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Criticised Sarri's appointment at Chelsea because he never won anything. Thinks Poch's appointment at United will win the Champions League. Yup. Definitely a Teso thing to say.

Due to popular demand (not really ), here's a thread for anything Space related... Topic title credit: @CaaC - John

I will, I will, I will.... Been busy, just finished the last episode of the first season of The Expanse... Cram, Cram, Cram...

Upcoming Live Events (all times Eastern) Thursday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m.: Hubble servicing mission 25th-anniversary discussion of the history of Hubble servicing missions and the future of satellite servicing. Friday, Dec. 7, 1:30 p.m.: Hubble servicing mission 25th-anniversary-panel discussion on Hubble deployment and servicing missions. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m.: Coverage of Russian spacewalk. Spacewalk at the International Space Station is scheduled to begin at 11:03 a.m. EST and will last around 6 hours. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.: Live from Washington National Cathedral: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Presents “The Spirit of Apollo”—A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Mission to the Moon. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 3 p.m.: International Space Station Expedition 59-60 news conference. Tuesday, Dec. 18, 4:25 p.m.: International Space Station Expedition 57-58 change of command ceremony. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 4:45 p.m.: Expedition 57 crew farewell at International Space Station and Soyuz spacecraft hatch closure. Hatch closure is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. EST. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 7:45 p.m.: Undocking of the Soyuz spacecraft with the International Space Station Expedition 57 crew. Undocking is scheduled at 8:42 p.m. EST. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 10:45 p.m.: Coverage of Soyuz deorbit burn and landing with the Expedition 57 crew. Deorbit burn scheduled at 11:09 p.m. EST with landing scheduled at 12:03 a.m. EST, Dec. 20.

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Sad to hear that @Stan it's just not been your couple of weeks buddy, condolences from me and the wife as we know what it's like losing loved ones especially at this time of the year.

Spurs already have a vastly superior midfielder in Winks

Good thinking - Levy should put in a bid for Pogba. Poch would do great things with him here,

Honestly, zero reason why Poch would go to United now. Doesn't happen. Just read everything he says, he doesn't want to go anywhere. Our project is his project. He's turned down Champions League winners Madrid, he can turn down mid table United. You could always get Javi Garcia instead though Teso. Would be great for the project

Astronomy Picture of the Day 2018 December 7 December's Comet Wirtanen Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN, Earth and Stars) Explanation: Coming close in mid-December, Comet 46P Wirtanen hangs in this starry sky over the bell tower of a Romanesque church. In the constructed vertical panorama, a series of digital exposures capture its greenish coma on December 3 from Sant Llorenc de la Muga, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, planet Earth. With an orbital period that is now about 5.4 years, the periodic comet's perihelion, its closest approach, to the Sun will be on December 12. On December 16 it will be closest to Earth, passing at a distance of about 11.6 million kilometers or 39 light-seconds. That's close for a comet, a mere 30 times the Earth-Moon distance. A good binocular target for comet watchers, Wirtanen could be visible to the unaided eye from a dark sky site. To spot it after dusk on December 16, look close on the sky to the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Done and dusted!

A women of my heart, sigh, now, seeing you have the tools maybe you can merge all the space content posts in Science & Discovery into here, cough, cough

Beat me to it... I was going to start 'All Things Sci-Fi' thread last week but got side tracked with mafia wars...

You are the Mod with the tools young lady, go for it, a new topic like "Space, the Final Frontier"

I think we need a separate topic for Space Launch in about three hours! Unfortunately no livestream. Other than this being the first landing on the far side of the Moon, there's more interesting things about this mission. One of them is a mini biosphere experiment - they are sending potato seeds and silkworm eggs in a biocan to test photosynthesis and respiration in the low-gravity lunar environment. More infos about the mission here: https://gbtimes.com/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-change-4-mission-to-the-far-side-of-the-moon?cat=chinas-space-program

I think that's going to be the eventuality here, train the AI to develop answers quickly so that it can adapt to new uncharted environments faster. Kind of reminds me of the first Star Trek where Voyager comes back smarter after being in space for a long time. I don't think its very far away either, navigation is certainly possible as Boston Dynamics has shown and now all you have to do is couple that with some logic that allows the system to adapt faster and the best part is that there is no casualty of any kind other than a machine getting destroyed.

AI with advanced autonomy that doesn't need to be micromanaged constantly will be a huge breakthrough in space exploration. Better data collection, more accuracy and effectiveness, better productivity, less risks in challenging environments where delayed communications with human control team on Earth is a norm. I've read a while ago that one particular area of AI development that JPL and the likes are really looking into is preparing AI to recognise, analyse and interpret the unknown in new environments where no known model of normality can be built in advance due to lack of data, thus enabling AI to build such models from scratch based on their own observations. Sounds very...intuitive and human-like hehe.

I hope Vietnam loses, i lost a General Knowledge competition in uni because of them in the final, question was which country is called the land of white elephants i said Vietnam thinking they meant metaphorically but turns out it was literally and it was Thailand that point cost me in the end

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/unite-day2-2/ The day won't be far where the AI will do all the work and pass all the data back for people to make decisions.

What do you get out of pretending not to know Africa is a continent?

The Dynamite Kid has passed away

We lost a friend 1 week ago through Cancer, known her for years and it does hit you for six especially as she was around the same age as me and the wife, life goes on for us thank God.

So in addition to the sudden death of a family member last Saturday, there have been 2 further deaths in the wider family . One of my auntie's brothers-in-law yesterday. Another aunt's mother today. And to add to that, my sister-in-laws grandmother is in her last days too in India. What a shit time of year right now.