Spaced Out

[bentech]

what experiments did it carry?

[MadMoonMan]

That reminds me of the limit question. How small can a particle be? To not fall through the tiniest net?

How large a mass requires the entire earths resources to blast into space?

What is the limit of mass mankind and wormenkind.. I love brainy women scientists they are so smart. and sexy.

anyway ... What is the limit of the mass man can gather together and not waste the ground he is standing on to launch a "ultimate weight" into space?

M x (earth energy condensed) x mass of earth - (minimum earth land base require to not disintegrate crumble beneath our feet)

[Munchy]

Pluto, The Ultimate Ski Resort Destination of the Future

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-firs ... ace-2015-7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and its moon, Charon:

[bentech]

and a little detail on the speed this probe attained,
it passed the orbit of earths moon 9 hours after launch

by wait of comparison,
the apollo astronauts spent 3 days reaching this distance



http://www.space.com/29960-stephen-colb ... video.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bentech]

and yes,
there is a decided lack of meteor impact evidence on the planet
that means its hot enought to cycle its surface techtonically

a tiny world so far out
this really is amazingly outlier data for inclusion into our models

[Munchy]

Extra-terrestrial life: Are artificial megastructures circling the distant star 8462852?

Alien hunters are getting excited about strange activity taking place around a star between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, some 1,485 light years from earth. Some scientists are speculating a cluster of objects orbiting KIC 8462852 COULD be giant "megastructures" constructed by a technologically advanced alien civilisation in order to harvest the sun's energy.

The odd activity was first spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009. A group of volunteers who signed up to online astronomy crowdsourcing interface "Planet Hunters", noticed that light from the star was regularly dipping - usually a sign that planets are orbiting a star. However, there were some puzzling anomalies which scientists have been unable to explain.

Data about the activity was sent to the group's scientific advisers, including Yale postdoctoral astronomy student Tabetha Boyajian. "It did definitely spark some lively discussions on the talk boards," said Boyajian. "We scrolled through the discussion boards and superusers, and they let us know that there's something we should be watching out for. What was unusual about that was the depth of the light dips, up to 20% decrease in light, and the timescales (of light variation) - a week to a couple of months."

If the star had been young, the anomaly could have been explained by a comet breaking up nearby. However, the star is not young and it is believed the material orbiting it must have arrived relatively recently or it would have been swallowed up by the sun's gravity.

Now Penn State University astronomer Jason Wright is to publish a paper suggesting a "swarm of megastructures" could be responsible, surrounding the star to harvest its energy as part of what is called a "Dyson Sphere." Such a structure could only be built by an alien race with technological capacities far in advance of our own.

Wright, along with SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) director Andrew Siemion and Boyajian want to study the region closely using a radio dish to try and detect radio waves - thought to be a sure sign of intelligent life. The first results of the search are expected in January 2016. If the results are interesting, the team will investigate further.

"When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked," Wright told The Atlantic. "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build."

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/extra-terrest ... ml#ViJo7rl

I set my wife's PC to help SETI every night. Soon it will be sifting through this data.

[bentech]

im absolutely amazed at the number of mainstream articles there are on this subject

few realized the wide dynamics of a solar system stabilizing itself for the long haul

our gas giant planets were all formed in orbits tighter than earths

they faught it out with each other and the rocky planets as they moved to distant orbits

there may have been half a dozen proto-earths which got ejected from the sol system during this
phase

my guess right now is this star their staring at is in the throws of its system up in riot and trying to settle in

but i dont know the age of this star
that would be the best indicator of whether or not this is the case

the older it is the less likely
UNLESS its the path of its galaxy gobbling up another
that another manner in which an older star can get its hands on some new planet material

[bentech]

found a new website

http://www.iflscience.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

thats short for I Fucking Love Science


study find people who like their coffee black are more likely to be psychopaths

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/people- ... sychopaths" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[MadMoonMan]

Ok finally, solved it.. Been working on this spaceship infinite propulsion system problem. Then finally, after pursueing all the dead end avenues evryone else has followed I came up with.

Continual Oxidation Wind Framing At Reactive Targeting Sulphates

[MadMoonMan]

Gasp.. gasp.. i barely posted it they are a f t er me to stop it. How to g et to Alpha Centauri and rescue the Robinson family once and for all.

You load a bunch of cows on your space ship and its like utimate gas propulsion. Cow farts building up your speed in a vacuumn. sput.. sput..

The Bigger your spaceship the more cows you can load on and the faster you can go.

I'm still draw ing up the blue prints for cow fart concentration and manipulating the streaming control.