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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

Kewl
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho

Chris_D wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:55 pm Kewl
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho

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.

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.

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.

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!

Stunning, Cassini launched 20 years ago and almost of fuel - not bad mpg I'd say

That's what I call hyper miling, burn & coast
Rob

Bloody hell that pic puts the annoyance of a general election in to perspective

Fantastic.

As an engineer I appreciate the technology involved but to see results like this is truly mind blowing.

As Marlon says, great mpg!

Pretty humbling really innit?

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

sharpyboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:43 pm 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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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.