Virgin Galactic

[art0hur0moh]

Crewed flight happening now. Two pilots and four technicians! Oh someone post the crew picture for posterity. Streamed live?

http://virgingalactic.com/vg-next/?fbcl ... 0vGjr3t6sA

[art0hur0moh]

Would be cool to see that at night. Not sure if the the temperature variation would interfere with the flight.

[art0hur0moh]

launch 30 seconds

[art0hur0moh]

that was cool... big time

[Snookerballs]

It was only a few months ago that Richard Branson said he was on his knees and could not afford to run UK and Australian Virgin Airlines and wanted the Country to bail him out .

Wonder how much this flight cost ?

[drum]

I did see this yesterday, rich mens games.

[art0hur0moh]

ever since congress ratified nasa in 1959, drum.

We will enter the space age when we travel beyond the sight of the Sun's light. I consider an astronaut someone who can circumnavigate the Sun, that is technically the definition of the words, star flyer. It is hardly solar navigation popping our heads outside the cell wall of Earth. Not even left the magnetosphere.

Still impressive feats of engineering even if the words are being used incorrectly.

[art0hur0moh]

ach, what is the word for exit speed again? Knew 11.2km/s but didn't realise it is only 24 mile per second. 30 mile an hour, an 8-10 hour walk.

[Rolluplostinspace]

ach, what is the word for exit speed again? Knew 11.2km/s but didn't realise it is only 24 mile per second. 30 mile an hour, an 8-10 hour walk.

Earths atmosphere stretches ever thinner up to around 6 thousand miles while the space station is closer to me than Glasgow at 250 miles.
The thinnest wisps of our atmosphere actually pass the moon.
So no men do not explore space they just go round and round the earth in a low orbit low gravity position within earths atmosphere.
We do build machines though that can do some exploration for us.
It has been discovered that our entire solar system is in a balloon who's skin is around a 100 thousand degrees C which means we might never be able to go beyond that. There's a debate about the possibilities because 40 year old voyager might have passed through this plasma firewall and survived to continue transmitting but the debate is about whether or not the craft has bounced back from this and is now skimming along the edges.
Hard to get up to date info.

[art0hur0moh]

ach, what is the word for exit speed again? Knew 11.2km/s but didn't realise it is only 24 mile per second. 30 mile an hour, an 8-10 hour walk.

Earths atmosphere stretches ever thinner up to around 6 thousand miles while the space station is closer to me than Glasgow at 250 miles.
The thinnest wisps of our atmosphere actually pass the moon.
So no men do not explore space they just go round and round the earth in a low orbit low gravity position within earths atmosphere.
We do build machines though that can do some exploration for us.
It has been discovered that our entire solar system is in a balloon who's skin is around a 100 thousand degrees C which means we might never be able to go beyond that. There's a debate about the possibilities because 40 year old voyager might have passed through this plasma firewall and survived to continue transmitting but the debate is about whether or not the craft has bounced back from this and is now skimming along the edges.
Hard to get up to date info.

the ort cloud...terminal velocity? I am certain that is gravities pull. Punching our way out the atmosphere is? Beagle had a miniaturised spectrometer designed in a u.k. university.

[Stooo]

Why?

Bill Gates isn't building rocket ships, he's eradicating polio.

[Rolluplostinspace]

ach, what is the word for exit speed again? Knew 11.2km/s but didn't realise it is only 24 mile per second. 30 mile an hour, an 8-10 hour walk.

Earths atmosphere stretches ever thinner up to around 6 thousand miles while the space station is closer to me than Glasgow at 250 miles.
The thinnest wisps of our atmosphere actually pass the moon.
So no men do not explore space they just go round and round the earth in a low orbit low gravity position within earths atmosphere.
We do build machines though that can do some exploration for us.
It has been discovered that our entire solar system is in a balloon who's skin is around a 100 thousand degrees C which means we might never be able to go beyond that. There's a debate about the possibilities because 40 year old voyager might have passed through this plasma firewall and survived to continue transmitting but the debate is about whether or not the craft has bounced back from this and is now skimming along the edges.
Hard to get up to date info.

the ort cloud...terminal velocity? I am certain that is gravities pull. Punching our way out the atmosphere is? Beagle had a miniaturised spectrometer designed in a u.k. university.

?????

[art0hur0moh]

posted a video in science section you will be interested in near a week or nor ago.

[art0hur0moh]

ach, what is the word for exit speed again? Knew 11.2km/s but didn't realise it is only 24 mile per second. 30 mile an hour, an 8-10 hour walk.

Earths atmosphere stretches ever thinner up to around 6 thousand miles while the space station is closer to me than Glasgow at 250 miles.
The thinnest wisps of our atmosphere actually pass the moon.
So no men do not explore space they just go round and round the earth in a low orbit low gravity position within earths atmosphere.
We do build machines though that can do some exploration for us.
It has been discovered that our entire solar system is in a balloon who's skin is around a 100 thousand degrees C which means we might never be able to go beyond that. There's a debate about the possibilities because 40 year old voyager might have passed through this plasma firewall and survived to continue transmitting but the debate is about whether or not the craft has bounced back from this and is now skimming along the edges.
Hard to get up to date info.

the ort cloud...terminal velocity? I am certain that is gravities pull. Punching our way out the atmosphere is? Beagle had a miniaturised spectrometer designed in a u.k. university.

?????

ffs, the bubble surrounding the solar system is the ort cloud.

yeah, i don't think the atmosphere extends as far as the moon. But did hear something about it some time in the past, still unconfirmed personally. I think it was an astronomer who theorised the moon and earths phases of collision and reconstruction. The moon is further from the earth than its circumference cubed. The magnetosphere does have an influence on the moon.

[Rolluplostinspace]

ach, what is the word for exit speed again? Knew 11.2km/s but didn't realise it is only 24 mile per second. 30 mile an hour, an 8-10 hour walk.

Earths atmosphere stretches ever thinner up to around 6 thousand miles while the space station is closer to me than Glasgow at 250 miles.
The thinnest wisps of our atmosphere actually pass the moon.
So no men do not explore space they just go round and round the earth in a low orbit low gravity position within earths atmosphere.
We do build machines though that can do some exploration for us.
It has been discovered that our entire solar system is in a balloon who's skin is around a 100 thousand degrees C which means we might never be able to go beyond that. There's a debate about the possibilities because 40 year old voyager might have passed through this plasma firewall and survived to continue transmitting but the debate is about whether or not the craft has bounced back from this and is now skimming along the edges.
Hard to get up to date info.

the ort cloud...terminal velocity? I am certain that is gravities pull. Punching our way out the atmosphere is? Beagle had a miniaturised spectrometer designed in a u.k. university.

?????

ffs, the bubble surrounding the solar system is the ort cloud.

yeah, i don't think the atmosphere extends as far as the moon. But did hear something about it some time in the past, still unconfirmed personally. I think it was an astronomer who theorised the moon and earths phases of collision and reconstruction. The moon is further from the earth than its circumference cubed. The magnetosphere does have an influence on the moon.

The Oort cloud is really, really big

Although the Oort cloud has not been directly observed, it is thought to resemble a spherical ball with a wall thickness that starts at about 2,000 – 5,000 AU (0.03 – 0.08 light years) from the Sun, and stretches to about 100,000 – 200,000 AU (1.58 – 3.16 light years) from the Sun. This is really big, considering that Proxima Centauri, closest star closest to the Sun, is only 4.22 light years away.

Stars sometimes pass through the Oort cloud

Nobody has seen the Oort cloud-yet

Everything that is known about the Oort cloud is based on inference, deductive reasoning, theoretical computer models, and some intelligent guesses about the origin of long-period comets, since nobody has actually observed the cloud yet. The space probe that is currently closest to the Oort cloud is Voyager 1, and although it is the fastest of all the current space probes, it will only reach the inner reaches of the Oort cloud in another 300 or so years, and will need about 30,000 years to pass through the cloud’s wall.

Sadly though, the nuclear reactors that supply Voyager 1 with power is expected to cease working in about 2025, and none of the other space probes now in service is expected to be functional by the time they reach the Oort cloud.
https://www.astronomytrek.com/10-intere ... ort-cloud/

These particles, heated and accelerated by the Sun create a giant balloon known as the heliosphere extending millions of miles out past Pluto.

The Oort cloud is a frozen mess of rocks.
The plasma balloon isn't and is super hot.