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| tifreak8x wrote: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44315210/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Sadly, seems I called it. Russians are going to kill off our being in space :<
The article talks about a possible evacuation of the ISS and leaving it unmanned. NASA says that they can still run the station from the ground, however it will slow down progress with research that was being done up there. |
Does this have to do with the failure of the latest Russian resupply mission? And what about the contract for SpaceX in a couple months?
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| elfprince13 wrote: | | tifreak8x wrote: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44315210/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Sadly, seems I called it. Russians are going to kill off our being in space :<
The article talks about a possible evacuation of the ISS and leaving it unmanned. NASA says that they can still run the station from the ground, however it will slow down progress with research that was being done up there. |
Does this have to do with the failure of the latest Russian resupply mission? And what about the contract for SpaceX in a couple months? |
Yes that is exactly what the article is talking about, since the Russians have to figure out the cause of the failure it may be a while before they can send up another manned mission meaning that the current astronauts manning the ISS may have to return home before the Russians are ready to send more up there.
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| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:58:02 pm Post subject: |
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And the shuttles can only stay up for 200 days. I didn't realize that the ships degraded being up there, an interesting issue.
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| We'd have a brand-spanking-new space vehicle all ready to go if certain "fiscally-minded" individuals hadn't gotten it canceled... |
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| DShiznit wrote: | | We'd have a brand-spanking-new space vehicle all ready to go if certain "fiscally-minded" individuals hadn't gotten it canceled... |
By which I'm sure you mean, if Obama didn't think it was more important for NASA to do outreach to the Muslim community than to go to the moon.
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| elfprince13 wrote: | | DShiznit wrote: | | We'd have a brand-spanking-new space vehicle all ready to go if certain "fiscally-minded" individuals hadn't gotten it canceled... |
By which I'm sure you mean, if Obama didn't think it was more important for NASA to do outreach to the Muslim community than to go to the moon. |
Obama is under constant pressure to reduce spending in the name of "fiscal discipline". I think it was a mistake for him to make that decision, and I think less of him for it, but he only made it based on the political climate he was trapped in. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44365889/ns/technology_and_science-space/?gt1=43001
Seems they are finding more and more signs of a wetter Mars long ago. The rover named Opportunity has finally made it to a large crater.
On another note, these rovers (There was another, but it went quiet in 2010) were sent to Mars and landed January 2004, and were there for a 3 month mission. From what I've read, they didn't expect the rovers to last this long. Hopefully Opportunity will last a good little while to help find some other interesting things up there 
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44442011/ns/technology_and_science-space/?GT1=43001
They've found a planet roughly 650 Light years away from our planet, in the constellation Lyra. The way they noticed it was the fact that a planet that was being monitored had a +/- 5 minute difference in each rotation monitored around its sun. This has led them to conclude that a planetary body with enough gravitational force is causing the monitored planet to slow down or speed up, depending on where they are in relation to each other when being monitored.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44453018/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/old-faithful-keeps-spouting-huge-solar-flares/
Seems our sun has been doing some intense CMEs lately. Also if you happen to notice, the sun is burning white, aka hotter, than it used to. Seen multiple theories out there, though the most credible one I've seen is that there is another body out there, possibly a brown dwarf, that orbits our sun every X amount of years, and causes gravitational stress on the sun, which makes it burn hotter.
But, who knows really. We still know very little about the sun as it is.
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| tifreak8x wrote: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44453018/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/old-faithful-keeps-spouting-huge-solar-flares/
Seems our sun has been doing some intense CMEs lately. Also if you happen to notice, the sun is burning white, aka hotter, than it used to. Seen multiple theories out there, though the most credible one I've seen is that there is another body out there, possibly a brown dwarf, that orbits our sun every X amount of years, and causes gravitational stress on the sun, which makes it burn hotter. |
Related to this post. ELEnin is expected to pass September 26th, 2011.
I sent a link to Kerm when I saw this on Facebook a few weeks back at work. I watched the video when I got home but never made a post because I thought it was hype and/or fake.
Maybe it's not.
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Well, not wanting to bring conspiracies and the like into this thread, however. There are numerous ancient texts that discuss things that we didn't know existed until 30 or so years ago. And these texts are thousands of years old.
While not a conspiracy nut, nor do I adhere to such things, there is a measure of truth in any conspiracy, theory or myth. May not be overly big, but there has to be some level of truth to it.
With what the planet is doing (all the volcanoes going off, the plates are shifting and the magnetic poles shifting drastically would also indicate that a magnetic body could possibly be messing with us as well, if it is the case) it really makes me wonder how much validity the supposed 'conspiracy' theories out there surrounding these spacial bits actually have.
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| comicIDIOT wrote: | | tifreak8x wrote: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44453018/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/old-faithful-keeps-spouting-huge-solar-flares/
Seems our sun has been doing some intense CMEs lately. Also if you happen to notice, the sun is burning white, aka hotter, than it used to. Seen multiple theories out there, though the most credible one I've seen is that there is another body out there, possibly a brown dwarf, that orbits our sun every X amount of years, and causes gravitational stress on the sun, which makes it burn hotter. |
Related to this post. ELEnin is expected to pass September 26th, 2011.
I sent a link to Kerm when I saw this on Facebook a few weeks back at work. I watched the video when I got home but never made a post because I thought it was hype and/or fake.
Maybe it's not. |
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-shoots-down-comet-elenin-doom-and-gloom-
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You know, they say that, but most of the major earthquakes we've had over the last few years, we had an alignment with this comet, or quite possibly, whatever is trailing after the comet, if one were to go into that theory. Who really knows :<
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| tifreak8x wrote: | | You know, they say that, but most of the major earthquakes we've had over the last few years, we had an alignment with this comet, or quite possibly, whatever is trailing after the comet, if one were to go into that theory. Who really knows :< |
Inverse square laws my friend.
| Quote: | | "So you've got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers [about 22 million miles)," said Yeomans. "It will have an immeasurably miniscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean's tides than comet Elenin ever will." |
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The problem I see is we have no real accurate way of measuring gravitational effects any object in space my cause.
And if the comet has an iron core under all that ice and it's causing issues with the sun's magnetic fields, who knows what that might do to us? Just speculation, of course.
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| tifreak8x wrote: | | The problem I see is we have no real accurate way of measuring gravitational effects any object in space my cause. |
We do, by measuring perturbations in expected orbits. If we can do that to find planets in distant solar systems, we can do it here in our own.
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If my dad can find a video he found, I will share it with you. He said it went into great detail on how the solar system's magnetic fields work, and if you drop in objects in different places, it causes some pretty wicked shifts.
Also: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44466008/ns/technology_and_science-space/?gt1=43001
Sending up to probes to learn more about the MOON.
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