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I wonder what they think the Web is showing us?

The wiki page is showing the same pictures, it suppose to be cloud cover.
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Is it combined imagery with Keck?  The text isn't 100% clear on that point...
I wonder what they think Web showing us?

The wiki page is showing the same pictures, it suppose to be cloud cover.

Good questions!  It appears to be combined JWST and Keck.  But seeing through the clouds too...  It's as though Cassini data were used as well.

Anyway, here's an image from Cassini showing how thick Titan's atmosphere is just for reference.

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Hubble space telescope observed an explosion in intergalactic space between galaxies.  Said explosion was 200 times as powerful as a standard supernova.  Read about it here.  Interesting things afoot in places where we didn't know anything actually existed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-hubble-telescope-spots-mysterious-bright-explosion-in-an-unexpected-place/ar-AA1hNfhp

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-024
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Maybe some dark matter isn't so dark after all... :)

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Maybe some dark matter isn't so dark after all... :)

I suspect, "Dark-Matter", is just an error in human-understanding; after all, we evolved to hunt animals for food, not to fully realize the complexities of the universe.

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Not so much an "error" of understanding as a "lack" of understanding. Galaxies doesn't spin the way our theories say they should, there is a decent amount of evidence it must be caused by "something", but we have no idea WHAT.

IIRC black holes are still (barely) on the table as the cause.

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I said "some" on purpose... ;)

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Perhaps the splashes are something entirely different. Could it possibly be matter / antimatter interactions?  It said that lightning is a form of that that happens in our own atmosphere. But it's been a while since I read that article that suspected that.
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Maybe some dark matter isn't so dark after all... :)

E=MC2

But some E is more MC2
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E=MC2

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Space isn't just hard, it's also EXPENSIVE! ;)

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One can only hope they don't intend to apply this iterative approach to life-support systems.
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One can only hope they don't intend to apply this iterative approach to life-support systems.
But eventually they will find & fix all the flaws, it will just cost some test-passengers...
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Arguably,  that is the way passenger aviation developed...

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Space isn't just hard, it's also EXPENSIVE! ;)

I'm told that the owner is a genius.  In a way he is, because he won't ride his own rockets or get his neural link implant.
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I've been told the same thing! ;D

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Another explosive setback for SpaceX. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-starship-sn11-prototype-explodes-during-test-flight/ar-AA1iaqnJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6c1fc0c469b842429f466c6d1a78da78&ei=11

Wat hell, that's happened in March 30, 2021.  That news service was dumpster diving for news blurps from look of it.   SN15 did successful landing, afterwards and earlier this year full stack of Starship S24 & Super Heavy Booster 7 launched, but it did fail.   However, they fixed the launch pad and the replacements S25 & Booster 9 are waiting to get green light for the second launch attempt to orbit.   
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I'm told that the owner is a genius.  In a way he is, because he won't ride his own rockets or get his neural link implant.

He trusted them with his car!
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And they parked it in orbit... ;D

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To explain the extreme red-shifted galaxies that shouldn't exist, one theory states that light, slows down over vast distances and another states that time, was different in the early-universe.

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He trusted them with his car!

But do we know for a fact that he had an anti-Amber Heard system installed?
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To explain the extreme red-shifted galaxies that shouldn't exist, one theory states that light, slows down over vast distances and another states that time, was different in the early-universe.

I would also suggest that what we felt was our understanding of physics was actually a slight misunderstanding. 

Edit - This is actually not to be a smartass, but in the Immanuel Kant tradition, I firmly believe the we cannot *Fully* know or understand the universe around us with only our five senses.
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It's been a while since I've played Battlespace or Aerotech,(Read this in Centurion) but the interface-zone, on the map-sheets for a low gravity world should be higher up, than on a world with normal gravity. I know, this probably won't effect your games, like, at all, but mine, I use weird-worlds.  There's less gravity, so the atmosphere is higher up.



I would also suggest that what we felt was our understanding of physics was actually a slight misunderstanding. 

Edit - This is actually not to be a smartass, but in the Immanuel Cant tradition, I firmly believe the we cannot *Fully* know or understand the universe around us with only our five senses.

I took a quarter of Kant in college, taught by a Swiss with a heavy German-accent: I don't remember a thing.

I was indirectly quoting from the Ambrose's Devil's Dictionary: "Logic: understanding the world though human misunderstanding; if one man can dig a hole in an minute, then 60-men can dig a hole in a second".

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NASA has it's sights set on Ceres.  Specifically to see if the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt is a possible cradle of extraterrestrial life.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dwarf-planet-ceres-could-be-a-great-place-to-hunt-for-alien-life-here-s-why/ar-AA1ir6Pz
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Hopefully, the budget will hold out.   There some space missions are in danger of being cut.  :tongue: :cry:
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The budget gets cut at our own risk.
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you sure cannot out run death...but sure as hell you can make that bastard work for it!

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Thanks for the link!  Nice perspective.
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