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Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Reply #1440 on: 12 May 2024, 01:01:48 »
They pictures might be too dark, but did get to see the aurora from the Oakland hills, between the trees.
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« Reply #1441 on: 12 May 2024, 01:29:11 »
Mackinac Bridge in northern Michigan.

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« Reply #1442 on: 12 May 2024, 07:30:54 »
That's a nice shot! :)
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« Reply #1443 on: 12 May 2024, 13:30:00 »
I went over that bridge once.
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« Reply #1444 on: 12 May 2024, 18:45:42 »
Made the trip a few times myself.  I’ve been under it too, whilst on the boat trip a couple years back.
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« Reply #1445 on: 13 May 2024, 00:07:46 »
Quote from: Daryk on 12 May 2024, 07:30:54
That's a nice shot! :)

Thanks and for the record it’s not mine, it’s saved from a Michigan social media page.  Seems to be fair for everyone.

And it is an impressive shot for sure! 
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Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Reply #1446 on: 13 May 2024, 01:37:22 »
Almost time for a new thread around here.
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« Reply #1447 on: 13 May 2024, 17:30:19 »
I named the first incarnation of this thread.  (Kamas, you helped find the Space is Timeless part IIRC)

Daryk named the second one.

Time for someone else like Wrangler to step up for the third run of Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration.
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« Reply #1448 on: 13 May 2024, 18:00:50 »
Agreed! :)
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« Reply #1449 on: 13 May 2024, 20:17:19 »
Any cool or funny name ideas?   I'll go first.

Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration III- Don't Talk To Me Unless You Have Funding
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« Reply #1450 on: 13 May 2024, 20:31:48 »
"No ghouls need apply"... ;D
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« Reply #1451 on: 13 May 2024, 20:46:20 »
Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration III - We Found More Plutonium Somewhere...
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Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Reply #1452 on: 14 May 2024, 07:34:12 »
Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration III-The Search for More Funding
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« Reply #1453 on: 14 May 2024, 15:22:35 »

Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration — I Survived the Aurora!
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« Reply #1454 on: 14 May 2024, 15:57:39 »
Quote from: Natasha Kerensky on 14 May 2024, 15:22:35
Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration — I Survived the Aurora!

That’s a hard hitter too - that solar flare could have fried the grid like nothing if it aimed a little better…
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Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Reply #1455 on: 14 May 2024, 19:15:05 »
Well, there was an X8.9 flare today that looks like it'll miss us; talk about a whopper of an event.
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« Reply #1456 on: 14 May 2024, 19:59:03 »
Hate to see what happens people on Mars if that hit.
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Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Reply #1457 on: 14 May 2024, 20:00:21 »
As long as they're living underground, it shouldn't be too bad...
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« Reply #1458 on: 14 May 2024, 20:23:29 »
A couple meters of rock, dust, and regolith would be the main protection.  Maybe one day we could find hollows where water used to flow underground, and use these pre-formed spaces to help jumpstart locating a good locale for a colonial effort.



Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - "Multiple Sources of Plutonium" Doesn't Sound THAT Sketchy, Right?
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« Reply #1459 on: 15 May 2024, 15:50:49 »
just a few more replies until 50 pages.  Wrangler, you got a new name ready?
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« Reply #1460 on: 15 May 2024, 16:02:03 »
Mine were just bad jokes, so don't even consider them.
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« Reply #1461 on: 15 May 2024, 16:05:39 »
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-trappist-outer-planets.html

The inner planets of the Trappist system are going to be parched, possibly irradiated.  But moving outward there should be more water, and with that thought, possibly thicker atmospheres to protect and harbor life. 
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« Reply #1462 on: 15 May 2024, 16:07:24 »
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Quote from: rebs on 12 May 2024, 18:45:42
Made the trip a few times myself.  I’ve been under it too, whilst on the boat trip a couple years back.

Never by boat, but, I almost bought the Dragon-Kings book (Dark-Sun), from the Mackinac gift-shop, because they actually had copies there! 
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« Reply #1463 on: 15 May 2024, 16:57:00 »
Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration -It's a Trap(pist)!
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« Reply #1464 on: 15 May 2024, 18:28:06 »
I like that one! :D
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« Reply #1465 on: 15 May 2024, 22:07:56 »
Exoplanets are fun.  Looks like there's five thousand of them now roughly, at least on the confirmed list.

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« Reply #1466 on: 17 May 2024, 01:47:59 »
https://www.space.com/ancient-asteroid-family-erigones-earth-water-solar-system

This is about a family of carbon and water-rich asteroids, one of which will be studied by NASA's Lucy mission as its first planned encounter of a multi-part mission.
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« Reply #1467 on: 17 May 2024, 03:23:05 »
Interesting article, thanks! :)
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« Reply #1468 on: 17 May 2024, 15:43:52 »
Speaking of water...  Here's an article about an iced-up impact crater of tremendous size on Mars, with images supplied by ExoMars, an ESA mission. 

https://www.space.com/massive-mars-crater-exomars-orbiter-photo

Started with water but also segued into huge impact sites. 
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« Reply #1469 on: 17 May 2024, 17:35:57 »
They could have been clearer about the difference between the "impact basin" and the "crater", but interesting nonetheless! :)
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