How much of this is just a weird intersection between secret military launches and a company that lives and dies via publicity?
Because their paths have to be clear, anything in LEO is heavily tracked by non-governmental organizations around the world, and they can't hide a space launch, where secret government satellites are in space and when they're launched is not a secret. The secret part is their capability and purpose.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
Is it so secret that they are telling us it's failed when it actually hasn't?
There wouldn't really be a purpose for deception like this. Satellites are impossible to hide once they're in orbit, and "stealth" just doesn't work up there. There's already an amateur community of satellite trackers who easily define new orbiting objects, even classified ones, with simple telescopes (to say nothing of national military tracking capabilities).
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
unless they've finally reverse engineered the cloaking technology that they found at Roswell, of course
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Of course, there is the Lacrosse 5 spy sattelite that just drops in brightness suddenly and without warning to become nearly invisible to the human eye and we don't know why or how.
Well first it has to kill and eat the satellite it's pretending to be. Otherwise it would be obvious by finding which satellite there's two of.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
I'm also not sure where they got the "billion dollars" analysis from - nobody knows what's on the satellite, or the details of the deal between SpaceX and Northrop Gundam
this makes the prospect of a lost payload a million times worse
Boo, it's all separate days and not one big megaevent to really stoke the doomsday fires.
World in 2012: "Not the end of the world! Oh god no!"
World in 2018: "Just get on with the doomsday already jesus christ we're sick of waiting"
Perhaps the world did end in 2012, we're all dead, and this is hell.
Decomposey on
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip – complete with a 360-degree view – to the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This project, made using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, allows viewers to control their own exploration of the fascinating environment of volatile giant stars and powerful gravity around the monster black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way.
This visualization builds on infrared data with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope of 30 massive stellar giants called Wolf-Rayet stars that orbit within about 1.5 light years of the center of our Galaxy. Powerful winds of gas streaming from the surface of these stars are carrying some of their outer layers into interstellar space.
The Galactic Center visualization is a 360-degree movie that immerses a viewer into a simulation of the center of our Galaxy. The viewer is at the location of Sgr A* and is able to see about 20 Wolf-Rayet stars (white, twinkling objects) orbiting Sgr A* as they continuously eject stellar winds (black to red to yellow color scale). These winds collide with each other, and then some of this material spirals towards Sgr A*. The movie, which starts 350 years in the past, spans 500 years.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Counter point, shoot Jedoc into space where the mean ol’ Ocean can’t get him.
Don’t get me wrong, I am deeply terrified by the Deep, but I’m not about to knock deep sea life just because the very thought of it haunts even my waking moments with border-line eldritch terror.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
This is also acceptable.
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The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Because their paths have to be clear, anything in LEO is heavily tracked by non-governmental organizations around the world, and they can't hide a space launch, where secret government satellites are in space and when they're launched is not a secret. The secret part is their capability and purpose.
There wouldn't really be a purpose for deception like this. Satellites are impossible to hide once they're in orbit, and "stealth" just doesn't work up there. There's already an amateur community of satellite trackers who easily define new orbiting objects, even classified ones, with simple telescopes (to say nothing of national military tracking capabilities).
Get ready for the
super blue blood moon eclipse
this makes the prospect of a lost payload a million times worse
Boo, it's all separate days and not one big megaevent to really stoke the doomsday fires.
World in 2012: "Not the end of the world! Oh god no!"
World in 2018: "Just get on with the doomsday already jesus christ we're sick of waiting"
Perhaps the world did end in 2012, we're all dead, and this is hell.
we can only hope.
We get it, Grand Canyon, you vape.
Ah yes, the Super Moon God Super Moon
aka Super Moon Blue
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
He tweets pictures of weird stuff he fishes up from the deep sea.
Well, China and the UAE are working on it a little at a time.
Counter point, shoot Jedoc into space where the mean ol’ Ocean can’t get him.
Don’t get me wrong, I am deeply terrified by the Deep, but I’m not about to knock deep sea life just because the very thought of it haunts even my waking moments with border-line eldritch terror.
Because it's so cool!
Though that lake at the top could be a great lake and that might be central US
https://lageos.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov/
It's orbit will decay in 8 million years, and it will fall to earth with a message to whoever is here
Fuck