Spaaaaace (Part 1)

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Bored Cat GIF

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As long as we’re just clawing our way out of our gravity well on top of chemical explosions we’re not really going anywhere. And satellite internet is inherently IMHO a blatant sign of a policy failure.

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Two words: Project Orion.

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I prefer NERVA.

It might be understatement, but I think that the Orion concept would make a lot of people nervous about what was actually going into orbit and why. That, and EMP is more of a problem now than in 1958. :thinking:

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NASA’s InSight probe emerges from Mars dust storm

Recent photos from NASA’s Mars InSight lander demonstrate that even the Register readers’ filthiest PCs cannot compare to the effects of Martian dust.

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“There should be 100 million such black holes in the galaxy, they should be everywhere, but it’s very hard to find them,” says Kailash Sahu, the study’s lead author, and astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, to Nature.

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Alpha Centauri

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Its a pity there isn’t a giant “E” out in space about 12 parsecs away.

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