Outer Space Crud

[rick49]

full scale mocking by media and the pentagon of david grusch, air force and navy pilots who see uap's and anyone in congress who take grusch seriously about uap's is in full swing.

www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/opinions/ufo-testimony-aliens-congress-credulous-colavito/index.html

[rick49]

govt releases leaks private medical records in effort to discredit him.

hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/08/09/a-scurrilous-attack-on-the-ufo-whistleblowers-mental-health-n570094

[rick49]

Russia and India Are Racing to Put Landers on the Moon

"Robotic spacecraft from both countries are aiming to touch down on the moon’s southern hemisphere, as one’s space program waxes and the other wanes."
www.wired.com/story/russia-and-india-are-racing-to-put-landers-on-the-moon/

[rick49]

Clouds On Neptune Perform a Surprise Disappearing Act

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – "For the first time in nearly three decades of observations, clouds seen on Neptune have all but vanished. Images from 1994 to 2022 of the big blue planet captured from Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island through the lens of W. M. Keck Observatory, along with views from space via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show clouds are nearly gone with the exception of the south pole. The observations, which are published in the journal Icarus, further reveal a connection between Neptune’s disappearing clouds and the solar cycle."
www.keckobservatory.org/neptune-clouds/

[rick49]

russia's Luna-25 crashed. i think they lost contact with it when it was about 2 km from the surface. same height india lost contact with it's Chandrayaan-2 lander in 2019.

[rick49]

India becomes the 4th country to successfully land on the moon
hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/23/india-becomes-the-4th-country-to-successfully-land-on-the-moon-n573044



congrats to india. not an easy feat.

[perrykneeham]

Yes, kudos to India. Just goes to show what you can achieve if you're not Pakistan.

Stand by for memes of Indian spacecraft contrasted with (only) schoolboys being zip-wired off a homemade cable car in some backward Islamic mountain shithole.

[perrykneeham]

"Karachi, we have a problem ...."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-66597447

[rick49]

Mission Status (Voyagers)
voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

[rick49]

Aug 23, 2023 17:28:20 GMT perrykneeham said:

"Karachi, we have a problem ...."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-66597447

wow. thats scary.

[rick49]

and india's landing at the Moon's south pole was really impressive because the terrain is so rugged.

[rick49]

i love this stuff. i remember staying up very late to watch coverage of the first Surveyor soft lander on the Moon.

[rick49]

still one of the most intriguing ufo/uap encounters ever. 747 pilot said it was at least twice the size of an aircraft carrier and dwarfed the 747.. skeptics claim he only saw the planet Mars.

Plane Maneuvered to Avoid Object : Pilot Recounts Sighting Enormous UFO
www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-01-mn-1922-story.html

UFO SIGHTING CONFIRMED BY FAA, AIR FORCE RADAR
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/01/02/ufo-sighting-confirmed-by-faa-air-force-radar/c186c4b7-54ed-459e-b94d-eeeff7b3322e/

[rick49]

Do we need a new cosmology? Maybe so
earthsky.org/space/a-new-cosmology-problems-big-bang-standard-model-webb/



"The 6 red dots in these images are 6 galaxies in the early universe, seen by NASA's Webb telescope. Weirdly, they look old. But they're seen at a time when the universe was young. Scientists call them Webb's "impossible early galaxy" observation. As 2 scientists wrote recently: "The finding is akin to parents and their children appearing in a story when the grandparents are still children themselves."

[rick49]

our resident astronomer (the thing) not going to mock this?

[flatandy]

A theory is good until a better theory comes along. It's not set in stone, and if observations don't match the theory that means either the observations are flawed (which is possible), or the theory needs tweaking, or the theory needs complete rebuilding. I think of the various observations that led to relativity - and you can argue either way that it was tweaking the theory (we still hold Newtonian mechanics for all except edge-case situation) or a complete rebuilding (relativistic mechanics happen to work like newtonian mechanics in non-extreme cases, but almost all cosmological cases are extreme).

I'm less bothered by Big Bang theory than I am by a lot of other cosmology where they've had to tweak and tweak and tweak to get it to work, that they need 13 dimensional physics where we can't observe 9 of them; and they need 70% of the universe to be made out of a dark matter that nobody has ever seen or found or measured, that they keep adding these unobservable magical constants to make sure that their old science still functions.

The cosmologists might be right - they certainly know more than me, and are clearly way better at complex integrals than me - but I am just not 100% confident that they aren't letting the cart lead the horse.

[rick49]

Newly found bubble of galaxies, a billion light-years wide

"Astronomers in Hawaii have discovered an immense bubble 820 million light-years from Earth. They say it's a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the universe. And they say its size – a billion light-years in diameter – is beyond theoretical expectations."
earthsky.org/space/bubble-of-galaxies-hooleilana-baq-hawaii/

[rick49]

A theory is good until a better theory comes along.

agree.

It's not set in stone,

not so sure about that.

[rick49]

Space junk is increasing, and no one’s in charge of clean up
earthsky.org/space/space-junk-increasing-no-ones-in-charge-of-cleaning-it-up/

this drives me crazy. there will be a point where there is so much junk up there that we won't be able to put any more up there because it would just crash into whats already up there, creating even more junk.

[rick49]

Perseverance Rover Watches Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 54th Flight
mars.nasa.gov/resources/27635/perseverance-rover-watches-ingenuity-mars-helicopters-54th-flight/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasas-mars-public-engagement-team&utm_content=20230909-MarsNewsletter