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This is cool and bizarre and absurd and I love it: ESA's plywood satellite.
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Clearer Juno flyby photos of Ganymede were released by NASA.Cornell University
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Cornell University
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ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
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Will this be his meal plan while gone?Originally posted by Kepler View PostThe preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.
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On one hand, Voyager 2 isn't even a light-day from earth.
on the other, holy ****, we put something almost a light-day from earth.
https://***********/nsfvoyager2/stat...130199048?s=21Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezOriginally posted by bigblue_dlHe's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North WestOriginally posted by KeplerComment
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This is not a bad way of measuring our progress out, actually. Guesses:Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
1958 Light second. (Pioneer 1)
1963 Light minute. (Mariner 2)
1973 Light hour. (Pioneer 10)
2027 Light day. (Voyager 1)
Light week.
Light month.
Light year.Cornell University
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And yet just a spec on a single grain of sand in the grand scheme of things.Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
My head hurts when I try and picture the scope of astronomical distances sometimes...It's never too early to start the Pre-game festivities
Go Cats!!! GO BLACKHAWKS!
Cuck the Fubs... Let's Go WHITE SOX!!!
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But the Creator of the Universe is very concerned about where you put your weewee.Originally posted by RaceBoarder View PostCornell University
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Correct me if I'm wrong - but this means since launch in 1977, Voyager 2's distance from Earth is the same as had it traveled at light speed for 17 hours, 33 minutes....?Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostComment
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That's correct. Obviously Voyager has traveled much farther because they have no described a straight trajectory.Originally posted by Slap Shot View PostCornell University
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Correct.Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
“Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”
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Therefore it would take roughly 60 years to achieve 1 light year. The nearest 'suspected' terrestrial exoplanet is roughly 4 light years from the sun?Comment
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A lot of it is mission choice. Those are few data points and different priorities would have given us different results.Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
Our fastest probe right now can do 300k mph. Our fastest in 1971, fifty years ago, could do 30k. So let's say that's our Moore's Law: max speed increases 10x every 50 years.
1971 30k
2021 300k
2071 3M
2121 30M
2171 300M = .44 ly/h (Earth to Proxima Centauri in 10 hours ship time -- relativistic effects mean more time has passed on Earth)
If the same law holds for developing FTL, then:
2221 4.4 ly/h (Earth to Proxima Centauri in 1 hour ship time)
2271 44
2321 440
2371 4k
2421 40k
2471 400k (from one end of the Milky Way to the other in 1 hour ship time)
2521 4M (from Earth to the Andromeda galaxy and back in about 90 minutes ship time)
2571 40M
2621 400M
2671 4B
2771 40B (complete circuit of the known universe in 2 hours ship time)
So we can see the universe in a day if we just last the same amount of time that has elapsed since the birth of Roger Bacon, pioneer of the scientific method.
A high level summary of human history, by century:
G00 Gilgamesh (2000 BCE)
G10 The Iliad
G16 Aristotle
G26 Brahmagupta
G33 Roger Bacon
G40 Ned Harkness
G46 Entire universe exploredLast edited by Kepler; 06-30-2021, 11:40 AM.Cornell University
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I have to sit down and think about this post after workOriginally posted by Kepler View PostCode:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezOriginally posted by bigblue_dlHe's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North WestOriginally posted by KeplerComment
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Can I get it converted to Warp factors?Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostThe preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.
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