Can we have a space thread? What's your favorite thing about space or astronomy in general?
Also dumping.
Space/ Astronomy
Cooper Kelly
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Alexander Thompson
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Isaac Garcia
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Eli Jones
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Jose Morales
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Ryan Perez
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Leo Diaz
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Nathaniel Williams
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Wyatt Powell
I annoy telescopes and astrophotography. It occurred to me about a year and a half ago that I didn't know the sky at all, and I had never properly inspected it. I made a telescope out of some crappy lenses that i had and I used it to view last year's lunar eclipse. The telescope was shitty as hell so I went on Craigslist and bought myself one for $60. I liked it but I couldn't see much with it so I later bought a five inch reflector. I could see more and it was cool. I used it to look at the sky. This persisted through winter and this spring I bought a ten inch reflector that I have been using since. Now I drive out to a dark site to do observing every few weekends or so. If any of you guys live in Illinois I'd be happy to do a meetup. The observing site I go to is pretty much smack dab in the middle of the state.
Lucas Hughes
Space is too big
Jeremiah Phillips
I dont live in illinois but if you have extra lenses you wanna send me thatd br great. I have a dobsinion refractor (skyquest xt6 i think. Yea im a noob i know but i love it)
Chase James
Adrian Morgan
Ayden Cox
I'm going to do this. It seems reasonable. $
Andrew Morris
>choose deep space option
>faraway super intelligent alien civilization finds your remains in 10000 years, studies you and recreates you in a lab
Eli Williams
Absolute genius. Thank you.
Leo Baker
>ash
>remains
>studies
Michael Evans
Eyepeices*
Ryan Garcia
Would there just be a bunch of carbon left and nothing else at all, no dna or anything?
Luke Rivera
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William Hill
Cremated remains look like fine bone fragments to me. I imagine there would be some DNA in there somewhere but that's a good question.
Gavin Howard
The question is, would those off-planet beings even deal in DNA? Or carbon? They may be non-carbon based.
Kevin Brown
Nicholas Wilson
Depending on how intelligent they are they could figure it out. Maybe have a picture of the human genome and also another picture of your sequenced dna. Some hints
Samuel Edwards
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Adrian Fisher
I love the idea of traveling FTL.
And distant alien civilizations.
Blake King
one ugly motherfucker.
dyel
Brandon Lewis
Connor Cox
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Andrew Peterson
Oliver Bailey
>tfw there might actually be life on the smallest world in that picture.
It'd be like finding a lifeboat drifting in space. Pretty fucking cool.
Hudson Johnson
Reminder that Ganymede is the best moon.
>Dat magnetic field
>Dem subsurface oceans
>Dat molten core
Gavin Peterson
>Ganymede
Titan's where it's at, t.bh
Kevin Martin
>all those manlet planets
Kek
Jace Adams
Actually didn't know that Enceladus was that tiny.
Liam Powell
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Jeremiah Reed
So how hard would it be to create a genuine alcubierre drive? Is it even possible at all without blowing the spaceship up?
Jason Johnson
Yes.
No.
Liam Price
Space Engine is pretty cool.
>Enceladus
Damn you tiny
Connor Hernandez
Possibly silicone based
Aiden Peterson
>Daylit Saturn
>Stars are visible
Noah Cruz
Who /UniverseSandbox2/ here?
Nicholas Cook
Gentle reminder that most of the cool new stuff that happens in astrophysics does not happen in the optical spectrum.
Angel Hughes
I'm finishing a space related undergrad and starting postgrad september.
I prefer doing projects about planets in our solar system. Gravity/magnetic fields/anomalies along with their interior structure.
It's really a subject a lot of current projects are about in terms of ESA/NASA.
I like X-Ray astronomy and deep space topics too, it's just very limited what you can do practically.