Is this another site where the reply is positioned above the quote? How does this bother noone?
looks like ex-Twitter with dark reader extension or similar
at least one
Imagine being the one and only person in space. I consider myself a pretty extreme loner, but even I think that would be terrifying.
there's some places on earth where when the iss files over they're gonna be the closest other human to you if there's anyone on board at the time:
Does anyone have any random fun facts about a very niche subject.
A fucking sentient encyclopedia:
the future is now old man
I have a love/hate relationship with a lack of a comma somewhere around "old" in your message.
Well the ISS will be destroyed in a few years so idk if this will be true
China has a station. There are others planned.
It's likely it will be true, even if it's not the ISS or a NASA funded station.
Artemis II landed yesterday after returning from orbiting the moon. In a test flight mission that marks the beginning for long term plans for a lunar station, a base of operations for going to mars.
So if orbiting earth doesn't count as "on earth", why does sitting in a plane just couple hundred kilometers away count?
The limit of space is widely defined as 100 km, which no commercial plane even nearly crosses.
Yeah that's called Kármán line, but it's just arbitrary line. ISS is still orbiting within Earth's thermosphere
The Karman Line's lowest theoretical point is still substantially higher up than commercial airplanes and its highest is substantially lower than the ISS. Most nations agree on it as the boundary for the purposes of law and regulation. Commercial airplanes fly about half as high as the line, while spacecraft orbit at four times its altitude or more.
It may be scientifically arbitrary, but it's got a lot going for it as a rough approximation.
What does "ISS" stand for again? I forgot.
Islamic State of Syria
International Space Station
Imperial Starship. Wait, wrong comm.
My favorite fact is that earth's atmosphere extends 95,000 miles / 150,000 km beyond the moon.
I couldn't find any source for that, but exosphere is considered to extend to 10,000km or 190,000km, from which the latter is about halfway to the moon.
Anyways those numbers are pretty damn tiny even on a small solar system scale
Anyways, even if you look from very close, from our own moon to the earth, anything on the low earth orbit is so extremely close to the planet. Just look at some of the famous earthrise photos, and think of something orbiting ~8% of the radius distance
Thank you for the accents
Hérë, håvē ßòmê mõrè.
I was recently talking about this but with the moon. I'm not sure about a moon base but the next time mankind will land on the moon is 2028. If they settle and get a rotation going for supplies people could probably be living on the moon in 2030.
Enjoy looking up at a deserted moon while it lasts, soon you'll always be looking up at moonmen.
Both NASA and China are planning some kind of bases. So with both those going it could very well be a Moon era.
That's probably when the timeline split, and we got stuck in this one.
Seven days after that was the election that gave Bush Jr the presidency over Al Gore, due to a bullshit call by the state Bush's brother was the governor of.
so yeah, we definitely got sorted into the shit timeline.
Can you imagine how extraordinary different our lives would be today if Al Gore was the President on 9/11 so Dubya couldn't use it as an excuse to reboot his Daddy's war? Fuck every single irredeemable fucktard involved in that deliberate choice.
If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he'd have become president.
Can I tell you a funny joke? Regardless of the Nader voters, Gore actually won in Florida and by a margin of a few thousand votes - still close, but an order of magnitude greater than the few hundred by which Dubya quote-won-unquote - but because of batshit ballot designs, unfair winner-takes-all methodology for awarding electoral college votes, endless bad-faith legal fights and a complete refusal/inability to shift the date of the inauguration, this was only agreed upon after it was too late to do anything about it.
In 2000, the people of Florida and the United States as a whole voted for Al Gore for President, but their intent was stolen from them and the power to decide upon the direction and tone of the following twenty years was given to Bush instead.
Oh, sorry, did I say "funny joke"? I meant something else.
every single time I look at the news
I think it was in 2016. The Cubs won the World Series a week before Trump won the election. I blame a Cubs fan with a monkey's paw or time machine.
That we know of...
That's fucking awesome
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