Well that was very fractal
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Did not know this was the Christmas Star.
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I legitimately hate this.
The RC cars are designed by Frank Stephenson of BMW, McLaren, and Ferrari fame, and will blast off on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Good luck racing your stupid cars with a 4 second ping, you dumbass.
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Either that, or they better be near or on the lunar surface instead of on Earth.
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jerwin
December 3, 2020, 11:51pm
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Racing on the moon will definitely be a thing.
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The Hayabusa probe crossing the skyes over Australia.
https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa
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Hot Rods on the Moon!
But this scene looks more like a mix of Wacky Races, Speed Racer and Death Race 2000.
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jerwin
December 6, 2020, 12:08am
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“Ad Astra” was all about keeping calm in the face of weirdness.
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Now I have to check it out. Thanks!
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gatto
December 7, 2020, 2:19am
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you can definitely see differences in color of the stars in orion’s belt with the naked eye ( plus or minus glasses, i guess ). isnt betelgeuse the red one?
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According to the Wikipedia, yes, it is a red star. But I confess that I never noticed. The most reddish thing I saw in the sky was Mars.
Coordinates: 05h 55m 10.3053s, +07° 24′ 25.426″
Betelgeuse is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude, varying between +0.0 and +1.6, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star. At near-infrared wavelengths, Betelgeuse is the brightest star in the night sky. Its Bayer designation is α Orionis, Latinised to Alpha Orionis a...
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They’re going to piss off the moon spiders with that.
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