The Science Thread

[seanimal]

i checked out Lex Fridman's podcast interview with Avi Loeb and I really enjoyed the discussion of interstellar objects, in particular oumuamua, who we all know is the coolest and most lovable of all interstellar objects

[seanimal]

wait a damn second

[seanimal]

wait a damn second

damn image broke!



hopefully this one doesn't so quickly and my dad joke can be preserved for future generations of cubs message board posters

[seanimal]

anyway that's not even what i came here to post about

nasa's new mars rover drops tomorrow

https://www.space.com/perseverance-mars-rover-ready-for-landing

[OleMissCub]

Despite being an Uber space dork, I only just today realized that NASA is planning to land people back on the moon by 2024. They already have the astronaut candidates and everything. They’re sending a crew to orbit the moon and do a sort of Apollo 8 type mission in 2022.

As far as Mars goes, Musk is predicting 2026. Seems optimistic, but regardless, if it’s in the next decade that’s pretty badass.

[OleMissCub]

i checked out Lex Fridman's podcast interview with Avi Loeb and I really enjoyed the discussion of interstellar objects, in particular oumuamua, who we all know is the coolest and most lovable of all interstellar objects

Love that guy. He’s so (justifiably) upset about how incredulous his fellow astronomers are toward his hypothesis.

It’s so far away and so small it could in fact be a smooth object with alien writing on the side for all we know since we can’t get an actual look at it. All the drawings of it looking like a Baby Ruth bar are just conjecture.

[minnesotacubsfan]

anyway that's not even what i came here to post about

nasa's new mars rover drops tomorrow

https://www.space.com/perseverance-mars-rover-ready-for-landing

I was reading it has a drone on it, attached to its belly. because the atmosphere on Mars is so thin, it had 4' rotors. It sounds like a mosquito

[Soul]

anyway that's not even what i came here to post about

nasa's new mars rover drops tomorrow

https://www.space.com/perseverance-mars-rover-ready-for-landing

I was reading it has a drone on it, attached to its belly. because the atmosphere on Mars is so thin, it had 4' rotors. It sounds like a mosquito

FYI, it's in landing sequence now, all systems look good. Yeah, I'm a science geek.

I'm more excited for the James Webb Space Telescope later this year (unless it's delayed YET AGAIN).

[Soul]

.......and touch down successful.

[OleMissCub]

Those poor JPL guys always look like they’re about to have a stroke during the landing sequence of these. I can’t imagine the pressure and the nerves involved.

[minnesotacubsfan]

[seanimal]

I'm more excited for the James Webb Space Telescope later this year

i mean, juno is great and all that, but ever since cassini died, this has been the thing. every time an update on it pops up into my google news feed, i'm like "they better not have hurt our baby!"

(unless it's delayed YET AGAIN).

let us purge those bad vibes, the jwst needs only positive vibes from here on out

[Soul]

I'm more excited for the James Webb Space Telescope later this year

i mean, juno is great and all that, but ever since cassini died, this has been the thing. every time an update on it pops up into my google news feed, i'm like "they better not have hurt our baby!"

(unless it's delayed YET AGAIN).

let us purge those bad vibes, the jwst needs only positive vibes from here on out

Not gonna lie, I’m nervous about it. You can’t give JWST a set of eyeglasses like Hubble.

...ok I’m done with the bad vibes tonight

[seanimal]

I'm more excited for the James Webb Space Telescope later this year

i mean, juno is great and all that, but ever since cassini died, this has been the thing. every time an update on it pops up into my google news feed, i'm like "they better not have hurt our baby!"

(unless it's delayed YET AGAIN).

let us purge those bad vibes, the jwst needs only positive vibes from here on out

Not gonna lie, I’m nervous about it. You can’t give JWST a set of eyeglasses like Hubble.

...ok I’m done with the bad vibes tonight

we really should have made two of them (for twice the cost), like how they did in contact

[OleMissCub]

Can’t wait for a new Deep Space Field picture with the jwst. The Hubble shot has been my phone and desktop background for years and years. It’s the most important photo ever taken IMO. The jwst version will be even cooler.

[Soul]

Can’t wait for a new Deep Space Field picture with the jwst. The Hubble shot has been my phone and desktop background for years and years. It’s the most important photo ever taken IMO. The jwst version will be even cooler.

Yeah. Well my background is the Cubs celebrating 2016 but admittedly that's just a tad less important

The leaps forward in terms of understanding the Cosmos are potentially game-changers, unlike any of our current telescopes, either because they are earth-bound or limited-scope endeavors.

But it's such a huge gamble. Sent out far beyond the Moon, 10 billion bucks worth of the most complicated machinery imaginable, all of it must deploy flawlessly for it to be operational. One shot, that's it. I think getting it in place might be one of the greatest human engineering achievements in history.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Oh yay


https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/we ... 029240193f

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

“One of the strengths of the paper, just from the perspective of its scholarly work, not necessarily the analytical science that it does, is just the degree to which it stitches together all of these disparate sources of information to make its case,” said Jason E. Smerdon, a climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York, who was not involved in the study. He called it a “tour de force.”

As an aside, I went to a Super Bowl party at that guy's apartment. I was basically the only person paying attention to the game because Packers.

[CyHawk_Cub]

[Bertz]

Very astute point from...MC Hammer?!?

[minnesotacubsfan]

i cant touch that

[javy knows my name]

https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553?s=19

Very astute point from...MC Hammer?!?

He kinda hurt 'em

[seanimal]

https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553?s=19

Very astute point from...MC Hammer?!?

he was going to stop that tweet half way through but it was too legit to quit

[Derwood]

https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553?s=19

Very astute point from...MC Hammer?!?

he was going to stop that tweet half way through but it was too legit to quit

Hey, you have to pray just to make it today

[Ding Dong Johnson]

What a surreal life.