Spaaaaace (Part 1)

Great. Another constellation. If this goes anywhere.

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I think I’ve heard this one before.

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7vhn

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… it used to get proposed and canceled and proposed and canceled over and over

Perhaps the economy has grown to the point that going back to the moon just doesn’t cost enough money to fight over anymore :thinking:

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I wouldn’t bet against it being canceled at least one more time.

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ETA

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in panel 2, i think that because the sensation of falling probably comes from different bits of your body experiencing the initial acceleration at different times… you probably wouldn’t be screaming the whole way around the earth.

plus that elevator would probably run out of air… :thinking:

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Beautiful, isn’t it?

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars).

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They tried this first with

Not as part of the original mission profile, but basically to fix problems. It worked better than expected.

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Pollution?

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Here’s the answer thanks to George Mallory:

“Because it’s there”

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