Science General Discussion

[Aura7541]

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[DD_Bwest]

you know with the publicity of the starliner, i have a feeling todays spacex conference is partly meant to steal back some attention lol

also that gripper looks aswome as fudge,  it should be named advanced grabbing unit lol

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[Xevross]

What is this thing? Remote controlled?

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What is this thing? Remote controlled?

No it's a robot.

[Xevross]

No it's a robot.

Wow that's pretty awesome. My initial thought was its a robot but it seemed to advanced

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Wow that's pretty awesome. My initial thought was its a robot but it seemed to advanced

Robots have gotten crazy good in the past few years.

You should check out the rest of that channel's videos if you haven't already.

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Trump released plans for NASA's budget.

Asteroid Redirect Mission is cut. If you don't remember, that was the plan to break a rock off an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit. Then astronauts on SLS would go study it. The original plan was to send astronauts to an actual asteroid but it had been repeatedly watered down over the years.


Now without ARM, SLS will realistically only be used for the Europa Clipper in 2022 and a test launch next year. Will be cool to see the rocket fly but my gosh is it an expensive waste of time.

(congress might ignore Trump and keep ARM. They regularly did that with Obama and gave NASA more money)

[DD_Bwest]

hes so dumb,  god i hate trump

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hes so dumb,  god i hate trump

Cutting ARM is actually good imo. People have wanted it and SLS cut for a long time.

Each SLS launch will cost half a billion yet only the later versions will be significantly stronger than Falcon Heavy. The 3-stage New Glenn from Blue Origin will be comparable to the SLS block 1 as well.

[DD_Bwest]

Cutting ARM is actually good imo. People have wanted it and SLS cut for a long time.

Each SLS launch will cost half a billion yet only the later versions will be significantly stronger than Falcon Heavy. The 3-stage New Glenn from Blue Origin will be comparable to the SLS block 1 as well.

i liked the idea of ARM, it would have been really cool.

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i liked the idea of ARM, it would have been really cool.

I think the original thing would have been really cool.

The watered down one would only have brought a small chunk of the asteroid. At that point they could just bring the rock back to Earth and studied it here.