foreveryoung Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 9 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Was it easy to see, or very faint. If it was a clear strong light that was easy to follow, that was ISS. If you were struggling to decide if you could really see it or not, that was Dragon Yeah ISS was clear last night about 1015pm, thought it was a plane but was too quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted May 31, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted May 31, 2020 The Dragon has a penis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 They both lagged a couple of minutes behind the forecast time, it was supposed to be 10:11 for ISS and 10:16 for Dragon. I got them roughly 10:14 and 10:20 ish I’m not sure at any point they were truly ‘over’ the UK hence them being relatively low in the south west sky. Yeah, 24 hours in and I’m a **** expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Seemed a nice smooth journey, fully automated, coulda watched a film on the way on them screens.............................when we going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 10 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: Seemed a nice smooth journey, fully automated, coulda watched a film on the way on them screens.............................when we going? And that’s the crux of the matter really. Sitting a couple of people in there helps with the promotion of the thing but they aren’t really required. They’ve added a bunch of problems in to the equation. The extra weight, the food, the oxygen the safety systems. If we were happy with just the science side of it then it would be cheaper and marginally easier. But Mr Musk wants to live on Mars and most people want to see astronauts. The actual technically difficult or more risky parts of the flight, the crew had the controls taken off them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 5 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Was it easy to see, or very faint. If it was a clear strong light that was easy to follow, that was ISS. If you were struggling to decide if you could really see it or not, that was Dragon Was quite low on the horizon but sorta easy to see .. ISS has always been a lot higher in the sky whenever I’ve seen it .. I saw one of them though that bit is def Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 22 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Was quite low on the horizon but sorta easy to see .. ISS has always been a lot higher in the sky whenever I’ve seen it .. I saw one of them though that bit is def Yeah ISS was far lower than normal. I had to switch to a spot with a lower horizon I wouldn’t have seen it from my usual spot. Of the people I do the chatting with, I was the only one to see it this time around, had to search around to find people that had seen same thing at the same time in the same place. ISS going over in about 5 minutes or so I think (haven’t checked), see that in this light and you really are doing well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Saw the ISS in daylight. As always, 2 minutes later than advertised, I think I’ve worked out it’s because the tweets I’m watching must be from further north. That’s my theory! Pointed it out to witnesses too as people were beginning to question my spotting skills. Somebody suggested I had a bionic eye and that quickly turned in to an accusation of bionic bollocks. So it was nice to spot the ISS in daylight and get others to see it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 timelapse that shows the Earth rotating over the course of 24 hours by using the heavens as the point of reference rather than the landscape. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 2020 eh, what a year Dark Matter Quote An experiment searching for signs of elusive dark matter has detected an unexplained signal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: 2020 eh, what a year Dark Matter I can't pretend to say I can fathom much of that, I was truant for over half my classes from age 14 and science probably suffered the hardest. I found that read fascinating nonetheless, as I do have quite a good grasp of the English language, so it wasn't entirely lost on me. I want to develop my understanding. Thanks for that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 51 minutes ago, A'Villan said: I can't pretend to say I can fathom much of that, I was truant for over half my classes from age 14 and science probably suffered the hardest. I found that read fascinating nonetheless, as I do have quite a good grasp of the English language, so it wasn't entirely lost on me. I want to develop my understanding. Thanks for that! I'd recommend starting with A Brief History of Time (or Briefer) if you've not read it. It's pretty easy to digest and helped me understand a lot of concepts I couldn't get my head around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 2 hours ago, chrisp65 said: 2020 eh, what a year Dark Matter Not a discovery, just something of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 My mate bought a second hand seismometer and it picked up yesterday’s 7.6 in Mexico. I’d be mad excited about that, he’s just all about logging it and seeing if he can improve the software. Nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Quote This Scientist Says He’s Built a Jet Engine That Turns Electricity Directly Into Thrust If this plasma propulsion tech is real, it could change everything. This past autumn, a professor at Wuhan University named Jau Tang was hard at work piecing together a thruster prototype that, at first, sounds too good to be true. The basic idea, he said in an interview, is that his device turns electricity directly into thrust — no fossil fuels required — by using microwaves to energize compressed air into a plasma state and shooting it out like a jet. Tang suggested, without a hint of self-aggrandizement, that it could likely be scaled up enough to fly large commercial passenger planes. Eventually, he says, it might even power spaceships. Futurism Let's hope there's something in this, and it's not just China trying not to look like the globe's fountain of pox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 4, 2020 Moderator Share Posted July 4, 2020 On 24/06/2020 at 21:11, chrisp65 said: My mate bought a second hand seismometer and it picked up yesterday’s 7.6 in Mexico. My understanding of how those things work is a bit shakey, but it sounds like a cracking bit of kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Raspberry Shake Quote We build professional grade earth monitoring solutions that anyone can use to measure ground motion and infrasound activities. Not sure what model he’s got, but he’s well in to his geology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Maybe not Nobel price worthy but pretty cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Think the car is safe for a couple years more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Further analysis appears to show that the Phosphine detection in Venus is bunk or at a minimum is much less significant than the claimed detection (somewhere close to 2 sigma vs the claimed >10 sigma). Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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