Was a hydrogen loading leak earlier too, roll it back……
Artemis launch pulled again. Shit day all round.
Booze time it is then.
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SLS should just be scrapped. Dinosaur with no future in the modern Thunderbirds world. It won’t be though, all about funding, jobs and being “seen” to succeed.
The mission (no crew/passenger) carrying three dozen scientific payloads ascended to about 9,000 meters, the New Shepard capsule’s performed emergency separation from the exploding rocket. This happened 1 minute and 4 seconds after launch.
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Not sure what to make of this when I saw it. It feels like it should be more news worthy and impactful.
I glanced at a cnn article (below and not the scientific publication) and at every turn they stop short of saying anything. I’m not sure whether there will be a definitive answer until there is significant human presence there - until then it’ll be a slow feed of incrementally positive sound bites. Of course I hope I’m wrong and they find a load of fossils around the corner or in a crevasse or up a cliff!!!
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anyone seen this yet? 10 days away and barely a blip on the news.
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getting the feeling this is a training session for something much bigger…
Excellent seats for my birthday courtesy of Mrs. Jnr loved it, talked the whole way home about space, time and black holes. Was an epic evening. Brian Cox is one hell of a presenter. Highly recommended.
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how old is Jnr?
my boy, 9 years, loves everything space. he has the bbc series the planets and absorbs it all.
the tickets to BC are really expensive and was wondering if it was a bit too early for us to go there… visually i think the series the planets are what captures him, with the information landing on him as he watches over and over…a 1.5 hour speech might be a bridge too far…
his level is pretty high for his age, knows all the dwarf planets, the names of the various stars and has a pretty good handle on the sizes, understands the basics about space etc etc…
your thoughts? …not your personal experience, but the suitability for a nine year old with more than above average interest and knowledge in the subject?
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Place was full of kids from 5 ish. Jnr’s 14. “most” of the content was reasonably possible for most to get their heads round. Cox’s delivery and the epic video running behind him would entertain anbody IMHO. Yor son would love it. Tickets, as you say, were eye-watering.
As a caveat though, he did use a surprising amount of “language” His opening line (ish) was “Do we have any mathematicians in?” one cry of yes “ Damn, I can’t just make this shit up tonight!” Funny line but he threw a few fucks in too which was odd i thought as it added nothing and there were clearly lots of children in the audience.
I think the fascinating thing about this sort of physics is that it is so complex in the working of them that the only way to explain it to non-physicists is to do it in a way that children will also understand. I dont know what the entry point is for something like Hawkins’ Briefer History of Time, but I’d imagine most kids of that age who have an interest in this stuff would be able to get a lot out of that book.
Penny drop moment for me on much of this stuff was the fact that a lot of the theory is geometry and motion. Not that I could actually do that but having that small insight into where it all comes from has made it all the more fascinating for me.
Success!
This is how the Dinosaur v Asteroid Wars started.
We all know who won that one 
Dinosaurs are extinct because they didn’t have a space program.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/14/ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-ambassador-andrij-melnyk/
Announcement coming the week after he spouted Kremlin talking points about the best resolution for the Ukraine situation, and the same week as reports of him communicating with Putin immediately prior to those statements.
We will be extinct if the same scale of collider comes about - unless we have 100s of years of fore warning (still wouldn’t be a given we wouldn’t end up with the same outcome).
Nah, after the recent redirect mission, 2 years will do and once starship’s up and running, a few days to knock most things off course.
I’m not entirely convinced. Something with mass off an extinction level event is going to take a massively big hit to move it off course enough not to be affected by gravitational pull, no?