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message 952: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Grasshopper wrote: "That's odd! It just disappeared! What sorcery is this???
The aircraft is called Cosmic Girl.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/..."


Ah I see. A female rocket. Its like Enola Gay.


message 953: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
It should've stayed at home?


message 954: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
"SpaceX and NASA scrub historic launch due to weather conditions" https://twitter.com/i/events/12653593...
Will it or won't it?


message 955: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Tesla CEO Elon Musk earns first performance-based compensation from the company worth more than $700million in one of the biggest corporate pay packages in U.S. history


message 956: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments SpaceX just blew up its super rocket in a test, car sales are almost certainly down, so why a record "high" performance pay? Has Tesla ever made money?


message 957: by Beatrice (new)

Beatrice Williams | 2516 comments Good question Ian. Perhaps it's a baby bonus!


message 958: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments super rockets can be very tricky


message 959: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
 

Inside Elon Musk’s extravagant array of mansions which the Tesla CEO is selling for more than $100m
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1173950...


message 960: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Owning more than one house in one city, other than when renting them out, seems excessive - you can only be in one at any time.

Is see the Falcon launch seems to have worked well, though, at least so far.


message 961: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Hurray!


message 962: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Hurray indeed! Falcon is the rocket, the capsule is called Dragon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en...


message 963: by Graham (new)

Graham J. | 404 comments This has been most illuminating


message 964: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Moon of the Month: Enceladus

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/sa...


message 965: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
What happens next month? No moon?


message 966: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Ha ha! Probably Enceladus will still be there, but I will pick another moon. NASA are planning to send a submarine to explore the methane ocean. Mind blowing!


message 967: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
You've gotta be kidding!


message 968: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments A methane ocean is unlikely. The plumes are (Waite Jr et al., 2006) : 91% H2O, 3% CO2, 4% either N2 or CO (or both) and 1.6% CH4. There are also low levels of ammonia (0.8%), acetylene (0.3%), formaldehyde (0.3%), ethylene, ethane (0.2%), hydrogen, hydrogen cyanide (<0.7%), argon and traces of a number of hydrocarbons of molecular weight up to benzene. There is methane, but not oceans of it.


message 969: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Well then NASA will have to make do with a floating submarine then!


message 970: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Ha ha, perhaps. I saw it on a documentary, so I may have misconstrued. But they were definitely talking about a submarine. Watch this space!


message 971: by Bernard (new)


message 972: by Alexis (new)

Alexis Harding | 1386 comments 450 sattelittes just observing us? Feel like a celebrity already!


message 973: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Alexis - they are spying, and you don't spy on celebrities :-) Also, stop and think about the difficulty these things impose on astronomers. How easily will they find the asteroid with our name on it?


message 974: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Unless they focus the satellites towards outer
space!


message 975: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Spies don't study the other direction, and anyway, checking orbital data is really difficult and time-consuming.


message 976: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
They would like us to believe that it's 'being used to monitor large-scale phenomena for agriculture and deforestation' & that spying is the last thing on their mind!


message 977: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Ha Ha Ha!


message 978: by Bradley (new)

Bradley Simon | 1028 comments The large-scale phenomenon could be crime prevention , a la Minority Report?


message 979: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments I have been studying large-scale phenomena for 50 years.


message 980: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Is that tongue-in-cheek Britt humour?


message 981: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments It is a fact. I also study some small-scale phenomena, though quantum physics makes my brain hurt 😁


message 982: by Beatrice (new)

Beatrice Williams | 2516 comments And the conclusion is?


message 983: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments I conclude that the phenomena of the universe are complex but fascinating - eg black holes, leptons, and fig biscuits.


message 984: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
I only understood fig biscuits!


message 985: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments They are the easiest to understand. Leptons are sub-atomic particles.


message 986: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Eye roll!


message 987: by Bradley (new)

Bradley Simon | 1028 comments I think I got everything except fig biscuits!!


message 988: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Ha ha! Bradley, fig biscuits are biscuits made with err figs.


message 989: by Alexis (new)

Alexis Harding | 1386 comments They sound ancient. Moreover, couldn't the giant telescopes be wedged between the satellites?


message 990: by Graham (new)

Graham J. | 404 comments This ain't LEGO Alexis


message 992: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Being exterminated through loss of habitat and weird Chinese custom is sort of standard rather than news :-(


message 993: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
You hit the nail right on the head Ian!


message 994: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments Yes, poor pandas. But I wish them luck.


message 995: by Bernard (new)

Bernard Smith | 3030 comments So the Martians are breathing oxygen???

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en...


message 996: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
So it something green after all!


message 997: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Bernard wrote: "So the Martians are breathing oxygen???

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en..."


No. The oxygen glow comes from CO2 being fragmented. Actually, it is also possible the glow comes from nitrogen, because it has an excited state that decays with green light, I believe.


message 998: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
When the ##@## will we finally have any sign of life beyond our blue planet?


message 999: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 269 comments Probably not in my lifetime. Must write a blog post on this matter.


message 1000: by Grasshopper, Administrator (new)

Grasshopper Bot (daisyking) | 6902 comments Mod
Ha,ha. Maybe, maybe not! But you surely must!


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