JMartJr
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Doesn't look enough like a thousand-foot circle, but points for thinking outside the box. Or the circle. Whatever you were thinking outside of...
Doesn't look enough like a thousand-foot circle, but points for thinking outside the box. Or the circle. Whatever you were thinking outside of...
MonkeeSage
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Calter
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elvenwear
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I'm sorry for your loss.
obiwanbenobi
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Someone asked me today if I was a Flat Earther and I asked them in reply, "Seriously? Do you even know me?" And then they asked me if I believed in extra terrestrials and I said, "Yes. We are, because we've already been off this planet."
elvenwear
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FatPhil
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At no point has any human ever been not gravitationally bound to earth. Having feet firmly on /selene firma/ doesn't count, as dear selene is still gravitationally bound to terra.
FatPhil
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elvenwear
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So not even a small step then? I mean, that's really harsh. Accurate, perhaps, but harsh.
FatPhil
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I kinda feel bad, as it unfortunately lumps the real astronauts like those on Apollo missions with the more modern LEO jockeys - and worse.
JMartJr
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I rise in defense of LEO jockeys and worse. As far as I am concerned, you cross the Karman Line, you've been to space and get bragging rights. Sure, it is an arbitrary line, but gotta define where space begins SOMEHOW. And also sure, it is less a big deal to get there than it once was, and folks with minimal training but some cash to jingle can now go to space. But that, I think, is a positive thing -- as with the conversion of air travel from something adventurous souls who ran real risks to life and limb to a thing most of us have done and will likely do again, in something closely approaching safety and somewhat less closely approaching comfort (unless you have a bit more money!), more folks dipping a toe in space seems the logical next step in, hopefully, the transition from space as risky high adventure to space as a place folks go to live, work or recreate...
And, since this is the humor thread, here, laugh darn ya!
elvenwear
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I was just joking actually. You've pointed out why calling a small step is the right call.
FatPhil
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Why a supportive property - and a particularly contrived one at that - of the gaseous state of matter rather than its more obvious supportive property, the equivalent supportive property of the liquid state of matter, or the supportive property of the solid state of matter? A definition of "space" as "wings don't work" is to me laughably beyond arbitrary.
None of these so-called astronauts have made any noticeable travel towards any stars, even our own one, nor have any cosmonauts experienced significantly more of what goes on in the cosmos than Dave Lee Roth, say (as planet earth is part of the cosmos).
GIven that we're gravitationally bound to earth, the obvious definition to use should be a gravitational one. A definition based on Hill spheres don't have to exclude Apollo becaue they all entered the moon's Hill sphere. No others have entered another astronomical body's Hill sphere.
Mendel
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An extraterrestrial is someone whose home is not on Earth. (This is the point of the movie E.T.)
Article: An "alien" in English law denoted any person born outside of the monarch's dominions and who did not owe allegiance to the monarch.
If the Moon had a monarch, we'd have been aliens there.
Moon
I mean, it's pretty, but it doesn't really affect us beyond that. Except that half the nights aren't really dark, and once or twice a day it makes the oceans flood the coasts.
Source: https://xkcd.com/2809/
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JMartJr
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Looks like the Aliens flying "Jellyfish UFOs" are now operating out of Medellin, Colombia!
Now when somebody starts posting these as "real UFOs" we'll have seen them and will be ready! ^_^
(Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/9808534775859269, but I'm seeing several of them these days in my feed.)
Now when somebody starts posting these as "real UFOs" we'll have seen them and will be ready! ^_^
(Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/9808534775859269, but I'm seeing several of them these days in my feed.)
Giddierone
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Same energy.
Mendel
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In case you're not into late 20th century games:
Article: Horned Reapers are amongst the strongest and most powerful creatures in Dungeon Keeper. They are also by far the most bellicose, murderous, and unstable: born to kill, they get very tetchy very quickly if left idle.
The Horned Reaper is the most iconic creature in the series; it or its head is often used as a symbol representing the game: it is seen on cover arts, it is used as the game's icon, it is used as the main menu's cursor, and it is seen on the loading screen and elsewhere.
The Horned Reaper ranked number 38 on a 2021 PC Gamer list of the 50 most iconic PC game characters.
The Horned Reaper is based on an ex-girlfriend of Dungeon Keeper's lead artist Mark Healey.
elvenwear
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Pity that since it's in Florida it's in the LIZ by definition.
Mendel
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Mendel
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I visited a die-hard conspiracy theorist the other day
Ann K
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When my daughter spent a number of weeks at JPL in Pasadena when the "Curiosity" Mars rover landed, one fact they had to deal with was that the data could only be sent back to earth during the window when the landing site faced earth, and the Martian day was approximately 25 hours long. This meant that the time they worked their shifts kept changing relative to Earth time, and sometimes meant that they needed to sleep during daylight hours. She found that foil over the windows was an effective solution, and there was a good deal of laughter over looking like the crazy conspiracists in the neighborhood.
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JMartJr
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Well poot.
elvenwear
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Mendel
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obiwanbenobi
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I understand everyone's points about not being aliens while we were on the moon, but darn it all I do like this point on my head. Thank you... 
Ben Harris
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John J.
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On the "Faster than light (FTL) travel" thread, https://www.metabunk.org/threads/faster-than-light-ftl-travel.14219/post-345112, there has been some discussion about the practicalities of interstellar flight.
One idea that seems in vogue at the moment is to use powerful space-based lasers to accelerate a low mass craft with a "light sail" up to enormous speeds. But unless we're content with a very fast fly-past of the target, deceleration is a problem.
@JMartJr proposed a positive solution,
One idea that seems in vogue at the moment is to use powerful space-based lasers to accelerate a low mass craft with a "light sail" up to enormous speeds. But unless we're content with a very fast fly-past of the target, deceleration is a problem.
@JMartJr proposed a positive solution,
I just hope that the people and extraterrestrial beings involved are clear on their mutual goals:
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