Reminds me of an aside from Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars: “Stowage” is how toddlers and astronauts say “storage.”
Neat. It once had seas. That indexes well with ancient Martians foreseeing their planet’s demise and attempting to work on a solution involving Earth—at least per Professor Quatermass’s theory.
Mountain bike with knobby tires and a really big basket up front! Nuff said!
Okay, I’m going to accept that IFT-6 was a success after all now.
Yes, there is a small glitch where it says ‘Apollo-Mir’ when it should be ‘Apollo-Soyuz’.
Anyway, this is shaping up to be a race between China and India.
how huge stars shed gas and dim towards the ends of their lives
Relatable.
The recent image of the star was snapped by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer
We need an interferometer based on a bunch of telescopes in earth’s orbit.
The ethics of a generation ship are pretty fucked up unless it’s the only hope of saving humanity. It basically amounts to the involuntary lifelong conscription of hundreds or thousands of as-yet-unborn people.
I hate to tell you, but you’re on a generation ship, hurling though space, right now!
Oh, and some assholes are messing with the life support systems.
Yeah, that is a stone-cold fact. And no one asked our permission to put us here, either.
To be fair, I can’t really blame my parents, though. They were as surprised as as I was.
Me mum had my sister, and then a miscarriage and the doctors told her that was it. Turned out they were wrong. And I never, ever wasn’t wanted or blamed for messing up their plans or anything.
Yeah, but this ship is big enough that any given crew member has a lot more say about how they choose to live their life. In fact this particular spaceship does just fine—better, even—with no human crew at all.
That seems to be a somewhat contradictory statement when I think it through.