Science General Discussion

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http://www.iflscience.com/artificial-gravitational-fields-are-possible-current-technology

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a new oddly dimming star

(1601.03256) KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes Per
  Century From 1890 To 1989

" The star KIC 8462852 is a completely-ordinary F3 main sequence star, except that the light curve from the Kepler spacecraft shows episodes of unique and inexplicable day-long dips with up to 20% dimming.  Here, I provide a light curve of 1232 Johnson B-band magnitudes from 1890 to 1989 taken from archival photographic plates at Harvard. KIC 8462852 displays a highly significant and highly confident secular dimming at an average rate of 0.165+-0.013 magnitudes per century. From the early 1890s to the late 1980s, KIC 8462852 has faded by 0.193+-0.030 mag. This century-long dimming is completely unprecedented for any F-type main sequence star."

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a new oddly dimming star

(1601.03256) KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes Per
  Century From 1890 To 1989

" The star KIC 8462852 is a completely-ordinary F3 main sequence star, except that the light curve from the Kepler spacecraft shows episodes of unique and inexplicable day-long dips with up to 20% dimming.  Here, I provide a light curve of 1232 Johnson B-band magnitudes from 1890 to 1989 taken from archival photographic plates at Harvard. KIC 8462852 displays a highly significant and highly confident secular dimming at an average rate of 0.165+-0.013 magnitudes per century. From the early 1890s to the late 1980s, KIC 8462852 has faded by 0.193+-0.030 mag. This century-long dimming is completely unprecedented for any F-type main sequence star."

This just feels exactly like the beginning of a sci fi movie.

All we need is a few more dimming stars to pop up.

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NASA to Make Major Space Station Cargo Transport Announcement Today | NASA

That's nasa.gov, not a third party hyping it.

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NASA to Make Major Space Station Cargo Transport Announcement Today | NASA

That's nasa.gov, not a third party hyping it.

hmm i wonder what that could be..   what would be considered major in relation to cargo resupplies? 

quick edit:   could they be announcing space x getting a contract?

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hmm i wonder what that could be..   what would be considered major in relation to cargo resupplies?  

quick edit:   could they be announcing space x getting a contract?

It's assumed they are announcing the CRS2 so hopefully spacex.

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It's assumed they are announcing the CRS2 so hopefully spacex.

that would be sweet.  so much going on for space x

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So they split the contract?

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So they split the contract?

It was always going to be split at least somewhat.

NASA Awards International Space Station Cargo Transport Contracts | NASA

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It was always going to be split at least somewhat.

NASA Awards International Space Station Cargo Transport Contracts | NASA

thanx for the link.   so a mininum of 6 launches per group.  

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For Christmas I received a telescope camera. I tried it out a while ago but just couldn't for the life of me get anything to show up.

So I waited for a nice night and tried just to even find the moon. Man is it a narrow lense!

Here's my first ever video of space.

Later on I'll try for jupiter but I doubt I'll be able to find it.

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Koenigsmann: Falcon 9 first stage that landed last month “just completed” static fire test back at Cape, went “very well.”

— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) January 16, 2016

Also the barge is ready for Sunday.

Maybe some debris ingestion. Engine data looks ok. Will borescope tonight. This is one of the outer engines.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2016

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intersting lol  with 9 rocket engines, 1 having issues isnt so bad

i wonder if the sea will continue to play a roll..  maybe they need a bigger barge lol

really excited for sunday