cubinator

I don't know. Can you reach the mirror without disassembly?

Good luck! My really basic guidelines (don't take it too seriously, you may not see exactly this): About a moon-width south of Hydor, there's two objects really close to each other and a third one off to the left (looking through the mirror-image of the telescope, and also in the Northern hemisphere). The rightmost and brighter of the two close objects is Neptune.

Shh, I have to discover that myself. I've drawn out what I saw as exactly as I could while holding a notecard up in the air and drawing wearing winter gloves in the dark, so I should be able to find that spot again and determine whether there's motion or not. Besides, it may be a few days before I get skies clear enough to see anyways, so it has plenty of time to move at it's measly 5.43 km/s.

If you have a decent telescope and clear skies you should check. It's really quite easy to find once you locate Hydor with the naked eye, if you check out Stellarium or a similar star chart first.

I saw Neptune! It's really far away.

Source?

I have just observed Neptune! I looked in Stellarium to see what was going to be up tonight, and saw the Moon of course, but also Neptune would be quite near a naked-eye star. I decided to draw the view on a notecard and take my chances. I watched the Moon until it was dark enough to see my reference star, Hydor, then pointed my telescope there and consulted my notecard. After some searching I found the arrangement I was looking for, with several magnitude 9 stars around slightly brighter and slightly bluish Neptune. Now, the weather is a little iffy for tomorrow, but I took a second notecard to draw what I could see and I will try to look again the next night I can to look for motion to confirm that the object is indeed Neptune.

There's not a lot of nitrogen on the Moon... Yeah but like I said you have to bring millions of tons of nitrogen if you want to fill an entire tube. That would need a lot of rockets and for not necessarily much benefit.

I noticed that what they did is they actually took those pictures, and had them be "Street View" locations on Earth, inside the NASA Johnson building where they keep the ISS mockup modules.

Can't wait to get my Chinese speedcubes delivered by spaceship.

Ah, so that's the motive. I think you're about 10^3 times off there.

You would also need something like millions of tons of air to fill an entire cave 50 km long.

The Sun would probably radiate a bunch of light and matter for a while and irradiate the planets a lot more than usual, but when I tried it in Universe Sandbox one big thing I noticed was it got bumped about 450 m/s. That's enough to change the orbits of the planets slightly, so you'd have higher eccentricities and thus more extreme seasonal climate changes. It also turned blue, but I wouldn't really count on that that much.

I can attest to that.

These caves have been known for a while to exist, we have discovered about 200 skylights so far. What's new and exciting about this is that we actually have measured one of these caves and it's as big as we predicted. The possibilities are really intriguing. I had a lot of fun climbing down a small lava tube in Idaho before eclipse day, but doing so in a similar lunar cave would be incredibly dangerous - the rocks are unstable and sharp. I would carry an extra roll of Kapton tape going down there.

I prefer this style:

Make sure that that that happens in 2084 as well, because I wrote a song with that title.

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The trip to Mars will probably be a joint effort with lots of organizations pitching in to make it happen. A certain Martian will spur the World Cube Association into becoming the Interplanetary Cube Association by hosting a competition during an early mission in the 2020s (optimistically) or 2030s. He will also have brought a Jeb Kerman plushie with him. During the early missions, some things that will have to be built on Mars: -A habitable enclosure, probably inflatable and packed in boxes sent one alignment in advance. Later habitats will probably be made of a brick or clay-like substance manufactured from the regolith and be partially or entirely underground. -Food and oxygen production, through conventional methods at first with modular greenhouses eventually providing most of the inhabitants chemical and biological needs. -Infrastructure for landing, launching, and maintaining visiting spaceships. Landing on rocks isn't the best for engine bells, so it would be helpful to construct a landing pad so that future rockets are in better health.

You also can't land with wings on Mars, which SpaceX needs to be able to do if they want to have a one-size-fits-all planetary lander, which they do.

Granted. It slides entirely out of this plane and you can't reach it anymore. I wish to visit the south pole.

True I've found that 55 is just about the right temperature to keep my body at optimal temperature throughout the mowing without having to sweat. Unfortunately, it's almost never that cold when I have to mow the lawn.

That would make dirt more expensive than gold.

Skeletons are all fun and games, after all!

Check in the PMM? I think that's one place where trash is stored.