The Space Thread

[kovert]

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin spent nearly two hours in space and orbited the earth just once.

Today also marks the 40th anniversary of the first orbital flight (mission designation 'STS-1') of the Space Transportation System, crewed by US astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen. Young and Crippen spent two days in space testing the Space Shuttle Columbia.

[DELTAprime]

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin spent nearly two hours in space and orbited the earth just once.

Only 60 years ago? I thought for sure it would be more like 70.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Stumbled across this article on the ABC news site and it's something quite thought provoking:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...alia/100064630

While I appreciate what Elon Musk is doing and think that it's a nice idea, I didn't think of the consequences. It produces an interesting problem now doesn't it.
Let's hope he didn't install lasers on them and has plans for world domination (in a classical sense).

[DELTAprime]

Stumbled across this article on the ABC news site and it's something quite thought provoking:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...alia/100064630

While I appreciate what Elon Musk is doing and think that it's a nice idea, I didn't think of the consequences. It produces an interesting problem now doesn't it.
Let's hope he didn't install lasers on them and has plans for world domination (in a classical sense).

The astronomer community has been rather upset about Starlink for a while now. We are looking at a future where only space-based telescopes are useful.

[Autocon]

Interesting. Wonder if there is a situation where the world goes no, no more are allowed to orbit the earth.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Interesting. Wonder if there is a situation where the world goes no, no more are allowed to orbit the earth.

Eventually they will have to. Surely there'll become a problem abandoned, old satellites etc are a danger to other things in orbit. I remember reading a few years ago that there is already quite a bit of abandoned junk in orbit. I guess it isn't easy to have a "clean up the earth's orbit day"

Space is big yes, but that doesn't mean we can chuck any old thing into it.

[Skyfire]

"Japan is going to put a baseball-sized robot that TRANSFORMS on the moon to explore the lunar surface in 2022"

"The robot is being built in part by Tomy, famous for creating Transformer toys, such as Optimus Prime"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...moon-2022.html