cubinator

I've had temperatures around -20° C almost all week. For me the actual temp is projected to get down to -21° F (-29° C, 235° K) on New Year's morning. We haven't been going outside except when necessary. And yes, I've been getting snow. It snowed an inch or two this morning, in fact, and made the roads all slippery.

Longer fairings tend to cause problems too IRL, I think...

(Gravitational lensing of a background galaxy by a foreground one) By black matter, you must mean what is more commonly called dark matter? Relativity is a pretty solid concept, and we know well what happens to light as it passes through a gravitational field from observation of large galaxies. Black holes are black because any light that falls in doesn't have enough velocity to come out again. They (the black part at least) are not made of matter, but are a region of spacetime where the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. The mysterious additional mass of galaxies is problematic not only because of how much there is, but how it affects the movement of stars. We see stars in the outer edges of galaxies moving a lot faster than they should be if there was only normal matter, while stars in the core move more like we'd expect. This doesn't work out if the mass is concentrated in a central black hole as you (and traditional physics) predict. There seems to be extra mass in the outer regions of galaxies, which we call dark matter. Dark matter also seems to exist way out in intergalactic space in great quantities, so it must not be highly concentrated. We know this is true because we can see gravitational lensing around seemingly empty space on galactic scales.

I tested "Ouranos" once and it was received pretty well. However, I think the best option would be to convert to the Greek "Caelus". It would be a diversion from the typical Roman planet naming scheme, but it's towards a just cause. It also sounds a lot less out of place than "George". Perhaps we should petition the IAU? There are aerodynamic issues that come into play, you can't just put a bigger fairing just like you can't just put moar boosters on the side. In some cases it works out but I don't think FH can take much more fairing size. It's long been talked about as a issue with the system.

Nice. I have a tentative theme for FH, will have to see if I can make it long enough and sync it to the launch.

I think I can explain this...but it might mean the universe actually has a third dimension.

Because it's science fantasy and its supposed to be fun without the burden of HAL-9000 style realism.

That's interesting. I wonder what information you could glean by poking around in the magnetic field.

"NO"

Guys, the pun thread is over there.

I figured it out... WE ARE ON THE UNOBSERVED SIDE

If somebody builds a few such telescopes, I'm sure he'd be happy to sell a few launches.

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Sure, as long as you have enough gas to combust you could have fire. It definitely would look different in a vacuum though.

Yeah but we can still have our cool picture of a black dot.

It was -20° C yesterday and I had a cold so I couldn't breathe the air outside.

"Rocket not included. Some assembly required."

So they're moving the payload to mate it to the rocket, then?

How are you going to get the rails to the surface?

Can't the Tesla pull about 3 gees on its own?

Speaking of "Broom Boy"... I really like that inclusion. It shows a new generation of people all around the galaxy inspired by the Rebellion and the Force - new energy for the saga.

Bad Odyssey ideas:

"Main Theme - Waluigi's Tacostand" you friccin moron you don't put garlic on the tacos

I figured as much.

I think they should be more worried about the lack of air to play Space Oddity into... The real question is will the speakers be loud enough to hear over 27 Merlin engines?