The Space ...the final frontier (not Freely or star trek)thread

kosmo wrote:

Suburban wrote:
NASA successfully launches Perseverance rover toward Mars, in search for signs of life!

It will touch down on the Martian surface in Feb 2021

btw i will be taking a sabbatical until feb 2021 as stasis is a bitch…

Godspeed.

So as post count leader, I assume the office of Moderator until Kosmo returns. It’s right there in the Succession [Non-Prestige Television] Act.

Julian, wrote:
So as post count leader, I assume the office of Moderator until Kosmo returns. It’s right there in the Succession [Non-Prestige Television] Act.

what knows ye of non-prestige television?!?  NOTHING.  act is hereby voided.

furthermore, your post-count is artificially inflated with fake integer posts, the bboard equivalent of ballot-box stuffing.  you are standing on a house of cards.

(house of cards = prestige television… FYI)

Questioning the electoral post process. Who does that sound like?

Julian, wrote:
Questioning the electoral post process. Who does that sound like?

someone who is attempting to distract from all the other horrible news he is directly responsible for?

sounds like post-er suppression to me

sweetcell wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Questioning the electoral post process. Who does that sound like?

someone who is attempting to distract from all the other horrible news he is directly responsible for?

You know that person is YOU in this scenario, right?

Julian, wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Questioning the electoral post process. Who does that sound like?

someone who is attempting to distract from all the other horrible news he is directly responsible for?

You know that person is YOU in this scenario, right?

i'm aware.  self-reflection and obfuscation are two of my super-powers.

<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/189433/Arecibo-Observatory-to-be-decomissioned">The Joy Division telescope is being decommissioned due to hurricane damage.</a>

yeah, saw this…sad news

Arecibo – the sole facility of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) – is perhaps most well known to non-scientists as the site of the climactic battle of the James Bond film &quot;Goldeneye.&quot; Yet it has also taken a leading role in the search for extraterrestrial life, notably by sending the Arecibo Message (previously). And, perhaps Arecibo&#039;s largest contribution to the popular consciousness is as the source of the iconic album cover to Joy Division&#039;s Unknown Pleasures.

China's round trip to the moon has returned today with the first successful retrieval of lunar samples to Earth since 1976.

is it me or is this a case of 'read the room for god sakes'

What a seriously lame tag line, what are we selling toothbrushes??

Need to poll the jury

2021 is shaping up to be a big year in space

Three (US, China and new player UAE) Mars missions are slated to arrive at the Red Planet in February
NASA is also expected to launch its long-delayed James Webb Space Telescope
Moon and Asteroid rocks coming back to earth
NASA has plans to launch its first uncrewed Artemis mission around the Moon
Boeing to test Starliner capsule and possibly its first crewed mission to the International Space Station
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin — could launch their first paying customers to suborbital space this year

view out the rear view mirror on the mars rover


This is a mosaic of images taken by the Opportunity rover in Meridiani Planum in 2005.

Perseverance is landing on Mars tomorrow and trying to answer the age old question…is their life on mars
hopefully will bring back some Martian soil
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Perseverance-hatch wrote:
Perseverance is landing on Mars tomorrow and trying to answer the age old question…is their life on mars
hopefully will bring back some Martian soil
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Krispy Kreme is giving free "one-day only" Mars donuts to those of us who were prescient enough to have our names included on the lander.

https://krispykreme.com/promos/marsdoughnut

excontradiction wrote:

Perseverance-hatch wrote:
Perseverance is landing on Mars tomorrow and trying to answer the age old question…is their life on mars
hopefully will bring back some Martian soil
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Krispy Kreme is giving free &quot;one-day only&quot; Mars donuts to those of us who were prescient enough to have our names included on the lander.

https://krispykreme.com/promos/marsdoughnut

I got one of those, didn't realize my name was going to be on Mars!

in mars's atmosphere and the parachute deployed!

Sky crane maneuver started

    touch down confirmed!

Never did get my donut…