This has been built up for a while on BBC Radio Surrey so couldn't believe when I heard what happened this morning
another kick in the arse for British science and technology .. equipment that cost millions to research and manufacture lost .. according to a 'space expert' on R4 this a.m. insurance only covers a small amount of the losses .. the expert said, 'we'll recover from this', countered by the BBC's Justin Webb saying it will take years and not just weeks, the 'expert' could not disagree .. also another embarrassment for Branson .. how does he maintain the trust of his investors and backers ?
This has been built up for a while on BBC Radio Surrey so couldn't believe when I heard what happened this morning
another kick in the arse for British science and technology .. equipment that cost millions to research and manufacture lost .. according to a 'space expert' on R4 this a.m. insurance only covers a small amount of the losses .. the expert said, 'we'll recover from this', countered by the BBC's Justin Webb saying it will take years and not just weeks, the 'expert' could not disagree .. also another embarrassment for Branson .. how does he maintain the trust of his investors and backers ?
I don’t think the UK’s track record is very good in this area of exploration we seem to have a lot of failures, which is naturally disappointing:(
I’m really excited about seeing high quality footage from the moon, when they land there in 2025. Will be very different from the grainy videos from the late 60s/early 70s.
I’m really excited about seeing high quality footage from the moon, when they land there in 2025. Will be very different from the grainy videos from the late 60s/early 70s.
Definitely - it will be an amazing event with all the world watching.
Hopefully we'll have a Mars landing in our lifetimes too. Do we on here think it will happen?
There has to be intelligent life out there somewhere, but it has to be close enough to us to make it worthwile visiting and indeed it has to exist in the same dimension of time. So whilst it has to be out there, it is beyond unlikely we will ever know about it. It makes far more sense to find other reasons for UFO sightings in the same way as ghosts which is a scientific impossibility.
I’m really excited about seeing high quality footage from the moon, when they land there in 2025. Will be very different from the grainy videos from the late 60s/early 70s.
Definitely - it will be an amazing event with all the world watching.
Hopefully we'll have a Mars landing in our lifetimes too. Do we on here think it will happen?
It's all bollocks I reckon. Why is it America covers less than 2% of the Earth and yet apparently almost all the sightings and "evidence" seems to end up there?
Yes it is a statistical certainty that other forms of life exist in the Universe, but given just how gargantuan the Universe is and just how much of a speck we are in the almost neverending vastness of space, there is no chance of us ever reaching another inhabitanted planet, or them reaching us.
The probability of a lifeform being advanced enough to have the technology to travel those distances, live long enough to travel that distance, pick us out of everywhere in the Universe to travel to, and time it to a point where they reach us at a point in our time that we can understand who or what they are, is so fantastically small there's not a number big enough to convey just how slim the chances are.
Yeah, been interesting but ultimately without any proof of anything no one is going to believe it. I do believe there is life out there in the universe however I struggle to believe that if aliens were capable of getting to earth somehow then surely they would not crash their craft on earth lol. Travel lightyears to then crash into the USA.
In a more conspiratorial vein, I think it is either:
1) There has been unregulated and unaccounted spending by the DoD, a government agency and the congress and the senate want some transparency. 2) Trying to ramp up spending for an up coming arms race in space with the Russians and Chinese.
Agree it is bollocks. Let us be realistic, we could easily be in the end stages of our civilisation. So how long have we been sending messages out in space. And how long are we likely to be? We would need an alien civilisation to be in a window where they can communicate in the same time or at least a time where we can hear them. And even then it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It is unlikely there is not life out there but just is unlikely we will find out about it. We certainly are not going to be visited by aliens given the time and space involved. What we don't know is what the odds are of life occuring. This would be very useful to know as we could then calculate the likelihood of life. It is assumed that all life on earth had a common ancestor. This is important as it could mean it is very difficult for life to happen even with all the building blocks in place - why didn't other life occur independently on Earth? What we do know is that life can occur of course.
Then there is the question of 'intelligent' life. Life just needs to survive, intelligence is a bi-product of that but the most successful life is that which survives longest intelligence or not. Had the asteroid not hit the earth, would our intelligence exist, possibly in clever dinosaurs, but then would it become a course to oblivion? In a relatively short space of time. When you look at us, we don't seem to be able to stop our demise, even though we can see it coming so maybe we are not truly that intelligent.
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I remember doing LOG graphs that included ♾️ and I thought it was a bit unnecessary, but makes a bit more sense now and it's interesting.
"What has a beginning, must always have an ending"
Not so sure about that!
The closest number to infinity must be 0
When a net force = 0...that's when things are running smoothly and going well!
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-artemis-nears-orions-horizon.html
Hopefully we'll see humans on Mars in our lifetime.
Sounds interesting and hopefully it can be useful for the next manned mission to the Moon, which is supposed to be within this decade
https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/when-will-artemis-2-launch-and-what-will-the-mission-do/
Hopefully we'll have a Mars landing in our lifetimes too. Do we on here think it will happen?
Depends on how old you are
Ghosts and aliens...
Even alien ghosts, sometimes ghost aliens...
The problem with Mars landings is getting back and Mars is not the sort of place you would want to stay. A bit like Millwall.
https://www.space.com/ufo-uap-full-disclosure-congressional-hearings
Yes it is a statistical certainty that other forms of life exist in the Universe, but given just how gargantuan the Universe is and just how much of a speck we are in the almost neverending vastness of space, there is no chance of us ever reaching another inhabitanted planet, or them reaching us.
The probability of a lifeform being advanced enough to have the technology to travel those distances, live long enough to travel that distance, pick us out of everywhere in the Universe to travel to, and time it to a point where they reach us at a point in our time that we can understand who or what they are, is so fantastically small there's not a number big enough to convey just how slim the chances are.
In a more conspiratorial vein, I think it is either:
1) There has been unregulated and unaccounted spending by the DoD, a government agency and the congress and the senate want some transparency.
2) Trying to ramp up spending for an up coming arms race in space with the Russians and Chinese.
It is unlikely there is not life out there but just is unlikely we will find out about it. We certainly are not going to be visited by aliens given the time and space involved. What we don't know is what the odds are of life occuring. This would be very useful to know as we could then calculate the likelihood of life. It is assumed that all life on earth had a common ancestor. This is important as it could mean it is very difficult for life to happen even with all the building blocks in place - why didn't other life occur independently on Earth? What we do know is that life can occur of course.
Then there is the question of 'intelligent' life. Life just needs to survive, intelligence is a bi-product of that but the most successful life is that which survives longest intelligence or not. Had the asteroid not hit the earth, would our intelligence exist, possibly in clever dinosaurs, but then would it become a course to oblivion? In a relatively short space of time. When you look at us, we don't seem to be able to stop our demise, even though we can see it coming so maybe we are not truly that intelligent.