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13 votes
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NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
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Yuri Gagarin - The Outskirts of Reality (2020)
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Two defunct satellites will narrowly avoid colliding on Wednesday evening, passing each other just fifteen to thirty meters apart while travelling at 14.7 kilometers per second
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Which religion is friendliest to the idea of aliens?
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NASA wants to grow a Moon base out of mushrooms
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Prosperous Universe - This deep simulation of space economics is surprisingly compelling
7 votes -
SpaceX Falcon 9 landing burn
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A look at the differences between the Curiosity rover and Mars 2020, which will start exploring Mars' Jezero Crater for signs of life in 2021
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How a meteorite ruined an Alabama woman's afternoon sixty-five years ago
9 votes -
Misconceptions in space journalism: domes are overrated for human colonization of the moon and Mars
11 votes -
Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
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Voyager 2 illuminates the boundary of interstellar space
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Loop quantum gravity explained
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Meet the satellites that can pinpoint methane and carbon dioxide leaks
8 votes -
Study shows Venus may have once enjoyed a temperate climate
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Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway
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Astronomers detect the most massive neutron star yet
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Could we terraform Mars?
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The time when Zambia tried to go to Mars
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Designing the satisfying space combat of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
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This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite. Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron...
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron carbide mineral from the Wedderburn iron meteorite." PDF link
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NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life
8 votes -
Inside the Virgin Galactic spaceport sending the mega rich into space
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Before and after pictures show Greenland's rapid ice melt from space
11 votes -
Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
5 votes -
Humans will never colonize Mars
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Any chance we can get a ~space group?
I know that this has been discussed before (I personally participated in some of that), but, to my knowledge, it's been quite a while since it was brought up. Currently, the three groups that seem...
I know that this has been discussed before (I personally participated in some of that), but, to my knowledge, it's been quite a while since it was brought up.
Currently, the three groups that seem to make the most sense for space exploration news are ~tech, ~science, and ~misc. Personally, I perceive ~tech as being best suited for general news about what's going on in the tech industry, more or less "hey, Google released this" or "these researchers are working on graphene batteries". Similarly, I understand ~science as a place for discussing scientific discoveries and "meta" discussion about science as a whole. I think that most would agree with me on those characterizations after looking at those groups when sorted by activity or new.
Space exploration, on the other hand, doesn't really fit in either. It's not exactly ~tech material, and it's also not really the right material for ~science, since much of it isn't about specific new discoveries or studies, etc. If we had an ~engineering, I would say that that would be the correct place for space discussion, but we don't have one.
If you look at what's been happening over the last few months in the realm of space exploration, I think that it's also pretty easy to see that there's enough going on to generate enough content and discussion for a dedicated group. There've been new launches on a weekly or biweekly basis, interesting moves made by different new entrants to the industry, all of the NASA Artemis news, plenty of things from SpaceX, etc.
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Hollywood went to the moon first!
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Death dive to Saturn
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Interesting fast-paced space-themed racing games on Switch
After our discussion about Tempest-like games, I looked at what else could at least scratch a similar fast-paced space-theme racing, with optional shooting itch on Switch. To kick off the...
After our discussion about Tempest-like games, I looked at what else could at least scratch a similar fast-paced space-theme racing, with optional shooting itch on Switch.
To kick off the discussion, these are the games I already tried that I kinda like. I‘ll update this list, once people suggest other entries. I realise it’s a bit of a mish-mash, but it’s more about the feel than a specific genre.
Fast RMX is a very fast-paced pod-racer, with a similar feel to Wipeout, if you take away the weapons, and add a boost mechanic where you need to switch your booster’s code with the speed lane. I prefer playing it with motion/gyro controls, which admittedly makes it harder to play, but with that actually feels a lot more like you’re travelling at massive speed where every unintentional jerk of the steering wheel can cause you to wipe out.
Velocity 2X is a very successful mix of a vertical shooter where time matters with added platforming levels in between. Boosting for speed and warping/teleporting to solve puzzles is a huge part of the game.
The Next Penelope is a top-down 2D (pod?) racing game with weapons, where the acceleration happens automatically, but is influenced by boost, boost markers on the track and bumping into stuff. I haven’t played it for a long time yet, but once you learn the controls it seems to be a very good game.
VSR is a pure zero-gravity, zero-friction 3D space racer. Which makes mastering the controls very hard for anyone who is not used to it. To be honest, I haven’t mastered them yet either, but haven’t given up, as I really liked RPGs and shooters with such a mechanic. It just gives a specific type of zennish “in the zone” feeling, once you get into it.
Fast RMX
price:20 €14 € until 2019-07-25
reviews: 81 % on MetaCritic
length: 3½ h main game (57 h completionist) on HowLongToBeartVelocity 2X
price:20 €8 € until 2019-07-18
reviews: 87 % on MetaCritic
length: 5 h main game (26 h completionist) on HowLongToBeatThe Next Penelope: Race to Odysseus
price:13 €2 € until 2019-07-11
reviews: 79 % on MetaCritic
length: 2½ h main game (5½ h completionist) on HowLongToBeatVSR: Void Space Racing
price: 5 €
reviews: 66 % on MetaCritic
length: (no HowLongToBeat entry yet)7 votes -
Science and sustainability may clash on the Moon: Balancing the mining of lunar ice between colonization and astrobiological research
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This chronology of the Moon on film tells the story of how we, as a civilization, have changed our view of our lunar neighbor over the past 100 years.
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NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination as part of Project DragonFly—a drone mission to explore Titan's surface over two years
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Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
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NASA rover on Mars detects high amounts of methane gas, hinting at possibility of life
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A short history of Presidential vacillation: Mars or the Moon
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Why isn't there more discussion about the UFOs reported by navy pilots?
I normally never take reports of ufos seriously, but major news outlets are reporting on videos taken by Navy pilots and the news anchors seem to take it as a joke. Even if these ufos are just...
I normally never take reports of ufos seriously, but major news outlets are reporting on videos taken by Navy pilots and the news anchors seem to take it as a joke. Even if these ufos are just high tech government drones or weather balloons, you'd think people would at least be curious in finding out what these things are.
Around the office normally I hear chatter about the news and current events, but nothing about these ufos. Nobody brings them up. On discussion forums, talk about the ufos seems really sparse as well. Even subreddits dedicated to ufos seem to not care very much about these videos being on the mainstream news. Now with legitimate proof that there is something strange in the air, why does nobody seem to care?
What are the leading explanations to what these things are? One explanation I've heard for at least one of the videos is that it's a stationary weather balloon that only appears to be moving due to the camera on the plane moving. I can accept this explanation for that video, but what about the other videos? And what about the navy pilot testimonies? Is this all just a publicity stunt for History Channel's new show?
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X4's 2.50 update has a ton of interesting additions to the game
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We are going: NASA's plan to return to the Moon by 2024
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Inside NASA’s race back to Neptune’s icy moon Triton
5 votes -
Spain’s struggle with light pollution
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Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life.
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Mort Garson – Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976)
8 votes -
WFIRST faces funding crunch
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Boycott Indian launchers? Industry reacts to India’s anti-satellite weapon test
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India shot down a satellite, Modi says, shifting balance of power in Asia
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Would you go to Mars?
I've been thinking a lot recently about space exploration and colonization, and the big question that's been running through my head has been this: would I be willing to leave everything on Earth...
I've been thinking a lot recently about space exploration and colonization, and the big question that's been running through my head has been this: would I be willing to leave everything on Earth behind and go to Mars, even if there was a strong possibility that I would never return home?
Wondering what everyone here on Tildes thinks about that question.
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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code for Command and Lunar Modules
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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) shot from my backyard
19 votes