Astrum
What Has NASA's Osiris-Rex Discovered Around The Asteroid Bennu?
Published 5th December 2019
NASA's OSIRIS-REx has now been orbiting the asteroid Bennu for a year already, but what has it discovered so far?
Astrum
What Has NASA's Osiris-Rex Discovered Around The Asteroid Bennu?
Published 5th December 2019
NASA's OSIRIS-REx has now been orbiting the asteroid Bennu for a year already, but what has it discovered so far?
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william r sanford72 (13th December 2019)
Asteroid Station
Asteroid (2019 XN)
Published 4th December 2019
Warning Asteroid (2019 XN) Newly Detected Object Will Flyby Earth December 6, 2019. This asteroid is going toward Earth at 21,000 miles per hour. This Asteroid will not hit Earth but check out its orbit.
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The Younger Dryas Debate | Part FourPosted by Star Tsar (here)
The Younger Dryas Debate | Part ThreePosted by Star Tsar (here)
The Younger Dryas Debate | Part TwoPosted by Star Tsar (here)
Prehistory Decoded
The Younger Dryas Debate | Part One
Published 19th October 2019
Surveys the research literature surrounding the Younger Dryas debate. Part 1 discusses papers from 2007 to 2009.
Published 31st October 2019
Part 2 of the series covers developments in the research in 2010, including the nanodiamond layer found in the Greenland ice sheet
Published 16th November 2019
Part 3 of the series covers a review of the Younger Dryas impact research into 2011.
Published 5th December 2019
Part 4 of the series covers a review of the Younger Dryas impact research into 2012.
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American Meteor Society
Event #6169-2019 | Texas, USA | 5th December 2019 @ 11:34 UT
Published 5th December 2017
Supporting Link: https://fireball.imo.net/members/imo...vent/2019/6169
Cool reflection off a lake!
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John Michael Godier's Event Horizon
Dr. David Grinspoon | Will Human Civilization End?
Published 5th December 2019
How Long Will Human Civilization Last?
When did the Anthropocene start?
Looking for life on Europa and Pluto, do ice shell worlds have a better chance for life than terrestrial worlds?
Dr. David Grinspoon is an Astrobiologist, author, and Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. His research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like exoplanets and potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe.
And he is here to answer the question: will human civilization end?
Relevant links:
David Grinspoon's books and links
Earth in human hands: https://amzn.to/2OFyfxp
Venus Revealed: https://amzn.to/2ODtlAK
Chasing New Horizons inside the epic first mission to Pluto: https://amzn.to/2PUZk0G
Website: http://funkyscience.net/
David's twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFunkySpoon
Last edited by Star Tsar; 6th December 2019 at 10:40.
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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 6th December 2019 | Landslides, Cascadia-San Andreas, Sun Mystery
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FreeThink.com
The Construction Robots Building Space Colonies
Published 7th December 2019
Sending construction robots into outer space will help pave the way for human exploration, but there are some real challenges that lie ahead.
Gleaming in white, at 6’2 and 300 lbs, NASA’s humanoid robot Valkyrie looks like a cross between Iron Man and a stormtrooper. Yet despite her striking resemblance to fictional characters, she has a very real, if ambitious, purpose: help humans explore and construct habitats in space.
For humankind to ever live on worlds besides Earth, experts say that sending construction robots, like Val, ahead of human settlers will be a crucial first step. To that end, over the past several years, space agencies and a handful of start-up companies have begun developing technology for unmanned space construction, making important technological (and literal) strides forward.
Read all about it here: https://www.freethink.com/articles/construction-robots
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Hillsdale College
Steven Kwast | The Urgent Need For A U.S. Space Force
Published 5th December 2019
Hillsdale in D.C. was honored to host Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast for his lecture, “The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force.” Lt. Gen. Kwast is the commander of the Air Education and Training Command at the San Antonio-Randolph Base in Texas and has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
“The power of space will change world power forever,” Kwast told the audience assembled at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on November 20th. “As a historian, reflecting on the fact that throughout the history of mankind… technology has always changed world power,” he said.
In his talk Kwast laid out an ambitious vision for innovation in space. He described space as a new frontier for energy, manufacturing, information technology, and transportation. Kwast pointed to World War I as an instance where ignoring a new technology led to catastrophe. “But the story of rejecting new and holding and clinging to the paradigms of the past is why no civilization has ever lasted forever, and values are trumped by other values when another civilization figures out a way of finding a competitive advantage,” Kwast explained.
“The nature of power, you either have it and your values rule or you do not have it and you must submit. We see that play out again and again in history and it's playing out now,” Kwast said referring to China’s current plan to dominate space innovation by 2049.
Kwast believes that a Space Force is crucial to ensuring that America does not get behind in the competition for development in space. He argued that the energy market, the transportation economy, information technology, and new manufacturing will be dominated by the country that takes advantage of what he calls a “new marketplace.”
He also argued that whenever there is a new marketplace there needs to be a guardian force to bring order and predictability to that marketplace or there will be violence and theft. He pointed out that China is already building such a guardian force- the equivalent of a navy fleet for space. If the U.S. allows China to take on this role then China will also be the one setting the rules.
Kwast argues that if the U.S. is in the driver’s seat the market will reflect the values of our Constitution and individual rights, but if China sets the rules the market will look more like subordination and the subversion of human dignity and liberty.
Kwast’s call for a Space Force is an urgent one. He points at 5G as an example of China stealing American ideas and technology, duplicating them and then dominating the market. He does not want the same thing to happen with the new opportunities in the space industry. This, he argues, is why we need a Space Force and soon.
He argues that if China becomes dominant in space they will put roadblocks in place for the countries that come after them. Whoever gets there first will have the ultimate strategic high ground, he argues. “They are building that infrastructure. They are unapologetic about it, and they plan on declaring victory as the dominant world power in space at the 100-year anniversary, 2049,” Kwast stated.
“Why do we need a space force?” Kwast asked. “Because it's an economic competition for the values of the future,” he finished.
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onawah (16th December 2019)
Seeker
This Quantum Lab Makes Exotic States Of Matter In Space
Published 8th December 2019
Atomic physicists at NASA are working to create an exotic state of matter...in space. And it turns out, the International Space Station is the perfect home base for these experiments.
NASA’s new quantum lab is studying a bizarre and rare form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensates… and it’s doing it in space! We went inside the NASA control room that’s running these experiments to talk to the scientists behind this quest to probe the universe's biggest mysteries.
The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is a multi-user facility that is operating aboard the ISS producing Bose-Einstein condensates, which are clouds of ultra-cooled atoms, to perform quantum physics experiments in microgravity.
The space lab (designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) operates when the astronauts aboard the ISS are asleep and is engineered to trap gas atoms, cooling them to temperatures just barely above absolute zero. It is here, in this level of cold, that the Bose-Einstein condensates come into existence.
Find out more about the Cold Atom Lab; why microgravity is so important when it comes to creating the coldest things; and how this ultracool state of matter comes to fruition in space on this episode of Focal Point.
The Coldest Spot in the Universe
https://coldatomlab.jpl.nasa.gov/
“The quest for ever colder temperatures has been a major theme of physics for over a century, leading to such breakthroughs such as the discovery of superfluidity and superconductivity, and more recently to the development of laser cooling techniques and the observation of dilute atomic-gas Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) and super-fluid Fermi gases.”
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab (CAL): system development and ground test status
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-018-0049-9
“This unique facility will enable novel ultracold atom research to be remotely performed by an international group of principle investigators with broad applications in fundamental physics and inertial sensing.”
NASA Is Launching a Box of Lasers to Make the Coldest Spot In the Universe
https://www.space.com/40631-nasa-col...laser-box.html
“The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is a physics research facility the size of an ice chest, designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, that will chill clouds of atoms with lasers and magnets aboard the space station to this ultracold temperature — close to absolute zero, or the lowest temperature possible.”
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william r sanford72 (13th December 2019)
Geoengineering Watch
Global Alert News | Episode 226
Published 7th December 2019
The weather makers continue to push the climate system ever further into uncharted territory. How bad do conditions have to get before academia and official agencies acknowledge what is going on in our skies? More US troops are being sent to the Middle East. Is the US military about to be unleashed on yet another sovereign nation? Will the ongoing manufactured political circus continue to completely distract populations from the darkening horizon?
Our once brilliant blue skies are now all too often completely tainted by the climate engineering operations. Our once thriving planet is dying. Can our collective efforts still make a difference at this late hour? We cannot know unless we fully face the gathering storm and do our absolute best to turn the tide.
Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/...er-7-2019-226/
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Anton Petrov
We Found An Alien Place On Earth Where No Life Can Exist
Published 7th December 2019
Anton talks about a recent discovery coming out of Ethiopean Dallol volcanic area that suggests certain ponds are too extreme for any life.
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1005-0
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VolcanoYT
Eruption | Sakurajima Volcano, Japan
Recorded & Published 8th December 2019
At 18:49 JST an explosion was registered.
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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 7th & 8th December 2019
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