Outer Space Thread

[go birds]

This gives me hope of finding extraterrestrial life:

http://io9.com/the-7-least-plausible-so ... /+marchman

[Vidor]

New Horizons now showing surface features on Pluto.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... _time.html

[go birds]

New Test Suggests NASA's "Impossible" EM Drive Will Work In Space

http://io9.com/new-test-suggests-nasas- ... 1701188933

Neat

[Vidor]

New Horizons closing in on Pluto, mysterious bright spot at North Pole showing up

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... earer.html

[Vidor]

Pluto! Pluto! Pluto!

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/7/8907583/plu ... -red-brown

[JCShutout]

New Test Suggests NASA's "Impossible" EM Drive Will Work In Space

http://io9.com/new-test-suggests-nasas- ... 1701188933

Neat

This is crazy and exciting. Though if we really want to use it, we will need to develop some sort of shielding system, or else the ship will rip apart when it hits dust at high speeds.

[go birds]

Saturn and it's moons

[go birds]

Behold Pluto in all its glory:

[SHOW]

[Jocephus]

looks like a dystopian movie setting

[Vidor]

This is a wonderful thing. Here we have a planetoid that was nothing but a blurry smudge for 80 years. Now look at that!