/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9165914
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Soon.

>>9165922
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>>9166936
I love it when real life things are so fucking big they look 3D animated

>>9167309
yeah dude it's totally not 3d animated cgi it just looks like it

>>9167320
>>>/x/

>>9167320
Agreed. People who think otherwise are wrong.

>>9167328
>>>/x/

>>9167309
Same, its some cool shit. My favourite so far is the gif of the moon transiting the earth.

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>>9167423

F you magnificent beast. We have the same age. I hope you will be utterly destroyed and not contaminate your moons.

>Discovery of still-unexplained red streaks on Saturn's moon Tethys.

>>9167411
why is everything in space so lifeless and dull. how some people can find this interesting is beyond me.

I wonder if Cassini's break up could be seen from one of the Saturn's moons?

>>9167476
I sincerely hope you are baiting.
if not, fuck off.

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>>9167407
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170618.html

>>9167565
So the moon really is made out of cheese. I always thought that that was a brainlet tier joke.

>>9167484
maybe one of the closer ones? It's going to be very bright but there's huge distances involved plus atmosphere will be blocking some of the light when it does burn up. So probably not.

>>9167565
wow a lifeless ball of rocks. i sure am excited

>>9167578
what are you on about?

>>9167583
the moon looks like blue cheese in that picture, brainlet+eyelet+autistlet

>>9167582
That is Enceladus. One of the few potentially life-bearing worlds in our system. Its not rock, its ice. Under the ice is a global ocean. You are a pleb. I am triggered.

>>9167587
wow a frozen ocean on a distant planet with nothing on it

>>9167596
it's one of saturn's moons, not a planet and stop responding to that guy he's a complete brainlet

Ok i'll post some enceladus things to keep it interesting. first : scale

then the sexy moons

dry surface of enceladus

>>9167657
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>>9167668
mmmmm cheese

A model of the interior of Enceladus: silicate core (brown); water-ice-rich mantle (white); a proposed diapir under the south pole (noted in the mantle (yellow) and core (red))

what's cooler than beeing cool ?
ICE CRUST !

>inb4 80y+ before the next probe is sent out if ever

>>9167830
>You will never experience a Titan rover in your lifetime
;-;

>>9165914
I'm sorry I'm kinda stupid but
Why are they killing it?

>>9167924
Almost ran out of power

>>9167924
Entropy...

>>9167924
Its almost out of fuel. They don't want to let it drift aimlessly because it could collide with one of Saturn's moons. We think there's a decent possibility that there's life on at least one of these moons. Cassini was not properly sterilized before launch, so we do not want to allow Cassini to hit one of these possibly-life-bearing moons and contaminate it with life from Earth.

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>>9167888
>tfw Titan Mare Explorer was axed

>>9168260
Why even live?

It's been a blast

>>9168260
>>9168289
it will return, soon
once industry comes to the moon, the costs of scientific missions will drop through the floor and result in fucktons of missions to everywhere

Anyone from Eastern time going to watch it live at 1am ? can't be the only one ! What a ride she gave us :)

bumping while I wait. 6 hours to go lads

>>9167565
Enceladus is truly best moon

See you on the other side, Cassini

RIP Cassini, you gave so many planetary scientists PhDs and funding one might say you built the contemporary planetary science community

This song goes to you, Cassini. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo

>>9165914
>>9165922

>You know, it's sort of amazing how as human beings we can so quickly hate and despise one another for arbitrary differences in appearance, attire, or minor cultural differences...
>And yet I can so instantly anthropomorphize what is essentially a computer built in 1997 in the space of a 6 minute long video, to the point where I become teary-eyed and feel like I'm watching the end of a Pixar movie.
>That's really not meant to be a political statement, either. I just think it's amazingly weird of us.
>By the end of that video I was like, "Farewell, brave explorer! You shall not be forgotten! " like it was Magellan or someone being laid to rest. I was legitimately feeling proud for the accomplishments of device with the computing power somewhere around the level of a Playstation 2, if even that.

>>9167958
This thinking will grind to a halt any kind of space exploration. Why spend money to pollute space when you can spend it on me?

>>9169233
I know what you mean

Anon I sat there teary eyed watching the livestream thinking "holy shit what am I doing with my life working for some soulless corporation, I need to devote my life to working for JPL" but then I saw they pay shit tier and it's really hard and yeah...

Man fuck humanity, fuck us all, why can't we just get alone, kumbaya by the fire, it doesn't work - fuck it. FUCK THIS. Fuck bigotry, fuck anti-intellectualism, fuck racism, fuck sexism on both sides, fuck patriotism, fuck EVERYTHING except pure humanism and quite frankly "sentience-ism". All life is precious and we throw it away. I need to go vegan. I'm turning into a liberal hippy faggot. But I can't escape these ethical conclusions.

Will we get pictures of Saturn atmosphere?

>>9169295
Nope. Cassini's transmission capabilities are far too low bandwidth to support any sort of real time video.

>>9169274
>Fuck bigotry, fuck anti-intellectualism, fuck racism, fuck sexism on both sides, fuck patriotism, fuck EVERYTHING except pure humanism and quite frankly "sentience-ism"

Unfortunately thats not going to happen. You're stuck with those things and humanity is too and its going to kill us as a race.

Just gotta make the most of what we got.

>>9169274
Humanism isn't worth anything because humans are shitty beings by default; Hobbes got it right in 1651 and bright eyed idealists keep making us learn the same painful lessons of human nature over and over and over again.

>>9169298
:(

Clean feed is up. So far just some folks having coffee, talking about tearing up the ceremonial anomaly plan, etc. Systems leads reporting in also.

>>9169441
Where at? Youtube livestream is still saying 30 minutes

>>9169441
Link?

>>9169444
>>9169445
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#media

Shit man I remember watching this thing get launched on tv back in '97 and all the hippies protesting about its thermoelectric generator.

Next Cassini-Huygens tier mission when?

>>9169452
Europa Clipper maybe but I doubt that will be as spectacular

JWST is gonna be fucking sweet though

>>9169452
I want more moon explorations. ESA are launching JUICE in the early 20s so that should be good

>>9169452
>anti-nukes
If you you think it was bad then just wait until someone even suggest doing it again.

>>9169449
Thanks!

>>9169449
Is there no audio, or am I just missing something?

>>9167565
>those LQ textures

Nice CGI.

Jk, I actually love space.

>>9169462
Not too much happening of interest so far beyond Mission Control ripping up the last contingency plan without announcing it first. A little awkward but funny. A lot of smiles since they verified the carrier signal was good and strong earlier.

>>9169464
It comes and goes when they decide to hot mic certain things. The feed with commentary is supposed to come up at the top of the hour (use the Public button).

>>9169466
pretty sure its a composite of a bunch of real photos. Doubt CGI but definitely heavily edited and colorised

Will we ever see a human being land on another moon or planet in this lifetime? I'm losing hope lads.

>Have you five-by
>>have you five-by also
Five by what? He needs to know if he's clear or garbled. l2radio m8s

>>9169471
YES GODDAMMIT BELIEVE

>>9169471
What's the point?
Its much cheaper to send robots

>>9169471
We have more important things to do here on earth.

PUBLIC FEED WITH COMMENTARY LIVE NOW

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>>9169469
Cool, thanks

>>9169480
where are the 2D videos all the ones I can find are meme shit 360 videos

>>9169485
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

>>9169471
You'll see a genderfluid black woman first fuck a dog on mars then shit cum on a crucifix on livestream from your gulag.

The future is here old man

How do they project that screen into the 360 degree view?

I want to know.

>>9169487
The "media" button has just live mic audio.

>>9169480
link?

>>9169492
Yep, the "main public presentation" if you will is on the public channel. Just listened to all the systems checks on Media; everything's bueno so far.

Also, if you want to see when the signal drops:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

I've got a bottle of wine I will chug a toast from once it drops.

poor fella tearing up. I want to hug him.

>>9169495
Won't be a dry eye in the place soon.

>>9169493
>>9169487

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>>9169471
Planetary protection hysteria will not allow people to set foot anywhere beyond leo. Probe sample returns are very likely off the table as well. Lets hope at least the occasional orbiter will be tolerated.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

It's actually DSN Goldstone station communicating with Cassini not Canberra as this woman said 3 times already.

>>9169505
A bit of video from Canberra's op center was shown. Also see the 43 on the spectrum analyzer? 43 is in Canberra.

>>9169505
It's Canberra, click on CAS

Oh God this chick is so awkward/cute. Hnngh

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>>9169507

Then something's wrong with this website.

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>>9169494
Thanks, didn't know about that

Dat song

>>9169518

this shit is beautiful

>>9169518
Ah, why did they cut it off? That was fucking awesome!

T H I C C

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>>9169519
I was hoping for an mp3 link or something

>attitude engineer
>says I and my team instead of my team and I
Bitch.

>>9169521
T H I C C sat a qt

>>9169522
Might be something in one of their toolkits or buried in a YT channel somewhere.

>>9169524
nginerng not englsh neeed gud much

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>>9169515

Well then it's showing wrong data from me, I'm from Europe maybe that has something to do with it.


one of my fav's from Cassini.
Imagine sitting there watching sun set on the alien world.

>>9165914
F

Gonna miss browsing the raw images section every few days desu. There's still Juno, but that one only has new footage like once every month and ignores the moons afaik.
Oh, and the Mars rover. But yeah.
>rocky ground woo

>>9169524
well, she's got an attitude

Crashing this probe

>>9169529
My desktop image at work is of the Earth through the gap between the rings and the planet.

Wait. Cassini is dead by now?

>>9165914
where will it finally go down? why not crash it onto huygens so they will be united again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04mfKJWDSzI

Don't cry because it's over
Smile because it happened

>>9169536
it's been dead for 65 minutes already.

>>9169538
I'm going to do both.

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>>9169532
what the hell is an "attitude engineer"?

>>9169536
"Real" time yes. But it's an light-hour away, so we have still 20 more minutes before the data gets here

>>9169541
Deals with managing the attitude of the craft throughout the mission in order to point the instruments, engine, thrusters, antenna, etc. properly

>>9169541
Spacecraft orientation engineer. What direction is it pointing, body rates, pointing, where are the cameras pointing and which thrusters need to fire to keeping it pointed in that direction. What is the current center of mass, etc.

>>9169539
Fuck, I thought they were talking about "real" time, not the delayed one.
Messed this up cause I'm from europe

>>9169547
There is no use in talking about "real time" - you can't be there instantly. Speed of light is absolute speed, so now is actually when we get the signals. It's an interesting discussion in metaphysics/philosophy of science. Bit off-topic, but the 'now' is best seen local, or when we get the signals, which nasa is doing here

Someone get this presenter lady a big cup of coffee STAT.

>>9165914
20 minutes or so before that beautiful satellite fucking vaporizes :(((((

I'm feeling a lot more bummed than I thought I would. For years I've been constantly checking for photo updates from Cassini and it's sad to realize we aren't going to get any more new photos of Saturn for probably 30 years or more

>>9165914
F

Farewell lad. Thanks for all you have done. It's time to rest now. You have seen more and experienced things we only dream off. You have surly lived a rich existence.

>>9169555
It's already disintegrated for like 80 minutes now. I guess since it was composed of mostly heavy elements, most of the magnificient bastard would sink into Saturn's core and stay there for near eternity under incredible pressure.

F

>>9169562
When you see Saturn, you'll be see Cassini in a way.

Cassini's final moments signal incoming lads

3 minutes to final transmission

literally not a single shitskin in site except for an indian and gook woman. nasa seems like paradise

>>9169547
It is real time. Do you even light cones, bruh?

Only dreams now

>>9165914
S
this is for breaching the word of God. You will all burn in hell, bastards.

>>9165914
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How the fuck did they take that pic tho

>>9169570
wait there's a nigress too

>>9169576
Huygens

Looks like CGI tbqh.

RIP

This is it.
Rest in Pieces

F, sleep well sweet prince

RIP

>we have loss of signal

F

>>9167809
W-what did you you mean by this unironically

>last bit of signals received
It's really the end now. Fare thee well you magnificient bastard.

F

>>9165914
Godspeed, Cassini

Thanks for being here folks.

>No signal
It's gone lads

>>9169590
Godspeed you beautiful gold-foiled fucker

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Cassini's final image of Saturn. Subjective color-composite made from raw images captured on Sept. 14, 2017.

>>9169596
It was a cozy farewell thread

>>9169600
Nice, thanks

I hope that they find something on those last bits of telemetry. Maybe even an image. In any case, F

>>9169601
I wasn't quick enough to grab a screenshot, but I saw a dude grab a handful of those lucky peanuts.

Cozy AF.

>>9169600
so this.. the is power..of humans..


damn i was born 1000 years too early

>>9169600
Kind of looks like Jupiter. Really different from other images of Saturn.

>>9169605
Nice catch, I didn't notice that

F

Who else just took a shot for Cassini?

>>9169613
took about 4 beers. Gonna have a solo farewell party now

>>9169613
A long pull on a nice bottle of Iowa wine. I drank up all my rum a couple of weeks ago.

>>9169613
>not pouring out a four-tay

>>9169613
Rootbeer, but a special bottle of a hard to find brand

Hnnnnnggggg the interviewer on the livestream is so awkward and cute

What was everyone's Nominal count? I counted 27 nominals.

>>9169615
It was rum for me

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>>9169621
yes.

>>9169621
Ain't she though? "You had to do that didn't you!?" HNRGHHH

>>9169622
What type of rum? I'm a Cap'n kind of guy.

>>9169628
Bacardi
Also, what was the name of the poem he read again?

Thank you cassini

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>With public space exploration defunded, and private companies abandoning anything not profitable (like interplanetary missions), you will never see an Enceladous or Titan explorer in your lifetime

F

Shine on you crazy diamond.

>tfw I toured JPL on the day of the eclipse and got to see the mission control center in real life

>>9169635
I want to believe. Literally what is the point of living if we cant see whats beyond this fucking planet we live on

What a lovely night for Cassini to fade away.

Carolyn Porco - who worked with THE CARL on Voyager and has a bit of his swagger - has some awesome lectures about Cassini's discoveries that are well worth watching. Eg, https://youtu.be/Vx135n8VFxY

Will we ever get such pictures?

>>9169635

This sincerely depresses me. I'm hitting that part of my life where I"m hearing of things being concepted that I will probably not be around to see to fruition. When it comes to space and discovery of our universe I feel like there's nothing better I could miss out on

>>9165914
F

>>9169640
Getting laid bruh and feeling man thats what its all about stop being toxic.

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>>9169640

It could have been worse. Apollo, Opportunity, Spirit, Magellan, Venera, Curiosity, Juno and Voyager of course. All stuff astronomers for the past 2000 years wouldn't have witnessed

>>9169629
I'm trying to find it, but I was too hype to take the title down. :(

>>9169640
This. I find it impossible to believe that there is no life elsewhere in the universe, as vast and immeasurable as it is. From the game Stellaris: "If there ever was such a thing as an absolute moral imperative, it would be to explore the cosmos and embrace all within it. We were never meant to journey alone."

My new wallpaper for the week, godspeed Cassini

>>9169657
Life exists. The sheer amount of exoplanets in habitable zones, in our galaxy and local cluster etc we are not alone. But we will never see it.

>>9169652
I hope you are ironically shitposting, for your own sake.

>>9169640

>tfw won't be alive when contact happens

Why dont we send like 3 micro sattelites there? WHY THE FUCK ARE WE SO RETARED WE DONT EXPLORE THE COSMOS WHAT THE FUCK

>>9169629
I went back on my DVR. The poem was, "On the Verge", by Swinbern(Not sure on spelling)

>it's now silent
>Cassini is no more

>>9169662
I hope I live long enough, however remote the possibility.

Another bit from Stellaris that's appropriate here:
"There exists, in all of us, a deep-seated fascination for the unknown. An adventurous spirit that rejects the familiar and glories in the unfamiliar, whatever - or whomever - it may be."

>>9169671
Thank you very much, friend.

>>9169656
I unironically fantasize about going back in time and showing them photos of the solar system and the cosmos. Having a comfy sit down with the great astronomers of the past, describing all the wonderful discoveries we've made etc.

>>9169662
Unironically ironic shitpost that is also common sense and completely lacking in irony. Space age's over and no meme booster landings will change that.

>>9169674
No problem, I'm glad I could help.

>>9169675
I'm glad I'm not alone in those thoughts.

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>>9169675
Even if just to give them answers, peace of mind. Can you imagine not knowing something so simple as the nature of saturn's rings? or what's underneath Venus's clouds?

F

>tfw ITS HAPPENING for some gas alien right now

sleep tight

>F

>>9169274
>Fuck patriotism sexism…
Off to reddit faggot

COMING UP NEXT WEEK ON SPACE TV

>>9169676
>space age is over
>just drink and fuck and connect with people maaannn you only live once lmao

I know i'm strawmanning and I see your point - its easy to fall for that line of thinking but the fact of the matter is there is so much more to life. The best we can do is at least TRY to experience as much of the universe as possible

>>9169689
Shhh white racists are the reason why we aren't in space like in star wars because they are all anti-science.

Sleep well Cassini

>>9169692
>this is only a piece of our galaxy
>there are millions of galaxies if not more

>>9169700
this is a piece of a piece of a 271MB hubble space telescope image. Every time I try to post it 4chan doesn't let me because it's too big. Give me a minute I'll try to downsize it

>>9169703
I've seen that image before. Incomprehensible.

>>9169671
>On the Verge
Thanks m8

>>9169696
Is that the columbia crash image shopped there hue?

I've been following Cassini's adventures ever since I was a boy. I feel so proud to see we have come so far, yet so sad to know we probably won't venture out there ever again if things keep worsening here on Earth.

F

>>9165914
Goodnight sweet prince

Who is that on this pic?

>>9169707
Absolutely ludicrous. Innumerable stars and according to the Kepler/K2 there is at least one planet orbiting each one. No matter how close they seem they are all light years apart, billions of kilometers. When you consider the voyager mission has been going for 40 years and only entered interstellar space in 2012...well...

>>9169274
>Man fuck humanity, fuck us all, why can't we just get alone, kumbaya by the fire, it doesn't work

Exactly, it doesn't work.

>Fuck bigotry
>fuck anti-intellectualism
>fuck racism
>fuck sexism on both sides
>fuck patriotism
>fuck EVERYTHING except pure humanism and quite frankly "sentience-ism"
>I'm turning into a liberal hippy faggot

The irony of a liberal hippy faggot is that outwardly, he embraces altruism, but inwardly, he is quite clearly a self-centered turd. And yes, an anti-intellectual. It's so easy to see things you don't like and put patronizing labels on them - racist, sexist, bigot, etc. You behave like people woke up one day and decided to be stupid. You behave like their views and attitudes must be simple and irrational. You behave like they don't have their reasons - and if they do, their reasons must be petty. You are like a child who doesn't understand why mom and dad are fighting - like it's as simple as holding hands and deciding to be happy. Meanwhile, they're putting food on your table and are tangled up in shit you can't possibly understand.

>I can't escape these ethical conclusions

But your ethical conclusions don't matter in the least bit. Ethical conclusions don't change the world. Everyone in the whole damn world would like to put aside their differences and go explore the universe. As fantasies go, this is probably the most common. But as you travel down the fractal of human interaction, you discover immense complexities that far outweigh the feasibility of simple fantasies. Let alone a fantasy as banal as "why can't things just stop being shit, fuck the shit things".

I don't mean to imply your intentions are not good. I'm merely implying you don't have any real intentions at all. You are confusing your emotions with intentions. You let these emotions form your attitude and then you confuse that attitude for something that can ever be of consequence.

My humble submission for thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Pw3wPSF9Q

>>9169719
>The irony of a liberal hippy faggot is that outwardly ... &c

Quite possibly the best response I've read on 4chan in years.

>>9167429
>I hope you will not contaminate one of your moons
I don't get this. If they're so worried about microbes on the ship, why send a lander onto Titan?

>>9169719
This. I was considering saying something along these lines, but you said what I meant in far fewer words than it would have taken me.

Life is what we make of it. Like everything else, we developed to fuck. Our big adaptation to help us do that was some fucking next level invention skills. We're not having much trouble keeping the species afloat right now, so what we're left with is our means: creation. That is our purpose, and why we inna space
At least as long as you aren't Poland.

Cassini is now part of Saturn.
Eons from now, when we live no longer, our galaxy and Andromeda will merge.
Cassini will be there.
And when Saturn is no longer, its fragments ejected into space, Cassini will too.
Another star will make use of Cassini's remains. And there might be other lives that wonder where their star came from and what it is made of.
They will never know of Cassini, but it will be there.

>>9165914
Now we wait for a Enceladus mission.

I wonder how much this world has changed in Cassini seven year journey to Saturn. The first human explorers will spend 6+ years journeying to the outer planets; I'm not sure if that's incredibly sad or beautiful.

>>9169753
We ought to mine Cassini Mission Control for reaction images

Humanity made so little effort in exploring the solar system after the moon landing. This old shitty spacecraft receiving this much attention is just pathetic. We should have 4K images in color of Jupiter/Saturn and their moons right fucking now. Fucking embarrassing.

>>9169646
Being so up close with Saturn would probably overwhelm me like crazy.

>>9169764
>that image
I ain't clicking that shit nigga.

>>9169640

you can start by watching what is in this planet

I'm poor, farthest I was from my home was 435 km and because the army took me there

>>9169691

>tfw it blows up on launch

>>9169648
lmao you think that's bad? just wait till your mom dies

>>9169782
not that guy but stfu m8

on the bright side, when mom's gone i can go too

>>9169782
Oww the edge

>>9169738
It was sent at a time when science wasn't yet mature enough to consider such profound problems.

>>9169782

n-no more tendies

>>9169227
>This song goes to you, Cassini. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo [Embed]

Another one, Then as Now, Forever https://youtu.be/bubOcI11sps

>>9169786
>Checking out before James Webb, Europa Clipper, and talks of returning to the moon and Mars.
>Being this terrestrial

There's too much cool shit out there for that.

>>9165914
Huygens is gone, it's just Cassini now.

>>9169796
They're both gone, anon.

>>9169796
Anon...

>>9169796
Do you think Huygens will ever be recovered ? It's just sitting on Titan, alone in the dark and cold...

>>9169802
its dead jim, no point of recovering it. It's sent its data and served its purpose. He will be missed.

tfw no Saturn gf

>>9169796
Huygens is all likely in one piece, just dead silent.

>>9169802
You're making me sad for Huygens-chan

>>9169813
so it's on an ice moon? and it's made by humans? chances are that there are bacterial spores on it that survive under stasis until the sun goes red giant and melts the ice. then life will bloom out there on the saturnial moon, once when we are long gone.

>>9169807
good post

I unironically think Cassini is one of humanity's greatest achievements, and I think this purely because the photos it gave us are fucking gorgeous

Down here we have supposed artists fucking painting canvases white and canning their own shit and dumping a pile of bricks in the middle of a room and it's apparently art, granted gallery space and public attention, while up there we have (had) a little robot snapping photos of actual, pure beauty and everyone bitches and moans about the cost and the pointlessness of it?

Cassinis photos are more deserving of being displayed in a physical gallery.

>>9169817
>so it's on an ice moon?
It's on Titan

Hoping to see the first man on mars before 2030 and that we get a permanent base up and running after that.
Have a dream to go to mars around 40 or 50 to help build up the new outpost.

F

>>9169788
>microbial conquistadors descending from a metal beast onto the surface of a planet
>either ends with the moon fucked up, or the conquistadors conquered

>>9169719
>You behave like people woke up one day and decided to be stupid. You behave like their views and attitudes must be simple and irrational. You behave like they don't have their reasons - and if they do, their reasons must be petty. You are like a child who doesn't understand why mom and dad are fighting - like it's as simple as holding hands and deciding to be happy. Meanwhile, they're putting food on your table and are tangled up in shit you can't possibly understand.
Very correct. That's basically what I've been saying for a while to people.

>>9169663
I did not need to feel this today.

>>9169574
i know f is for paying respects but what is s for?

>>9169607
Because it's fake, it's CGI.

F

>>9169896
Holy shit, I need a high quality version of this. Was this taken from youtube or something?

>>9165914
boi he did it
>mfw it takes 6.5 years to reach Saturn

I spent all day at a con in panels about Saturn and Cassini and got a pic signed by some of the team. People were getting real emotional

On the other hand, I can't fucking wait till we start getting more info from this last data she sent back.
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>>9169675
This post.... This fucking post.

I am glad that I am not the only one, for me especially with Galileo and the moons of Jupiter.
Sometimes I wonder if they would be proud of us, like a Parent to his child who has a achieved something that he could not.


This probably sounds autistic as fuck but here goes. Its a recurring dream I had since undergrad.

I was telling them a story, much like telling a story with a picturebook. I particularly enjoyed the insightful curiosity of their questions pertaining our methods and our technologies as I explained out discoveries and emerging technologies in ways that they can grasp.
I don't correct them, but guide gently. Since it doesn't rob them the satisfaction of deducing conclusions.

Then eventually they'll feel sleepy and I'd conclude by saying
>"..and that's where we're up to"
as their excitement extends wakefulness and the questions continue, eventually the intellectual reluctantly drifts the off to sleep, knowing that this sleep would be restful and eternal, hopeful for a tomorrow that never arrives.

In the same dream, I'd attend their classes/lectures/presentations the following days and watch their peers and successors debate and try to find answers to the laws of Nature, some are right but most are wrong. I hold a warm smile knowing that the journey to understanding is rewarding despite the mistakes along the way, requiring the efforts of many.

"They'll know, in time" says a calm, unmistakable voice that sits a few seats adjacent. I see Carl Sagan's silhouette as he turns and smiles.

I wake up at this point.

Legitimately, whenever I attend a convention, lecture, talk, or a gathering I always look out in the background for the time traveler with a knowing smile.

>Tl:dr was the grim reaper, lucid dreaming is pretty dope

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amazing mission, will be remembered for centuries

>>9169952
>implying humanity survives next decade

>>9169930
https://youtu.be/KNmgiinYY-M

>>9169955
we will
https://youtu.be/jlWp32BS2QI

>>9169834
Best to start now on learning skills that'll help with that

>learning software engineering, while also doing robotics engineering and such on the side
>hoping to be on satellite repair or space mechanic, because no doubt there'll be tons of xenoarchaeologists and xenobotanists, but there'll always be a need for a repairman

take me up to where the sky goes black, and I'll use it for my canvas or help maintain yours

>>9169956
Thanks, that's great.

>>9169980
>software engineering
I am learning that
I'm also interested in robot software, might buy an arduino to make tests

>>9169988
>might buy an arduino to make tests

A good idea to do so; Personally found that visiting a robotics club can be fairly hit or miss, whereas if you've got a test setup in the comfort of your home there's less possibility of distractions or destruction from an outside party.

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JWST can't come soon enough for some new sweet pics

>>9169839
>No, you don't understand, we have to stockpile nuclear weapons because they are, it doesn't matter if they are using the same justification as me

You guys need a bit of the overview effect. You're all pathetic losers giving in to our reptilian hind brain instead of trying to ascend.

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This was a rather good article.
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/3122/cassinis-family-takes-the-plunge/

>>9169606
>I could not ask to live in any other time in history than this. Because never has mankind never has the human spirit been confronted, with such choices and such possibilities. Of disaster or of greater height and greater glories!

NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGAQCq9BMU

>>9169479
Oy Vey

>>9170088
>You people need sensory overload to completely overwhelm your ability for critical thinking so you can generalize like I do

What's with this attitude where escapism is confused with ascension? You can't ignore facts, chase dragons blindly and then pretend:

a) It's working out
b) Everyone else is on for the ride

>>9167809
Is this some kind of encoding?

>>9169829

what part of the planet did it hit?

>>9170170
Atmosphere.

>>9170174
yeah but equator, hexagon or what

>>9169948
COMFY

>>9170175

>>9170177
ty

>>9170178

>>9169635
Don't worry. Trump and Pence will fix that. Pence said that we'll have we'll have American boots on Mars.

>>9170254
>anti-science politicians
>fixing anything

>>9170256
But Trump's budget can support human space exploration, though. (Also, how are they anti-science? Proof, please?)

>>9170254
Wish we will have our deep space autonomous missions in nearest future, not just another show with footprints on Mars

>>9167758
i swear this shit is too cool
imagine living in a comfy underwater base city in a global ocean under an ice crust
jesus christ

>>9169236
we can sterilize things now before we send them out
they just weren't prescient of that back when this was launched

>>9169896
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrBDJGySm0

Am I banned?

>>9167758
Imagine being alone in a dark, warm ocean while sleeping in an underwater city.

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>>9170284
>>9170270
close your eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77SKdyn-1Y

Are we certain the brave Cassini astronauts are dead? They may have survived the crash landing. If so, can NASA do anything to rescue them?

>>9170324
No way. He is a part of the planet by now.
And maybe one day some probe or scientist that will be flying above the skies of Saturn will collect some particles of Cassini, and it will be an incredible event if they'll find this out. I hope they will.

>>9169764
4k hasn't been around long enough for a probe equipped with it to get there.

So how long now until voyagers die?

>>9169793
Don't forget the secondary New Horizons missions to KBOs.

>>9170254
The swamp will never let humanity leave its grasp. All you're getting is more social sciences. And if you are betting on the chinks, better not do it with anything valuable.

In which layer of Saturn's atmosphere Cassini has vanished?

>>9169852

PROVE IT

>>9170360
If there was proper funding, we would already have a bunch of probes with such capabilities all over the solar system. We could even have some probe on the way to another star.

>>9170370
As soon as it encountered any aerodynamic pressure so pretty soon.

>>9169948
>I wake up at this point.
I would have too!

ok, so where are the images or videos from the final approach? from the final dive? all i've seen is non stop cgi, is anything even real?

>>9165914
>American "engineering"

how pathetic lmao

>>9170443
>another mentally retarded redneck in sci
what a pleasure

>>9169274
you had to post bait, you just had to, stupid canadian bitch

>>9170322
It would probably sound like this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UjQxhOXco_k

>>9165914
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why do i always cry about space stuff

Does this event also have a "trailer?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aky9FFj4ybE

>>9169274
>I need to devote my life to working for JPL" but then I saw they pay shit tier and it's really hard and yeah...
Most research pay peanuts. I have been there,

>can't we just get alone, kumbaya by the fire, it doesn't work
You can get far, really far, by the small things. Like spending an extra minute answering someone's question. Respecting your profession by delivering solid, good work.

Ethics has cost me my job twice. Rather unpleasant. And it was worth it.

>>9170496
see: >>9170121

>>9169646
No, because June failed us.

>>9165914
F

>>9170529
Story time?

>>9170698
Which part, research, small things or ethics?

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Seeing Huygens land and all the Cassini footage was amazingly beautiful. At least we have JWST to look forward to.

>>9169529
>Hydrocarbon seas
/o/ valhalla

>>9172023
But the fuel/air ratio is shit.

>>9172031
Yeah but the fuel/fuel ratio is outstanding.

>>9172081
Yup, there is more fuel on Titan than we have oxygen on Earth to burn it with.

>>9172090
Interplanetary pipeline when?

>>9169896
That's some trippy shit.

>>9172092
Researchers are already inundated with requests for how to exploit all this fuel. It would be a hideously huge project since one way is nearly 10 years plus time to tank up fuel. So you need 20 ginormous cargo spacecrafts running.