Starbase activities (2024-06-24):
- Jun 23rd addendum: GSEC-1 is removed (ViX, NSF), revealing GSE-5. Alternate angle and flexing. (reference map)
- Cryo delivery tally.
- GSEC-1 scrapping begins.
- Pad B: Overnight, a concrete pump is deployed.
- CC8800-1 crane assembly: Crane twitches several times over the course of the day (video 1, video 2, video 3), but has not risen yet.
- Amended road closure scheduled: Jun 25th 12:00 to 20:00
LOL, that's faster than my 3x3 PB, and almost twice as fast as my 3x3 average...
That's insane. I can't even tell what method he's using. Does he just one-look every solve?
I'm not clear on how world records in FMC work. If the current WR is below God's number, are future WRs contigent on getting luckier and luckier scrambles?
Eh, I'll give windscreens a pass, since there isn't a great way to do them using multiple smaller pieces, but that dragon head sounds inexcusable. C'mon LEGO, this is not f*cking playmobil. Assembly is the whole point!
Hypothetical, but Black Hole Stars (one of my favourite Kurzgesagt videos).
"Normally that would be the end – today’s stars go supernova, a black hole forms and things calm down. But in this case, the star survives its own death."
"An impossibly dangerous balance has been created – millions of solar masses pushing in, the angry radiation of a force fed black hole pushing out."
I'm hoping that some of the new long wavelength teleescopes like JWST might have a chance of seeing one of these beasts.
Once it cools down, what sort of matter will remain? Would it have a solid surface one could walk around on?
We can't visit other star systems within our current lifetimes, but there's no reason we can't build bigger and better telescopes over the next few decades. That's the next best thing, and we can do it from the comfort of our home planet!
Your username is intriguing. Have you tried it? Is it any good?
Also, neutron stars are awesome. Densities on the order of "Mount Everests per teaspoon"? Almost unimaginable.
Anyone have any ideas on how to increase the particle size of the copper oxalate precipitate?
Sounds cool. Could this be used to improve push notifications from Lemmy apps?
the researchers dipped or soaked brain organoids (brain tissue grown from stem cells) in a mix of ethylene glycol, methylcellulose DMSO and Y27632 (called MEDY) for the cryopreservation of cortical organoids.
They later tested the solution under various conditions to observe the extent to which it could prevent damage.
It involved changing variables, such as the age of the organoids before freezing and how long they were soaked in the solution.
The researchers then allowed the organoids to resume growing after they were thawed for up to 150 days. The researchers observed minimal differences between organoids that had been frozen and those that had not, even in organoids frozen for as long as 18 months, according to Medical Express.
Neat stuff. Still a ways away from freezing a whole brain or organism, but nice incremental steps.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1805101139727389040
Deployment 20 @Starlink satellites confirmed
They are, the dialogue is absolutely horrendous.
"I wish I could wish away my feelings"
"I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life"
4,5,2,3,6. No ep 1!
That's machete order, I think. While TPM is definitely the most "skippable" of the 6, I think AotC is a worse movie.
I'm not sure how this would scale with larger matrices, and the article is a bit thin on the details.
She only found out she was adopted like an hour prior.
Wait, who did she find this out from? Her adoptive parents were presumably killed in Star Wars with the destruction of Alderaan.
It's also implied that she knew she was adopted. Luke asks her "do you remember your mother, your real mother?" and Leia replies "Just a little bit. She died when I was very young".
Ah, thanks for clarifying. That's an interesting position. I never found the light sabers or blaster bolts in the original trilogy to look that bad. And the practical effects, models, and sets, certainly look superior to the CGI sets in the prequels.
If George had waited another 5 or 10 years it could have been better.
I'm not so sure about this. I think that the limitations George had at the time ended up being part of what made the original trilogy so good. If George had access to better special effects, would we still have gotten scenes like these?
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Or would we have gotten this instead?
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George being able to do "whatever he wants" does not necessarily lead to the best movie.
and hate that I can’t find copies without the added crap
Search up "Harmy despecialized" and "4k77". There are many other Star Wars fans who feel the way you do, and they have taken matters into their own hands :)
If we find life somewhere else in the solar system, it will be interesting to see if we are related to it, or whether it developed independently.
TL;DW: Some songbirds incorporate cigarette butts into their nests as pest control.
I must admit that the details of how the fields are coupled went over my head, but I found the rest of the video quite accessible. Professor Copeland is a joy to listen to, and Brady asks great questions as usual.
I also learned that "inflation" and "the big bang" are not synonymous, and inflation occurred first.
Not very practical, but the chemistry is interesting. Producing a strong acid from a weak acid by using precipitation as the driving force is something I don't see very often.
Starlink Group 9-2 launch out of SLC-4E in California currently scheduled for 2024-06-24 03:47 UTC, or 2024-06-23 20:47 local time (PDT). Booster 1075-11 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.
Webcasts:
- Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_ab0AE1Y0
- Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUM-SiRNL_E
- NASASpaceflight:
- The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dI4Yms9-RY
- SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1805083577467670779
- The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATm5n30lX74
Starlink Group 10-2 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-06-23 17:15 UTC, or 2024-06-23 13:15 local time (EDT). Booster 1078-11 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.
This mission was previously slated to fly on booster 1073-16, but the launch attempt on June 14th was aborted at T-0 due to a hardware issue upon engine startup.
Webcasts:
- Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcEVCyyTmM
- Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_WDWzNfYs
- NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2e_uLmpJ9w
- The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MakaYccoegw
- SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1804924764836012362
- The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9USPbx1MpI
No Time Toulouse
| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-06-20 18:13 | | --- | --- | | Scheduled for (NZST) | 2024-06-21 06:13 | | Launch site | Rocket Lab LC-1B, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand | | Booster recovery | No | | Launch vehicle | Electron + Curie | | Customers | Kinéis | | Payloads | Kinéis 1-5 | | Mission success criteria | Successful deployment of spacecraft into Low Earth Orbit |
Livestreams
| Stream | Link | | --- | --- | | Rocket Lab (official) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpQkHw9s1I | Everyday Astronaut | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjEdn_6evjs | The Launch Pad |
Stats
- This will be the 8th launch for Rocket Lab this year.
- This will be the 🎉 50th 🎉 overall launch for Rocket Lab.
Payload info:
>First batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.
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Japanese radar imaging company Synspective has signed a contract for 10 Electron launches from Rocket Lab, the largest contract in Rocket Lab's history.
Link to original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
Starlink Group 9-1 launch out of SLC-4E in California currently scheduled for 2024-06-19 03:40 UTC, or 2024-06-18 20:40 local time (PDT). Booster 1082-5 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.
Webcasts:
- Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUtwTIckmtE
- Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReVBXv0NWp8
- NASASpaceflight:
- The Launch Pad:
- SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1803269912305246275
- The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhoGaC5CyY
It's time for Grey and Myke to talk about the devices they've chosen to use in their lives. From the computers they use to the offices where they use them, as well as the devices they choose for entertainment, travel, smart home, and fitness.
I assume that the bot is still broken, but Cortex continues.
> It's time for Grey and Myke to talk about the devices they've chosen to use in their lives. From the computers they use to the offices where they use them, as well as the devices they choose for entertainment, travel, smart home, and fitness.
Mission and payload info
>ASTRA 1P/SES-24, a classic wide-beam satellite, will support SES’s prime TV neighbourhood and enable content owners, private and public broadcasters across Germany, France and Spain to continue broadcasting satellite TV channels in the highest-picture quality in the most cost-efficient manner. It will be based on the full electric and powerful Spacebus NEO platform developed by Thales Alenia Space and already flight proven in orbit.
Launch info
| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-06-20, 21:35 | | --- | --- | | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-09-20, 17:35 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida | | Payload | Astra 1P/SES-24 | | Booster | 1080-9 | | Landing site | Just Read the Instructions | | Customer | SES | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to geostationary transfer orbit |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link | | --- | --- | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0GbUpBRyZg (scrub) | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VrpR4VpPxU (scrub) | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkLX2-zHFA (scrub) | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8S35BJ02c (scrub) | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1803900982696308743 (scrub) | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBOGzEwsxyo |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 30th launch from SLC-40 this year
☑️ 12 days, 19:39:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 84th landing on JRTI
☑️ 62nd Falcon 9 launch this year, 63rd SpaceX launch this year
☑️ 271st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)
☑️ 321st Falcon Family Booster landing, 331st Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 362nd SpaceX mission overall (excluding Starship hops)
☑️ 375th SpaceX launch all time (including Starship hops)
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Another interesting video from Scott Manley.
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Fun SciShow video I on some unique bird nests.
spoiler for topics covered
- A hummingbird species which uses a specific type of antimicrobial moss
- Jacana floating grass nests
- Doves which put in minimal (but optimal) effort
- Cowbird brood parasitism
- Magpies which build nests out of anthropogenic anti-bird spikes
Myke has new frustrations with his email, notifications, and calendar, but fortunately, therapist Grey is on hand to offer advice.
I assume that the bot is still broken, but Cortex continues, and we're now falling behind.
> Myke has new frustrations with his email, notifications, and calendar, but fortunately, therapist Grey is on hand to offer advice.