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    Extrasolar planet found orbiting Proxima Centauri

    I know we will never visit this planet in my lifetime but im glad that the current state of technology will allow us to get a decent snapshot of this planets conditions. Within a decade or two we would know the composition of its atmosphere, its color, and if were lucky, a rudimentary map of it.
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    First Contact: Are We Ready? (continued from "...2050 in space flight")

    I meant that if the aliens were hostile or we responded to their pressence in a hostile manner then they could inflict serious harm on our systems with powerful spacecraft subsystems intended for peaceful purposes. It may take time but an alien supercomputer could eventually figure out how to...
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    First Contact: Are We Ready? (continued from "...2050 in space flight")

    I think for the foreseeable(next 300 years) future, first contact would be extremely one sided...going something along the lines of a nuclear aircraft carrier encountering an ancient egyptian river raft. Even small alien vessels would be a significant threat... the propulsion systems would be...
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    Discussion What would you like to see happen by 2050 in space flight?

    I accepted the harsh reality of the future of manned spaceflight and im now pretty comfortable with the future i see... My expectations: *US Manned missions to the moon by 2040 occurring once every year or two *Probes to Neptune and Uranus *Robotic missions that make use of swarms of micro...
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    Updates Blue Origin New Shepard News and Updates

    The private space race is heating up
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    Colossal star explosion detected

    I feel sorry for whatever life forms are in that Galaxy. Probably multiple mass extinction events happening everywhere.
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    Star Wars Force Awakens [Spoiler thread]

    I really wished the made the characters more morally grey... Because the bad guys are trying to be evil so bad theyre defying basic logic.
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    A while back(5 years ago) i got into making maps and imagery for wikipedia. I was randomly on FB and i saw one of my maps had gotten shared several thousand times as part of a political meme. Really interesting feeling.
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    Star Wars Force Awakens [Spoiler thread]

    One thing that bothered me was the cantina music. It was a scene full of weird aliens and bizarre sports and things yet they couldn't find any music weirder than garbled reggae. They should've thrown in some ultra exotic electronica in there tbh.
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    Star Wars Force Awakens [Spoiler thread]

    So apparently, the first order is a militarist government on the fringe of the Galaxy...a small fragment of what the empire used to be. Apparently it is experiencing a serious insurgency in the few areas they control. The New republic is the government the rebel alliance established after they...
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    KIC 8462852 (Tabby's Star) Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission

    Wouldnt a destroyed planet show a constant dip in light rather than several intense peaks. Unless it fractured into chunks and that seems to be impossible from my knowledge.
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    News Here be Dragons: SpaceX reveals manned Dragon design

    I still prefer the white clean room suits they usually wear like the ones in Interstellar but...it still peaks on my cool meter.
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    Metal Fueled Ion Drive (Neumann Drive)

    I wonder what it's like when the rocket is shooting exhaust on you.
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