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"Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA"

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Venus on the left.

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NASA's Orion spacecraft is pictured here from one of the cameras mounted on its solar array wings. At the time this photo was taken at 8:33 a.m. ET, the Artemis II crew was in a sleep period ahead of beginning their seventh day into the mission.
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I know it was to take photos of the dark side of the moon, but in my head I guess I expected some NASA magic to light it up a bit so we would be able to actually see something. I am disappoint.
 
TheUnicornGuy said:
I know it was to take photos of the dark side of the moon, but in my head I guess I expected some NASA magic to light it up a bit so we would be able to actually see something. I am disappoint.
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Dark side of the moon is often in full sunlight.

It's "dark" only for us because moon doesn't rotate.
 
TheUnicornGuy said:
I always assumed it was always dark, like the moon rotated in sync with the sun. We live and learn.
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Its called Tidal Locking, its why we only ever see one side of the moon. It was called the 'dark side' because up until the Russians photographed it we didn't know what was there as we couldn't see it. To get (semi) scientific, its due to 'tidal bulges' on the moon and earth's gravity pulling on it so it gets locked in position towards the Earth. Interestingly, all of Jupiters moons are tidally locked to Jupiter but not all moons around planets are tidally locked (Hyperion isnt locked to Saturn) which isnt to say they wont be over billions of years.
 
insane that every mf I know is just on that litte floating ball in a vast nothingness.

Gives me the heebyjeebys bros
 
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Nocty said:
insane that every mf I know is just on that litte floating ball in a vast nothingness.

Gives me the heebyjeebys bros
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It really fucks me up that humanity focuses on wars, woke bullshit, genocide, stupid religions etc. Instead of uniting and trying to conquer our solar system (and stars later). This could save our asses if something bad happens to this tiny blue ball

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Nocty said:
insane that every mf I know is just on that litte floating ball in a vast nothingness.

Gives me the heebyjeebys bros
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Same. Definitely not good for my megalaphobia

Now, if you haven't already, look up videos of the biggest suns or black holes out there and prepare to freak out even more
 
TheUnicornGuy said:
I always assumed it was always dark, like the moon rotated in sync with the sun. We live and learn.
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E.g Nasa refer to "The far side of the moon"

Consider a total eclipse on earth where the moon aligns with the sun from our perspective. The far side of the moon from us will be fully in sunshine while the side facing us will be in the moons own shadow.
 
Bojji said:
It really fucks me up that humanity focuses on wars, woke bullshit, genocide, stupid religions etc
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while that is a great point it is also true that fight for finite resources or cost effective resource aquisition wont change at whatever scale you happen to consider
 
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nush said:
It's weird how many meteorite impacts seem to line up straight.


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Not necessarily. I think there are gravitational reasons why everything is kind of on a flat plane/spinning disc eplictic trajectory, so makes sense that stuff tends to come in at the similar direction and angle. That's why the things that come into the solar system from "up" or "down" relative to our orbit are much more likely to be extra-solar system objects.

I'm a fan of the "Planet Nemesis" theory, that there is a fairly large planet/dwarf star waaaaaay out past Pluto that periodically (on the order of tens of thousands of years) passes through the Oort belt of small debris out there and send a swarm of them down into the solar gravity well, causing a meteor shower "rain of fire" upon all the planets/moons, causing periodic mass extinctions are somewhat fixed intervals.
 
Bojji said:
It really fucks me up that humanity focuses on wars, woke bullshit, genocide, stupid religions etc. Instead of uniting and trying to conquer our solar system (and stars later). This could save our asses if something bad happens to this tiny blue ball

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It's because space is, well, vast, we struggle to get anything out of our solar system and to get humans out there would be damn near impossible using our current knowledge (whether that remains true forever remains to be seen, but I personally think so, I think distance is a major issue, it's one of the reasons I don't believe in aliens from other planets arriving here, but that's another conversation)

And colonising Mars like Musk wants to do is just plain dumb in my opinion, it just isn't the right planet, to create a breathable atmosphere would be massively technical if even possible, and if the reason to move off the Earth is because our own atmosphere becomes unbreathable then the technology to completely terraform a planet is much harder to make than the technology to fix our own planet.
 
midnightAI said:
It's because space is, well, vast, we struggle to get anything out of our solar system and to get humans out there would be damn near impossible using our current knowledge (whether that remains true forever remains to be seen, but I personally think so, I think distance is a major issue, it's one of the reasons I don't believe in aliens from other planets arriving here, but that's another conversation)

And colonising Mars like Musk wants to do is just plain dumb in my opinion, it just isn't the right planet, to create a breathable atmosphere would be massively technical if even possible, and if the reason to move off the Earth is because our own atmosphere becomes unbreathable then the technology to completely terraform a planet is much harder to make than the technology to fix our own planet.
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What other choices do we have, really? Europa? Whether or not we ever permanently colonize Mars, it's an understandable, and likely achievable goal for development of technologies.

I agree that some sort of Ark on Earth could/would sustain humanity waaay better than anything we could build on Mars for the foreseeable future, but getting humans to seal themselves off on Earth (pre-apocalypse, anyway) would probably be harder than to entice explorers to go to Mars.
 
Nocty said:
insane that every mf I know is just on that litte floating ball in a vast nothingness.

Gives me the heebyjeebys bros
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HRK69 said:
Same. Definitely not good for my megalaphobia

Now, if you haven't already, look up videos of the biggest suns or black holes out there and prepare to freak out even more
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When you go to bed tonight, try and picture yourself, alone, in a ship, in the center of a super void, surrounded by the most nothing you could ever possibly experience, barely an atom for company.

 
I had Jim Lovells Earthrise speech playing in my head looking at those shots .
What us humans can achieve and yet destroy at the same time always mindfucks me,The duality of man eh!
 
jason10mm said:
What other choices do we have, really? Europa? Whether or not we ever permanently colonize Mars, it's an understandable, and likely achievable goal for development of technologies.

I agree that some sort of Ark on Earth could/would sustain humanity waaay better than anything we could build on Mars for the foreseeable future, but getting humans to seal themselves off on Earth (pre-apocalypse, anyway) would probably be harder than to entice explorers to go to Mars.
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There are no choices, that's my point. Mars isn't viable and anywhere else is too far away (using any foreseeable technology).

I just don't know why Musk is interested in Mars other than to chest thump that he went there before NASA did (humans that is).

I'm not saying don't do space travel by the way, I love the idea of it and watch with intrigue, I just don't really see it much beyond 'because we can' and 'isnt it cool'. Still, some great technology has come out as solutions to problems they had with these missions that is now used in our day to day lives.
 
does no one care about venus? (not saying its viable, but seems people don't mention it much) like any probes at all to it
 
GateofD said:
does no one care about venus? (not saying its viable, but seems people don't mention it much) like any probes at all to it
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The Russians actually did this back in the day. If I remember correctly, she ended up looking like Mars, just a lot hotter. :messenger_winking_tongue:
 
GateofD said:
does no one care about venus? (not saying its viable, but seems people don't mention it much) like any probes at all to it
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Venus is hell. Atmosphere there is brutal. It's been mostly Russia who has had active projects there, though Japan had some more recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_(spacecraft)

There's the Russian Venera 17 mission possibly planned for 2036, given the ongoing war I presume collaboration with NASA hasn't been too active there.
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It does look wild there

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These Are the Only Photos Ever Captured of the Surface of Venus

Why is Venus so hard to photograph?
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