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I think it's just for example, since it's the same as the picture on the left except differently colored.

That grid fin maneuvering has looked like it was getting pretty close to a roll resonance right after entry burn shutdown during the last couple launches. I hope they can check that out and make sure it doesn't get out of hand.

Nice "Fly Safe" flag at 1:10 One thing I noticed right here at 13:20: This spaceship is flying near a very bright object, which looks redder on the left and bluer on the right. I can think of three possible reasons why it has the different colors: -It is a funky lens flare that has an aberration effect on it -It is a binary star -It is a black hole

The .MAT file I need to turn in tonight freezes Windows' file system when I click on it because it's a MATLAB data file and not a shortcut.

Pretty sure they're homonyms.

Ouch. The station could potentially be boosted from the US side, but the controls to turn the station around in order to do that are in the Russian segment...and so is the life support. I wonder what the cosmonauts currently up there think of all this...

From that angle and blur, the Starship looks like a ship from Halo.

I don't think that moon lander would fit in the interstage! Here's another nice comparison: Also not quite to scale, but interesting because the perspective is almost exactly the same.

Outer Wilds?

DC10 3.1415926535

Soon: "Yarr, we be plunderin yer methane stores and finest tomatoes"

You mean they're not going to lift it out of the water and land it in Shackleton Crater?

Well, to elaborate on my sun comment: Every nuclear reaction would produce infinite energy, and thus be rightly able to accelerate every atom in the sun to infinite speed instantly. Since the atoms are now traveling at infinite speed, a bunch of them ram right into the Earth after literally no time at all, destroying it and scattering all its atoms in similar fashion. Now because the speed of light is infinite, and all atoms in the Sun are now traveling at infinite speed, they reach all other places in the universe in an instant, carrying the energy to break apart anything in their path. This would occur to every star in the universe, so you would be lucky to be missed by a single atom. Then, like some others have said, things would settle down in another instant and things would get pretty stable at some low temperature.

The sun would explode as nuclear energy overpowers gravity infinitely.

I made some potatoes, and discovered that there are purple potatoes.

If you saw it during the evening in the past couple weeks, it's definitely not Venus.

Well...at least the manuals are up there.

I would say during the entire timespan where it is 3/14 on any part of the planet - BUT you can only post if it is 3/14 where you are.

That would be fun. Maybe we could start at the beginning of March 14, and see how many digits we can get through by the end of the day.

The reason to bring back something like Hubble and see the real thing is similar to the reason to send people into space instead of being content with pictures and data from probes. I want to feel the power of a rocket on my body, the way no IMU's data reading graph can show me. I want to be outside of Earth, not just see what that looks like. I want to interact with the Moon rather than a fascimile of its surface. I want to watch the blue sunset and retrograde moon of Mars around me. Preserving our space probes is a great way to preserve our history, too. Thousands of years from now, the people who used Hubble will be gone, and people will want to know how we took our first steps into space and discovered the vastness of the universe. An actual space probe would let them learn a lot more than a model or picture.

Fun fact, in orbit your greatest rate of change of altitude happens when there is 90 degrees between you, your periapsis, and the body you're orbiting.

Ok, so it turns out this is becoming a series. Maybe I will eventually do all the planets? I would really enjoy having them all hanging on my wall.

...974944592307816406286208998628 Pi day is coming up, we'd better be ready for it.

The ideal combination for me would be MOC + Launchpad audio.

The SpaceX commentaries are ok, but I wish it wasn't exactly the same every time. I could give the presentation...They could try to have some special focus on a particular aspect of the flight or vehicle each time, or just quiet down and let us listen to the vent lines for a while...