nudge
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Hmmm I'd prefer getting my consciousness uploaded into a new body
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I don't know, I kind of want to see the Galactic Empire...
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Very cool animation of China's Chang'e-4 mission: First trajectory correction was cancelled due to the course being satisfactory; the second one was carried out today. Third one expected tomorrow, and then orbital insertion planned for Wednesday. No official date has been released for the landing attempt, but CASC announced shortly after the launch that the landing will take place in the first days of January 2019.
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This is pretty cool...
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How do you like it so far?
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Nah just started Season 2 but been a bit busy with work and stuff... so two more seasons to go
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I might give it a go then once I'm done with The Expanse...
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No, I kind of just gave up altogether... Can I still watch it if I haven't watched the ones before it?
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Also, Heavy Metal Magazine was ace when it comes to sci-fi stories and artwork... a lot of fantasy there too but more than enough sci-fi as well... we had it sort of smuggled in from the West back then, and I used to hide it from my grandma
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I think I mentioned it in some other thread previously, but I never managed to get into Star Trek... I tried hard to enjoy the original series (we had reruns on tv) and The Next Generation, but I just can't. It's very unfortunate, as I love the concept and the ideas they came up with, but just can't stand the execution and campy acting... Talking about classic sci-fi TV shows, Space 1999 was class, so was The Twilight Zone... I also loved Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica. From the newer ones, Missions, Westworld and The Expanse are my favourites. Then plenty of movies; don't even know where to start... Star Wars is still my favourite franchise though (despite I didn't enjoy the last two episodes). I have a huge collection of extended universe (audio)books and it's just brilliant...
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Love sci-fi, both for its entertainment value and cerebral properties, grew up on it as well... mostly books and then movies/tv shows. I'll start with sharing my most favourite short story ever, The Last Question by Isaac Asimov... EDIT: just found a beautiful interactive website where you can read the story: https://thelastquestionstory.com/
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Surprised he's only got a beer in his hand there
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Never thought I'll hear Martian wind in my life...
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ahahahaha to be fair that's the only way he could have survived the FIA gala
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Successfully launched!
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Do it do it do it!
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Is he doing a Nigel Mansell impersonation?
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Done and dusted!
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Due to popular demand (not really ), here's a thread for anything Space related... Topic title credit: @CaaC - John
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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
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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.
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Thailand lost to Malaysia on away goals while Vietnam beat the Philippines to advance to the finals!
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It's amazing that we live in a time where anyone can have breakfast in bed and watch ISS astronauts having a spacewalk live This is also a great livestream that streams live HD Earth views as seen from the Space Station; it's breathtaking (make sure to choose HD in options and go fullscreen!)
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Great picture and an interesting read... it's cool that the article mentions citizen science projects; I did a bit of work every once in a while on a similar one that has the same objective (i.e. identifying transiting exoplanets from Kepler's data using stars' lightcurves); it's quite fun. Crowdsourcing research is such a fantastic way to analyse huge amounts of data and get common people involved in science. Did they ever find out what was the deal with that weird star? (the article mentions May 2017 hence my question...)
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The launch of the cargo ship was successful but the rocket missed the landing as the first-stage booster crashed into the ocean haha. Appears to be undamaged so it's good news anyway!
