Off-Topic Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of NASA

[Suhrthing]

I mean, this is totally out of my area of expertise, so I’m just like a noob reading National Geographic or something, but my understanding is that it hit at an oblique angle, and that the moon has, or is made up of a lot of the earth’s mantle, which is less dense than the entire earth. The whole thing is just so incredibly freaky to imagine - basically two planets crashing into each other like that, the amount of energy involved is mind-boggling.

Off the top of my head, I think they’ve identified two galaxies crashing into each other somewhere out there. Although the timescale involved is hard for a human, like me, to even comprehend.

Yeah we're built to survive on earth, we just don't have the intuition to understand space and time on a cosmic scale. That being said I can't wait to see more pics from the Webb Space telescope, it's kinda crazy to think that its only been since the 90s w/ Hubble that we've had the understanding of how galaxy-dense the observable universe is.

 

[JD08]

There is actually an explanation, partly explained by the theory of Theia. Which is the theory of how the moon was formed by a Mars sized object, colliding with the Earth, what a mess. Also, it apparently has a comparatively smaller iron core than the Earth. Sorry, I’m just a nerd about this stuff.

So... not a giant spaceship made by long extinct aliens powered by a captured white dwarf?

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Yeah we're built to survive on earth, we just don't have the intuition to understand space and time on a cosmic scale. That being said I can't wait to see more pics from the Webb Space telescope, it's kinda crazy to think that its only been since the 90s w/ Hubble that we've had the understanding of how galaxy-dense the observable universe is.

You want to cogitate on something? What was there before the Big Bang? How and why did it happen? Did it just come out of nowhere? What made it go boom? We literally went from nothingness to a universe full of wonders.

 

[ddann]

You want to cogitate on something? What was there before the Big Bang? How and why did it happen? Did it just come out of nowhere? What made it go boom? We literally went from nothingness to a universe full of wonders.

Do you believe random explosions out of nothing can result in “a universe full of wonders”?

Sort of like how all of those state of the art high rise condos suddenly popped up on their own in southwest FL right after the last hurricane swept through…

Order comes from disorder?

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Do you believe random explosions out of nothing can result in “a universe full of wonders”?

That’s the question isn’t it?

 

[Suhrthing]

You want to cogitate on something? What was there before the Big Bang? How and why did it happen? Did it just come out of nowhere? What made it go boom? We literally went from nothingness to a universe full of wonders.

We're not tuned to ever answer that question. We're tuned to survive life on this tiny rock in a sea of billions of galaxies. We should strive to understand even our own perceptions of reality before we try to unravel the secrets of the universes origins.

 

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Royal Astronomical Society CANCELS NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

An interstellar row has broken out between the Royal Astronomical Society and Nasa over claims a former boss purged *** staff.

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[pubmedu]

NASA asks for ideas to save Hubble by boosting telescope's orbit

Since it was last serviced by the US space agency's now retired space shuttle programme in 2009, the 32-year-old observatory has come down by about 15 miles (25km).

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[pubmedu]

NASA's Perseverance Rover deposits its first sample of Martian rock

NASA's Perseverance Rover has deposited its first sample which may be sent back to Earth. The rover will drop off a further nine samples in the next two months.

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NASA captures Mars winter wonderland of megadunes and snowflakes

Winter on Mars transforms the Red Planet into something spectacular, but it's not quite like like a Hallmark greeting card's holiday scene.

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[nobeastofburden]

Harness the asteroids. Space is the battle. Thanks Trump.

 

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NASA's James Webb discovers its first PLANET just 41 light-years away

NASA announced Wednesday that James Webb has discovered its first planet. Formally classified as LHS 475 b., the exoplanet is 99 percent of Earth's diameter.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[pubmedu]

US and Russian astronauts stuck waiting in space after spacecraft suffered damage

NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos announced Wednesday that to bring astronauts home, a spare spacecraft will be launched to replace damaged one.

www.yahoo.com

 

[nobeastofburden]

US and Russian astronauts stuck waiting in space after spacecraft suffered damage

NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos announced Wednesday that to bring astronauts home, a spare spacecraft will be launched to replace damaged one.

www.yahoo.com

Collusion I'm sure.

 

[ddann]

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NASA's James Webb discovers its first PLANET just 41 light-years away

NASA announced Wednesday that James Webb has discovered its first planet. Formally classified as LHS 475 b., the exoplanet is 99 percent of Earth's diameter.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It’s similar to Earth!!!!

Fine print:

• The team is unsure what the atmosphere is made of or if it has one

 

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Where are the Apollo astronauts now after Walter Cunningham's death?

Walter Cunningham became the eighth Apollo astronaut to die in the last five years when he passed away this month aged 90. Here MailOnline looks at what happened to the 32 iconic US spacemen.

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