound lack of imagination. Life outside this planet may look so foreign to us we would not recognize it as life. Even if we were able to perceive it, which isn't a given.

It's a modern take at the Drake equation, using recent astronomical findings. Even the writers of the study admit they are making assumptions LINK

36 is the number their models selected. Zero is also a possible result, as well as there could be hundreds.

29 minutes ago, toolg said:

New study proposes there are at least 36 planets in the Milky Way that host intelligent life.

Is Earth included?

7 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Is Earth included?

 

Are they planning any trips to these places? Some days, I find myself getting tired of Earthlings. 

59 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

Are they planning any trips to these places? Some days, I find myself getting tired of Earthlings. 

Good luck getting there.

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there should be a minimum of 36(−32+175) communicating civilizations in the galaxy today, assuming the average lifespan of these civilizations is100 years. The nearest of these would be at a maximum distance given by 17000(−10000+33600) light-years, making communication or even detection of these systems nearly impossible with present technology.

Given current technology, it would take you several hundred million years to get there.

16 minutes ago, toolg said:

Good luck getting there.

Given current technology, it would take you several hundred million years to get there.

I’ll borrow my wife’s Kindle. 
 

 

4 hours ago, EagleJoe8 said:

I’ll borrow my wife’s Kindle. 
 

 

Must be silly time

 

 

Green Fireball across Australia.

 

I wonder what made it burn green? Chemicals? Aliens? Bill Gates?

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