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40 light-years away, also 40 years behind the latest home video technology.
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Re: giant coronal hole
Sadly Iâm OCONUS and didnât get to see it.
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Iâve been called worse.
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And where did they get the Martian dirt?
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[ insert really off topic âblood and soilâ joke ]
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somewhere in space, this could all be happening right now. errr. is happening right now
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Passing by at 17,400 mph itâs going to get a ticket.
No wake zone.
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The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to 70 metres
Wow, they used metric!
(130 to 230 feet) wide,
Okay, American units but in parentheses. Thatâs okay I guess
roughly the size of the Parthenon,
Hooray, non standard units!
and big enough to wipe out a large city if it hit our planet.
Oh. Oh God.
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hmmmmâŚhow many parthenons is a large city anyway? 
( errr⌠parathapodes, if im understanding the david thread correctly )
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HUGE!
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Cuts to budgets happen often enough, and scientists in the space field are accustomed to the disappointment of working on a mission proposal for years only to have it be passed over or canceled. But this situation is different because VERITAS had already been selected by NASA to be part of its Discovery Program. It was chosen to send an orbiting spacecraft to Venus, which will make multiple passes over the planet and use its spectrometry and radar instruments to build up detailed maps of the planetâs surface.
Historically, once a mission has been selected by NASA, those working on it can be confident that funding will be available. If a delay happens â as is not uncommon in large, complex missions â then a lower level of funding is typically made available to keep the basic essentials in place, called bridge funding, until full funding can be restored. This bridge funding keeps key personnel on the project so that they are ready to ramp back up once more funding is available.
In the case of VERITAS, after the announcement of the launch delay last year, the team asked NASA for bridge funding of around $20 million per year (about one-tenth of the original funding for 2024) so they could at least maintain mission essentials. Instead, virtually all of their funding has been cut, leaving them with a tiny $1.5 million per year.
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privately owned and operated space stations are under development
No one reads sci-fi as warnings anymore?
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