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Space: The Final Frontier. Exploring space developments and theorizing about how humans fit into the universe.
Space Graveyard on Earth
The news reported the successful launch of a human spacecraft, and all of humanity shared the joy. Rocket liftoff and booster stripping go hand in hand, but most people focus on the ascent and ignore the fall. Where do these boosters fall after they have burned up their fuel?
By Ansanto Thomas5 years ago in Futurism
Three life lessons I learned from Command Module Pilot Michael Collins
As the Columbia Command Module pilot, he kept watching over Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin while they explored the lunar surface that day, the day we all know fondly as “the first man to walk on the moon.”
By Reto Bachofner5 years ago in Futurism
The most extreme objects in space-Neutron Stars.
Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent objects in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter, but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence to the death of something majestic.
By Maitrey Vishvas5 years ago in Futurism
What is Hawking Radiation?
Black holes are full of mysteries. They have such tremendous gravitational force that even light doesn't escape from it. Black holes are usually known for their size. They are huge and can become bigger by consuming surrounding objects. But, we have never heard of black holes the size of Earth, or black holes the size of a coin. Do such black holes even exist? If yes, why don't we get to observe them? You will find the answer to these questions in this post.
By siddhesh thakare5 years ago in Futurism
Distance is a Fallacy. Top Story - May 2021.
TRANSMISSION 53 We've finally done it. After months of sitting alone in this tiny remote outpost - has it just been months? It truly feels like it's been five years since I was sent to this isolated shed on the frontiers of oblivion - I finally have something substantive to report. I have received communication from a non-terrestrial source and, after many rounds of analysis, I can confirm with a <0.01% margin of error that the transmission was from an intelligent source. I have already broadcast the preplanned welcome message and am eagerly awaiting the response, which I will of course pass along to headquarters promptly as I receive it.
By Andrew Johnston5 years ago in Futurism
All aboard the bus to Proxima Centauri!
Let’s suppose that – 100 years hence, maybe – it is decided that Planet Earth is no longer inhabitable and the human race will have to decamp to another planet if it is to survive. After much debate it is concluded that Mars is far from suitable so the journey will have to take a lot longer – to the next nearest planet that could sustain human life, namely one that orbits Proxima Centauri B, some four light years away.
By John Welford5 years ago in Futurism
The Impact If The Chinese Rocket Crash
The huge center of a Chinese rocket dispatched into space a week ago is rushing wild above Earth and could make an accident arrival in the coming days. The chances are minute, however the Philadelphia territory is among the spots referenced as a potential accident site.
By Akil STEWART5 years ago in Futurism
How to read a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
By using increasingly powerful telescopes, fitted with various instruments to analyse the quality of the light collected from objects such as stars and galaxies, and by making calculations based on their observations, astronomers down the centuries have been able to gather a considerable amount of information about a large number of stars and other objects.
By John Welford5 years ago in Futurism
The Moon
In cultures around the world, studying the moon and stars was a way to tell time. It was important to keep a planting schedule in agriculture, to foretell the coming of the seasons, and the phases of our Moon also helped as a way to keep track of time on a daily basis.
By Heather Falsetti5 years ago in Futurism
affreux Survivante
The below seems to be a stream of consciousness that was fired across the cosmos from a distant planet, that orbited a distant star, moments before that planet was partially destroyed. From what we are able to observe of that far off region of space, it seems a planet that was once capable of supporting life now exists as a cluster of rocks orbiting a star that once gave that planet warmth and light, gave it life. The below message was unusually transmitted as pure energy, that is to say it was attached to particles of light rather than a radio wave. Take this as an oversimplified explanation, imagine a small star or ball of light racing through the universe like an asteroid rather than a wave and you’ll have an idea how we first observed the travelling ball of energy. It was the unusual nature of that light travelling through the universe that drew our attention to it. It would take us many years to find the message attached to the photons and many more years to roughly translate it. The below is a loose translation, we do not know much about the world it originated from or what that world looked like. We do not know if the life on that planet was hominid-like, though the message seems to indicate that life on that planet evolved down a similar route as our own. We do not know what trees or guns would have looked like or if their version of a “farmhouse” is similar to our own, we have simply used our imagination to attach meanings and concepts as we understand them to a completely alien message. Specific names, such as the names of tribes or locations, of course cannot be translated. It also seems that the message was not sent through a deliberate process but was instead the anguished cry across the cosmos of a life form in pain, suffering and likely dying. How any of this is possible is beyond our current understanding of the laws of physics.
By Jamie Stirling5 years ago in Futurism
