/sci/ - Science & Math

Good stuff.

Although, all of /sci/ has probably seen it by now.

I like "Our place in the cosmos"

people who like this autotuner crap are retards. carl sagan is shitting dicknipples in his grave guaranteed.

IT SHOULDN'T BE PHOBOS SMACKED INTO MARS IN 50 YEARS, IT SHOULD BE PHOBOS SMACKED INTO MARS NOW.

When we look at the rest of the solar system, the picture is even bleaker. Mars is ... well, the phrase "tourist resort" springs to mind, and is promptly filed in the same corner as "Gobi desert". As Bruce Sterling has puts it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach." In other words, going there to explore is fine and dandy -- our robots are all over it already. But as a desirable residential neighbourhood it has some shortcomings, starting with the slight lack of breathable air and the sub-Antarctic nighttime temperatures and the Mach 0.5 dust storms, and working down from there.

>>1591955
Suddenly, amazingly huge solar flare
Earth steam-cleaned
What do?

>>1591963

Sear in my own fluids I suspect. You?

>>1591970
Watching the sun set.
The distant, distant sun.

>>1591974
and exactly how will you get to Mars?

>>1591976
nb4 magnets

has to be said, cox i one fit physicist

>>1591979
Space elevator, then fusion rocket.
If it doesn't happen within 50 years of me being alive, I'm going to make it myself.

>>1591995
you could even make a fission rocket

>>1592007
If proven to be safe, yes. But I would never move to Mars if it didn't at least have a pressurized atmosphere/water/above freezing temperatures.

Gotta wait fo' dat Phobos.

I don't give a shit if the rest of humanity turns it's back on space exploration. I'll fucking force it back if I have to.

>>1592016

>my face when comment "Sagan is the elicitor of scientific tears"

>>1592027
I plan to.

>>1592043

>>1592051
Ah, but I did not imply anything.

So who was imply?

We can go to mars because we already sent robots but... can we make it back home? You guys know that planet interception requires hyperbolic orbit and we arent gonna make it back unless we build a space station there in motherfucking mars. I know that since gravity there is less we require less energy to leave mars but still we have to build something that launchs stuff back

>>1592054

>>1592066
we just need more fuel, whenever theres a space problem, the answer is always that we need more fuel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0

Probably my favourite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=related

Best Symphony of Science

NASA should publish the blueprints for the space shuttle and rockets. So other groups can make space-faring vehicles. Modify it. Make it better.