Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

I'm still all atwitterpated over you can walk up to outer space from Warren Ellis' recent keynote speech, regarding that massive but gently inclining mountain on Mars. Hell with the boy going up a hill and all that jazz: walk to fricking space, baby!

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314

You mean, THIS MOUNTAIN?

Ashnod, this is one of the best threads I have seen in any forum/board for a long, long time. Your posts are greatly appreciated. You are awesome


I just got a DVD documentary on the Hubble telescope, and it includes an image gallery of the images it's taken (some of them are in the last link you posted, actually). I'll rip them and post them here later.

Beautiful thread. I want to travel to space.

Frak, I have been unable to rip them. Too little time. But rest assured, I shall post them here.

In the mean time, I present you the Cold War-era plans of Lunex and Horizon, US military programs to establish settlements (bases) on the Moon.

Ashnod wrote:

The black hole at the center of our galaxy devouring matter.

That is legit. My space boner is slowly rising.

satyreyes wrote:

Spoiler alert: they don't have gravity up there.

Nitpick alert: yes they do, but they're in freefall so it has no net effect. The station, everything in it, and the astronauts are all falling together at the same rate.

satyreyes wrote:

That's true, of course, but don't tell the astronauts; they seem to be under the impression they're in zero-g. 

They're just translating their ideas from science to doof on the fly.

STARS!!!!!!

Just leaving the first one here.


Are there ways to spoiler images? Tried using "[spoiler][/spoiler]", but it didn't work.

That's a shame. At least the images don't surpass the res limit, I hope...

Here, have some more.

Linking because I don't want them to get frakked by mods.

Some fried eggs.

Giovanna wrote:

being reminded you are a teeny tiny thing in a stupidly huge and awesome universe. Where'd ya find, hun?

I wonder who would have said that. ;)

Last edited by ArthurianRoseKnight (02-10-2013 08:09:45 PM)

Three years of the sun in three minutes.

Ignore the music and check out the big ball of fire at the heart of our solar system.

Depressing stuff I'm sharing, but the images are very very pretty. My mother tipped me off to this; I almost wish she hadn't.

Herschel Telescope, the world's largest infrared space observatory, shuts down forever

satyreyes wrote:

Outgoing International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield of Canada recorded David Bowie's Space Oddity in space.  He released it today just before he goes home.  The music was done Earthside, but the vocals were recorded on the ISS.  Dude has a voice on him!

I will miss seeing his videos from the ISS.