The "year in space" was not a year long, which is sort of funny.

>However, if they just scrapped it there would be no going to the moon for quite some time.

That's quite a bold statement. Especially isnce scrapping SLS would have freed up a lot of resources to design and build something, you know, better.

The sky has amazed humanity for millions of years, and I assure you it’s still as amazing/emotional as it was then as it is now. (Well not really, it used to be better..)

But either way I looked out my window this morning and saw the night sky and in the winter all the stars are always so bright. I love that, but it always calms me to the point of borderline sadness

Do they only sell gravity generators at the fancy store? Or are you talking about the costs in human health and lives? We are maybe closing in on having a workable solution to the radiation problem. We are nowhere near solving gravity and nutrition problems.

I don't want to sound pessimistic, but suggesting that humans will full-time live away from Earth is on the level of "nuclear reactor in every car".

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All of the videos on Melodysheeps channel are a must watch for space fans. One of my favourite lines from his channel is “what if organic bodies are just a quaint first step in humanities history”. 😳

No wonder I’m feeling some super powers coming on

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ATK|Alliant Techsystems, predecessor to Orbital ATK| |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules| | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |MBA|Moonba- Mars Base Alpha| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starliner|Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|

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On the other hand, I was impressed at the performance of the only two Artemis missions: an orbital run in 2014 and multi week lunar run in 2022. However, a huge cost and delays.

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Is that why I can't smell anything and my limbs fall off?

The big mystery here is why these gamma rays were so slow, apparently only travelling 'near the speed of light'?

On one side we have a statistical model based on our knowledge of the universe till now and on the other side we have n=1 empirical data. I'm siding with the theoretical model.

O believe we do when we die, like a post-game-ending screen. “What do you want to know?”

They could go to the Moon without SLS. Here is a video describe some of the obvious options. Basically, it would be a lot cheaper to go to the Moon without SLS and it would take nearly zero development beyond what is already needed for the planed lunar landings.

A Dyson sphere from an advanced civilization missed its target

You are not alone OP. Even the "blue marble" photo of earth gets me misty eyed. I agree that it's awe

I only try to think about the observable universe.

The rest escapes me.

I bet it gets old super fast.

No. It needs to be about 8,000 light years away (or less) to start affecting the atmosphere. It would be that damage that would increase cancer risk.

Think if the ozone layer hole kept expanding globally, instead of shrinking like it’s doing now.

The sad part is, we will never uncover the truths of the universe, we will perish before then. Even if we do, I for sure won't be alive at that time.

My ass still hurts, but I feel was always destined to take one for humanity

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