Outer Space Thread

[wart57]

LISTER: Oooh, I can't wait to see your face in the morning, I really can't.
RIMMER: And nor I yours, Lister, when that pod opens and from it emerges a beautiful alien woman with long green hair and six breasts.
LISTER: Six breasts? Imagine making love to a woman with six breasts!
RIMMER: Imagine making love to a woman!

[jim]

A Dyson swarm? That would be pretty freaking cool if we detected something like that. Off the charts.

[pioneer98]

The James Webb Space Telescope is supposed to launch in late 2018. It's supposed to be 100x more powerful than the Hubble.

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/infrar ... 180951409/

[jim]

Maybe not a Dyson swarm...

http://www.techinsider.io/alien-megastr ... ar-2015-10

[Vidor]

Saw Venus, Jupiter, and Mars clustered pretty closely together yesterday morning, about 7 am, southeasterly. It was pretty cool.

[jim]

I leave my house about 6:15 or so, and the last few mornings have been really neat with the three planets.

[Jocephus]

[pioneer98]

SpaceX just put a rocket into orbit and then landed the first stage vertically, totally in tact.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/ ... et-n483921

[go birds]

havent really read much about it, but saw that it was a "pretty big deal".

can someone explain real quick why?

[pioneer98]

Normally the first stage of a rocket is just discarded into the atmosphere and it burns up. It's a huge wasted expense. Landing it saves a ton of money and will make launching things into space a lot cheaper.

If you believe Musk's crazy plan to send people to Mars, a manned version of this would give them a way to land and take off again, too.