“…catalogs the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system and dot our galaxy.”
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“We love space probes to the Moon and beyond! Spaceprob.es catalogs the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system and dot our galaxy. For each space probe, we’ve affectionately crafted a short-and-sweet summary as well as handpicked geeky hyperlinks we think are worth exploring. Where possible, we utilize data from the Deep Space Network.”
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Plus.. isn’t it nice when a President writes really dorky stuff?..
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the golden record:
http://goldenrecord.org/#discus-aureus
Greetings in 55 languages and, also, Whale greetings.
On second thought, not sure what they were thinking exactly with the Whale greetings, somewhere in there something sounds like someone is choking on a peanut. How are we sure it is not Dolphins or Mice running Earth?
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Star Trek VR – Star Trek 360° video for a flyby of major starships from the Star Trek franchise.
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I am dying to do a Star Wars ships flyby VR.
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speaking of which – here is a mixed reality test with Star Wars.
ILMxLAB and Magic Leap “Lost Droids” Mixed Reality Test
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This image shows a close-up of track marks left by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Holes in the rover’s wheels, seen here in this view, leave imprints in the tracks that can be used to help the rover drive more accurately. The imprint is in fact Morse code for JPL, which is short for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where the rover was built and the mission is managed.
Curiosity’s “visual odometry” software measures terrain features — such as rocks, rock shadows and patterns in the rover tracks — to determine the precise distance between drive steps. Knowing how far it has traveled is important for measuring any wheel slippage that may have occurred, for instance due to high slopes or sandy ground. Fine-grained terrains generally lack interesting features, so Curiosity can make its own features using its wheel tracks.
The Morse code, imprinted on all six wheels, is: .— (J), .–. (P), and .-.. (L).
from https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16112.html
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Late 2016 Map of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Mission
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This thing almost killed Mark Watney!” youtube comment
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Full Duration MARDI Video of final Descent
Spaceflight101
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in other news
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in other words we haven’t yet filled our houses with everything we can carry we want air drops.
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speaking of shopping and Mars – here’s something:
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and Starships of the mind too.
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…Love spaceships and still spend a lot of time thinking of ships, 3d modeling them, very partial about the Mars rovers. Still think Rama would be a great movie and one of the adventures that kept me on the edge of my seat every time I re-read the books. The creative space starships occupy is a strange one, lots of creative people have taken on spaceships themes, like Asimov, George, Kubrick, Clarke, on the other hand also out there real scientists who build nasa rovers.
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It seems it is It is bizarre I spent most of my life being terrified of flying. Actually there was a space of about three years when i could not get on a plane and a wing tip would throw me into a tailspin but we don’t wanna talk about this do we.
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The Heart of Gold is still my favorite.
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There was a strange tree in a hard science fiction novel where the tree had to be stoked with fires to fly through a universe very dense and with strange gravity. The novel was called Raft. Once i made a pen and ink drawing about it i think.
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Rama dominating my imagination for the longest time. Also the Raman Node from the later Rama books, the later books were filled with incredible ships of various sizes and purpose taking deep voyages and carrying many species to unknown destinations. It blows my mind until this day when i need to be shopping.
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The moment where Rama meets the Node and many exciting things happen and we meet Raman intelligence. It too blows my mind.
“..The Rama spacecraft rendezvous with another Node, an enormous tetrahedron near the star Tau Ceti, designed to research any intelligent life capable of spaceflight. ..”
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With Star Destroyers coming close second for intimidation factor and making us prickly with anticipation when entering the big screen and gliding over our heads.
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Super Star Destroyer Executor complete scene. It is as badass as they come.
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Starships Size comparison
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Rama from Rendezvous with Rama would have been a good addition ( 50-kilometre /31 mile cylindrical alien starship ). Also one of my favorite ships ever. Wish Ridley would have undertaken Rendezvous with Rama and the Rama franchise.
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Chart of all the spaceships to scale
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Star Wars Spaceship Sounds
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A Bit More from Jodorowsky’s Dune Starships
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Okay – more Star Wars:
Behind the Scenes of Star Wars: The Original Trilogy ILM Special Effects Makers.
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and the goodies with the man.
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Often think how capable we are, not just of beautiful things but of practicly creating miracles out of nothing – dirt, sand and rock. Often like to imagine what Earth would be like if hatred and greed do not exist, if humanity in all our glory makes concerted effort to create and advance for the benefit of all. Seeing greed take over our government makes me sad because it is so petty and desire for money is such a small pursuit, really not worthy of a lifetime.
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I am pretty sure the day would come when the future us would look at today us with sadness and pity and wonder how is it that we lived in darkness and trivial pursuits. I am sure one day people would be free enough in their heads to think and create wonders without being weighted down by wars and bad intentions. I imagine a television of the future showing great advancements, great dreams being turned into realities, where the celebrities and rulers of the future would be first and foremost thinkers and doers rather than politicians and bankers.
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