Moon Base 13, The Moon: NASA Is In Kinga Forrester's Pocket

[Salodin]

If it doesn't have life now, there's the chance millions of years from now it might. Pretty interesting stuff.

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[TsingTao]

SpaceX to launch again on the 29th, scheduled at 5:42am EDT. They're launching the final Block 4 booster. No recovery because Block 4.

https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-i...lock-4-falcon/

Elon Musk says that we will see a Block 5 launch, land, and relaunch within the same day sometime this year.

I really can't wait to see this. From the impossible to "yeah, we do this a couple times a day" in just a couple years.

[Buffy]

Relaunch within the same day is amazing. Wonder how long it takes to fuel one of them?

[Zetanio]

I would bet it's probably a few hours but isn't most of the time spent doing visual checks?

[TsingTao]

Big test for Bezos and Blue Origin today.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...gh-abort-test/

A fair bit of flight time for their capsule, plus a successful return of all the things. Neat!

[archibaldcrane]

Two more successful launches and landings for SpaceX over the past week. Still haven't managed to catch a fairing in the net yet though.

Also, we have liquid water on Mars, folks.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/world...utm_term=image

(a mile below the surface of the planet but still)

[TsingTao]

I keep hoping Mr. Steven will nab a fairing, but it hasn't happened yet.

[Zetanio]

The liquid water on Mars is a bit of a stretch for now.

[archibaldcrane]

why's that?

[Zetanio]

But how reliable are these detections?
Outside experts have not been able to confirm these findings with other radar detections, like SHARAD, the Shallow Radar sounder onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"We don't see the same reflector with SHARAD, not even when we recently summed together [thousands] of observations to create CATSCAN-like 3-D views of both polar caps," Nathaniel Putzig, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter SHARAD deputy team leader and senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, said in an email.

[TsingTao]

Besides, even if it is water it's not exactly easy to reach. Digging down that deep to get to water isn't something we will be doing until we can establish a foothold on Mars that's sustainable without access to said deep underground water.

[archibaldcrane]

Besides, even if it is water it's not exactly easy to reach. Digging down that deep to get to water isn't something we will be doing until we can establish a foothold on Mars that's sustainable without access to said deep underground water.

We'd probably have to desalinate the shit out of it for it to be useful too, and that takes a lot of energy.

[TsingTao]

We'd probably have to desalinate the shit out of it for it to be useful too, and that takes a lot of energy.

Yeah, that doesn't even touch what crap may be in said water and what we have to do to make it usable let alone potable.

[Salodin]

Typical Earth privilege assuming Martian water belongs to them when it's currently being used by microbes just trying to evolve in peace.

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[BaneTheBrawler]

Typical Earth privilege assuming Martian water belongs to them when it's currently being used by microbes just trying to evolve in peace.

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this post is problematic because you're just assuming the microbes want to evolve


the savage martian microbe stereotype needs to die in a fire. their evolutionary state is just as valid as our own.

[synistar]

I laugh since my friend works for JPL in their Planetary Defense department. Her team's job is to defend extraterrestrial ecosystems from Earth's microbes by cleaning the heck out of any exploration spacecraft we launch.

[Zetanio]

The people in the white suits in the white room?

[synistar]

Bingo. She had to explain to me what Planetary Defense was. I was thinking space object interdiction or alien life defense but then she explained to me that they're defending everything else from Earth.

[Zetanio]

oh man that's fucking dope.

[BaneTheBrawler]

very dope. tell her we say hi, and that she's dope.