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Earth & Moon Photographed from Saturn
- buzyg
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Some things are just amazing. To think, as we sit here chatting, there is a man made object 1.4 billion km away taking photographs, at our behest. Just blows me away to think about it if I'm honest.
http://earthsky.org/space/earth-and-moo ... april-2017
http://earthsky.org/space/earth-and-moo ... april-2017
- Chris_D
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Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho
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- buzyg
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Give us a wave next time you're there. I'll point my wee telescope that way and see if I can spot you.
By the way. The site fee's in Cornwall are Astronomical.
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- Machine monkey
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I work in a physics department at a university. This sh1t blows my mind! Love love love it the human race has many many flaws but it's also capable of amazing things.
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It all falls into place now mat - ur using the physics dept as a testbed for your rear-mounted turbo shennanigans and have the students performing cfd and matlab calculations. Clever!Machine monkey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:06 pm I work in a physics department at a university. This sh1t blows my mind! Love love love it the human race has many many flaws but it's also capable of amazing things.
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Stunning, Cassini launched 20 years ago and almost of fuel - not bad mpg I'd say
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Bloody hell that pic puts the annoyance of a general election in to perspective
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Fantastic.
As an engineer I appreciate the technology involved but to see results like this is truly mind blowing.
As Marlon says, great mpg!
As an engineer I appreciate the technology involved but to see results like this is truly mind blowing.
As Marlon says, great mpg!
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Pretty humbling really innit?
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Brilliant, great shot. My favourite is this one from the Moon if you believe that NASA went there and not filmed it in Hollywood backlot
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- buzyg
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Give it a few generations and our great grand kids might be able to buy a drone, for a few days wages, that they can send up to take that shot. The good news it only takes a signal 1.3s each way.
1.4 billion km though. Even light takes 1.3 hours each way. With our current understanding of what is possible, that's always going to be a fekin long way. Lets just hope we have bits of the science wrong right now.