BOINC View Thread Reply INTERPOL !3mB4iDBpWw - Sun, 24 May 2015 00:38:44 EST kiOQuM9F No.55362 File: 1432442324237.jpg -(460601B / 449.81KB, 1170x778) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Hey allI just got a new video card and decided to fire up the old BOINC to see how it stacks up to the old ones I had. At the zenith of my BOINC days I had x2 5970's doing 4 workunits, one for each GPU, every 1:30-2:00 minutes each. This 7990 that I just got is doing 2 workunits in 12 seconds for the easy ones and 30 seconds for the longer ones, but they have them mixed in with each other. So in the time it took to draw a 3d map of the cosmos in one unit for my old setup if I only counted one card, my new one is doing the work of just over 4 of my old cards in the same amount of time.Is there still any interest in this now that Bitcoin shit the bed finally? We can start using our unused CPU and GPU cycles again for science if you want to join the team, we have teams for most of the major projects, Rosetta, Milkyway, Primegrid, etc. >> George Gamow - Tue, 26 May 2015 09:03:53 EST 0IM2ydyR No.55370 Reply >>55362I should stop being lazy and get into this now that you've reminded me. >> INTERPOL !3mB4iDBpWw - Wed, 27 May 2015 23:09:31 EST kiOQuM9F No.55373 Reply >>553702 days plugging away at it on and off (not even really trying), I'm already in the top 300 out of nearly 3 and a half million people in recent credit. >> Edwin Salpeter - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:31:35 EST lHGvTKQL No.55378 Reply Cool beans, interpol.I like to say "boinc" and I like what they're trying to do but my graphics cards sucks balls, so keep up the good work!
>> George Gamow - Tue, 26 May 2015 09:03:53 EST 0IM2ydyR No.55370 Reply >>55362I should stop being lazy and get into this now that you've reminded me.
>> INTERPOL !3mB4iDBpWw - Wed, 27 May 2015 23:09:31 EST kiOQuM9F No.55373 Reply >>553702 days plugging away at it on and off (not even really trying), I'm already in the top 300 out of nearly 3 and a half million people in recent credit.
>> Edwin Salpeter - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:31:35 EST lHGvTKQL No.55378 Reply Cool beans, interpol.I like to say "boinc" and I like what they're trying to do but my graphics cards sucks balls, so keep up the good work!
The coldest spot in the known universe View Thread Reply Hide Mike Brown - Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:29:09 EST KfBom9VV No.52948 File: 1391725749022.jpg -(92253B / 90.09KB, 753x587) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. http://phys.org/news/2014-02-coldest-universe.html>NASA researchers are planning to create the coldest spot in the known universe inside the International Space Station.>Researchers like Thompson think of the Cold Atom Lab as a doorway into the quantum world. Could the door swing both ways? If the temperature drops low enough, "we'll be able to assemble atomic wave packets as wide as a human hair—that is, big enough for the human eye to see." A creature of quantum physics will have entered the macroscopic world. 9 posts and 1 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin - Mon, 18 May 2015 20:13:18 EST 1K+dACgX No.55325 Reply >>55319Western audiences wouldn't get the reference using any other board, but the philosophy behind ancient Chinese chess aphorisms remains, hence the disconnect between what is seen and what is heard. >> Heinrich Olbers - Tue, 26 May 2015 22:01:17 EST 3/OhnWkk No.55371 Reply No guys, it's my fucking ex girlfriends heart. >> Walter Baade - Wed, 27 May 2015 22:59:37 EST jOF47H5F No.55372 Reply >>55371/qq/
>> Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin - Mon, 18 May 2015 20:13:18 EST 1K+dACgX No.55325 Reply >>55319Western audiences wouldn't get the reference using any other board, but the philosophy behind ancient Chinese chess aphorisms remains, hence the disconnect between what is seen and what is heard.
>> Heinrich Olbers - Tue, 26 May 2015 22:01:17 EST 3/OhnWkk No.55371 Reply No guys, it's my fucking ex girlfriends heart.
the coal of space colonies View Thread Reply Hide Robert Dicke - Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:11:33 EST 415JX8nG No.55023 File: 1423631493853.jpg -(63140B / 61.66KB, 600x428) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I recently came across a wikipedia article on carbonaceous chondrites, a particular kind of asteroid.Www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonaceous_chondriteBut what makes these awesome is that they are up to 20% water, contain amino acids (which is very interesting), and sulfur compounds and other biologically useful compounds.To me it seems readily apparent that these things could of fueled the formation of life during the earths construction. But if these things brought life to earth, shouldn't we bring them to planets and moons we colonize? I mean, work backwards man. A cool thought is that the first asteroid we bring to mars will be the beginning of its inevitable terra formation 22 posts and 8 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Alan Guth - Mon, 25 May 2015 02:59:25 EST 415JX8nG No.55367 Reply Maybe we could build a giant lens in between mars and the sun. Tons of giant sheet like lenses layered over a huge distance, possibly all the way inside mercury's orbit, set up kind of like the death stars planet destroyer. The ones closer to the sun would be a mix of the future lenses and mirrors, concentrating the photons into a series of additional sheet lenses inbetween the sun and mars. The lenses in this part would play two primary functions, further concentrate the sun, and also block protons emanating from the sun, (assuming protons actually move in a straight line from the sun, I have a hunch they don't.) Of course it would be a massive infrastructure project, be we're terraforming baby. The technology I'm talking about will also be here soon, if not on this scale. >> Bernhard Schmidt - Mon, 25 May 2015 03:36:19 EST YHjXylC8 No.55368 Reply 1432539379762.jpg -(130941B / 127.87KB, 768x512) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55367Objects closer to the thing they orbit have a shorter period, though slower velocity than objects further out.The interaction between two object's orbits produces 5 areas where technically an object could sit relative to the planet. In practice, objects don't remain there for very long (Lagrange 1 and 2 are particularly unstable) until reactions with the other bodies and the solar wind pulls them out, except for Jupiter, because Jupiter is fucking massive.Any large sheets put outside a magnetic field in space will function like a solar sail, being pushed back by the solar wind it catches/deflects.Magnetic sails work the same way, except they use an imbalanced in charged particles captured in a magnetic field to deflect charged particles. >> Alan Guth - Mon, 25 May 2015 11:15:15 EST 415JX8nG No.55369 Reply >>55368Yeah I thought about that after I posted it, can't just stick whatever I want wherever I want, there are no arbitrary orbits
>> Alan Guth - Mon, 25 May 2015 02:59:25 EST 415JX8nG No.55367 Reply Maybe we could build a giant lens in between mars and the sun. Tons of giant sheet like lenses layered over a huge distance, possibly all the way inside mercury's orbit, set up kind of like the death stars planet destroyer. The ones closer to the sun would be a mix of the future lenses and mirrors, concentrating the photons into a series of additional sheet lenses inbetween the sun and mars. The lenses in this part would play two primary functions, further concentrate the sun, and also block protons emanating from the sun, (assuming protons actually move in a straight line from the sun, I have a hunch they don't.) Of course it would be a massive infrastructure project, be we're terraforming baby. The technology I'm talking about will also be here soon, if not on this scale.
>> Bernhard Schmidt - Mon, 25 May 2015 03:36:19 EST YHjXylC8 No.55368 Reply 1432539379762.jpg -(130941B / 127.87KB, 768x512) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55367Objects closer to the thing they orbit have a shorter period, though slower velocity than objects further out.The interaction between two object's orbits produces 5 areas where technically an object could sit relative to the planet. In practice, objects don't remain there for very long (Lagrange 1 and 2 are particularly unstable) until reactions with the other bodies and the solar wind pulls them out, except for Jupiter, because Jupiter is fucking massive.Any large sheets put outside a magnetic field in space will function like a solar sail, being pushed back by the solar wind it catches/deflects.Magnetic sails work the same way, except they use an imbalanced in charged particles captured in a magnetic field to deflect charged particles.
>> Alan Guth - Mon, 25 May 2015 11:15:15 EST 415JX8nG No.55369 Reply >>55368Yeah I thought about that after I posted it, can't just stick whatever I want wherever I want, there are no arbitrary orbits
What if real space is whats outside this reality? Oh God this is driving me nuts View Thread Reply Hide Mike Brown - Wed, 20 May 2015 02:17:19 EST ipV4Szrg No.55327 File: 1432102639228.jpg -(845941B / 826.11KB, 1024x768) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. What if this reality (all of its dimensions which are interconnected) exist in a vacuum like we observe outside of the limits of Earth, but on a higher scale?And what if BEINGS like "angels" or "gods" existed in this "space"?Could any "being" from this realm ever exist in this new concept of "space"?What implications does this have on philosophy, on religion, on spirituality, on the meaning of life in general?If this was somehow proven to be true, what is the purposed of living here on a smaller, obviously now inferior scale?Is it meaningless to think of such a thing in this life, even if it was real?Even more importantly does anyone know what I'm talking about? 2 posts omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Tycho Brahe - Thu, 21 May 2015 17:07:26 EST eJc7PJV5 No.55335 Reply OP next time you're gonna fly somewhere, take the window seat of a plane and watch out the window as it takes off... >> Allan Sandage - Fri, 22 May 2015 11:36:01 EST oFxIIvpQ No.55349 Reply >>55331>>55335You're right.Don't smoke a pound of DMT your first time, right....This kinda thinking only leads to one place eventually... >> Arthur Eddington - Fri, 22 May 2015 17:43:29 EST eJc7PJV5 No.55353 Reply >>55349Smoking a pound of DMT is stupid... IMO it would be better to take progressively large doses each time, and to space things out. High speed mental re-formatting is fun as fuck but don't give the people at D.A.R.E. the opportunity of using your misuse to give a bad name for DMT
>> Tycho Brahe - Thu, 21 May 2015 17:07:26 EST eJc7PJV5 No.55335 Reply OP next time you're gonna fly somewhere, take the window seat of a plane and watch out the window as it takes off...
>> Allan Sandage - Fri, 22 May 2015 11:36:01 EST oFxIIvpQ No.55349 Reply >>55331>>55335You're right.Don't smoke a pound of DMT your first time, right....This kinda thinking only leads to one place eventually...
>> Arthur Eddington - Fri, 22 May 2015 17:43:29 EST eJc7PJV5 No.55353 Reply >>55349Smoking a pound of DMT is stupid... IMO it would be better to take progressively large doses each time, and to space things out. High speed mental re-formatting is fun as fuck but don't give the people at D.A.R.E. the opportunity of using your misuse to give a bad name for DMT
cause science View Thread Reply Hide Georges-Henri Lemaitre - Sat, 09 May 2015 05:30:50 EST PbKyoTEf No.55282 File: 1431163850929.jpg -(94545B / 92.33KB, 900x473) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Maybe I'm just too uneducated of a pleb in the realm of physics to see why this isn't the case, but can someone explain to me why, if we need to adjust our models with something that is 97% at least partially empirically unsubstantiated (dark matter-energy) then why don't we question first if there is some flaw in our model or bias in our thinking?Thought experiment to exemplify: for the most part, we as biological beings as well as our most advanced instrumentation can detect faster than light particles in only the most abstruse ways; our perception, as is perhaps natural given our evolutionary heritage, is tuned to light. Might the supposition that no (or only special) particles go FTL be an example of circular thinking? Could not the existence of small but significant portions of the universe moving faster than light at any given time, such as ships from interstellar civilizations, or perhaps natural ftl phenomena which is invisible to our photon based instrumentation, account for the observed matter-energy discrepancy (given that an ftl object would disporportionately displace and deflect photons compared to any object moving in normal space, and that, if such ftl worked on means of creating geometric distortions in spacetime such as the Alcubierre drive, produce a net distortion on the observed mass of the universe by the fact of their mass negating local spacetime frames. )This idea is cobbled together from wikipedia articles, some post-sec hard sciences, watching too much star trek and being turnt the fuck up. If someone more versed in physics can explain to me why there is a very good reason this cannot be the case, I'd very much like to hear it. 21 posts and 3 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Edwin Hubble - Tue, 12 May 2015 19:14:35 EST RVWMYu65 No.55316 Reply >>55310Not exactly. Dark energy is most commonly explained by the presence of a cosmological constant. It's a term in Einstein's GR which falls out in the derivation, Einstein famously used it to fix a relativistic universe to be static when really the equations would predict a collapsing or expanding universe in the presence of matter only. The cosmological constant seems perfectly capable of doing the job but there are concerns with it and particle physics. In a sense the cosmological constant is gravity as we understand it today.The next idea is to remove the issues with particle physics and set the cosmological constant to zero. It is replaced with modifications to Einstein's gravity at large scales. These other gravitational models can also describe dark energy as it is observed. The other idea is of course 5th forces like quintessence. These are often harder to test but predictive models of them do exist.This is why dark energy experiments are so big right now because cosmology has built a bridge to particle physics and the fundamental forces can be tested on the largest scales. >> Daniel Kirkwood - Fri, 15 May 2015 16:17:06 EST AKbZww5z No.55320 Reply >>55315I agree, this is a waste of time. This thread has clearly already come to it's conclusions, mostly through just reiterating your own thoughts so loudly that any idea I was articulating got drowned out. For all the shit you know, you are really fucking dumb as a brick and painfully -- dangerously -- narrow minded. If you can't see the circular arguments in your own statements, I feel sorry for you son. Keep worshipping at the scientism altar for as long as you like. Good luck with that.Nb because this thread was shittrolled into never really discussing the matter of the OP. >> Annie Cannon - Sun, 17 May 2015 19:05:23 EST X4AXKa/R No.55323 Reply >>55320Your entire argument is circular as I pointed out. When pressed for evidence all you do is dig the hole deeper and deeper and gradually add insults as sophism fails.
>> Edwin Hubble - Tue, 12 May 2015 19:14:35 EST RVWMYu65 No.55316 Reply >>55310Not exactly. Dark energy is most commonly explained by the presence of a cosmological constant. It's a term in Einstein's GR which falls out in the derivation, Einstein famously used it to fix a relativistic universe to be static when really the equations would predict a collapsing or expanding universe in the presence of matter only. The cosmological constant seems perfectly capable of doing the job but there are concerns with it and particle physics. In a sense the cosmological constant is gravity as we understand it today.The next idea is to remove the issues with particle physics and set the cosmological constant to zero. It is replaced with modifications to Einstein's gravity at large scales. These other gravitational models can also describe dark energy as it is observed. The other idea is of course 5th forces like quintessence. These are often harder to test but predictive models of them do exist.This is why dark energy experiments are so big right now because cosmology has built a bridge to particle physics and the fundamental forces can be tested on the largest scales.
>> Daniel Kirkwood - Fri, 15 May 2015 16:17:06 EST AKbZww5z No.55320 Reply >>55315I agree, this is a waste of time. This thread has clearly already come to it's conclusions, mostly through just reiterating your own thoughts so loudly that any idea I was articulating got drowned out. For all the shit you know, you are really fucking dumb as a brick and painfully -- dangerously -- narrow minded. If you can't see the circular arguments in your own statements, I feel sorry for you son. Keep worshipping at the scientism altar for as long as you like. Good luck with that.Nb because this thread was shittrolled into never really discussing the matter of the OP.
>> Annie Cannon - Sun, 17 May 2015 19:05:23 EST X4AXKa/R No.55323 Reply >>55320Your entire argument is circular as I pointed out. When pressed for evidence all you do is dig the hole deeper and deeper and gradually add insults as sophism fails.
Spacecoach View Thread Reply Hide James Elliott - Mon, 11 May 2015 03:37:52 EST 1ALY54rn No.55304 File: 1431329872054.jpg -(98274B / 95.97KB, 636x602) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Anyone else hear about this idea, I think its pretty clever. Building non-atmospheric water ice/liquid inflatable craft and using the water as a low thrust high impulse engine fuel. This design also, potentially, solves other issues like hull integrity, radiation shielding, self-sustainable life support and maybe even supplying oxygen and hydrogen gases.http://spacecoach.org/
Why aren't we building a moon base yet? View Thread Reply Hide Bernard-Ferdinand Lyot - Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:51:23 EST 2JDq4Uoe No.55162 File: 1427248283576.jpg -(157411B / 153.72KB, 640x654) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. So hear me out guys, getting on the moon is seriously important. Why is it so expensive and difficult for us to send things to space? It's because of 2 things, breaking free from the Earth's gravity and surviving re-entry into the atmosphere. All of our rockets, satellites, space probes, etc. have to have a massive amount of fuel and ablative armor. The moon is located in a strategically beneficial spot, right at the top of Earth's gravity well. Once we spend the initial capital to establish a permanent or semi permanent settlement on the moon, the door to space really opens. We can then design our spacecraft without the need for massive thrust and armor, and wont need to spend nearly as much fuel to get around out there. It doesnt take much to move an object through space, and breaking free of the moon's gravity is exponentially easier than breaking free from Terra. And moving resources from the moon to earth is even easier, just a little push and they fall back to earth on their own. With even a tiny colony on the moon to act as a port of sorts, the trouble of monetizing space mining is essentially solved. Not to mention the insane amount of solar power that can be gotten from the raw, unfiltered power of the Sun. We need to do this guys, we're quickly running out of several natural resources, rare earth metals in particular, which we're only just beginning to rely heavily on (theyre used in just about any battery, especially phone batteries and electric cars) and they can all be found in the asteroid belt. The Moon is the answer, and it's right at our doorstep. If we could get there in the 60's with the computing equivalent of a dollar store calculator, then we have no excuses to not go with today's technology.>TL;DR- fuck solving world hunger or social issues, lets just go to the moon. 22 posts and 8 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Robert Wilson - Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:39:12 EST hfHw2FxQ No.55245 Reply 1429223952878.gif -(2024434B / 1.93MB, 400x225) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Do you think the "Earth will not be habitable forever, we need to move on" message will get through to the politicians and other idiots? Nevermind the religious nuts who want the apocalypse to happen. >> Walter Baade - Tue, 05 May 2015 09:56:18 EST vRWwm6cm No.55277 Reply You still have to get all the fuel and stuff to the moon, and assemble it there. May as well just do the same thing with LEO if you're going to space anyway. >> Fritz Zwicky - Thu, 07 May 2015 09:07:36 EST llcsDD25 No.55280 Reply 1431004056504.gif -(93822B / 91.62KB, 721x483) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55277But that's wrong Walter, it's already there. There's an initial investment of resources sure, but that's true of anything.
>> Robert Wilson - Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:39:12 EST hfHw2FxQ No.55245 Reply 1429223952878.gif -(2024434B / 1.93MB, 400x225) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Do you think the "Earth will not be habitable forever, we need to move on" message will get through to the politicians and other idiots? Nevermind the religious nuts who want the apocalypse to happen.
>> Walter Baade - Tue, 05 May 2015 09:56:18 EST vRWwm6cm No.55277 Reply You still have to get all the fuel and stuff to the moon, and assemble it there. May as well just do the same thing with LEO if you're going to space anyway.
>> Fritz Zwicky - Thu, 07 May 2015 09:07:36 EST llcsDD25 No.55280 Reply 1431004056504.gif -(93822B / 91.62KB, 721x483) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55277But that's wrong Walter, it's already there. There's an initial investment of resources sure, but that's true of anything.
sonic booms collide View Thread Reply Hide James van Allen - Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:15:48 EST BvXkbDPl No.54742 File: 1417425348666.gif -(330351B / 322.61KB, 280x177) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. what would it be if two sonic booms "collided" into each other? 13 posts and 2 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> George Airy - Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:45:49 EST a5zMFg9h No.55152 Reply Consider what a sonic boom actually is: a pressure wave.Matter waves pass through one another unaffected. >> Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:33:31 EST A9+znK2f No.55226 Reply >>54742a sonic boom colliding is redundant because a sonic boom is all ready the over stacking of sonic waves, isn't it? >> Riccardo Giacconi - Tue, 05 May 2015 23:56:06 EST 9S1uGKA/ No.55278 Reply >>55226But what if two jet planes traveling mach 1+ pass by each other, would the two groups of stacking sonic waves even interact with each other? or like the other guy said and pass through each other. I for one, hope that they would create a MEGA boom. the flow chart would be as suchsuper->mega->ultra->SHIT NIGGA YOU CRAZY
>> George Airy - Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:45:49 EST a5zMFg9h No.55152 Reply Consider what a sonic boom actually is: a pressure wave.Matter waves pass through one another unaffected.
>> Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:33:31 EST A9+znK2f No.55226 Reply >>54742a sonic boom colliding is redundant because a sonic boom is all ready the over stacking of sonic waves, isn't it?
>> Riccardo Giacconi - Tue, 05 May 2015 23:56:06 EST 9S1uGKA/ No.55278 Reply >>55226But what if two jet planes traveling mach 1+ pass by each other, would the two groups of stacking sonic waves even interact with each other? or like the other guy said and pass through each other. I for one, hope that they would create a MEGA boom. the flow chart would be as suchsuper->mega->ultra->SHIT NIGGA YOU CRAZY
Theories on black holes/universe View Thread Reply Hide Walter Baade - Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:39:25 EST g7PRBuUF No.55225 File: 1428842365640.jpg -(20997B / 20.50KB, 540x540) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. What are some curious theories on what this all is? Existence in the universe is mind blowing when I sit down and think of what we are really a part of. What are your own theories about what we call 'space' is? Like, what's going on from a bigger perspective? Or smaller? 6 posts and 4 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Daniel Kirkwood - Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:11:48 EST kJab1AwD No.55248 Reply 1429452708795.jpg -(1818505B / 1.73MB, 3264x1836) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55225OP MOST 85% OF THE UNIVERSE IS DARK MATTER/EENERGY. ANDROID WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BECAUSE NO ONE CAN SEE IT >> Alan Guth - Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:32:10 EST 9uY/b809 No.55262 Reply Am I the only one who thinks we are in the cosmic space turtles dream? Fuck. >> Clyde Tombaugh - Mon, 04 May 2015 10:53:18 EST 6YVGyMb+ No.55275 Reply 1430751198999.jpg -(563368B / 550.16KB, 1920x1080) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I made up a story for school. Where the universe is a gaint being thats further then the 4th dimension and we live like microbes inside of it and only scens this being in a 3th dimensional way . But its on a scale so big we cant understand further than intended,just like microbes we just live our purpose but cant visualise the being where in. And black holes are like a chemo killing microbes or problems that harm the universe.
>> Daniel Kirkwood - Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:11:48 EST kJab1AwD No.55248 Reply 1429452708795.jpg -(1818505B / 1.73MB, 3264x1836) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55225OP MOST 85% OF THE UNIVERSE IS DARK MATTER/EENERGY. ANDROID WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BECAUSE NO ONE CAN SEE IT
>> Alan Guth - Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:32:10 EST 9uY/b809 No.55262 Reply Am I the only one who thinks we are in the cosmic space turtles dream? Fuck.
>> Clyde Tombaugh - Mon, 04 May 2015 10:53:18 EST 6YVGyMb+ No.55275 Reply 1430751198999.jpg -(563368B / 550.16KB, 1920x1080) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I made up a story for school. Where the universe is a gaint being thats further then the 4th dimension and we live like microbes inside of it and only scens this being in a 3th dimensional way . But its on a scale so big we cant understand further than intended,just like microbes we just live our purpose but cant visualise the being where in. And black holes are like a chemo killing microbes or problems that harm the universe.
Don't believe the hype. View Thread Reply Hide Mike Brown - Fri, 01 May 2015 21:46:57 EST 4GGSsMJY No.55266 File: 1430531217860.jpg -(424453B / 414.50KB, 2048x1536) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. My roommates are misinformation masters and even though I know you guys are smarter than this, but they are crafting a masterful troll work about how the ISS is damaged beyond repair. Look for it online. Lives lost money lost. Death on parade. Thy are some fucking idiots. >> Bernhard Schmidt - Sat, 02 May 2015 03:53:51 EST lHGvTKQL No.55268 Reply >>55266Thanks for the heads up but I gotta say the ISS is lame as shit, we can do better than that.How about a spinning ring station tidally locked between our moon and the earth? >> Urbain Le Verrier - Sat, 02 May 2015 13:06:30 EST XJHlYsmW No.55270 Reply No, ISS is fine.There was however an ISS-bound Progress cargo ship that got damaged on the way up somehow and is tumbling uncontrollably. That may be what they're thinking of. >> Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Sat, 02 May 2015 22:34:50 EST ihYE5feE No.55272 Reply 1430620490040.jpg -(669013B / 653.33KB, 1920x1080) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55268yeah, that would be way better.I think ISS is situated so that they can ditch it if they want to stop paying for it though.the ring station would probably stay up a lot longer.but to be fair it is the most expensive object ever created by mankind and arguably one of our greatest acheivements.
>> Bernhard Schmidt - Sat, 02 May 2015 03:53:51 EST lHGvTKQL No.55268 Reply >>55266Thanks for the heads up but I gotta say the ISS is lame as shit, we can do better than that.How about a spinning ring station tidally locked between our moon and the earth?
>> Urbain Le Verrier - Sat, 02 May 2015 13:06:30 EST XJHlYsmW No.55270 Reply No, ISS is fine.There was however an ISS-bound Progress cargo ship that got damaged on the way up somehow and is tumbling uncontrollably. That may be what they're thinking of.
>> Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Sat, 02 May 2015 22:34:50 EST ihYE5feE No.55272 Reply 1430620490040.jpg -(669013B / 653.33KB, 1920x1080) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55268yeah, that would be way better.I think ISS is situated so that they can ditch it if they want to stop paying for it though.the ring station would probably stay up a lot longer.but to be fair it is the most expensive object ever created by mankind and arguably one of our greatest acheivements.
Kind of a dumb question. View Thread Reply Hide Harlow Shapley - Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:53:14 EST m296zImB No.55048 File: 1424256794604.jpg -(148947B / 145.46KB, 800x837) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. To live on another planet would the sun and the atmosphere be exactly like earth's? Or could we survive near a red dwarf if the planet was just at the right distance to maintain earthlike temperatures? 43 posts and 9 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Kip Thorne - Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:11:17 EST CtuAeZIA No.55237 Reply >>55233Dude, I know this is a drug board, but come on here... >> Margaret Burbidge - Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:32:45 EST YHjXylC8 No.55238 Reply >>55233Are you the guy claiming solipsism, therefore the Egyptians had advanced understanding of the universe in /b/? >> Harlow Shapley - Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:23:31 EST 415JX8nG No.55239 Reply >>55232I guess personally I do actually believe there is a formal point of life in the grand scheme, but that's sci fi stuff. I didn't realize it came out so much, but I still stand by it.There must be natural rules to alien life, universal forms, just like the formation of mountains. If evolution is dictated by the environment, similar environments should create similar life. We are more related to horses than we are to deer, but similar habitats, similar place in the food chain, and similar food sources created similar animals, at least morphologically.
>> Kip Thorne - Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:11:17 EST CtuAeZIA No.55237 Reply >>55233Dude, I know this is a drug board, but come on here...
>> Margaret Burbidge - Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:32:45 EST YHjXylC8 No.55238 Reply >>55233Are you the guy claiming solipsism, therefore the Egyptians had advanced understanding of the universe in /b/?
>> Harlow Shapley - Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:23:31 EST 415JX8nG No.55239 Reply >>55232I guess personally I do actually believe there is a formal point of life in the grand scheme, but that's sci fi stuff. I didn't realize it came out so much, but I still stand by it.There must be natural rules to alien life, universal forms, just like the formation of mountains. If evolution is dictated by the environment, similar environments should create similar life. We are more related to horses than we are to deer, but similar habitats, similar place in the food chain, and similar food sources created similar animals, at least morphologically.
Nourishment in space View Thread Reply Hide Arthur Eddington - Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:40:12 EST y7G/p//a No.54944 File: 1422297612558.gif -(898330B / 877.28KB, 256x192) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. We won't be having hamburgers in space. Or milk or eggs, for that matter. For every cow slaughtered for food there must be an incredible amount of food grown to sustain the cow. In space stations this may not be feasible due to limited space and resources. We'd be better off focusing energy on hydroponics and a vegan diet would probably be necessary in a long term colony or space station. 28 posts and 8 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> 42 Years at Bernie's - Tue, 07 Apr 2015 04:51:37 EST 0FbY93Uu No.55217 Reply 1428396697224.jpg -(251005B / 245.12KB, 1536x1024) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>54944Sometimes I think Stephen Hawking doesn't even really know anything about space >> William Lassell - Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:08:44 EST vv5qCj4m No.55218 Reply 1428426524165.gif -(2091407B / 1.99MB, 250x343) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55052As a carnivorous man I have never tasted jizz. >> 42 Years at Bernie's - Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:11:18 EST 0FbY93Uu No.55219 Reply >>55218Don't dip the pen in the company ink my manHave a good day
>> 42 Years at Bernie's - Tue, 07 Apr 2015 04:51:37 EST 0FbY93Uu No.55217 Reply 1428396697224.jpg -(251005B / 245.12KB, 1536x1024) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>54944Sometimes I think Stephen Hawking doesn't even really know anything about space
>> William Lassell - Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:08:44 EST vv5qCj4m No.55218 Reply 1428426524165.gif -(2091407B / 1.99MB, 250x343) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>55052As a carnivorous man I have never tasted jizz.
>> 42 Years at Bernie's - Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:11:18 EST 0FbY93Uu No.55219 Reply >>55218Don't dip the pen in the company ink my manHave a good day
Destroying planets View Thread Reply Hide Paul Goldsmith - Wed, 25 Mar 2015 01:03:03 EST kbd81O3H No.55163 File: 1427259783354.jpg -(39309B / 38.39KB, 1133x900) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Why would you want to destroy a planet? In the movie Dark Star, they blew up entire worlds because "instable planets" could threaten the future colonization of other planets. Is it viable to blow up a planet to mine it as with asteroids? What other use could it have? Elimination of gravitatory perturbances in an Interplanetary Transport Network? Blowing it up wouldn't send tons of material into chaotic orbits?Sorry for too many questions. I just read about asteroid mining and thought about why not Jupiter with all that hydrogen? 3 posts and 1 images omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> Grote Reuber - Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:04:33 EST CB4800qQ No.55177 Reply 1427493873374.jpg -(19162B / 18.71KB, 428x214) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Too bad Galileo failed to ignite Jupiter. >> Galileo Galilei - Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:49:03 EST jOF47H5F No.55181 Reply >>55177It's never too late. >> Rudolph Minkowski - Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:16:50 EST OXINl/7g No.55215 Reply >Is it viable to blow up a planet to mine it as with asteroids?That would take a lot of energy, a ton of which would be released as heat. I think the debris would be too hot to be useful or mine-able for a LONG time.>>55177I would be awesome if that dishwasher-sized satellite was the last tiny bit of mass needed to collapse Jupiter's core and start the fusion reaction.
>> Grote Reuber - Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:04:33 EST CB4800qQ No.55177 Reply 1427493873374.jpg -(19162B / 18.71KB, 428x214) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Too bad Galileo failed to ignite Jupiter.
>> Galileo Galilei - Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:49:03 EST jOF47H5F No.55181 Reply >>55177It's never too late.
>> Rudolph Minkowski - Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:16:50 EST OXINl/7g No.55215 Reply >Is it viable to blow up a planet to mine it as with asteroids?That would take a lot of energy, a ton of which would be released as heat. I think the debris would be too hot to be useful or mine-able for a LONG time.>>55177I would be awesome if that dishwasher-sized satellite was the last tiny bit of mass needed to collapse Jupiter's core and start the fusion reaction.
Early space programme View Thread Reply Hide Kiyotsugu Hirayama - Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:00:34 EST A1E2ozZS No.55144 File: 1426701634395.jpg -(25279B / 24.69KB, 350x300) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I recently realised that I'm completely fascinated with the early space programmes / the early space technology / the early space race. I would say from the very beginning until the end of the 80's.My request: recommended information, books, documentaries, websites, cheesy anecdotes.. Anything really.Thanks a lot. 2 posts omitted. Click View Thread to read. >> William de Sitter - Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:07 EST CB4800qQ No.55160 Reply 1427230927705.jpg -(26506B / 25.88KB, 299x324) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I found one of the early motivating factors for the space race. >> Joseph Lockyer - Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:41:19 EST YbQiwQ8y No.55161 Reply Check out Werner von Braun and his V2 rocket built first for the Nazi party, then Americans extradited him to the US (clearing him of any war-crime charges) and put him to work. There is also a Modern Marvels episode called 'Satellite'. Goes pretty in depth about the whole space race etc... >> Stephen Hawking - Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:13:04 EST d7Dhf0QA No.55211 Reply >>55145http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programmeAre you laughing at him for using the correct spelling?nb
>> William de Sitter - Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:07 EST CB4800qQ No.55160 Reply 1427230927705.jpg -(26506B / 25.88KB, 299x324) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I found one of the early motivating factors for the space race.
>> Joseph Lockyer - Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:41:19 EST YbQiwQ8y No.55161 Reply Check out Werner von Braun and his V2 rocket built first for the Nazi party, then Americans extradited him to the US (clearing him of any war-crime charges) and put him to work. There is also a Modern Marvels episode called 'Satellite'. Goes pretty in depth about the whole space race etc...
>> Stephen Hawking - Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:13:04 EST d7Dhf0QA No.55211 Reply >>55145http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programmeAre you laughing at him for using the correct spelling?nb
