Anyone interested in Space Exploration here?
Anyone passionate about and interested in the big projects?
Anyone interested in a journey through the Universe?
Anyone interested in Space Exploration here?
Anyone passionate about and interested in the big projects?
Anyone interested in a journey through the Universe?
when it goes over my house i'll take a screenshot
https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/
(This is another link I just found: --- Apparently it shows what & where, the ISS (International Space Station) is 'currently' above & looking down at. So, is this like, be careful not to drop any Litter Anyone, or They might come down and tell You off for it.)
Thank you for replying to my thread!
Thank you for sharing the article!
Someimes I thik you're from a different planet from the rest of us here
(...I am replying to Myself to sort of make an online note of this WWW Address, and this is the only Thread I could remember in recent times that is about "Space"/OffWorld stuff.)
I DO wonder why the sudden renewed curiosity about the Moon/Mars/Asteroids Landings, after something like a Forty-Year break before, Hmmmm?
Because the technology that only governments could afford all those years ago is now cheap and available off the shelf. You've probably got more processing power in your washing machine than a Saturn V.
Governments are also too risk-averse to get involved with these risky projects now - it's all about the publicity. Even Richard Branson's project has killed someone and he's only making a toy plane.
Greetings "California"! It is nice to see you reviving this Thread! ... FYI: Mr. Cassandro does not Post so much of late, and I myself am somewhat restricted at times... but it is nice to see this Thread again anyway!
Myself, I too have indeed noticed a lot in the News lately about 'So-and-So, launching a Rocket/Drone, to So-and-So'... it is all quite interesting, nYes...
...Most of us here are still more interested in Astronomy/Stargazing. But, I post to support this Ol' Thread again, and I DO wonder why the sudden renewed curiosity about the Moon/Mars/Asteroids Landings, after something like a Forty-Year break before, Hmmmm?
Good Fortune to Yourself always, in any case. (Sorry if I am wrong or if I confused you.)
What's with the bombastic music? I don't see this 'space force' doing any exploration or science. The Parker solar probe (successfully launched this morning) is interesting though, both the practicalities of radiative cooling and to stop us complaining to WebPM that the internet's been fried by a solar storm..
But I think the general premise is salient.
I doubt I'd ever see it. What is the premise?
I am Thanking You as well for that Post, Mr. Cassandro...
(...I did wonder why this Thread (Re-titled) had moved up again a little... and also slightly wondered why in London, the Clouds and Rain had come back again... (!) (Just two-and-a-half weeks more heating to go after this, I would wager, before September brings proper cooling again.) ...)
Thank you Cassandro for that information, I once witnessed the most amazing spectacle of shooting stars/meteorites whilst on holiday one year.
I shall definitely be out gazing up at space and wondering about the vast expanse and magnitude of it all.
I don’t know an awful lot about constellations or planets but it doesn’t mean I can’t look up and enjoy seeing what mankind has wondered at since the start of his kind.
I too hope the cloud doesn’t get in the way, the Blood Moon was sadly not seen due to cloud.
For those interested, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower should be Sunday night to Monday morning (1-3am is usually best). Just like the 'Blood Moon', the English weather may conspire against standing outside and seeing something more than a couple of miles up (as may having to get up in the morning). But maybe not, and there's another chance the following night. Just possible the cloud might hold off tonight too.
I learned it was 186282 miles per second and forever after took delight in quoting this number
Ditto. Honest. '299 792' never had the same ring and always gets rounded up. (Bit of in-group mimicry there?)
children's drama series on television on Saturday teatime called Pathfinders in Space
I must get the DVD. The writer, Malcolm Hulke, went on to reuse the ideas for Doctor Who.
2001. Never understood it and never really have but it was such a beautiful experience!
Co-written by Arthur C Clarke, of course, conceptual inventor of the geostationary satellite. I think the Star Child has multiple interpretations, including that we're in our infancy in exploring the universe.
From a very early age I was interested in Space. I remember my dad taking me in the garden to look at the moon through his binoculars. And then he said it was a quarter of a million miles away. Amazing!
By the age of five, I could name all the major planets in order from the sun - and that was when pluto was a planet. With Ithis came Holst Planets Suite, the pulsating sound of Mars, the wonderful Jupiter.. Then there were the stars. I was amazed that the light from the nearest star took four years to reach us.
I was given a book by Patrick Moore for Christmas - The Boys Book of Space. It was amazing reading even for a six year old as I was then. There were tables at the back of the planets, the number of sattelites and the size of them. A lot of the information may now be thought to be incorrect now, but I memorised those tables. Then there was another table of the brightest stars and their distance from earth.
I knew, even at that young age that light travelled at 186000 miles per second (a couple of years later I learned it was 186282 miles per second and forever after took delight in quoting this number. A light year was approximately 6,000,000,000,000 (which was classed in proper numeracy as six billion miles, a billion properly being a million million and not a thousand million as it appears to have become these days!
Patrick predicted some events. The landing of man on the moon he thought would happen in the early twenty first century, and then other predictions for landing on Mars. Around the time I had the Boys Book of Space, there was a children's drama series on television on Saturday teatime called Pathfinders in Space - which went on to three series - Pathfinders to the Moon, Pathfinders to Venus, and Pathfinders to Mars. Unfortunately the television broke down when one of the astronauts fell down a pit on the moon and saw some strange writing on the wall and it took over fifty years for me to find out what happene next, which I did when the series was released on DVD - and there was a real spine tingling moment when it was revealed where the writing came from!
When I was in my early teenage years, the defining film came out regarding space travel - 2001. Never understood it and never really have but it was such a beautiful experience!
I do take an interest in a lot of the documentaries on television about space travel, although it is by no means an obsession.
Finally a joke ... so sorry about this ....
"Doctor, I keep seeing a bright star in the sky. Tell me doctor, is it Sirius (... just in case you need it explaining, it is a pun on 'is it serious'.)
Sorry about that one!
I did go to a talk a few months back about the satellites of the outer planets. We do know so much more about them than when I was a youngster because of the probes. The images can be very detailed and emphasise that there seem to be no two bodies in the solar system that are alike - they've just discovered snowdrifts on Pluto, which you wouldn't find on volcanic places like Io.
After hundreds of millions of years as the sun grows hotter, it's possible these places may support life, although not as we know it. That's why they crashed Cassini into Saturn.
There are several more dwarf planets found now besides Pluto, so I wonder if there's any chance of a probe to those getting off the ground. I might be interested in links to recent articles or still images. July's Sky at Night is on the 8th for those of us with access to BBC TV (I mentioned it before & it's partly the fact it's on irregular dates that makes it hard to remember to watch). They used to do monthly sky maps too. Even in the city, I noticed Jupiter is very bright and close to the Moon at the moment.
Do you mean exploration by unmanned probes to other planets, satellites, comets etc?
Yes!
Thaaaaanks for that, "Troglu"! Some things are fiendishly hard to find upon the 'net, and that exact number (exact-ish?!) is one of them! I asked it as if I wanted to write my own Program... ;-)
Astronomy and natural cycles and History are a very important thing to know. Too bad this is not taught in Schools... but that is another conversation altogether... Thank You again.
...Greetings. Glad I/we could specify, here... Yes, you changed the title, from Astronomy in general, to specifiying "Space Exploration" specifically with specific specification, there...
What I said still stands, for myself:
but little probes with little power and little distance are not very interesting. I say get rid of "Jet Propulsion" and focus upon AntiGravity, is what I say... But it is too expensive and so that is why it is currently so limited. (..It Gets rid of Oxides and just uses pure Elements like Gold and Lithium.)
...That bit, there. But I guess that is not what is to be discussed here. I also said that I had long thought myself of starting an Astronomy Thread - to discuss Moon Phases, Sun Position, Constellations...and so forth.
The only reason I do not start it now is because... Summer is here and when it is really hot then I am OFF this Forum!
Good Luck with this Thread, anyone...!
Ah, I think you changed the title. Do you mean exploration by unmanned probes to other planets, satellites, comets etc?
Or even other stars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
I've only skimmed the long 'Journey' video, but it seems to include images of the satellites of outer planets from actual missions plus later bits of CGI where a bit more imagination has been used.
I am more interested in Space Exploration.
