The Space Enthusiasts' Thread

[Mad Doug Biker]

View: https://youtu.be/kAmsi05P9Uw

 

[sackville d]

Prepare for mind blow as you zoom in on the dust of the Andromeda galaxy, only to realize they are actually individual stars.Cosmic man!
http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/167515

Then why-not take in David Butlers YT series `How far away is it?`


View: https://youtu.be/IhP1GnAvm0w?list=PLpH1IDQEoE8QWWTnWG5cK4ePCqg9W2608

 

[Drago]

View: https://youtu.be/kAmsi05P9Uw

Some creepy goings on Apollo 13. Their spacecraft was called Discovery, same as the ill fated vessel in 2001 - A Space Odyssey. At they time of the accident they were playing the Strauss Zarathustra theme, the music from 2001. When things started to go south Lovell famously said, "Houston, we have a problem", the same words uttered by Commander Dave Bowman when HAL began to malfunction and was faking faults with the ship.

 

[Tin Pot]

Some creepy goings on Apollo 13. Their spacecraft was called Discovery, same as the ill fated vessel in 2001 - A Space Odyssey. At they time of the accident they were playing the Strauss Zarathustra theme, the music from 2001. When things started to go south Lovell famously said, "Houston, we have a problem", the same words uttered by Commander Dave Bowman when HAL began to malfunction and was faking faults with the ship.

Ooh, but did HAL malfunction..?

 

[Melvil]

Some creepy goings on Apollo 13. Their spacecraft was called Discovery, same as the ill fated vessel in 2001 - A Space Odyssey. At they time of the accident they were playing the Strauss Zarathustra theme, the music from 2001. When things started to go south Lovell famously said, "Houston, we have a problem", the same words uttered by Commander Dave Bowman when HAL began to malfunction and was faking faults with the ship.

Arthur C Clarke mentioned this in his foreword to 2010 (I think, either that or 2061) and I bet a part of him was simultaneously strangely proud and spooked at the same time).

 

[MontyVeda]

according to the internet, if Andromeda was brighter, it'd look like this....

space fact or internet bull???

I was also wondering last night (whilst tipsy)... since the moon is very slowly moving away from the earth, are any (or all) of the planets slowly moving away from the sun too?

 

[TVC]

I think this is the most wonderful image of the Universe ever taken. The Hubble Extreme Deep Field image, just 2 arcminutes square and looking back 13billion years. It takes real imagination to grasp the enormaty of it all, much more than persisting with the belief that we were made by a beardy man 4000 years ago so we could tell him repeatedly how wonderful he is.

 

[Drago]

Ooh, but did HAL malfunction..?

Indeed! Technically he didn't. He was ordered to conceal the truth about the mission from the human crew members. Being a pooter, designed and programmed not to conceal information, it threw him into a moral dilemma. In the end he decided the best way out was to kill the crew and continue the mission alone. In a way he was the sad anti-hero of the original book, and redeemed himself in 2010.

 

[sackville d]

according to the internet, if Andromeda was brighter, it'd look like this....

space fact or internet bull???

I was also wondering last night (whilst tipsy)... since the moon is very slowly moving away from the earth, are any (or all) of the planets slowly moving away from the sun too?

Hang around 3 750 000 000 years and it should look something like this,

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Indeed! Technically he didn't. He was ordered to conceal the truth about the mission from the human crew members. Being a pooter, designed and programmed not to conceal information, it threw him into a moral dilemma. In the end he decided the best way out was to kill the crew and continue the mission alone. In a way he was the sad anti-hero of the original book, and redeemed himself in 2010.

Something similar to what happened in this, except that he didn't die (not as such anyway):


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[Drago]

Very good fillum that.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Very good fillum that.

I do like it, I must admit.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Nothing will EVER beat this musically though!!:


View: https://youtu.be/e-QFj59PON4

 

[Drago]

Or visually. A stunning film. It's the same age as me, yet apart from the hair cuts it could have been made yesterday.

A bona fide masterpiece.

 

[Dayvo]

An excellent documentary film by Ron Howard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Moon_(film) is very well worth watching.

Coverage from the Apollo missions and interview with the astronauts.