The (new) Space Thread 🌌📡🔭🗿🛸🤖

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Last time the state made rockets it strapped 50 megaton warheads on them and threatened killing every god damn person on the planet if we dont respect its ego.

I don't see the advantage of having the price of a NASA janitor's government pension built into my price when I'm purchasing a satellite communication uplink for my right-wing Christian freedom militia compound in rural Montana.

[shovelquest]

We need more state run mass death machines because the private sector keeps NOT using them to kill 50,000 people.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We need more state run mass death machines because the private sector keeps NOT using them to kill 50,000 people.

Doing business with bad people is usually better for everyone.

Including the aforementioned fat womanizing serial philanderer.

[shovelquest]

*shocked pokimon

You want to use it to mine minerals we use to make technology that doctors use to increase the life expectancy of everyone on earth?

Excuse me mr EGO, but we have 50,000 people to kill in the name of whatever someone who did nothing their entire lives until a bunch of retards voted for him wants to do.

[shovelquest]

I think hating people (or at least not fitting in) is what drives highly productive people.

If they fit into our douchebag ass society, they would just enjoy doing nothing like everyone else does.

[shovelquest]

*thinks in history

Rather than a single act of "nationalization," the Nazi regime's control over rocket production evolved over time, becoming more state-run and militarized. The state's control was a result of increasing military interest, especially from the SS, and a massive expansion of manufacturing that relied on concentration camp slave labor.

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[shovelquest]

I remember being promised something in 2012 too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Almost got my delivery in 2020.

Still wishing on the monkeys paw (for world peace) every day.

[Ekco]

I'm still wishing for the fungi or octopus to step up and take their rightful place as overlords of earf.

not the whales though, fuck the whales.

[shovelquest]

Will be a brief window of some pretty epic tentacle porn.

[Ekco]

are we still waiting on T Coronae Borealis to explode?

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Yes, we're still waiting. While earlier predictions suggested the eruption of T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) could have happened by late 2024, it has not yet occurred. Astronomers still expect it to happen soon, though, and it remains a much-anticipated event.

Regarding a prediction for the end of this month (September 2025), there's no single, universally agreed-upon date. However, a prediction published in October 2024 suggested possible eruption dates, including November 10, 2025. Other forecasts based on the star's dimming and brightening patterns suggest a timeframe as broad as mid-2025 to late 2026.

The key takeaway from the latest observations is that the star is exhibiting behaviors similar to those seen before its 1946 outburst, such as a "pre-eruption dip" in brightness. This continues to lead astronomers to believe the nova is imminent on an astronomical timescale, even if the exact day, week, or even month is unknown.

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