Well, they have been saying this for a number of years. Sky At Night did a feature on it a while ago.
I did see some wild speculation that the mass could be a primordial black hole. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, as Carl Sagan once said.
Yeah. I’ve come across it a few times even to the point where I get shown Facebook pages on Niburi.
I just think all of it’s deeply fascinating. Honestly, if I could, with all the benefit of hindsight I’d love to have had a career in cosmology, or similar. Probably not enough grey matter to be honest but the interest and enthusiasm exists.
In terms of a hobby interest, there is an awful lot of information out there for free: everything from NASA to the Vatican Observatory are quite happy to share their research.
True, not quite fanatical enough to spend my free time diving deeply though.
Another interesting one this morning as well. We have a new space race it seems. Flat earthers have about 10 years left at a guess.
Old news my son.
It has been called Pluto for the last 96 years 
Not quite big enough 
Was a planet all through my school years, so screw anyone that says otherwise 
Isn’t the moon flat also - looks flat according o the render?
Everything is flat, flat on your face, sit in a flat, flat chest … just about anything.
Anything that isn’t can be flattened!
Hologram by some accounts.
The excuses they dreamed up after the eclipse last week were truly golden.
So how soon will you expect it be before the first Pakistani orbit the Earth? (Ya, Namira Salim went up to space last year but that was a sub-orbital flight on Virgin Galactic).
My guess is in about 2 years when Tiangong Space Station start welcoming space tourists and foreign astronauts.
Pretty much so.
It’s still very unrealistic for Pakistan to have their own launch vehicles anytime soon given their systematic problems and other issues.
But it’s still a major step for them. Anything which takes money away from investment in military to investments in education , science etc has to be a positive.
As the saying goes , better late than never.
Its always better for Pakistan to compete with India in space races rather than meaningless arms races.
Starship can’t work, won’t work, wrong concept, wrong strategy.
Musk “Hold my beer”
Nailed it on the 4th launch. Fucking brilliant.
Similiar could also be said of that other launch a day prior:
Wasted billions that could have been spent on tackling real problems here on Earth. Fucking dickhead.
I normally do defend space research as it does help with actual problems on Earth, but there do seem to be far too many vanity projects on the go whereas the actual scientists who want to do real work can’t get access to it.
These very large rockets are essentially retreading ground that the Saturn V performed, and that was shelved for a reason.
Not true, Saturn 5 wasn’t reusable. Build it and throw it away. All of Starship will be reusable. Daily. Something NASA only dream of.
@cynicaloldgit using that logic, we’d still be hunter gatherers.
Again, no. It’s updated 60s tech that does nothing new on a disposable rocket which has cost 3 times what NASA paid for Dragon and is 3 years behind Dragon. Also an ugly frucker.