Space and Stuff : It's Big

[Yarrgh]

The Russians achieved their first soft landing on the moon in 1966, so they beat India by some margin.

Indeed, but there's a new race now. Private and national participants in it. Hopefully mankind achieves some impressive and significant advances because of it.

 

[verreauxi]

Scientists dispute Professor Avi Loeb's claims he found alien technology

Loeb claims tiny spherules he and his team found were most likely a 'technological gadget with artificial intelligence.'

interestingengineering.com

 

[Yarrgh]

Can't believe I watched that to entropy maxed out and time ended and still Kenwright is in charge.

 

[peteblue]

The Russians achieved their first soft landing on the moon in 1966, so they beat India by some margin.

Indeed, so what happened in the 57 years in between , normally things get a bit better……

 

[Connor mcloud]

What's the etiquette for moon landings, does each country need agreement from others to pick a landing spot?
Could you land where someone else has already landed?

 

[Yarrgh]

What's the etiquette for moon landings, does each country need agreement from others to pick a landing spot?
Could you land where someone else has already landed?

I think you'd want a new spot just to increase the odds of finding something novel.

I guess if we found something interesting/ useful we'd have a hot spot. You'd hope that various space agencies would work in tandem to ensure that we wouldn't get in each others way. Even Russia and the USA play nice with regards to space.

 

[WA Toffee]

I love the abstract nature of it all. If you travel at the speed of light, time effectively ceases to exist, which means from the perspective of the very first photon of light from the big bang, zero time has lapsed since the big bang happened.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Starship successfully launched today. Unfortunately not long after stage separation the stage one booster underwent a FUD (exploded) and a few minutes later, after acheiving orbit, the Starship itself was "terminated". Small steps.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

I am envious of my grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, who may have the opportunity to go and explore the universe….

But by that time, they'll have never known the beauty of...

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-earth-porn-thread.91069/

 

[Bluesaint]

As the title says, space is big. If you put a golf ball down on the centre spot at Goodison Park and it represented the sun, planet earth would be a grain of sand about five metres away. Jupiter would be somewhere in Stanley Park. The nearest star, Alpha Centauri would be represented by a goofball placed in southern Spain. Big.

 

[roydo]

As the title says, space is big. If you put a golf ball down on the centre spot at Goodison Park and it represented the sun, planet earth would be a grain of sand about five metres away. Jupiter would be somewhere in Stanley Park. The nearest star, Alpha Centauri would be represented by a goofball placed in southern Spain. Big.

Love those analogies. Ever since I was a kid, in a tent on school trip nattering with pals about space, the "Does it ever end?" question has bemused me. Like, it cant, but in that case, what is it?

 

[degsy]

Love those analogies. Ever since I was a kid, in a tent on school trip nattering with pals about space, the "Does it ever end?" question has bemused me. Like, it cant, but in that case, what is it?

Latest theory is It's donut shaped - no mention of a specific flavour as yet.
'Kin Big' flavoured probably

 

[summerisle]

As the title says, space is big. If you put a golf ball down on the centre spot at Goodison Park and it represented the sun, planet earth would be a grain of sand about five metres away. Jupiter would be somewhere in Stanley Park. The nearest star, Alpha Centauri would be represented by a goofball placed in southern Spain. Big.

 

[WA Toffee]

As the title says, space is big. If you put a golf ball down on the centre spot at Goodison Park and it represented the sun, planet earth would be a grain of sand about five metres away. Jupiter would be somewhere in Stanley Park. The nearest star, Alpha Centauri would be represented by a goofball placed in southern Spain. Big.

Surely the accepted standard for measuring anything big is "How many times bigger than Wales is it"

 

[McBain]

I love the abstract nature of it all. If you travel at the speed of light, time effectively ceases to exist, which means from the perspective of the very first photon of light from the big bang, zero time has lapsed since the big bang happened