Proof that shatting yourself daily is the secret to a long life. And good skinShat looks fucking great for 90. Holy shit.
I'm way too nervously excited for something that really has no bearing on my day to day life. Like, I feel like I will have escalated it to 'stressed' by launch day.The Telescope Soon To Formerly Be Named James Webb has arrived and is being prepped for launch. Are ya ready?
That outrage seems a little silly. Yeah, the dude existed in an era that sucked for gay people. Thats all he did, exist. He wasnt an outright bigot, or championing hateful shit, he just existed. 90% of people in history would get cancelled by that logic.The Telescope Soon To Formerly Be Named James Webb has arrived and is being prepped for launch. Are ya ready?
Did more than exist, from what I've read. But yeah, I'm ok with NASA's investigation into it.That outrage seems a little silly. Yeah, the dude existed in an era that sucked for gay people. Thats all he did, exist. He wasnt an outright bigot, or championing hateful shit, he just existed. 90% of people in history would get cancelled by that logic.
IIRC, deployment is much longer than that.man, im excited.
Need it to clear launch, then clear deployment a couple of days later. Those are the two big scary points
Powered by ion thrusters, the 700-kg spacecraft aims to rendezvous with a double asteroid next October. Once there, the spacecraft will attempt to collide with Dimorphos, a small "moonlet" of a larger asteroid named Didymos. DART will strike Dimorphos at a rate a little greater than 6.6 km/s, aiming to slightly alter the trajectory of the asteroid, which measures approximately 170 meters across.
According to the Earth Impact Effects Program, at at energy level, if it impacted land, it would create a crater that was four miles wide and nearly two thousand feet deep. Any city within 30 miles of the blast would not only be hit by a massive blast of heat that would set most flammable objects on fire and cause third-degree burns on the human body, but the city would be exposed to an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 and suffer from a blast wave packing a force of 8 PSI or greater and winds of 250 mph, or greater. Cities that were sixty miles from the impact would suffer damage from the major earthquake, and they would also be hit by a blast packing winds of 80 mph, which would shatter glass windows but also damage roofs. The earthquakes and blast wave would damage cities and kill people up to 100 miles from the impact zone.
I'm not sure we've earned that sort of redemption, as a species.Planetary Defense test vehicle just went up.
Deflecting a ~200M asteroid is no joke. The damage such an asteroid would do is very substantial
we were so obsessed with if we could... we never stopped to think if we should.I'm not sure we've earned that sort of redemption, as a species.
we were so obsessed with if we could... we never stopped to think if we should.
That's two days man. You had me freaked out.Yup. Unfortunately.