Space Is One Of The Most Hazardous Environments For A Human Being To Exist In. That's What Makes It So
Space is one of the most hazardous environments for a human being to exist in. That's what makes it so damned enticing.
Space is so essentially deadly. It differs from any location on Earth in that way. You can't 'tame' space. You can't make a vacuum hospitable. Space is a desolate, dry, sterile, irradiated expanse, which is home to extreme temperatures and occasional overspeeding projectiles, and to which full-body exposure is almost instantly lethal. Space must command your respect.
I wish some people would realise that the obstacle to colonising Mars isn't just a lack of funding. It's crazy that there's people in the world who think that billionaires are just going to build extraterrestrial cities like it's so easy. ‘Oh, we'll just build thousands of giant rockets, and oh we'll just stuff 100 people inside each, and oh we'll just travel in an armada through deep-space, and oh we'll just land thousands of giant rockets on Mars, and oh we'll just build a city with millions of inhabitants on a freezing rocky desert with no breathable atmosphere, almost no running water, toxic soil, literally nothing to eat, and no economic incentive. Why hasn't anyone done this already? Total no-brainer!’
I say this because I used to be the kind of person who had actually thought that Mars colonisation were possible and could happen in my lifetime.
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Concept art of the Space Shuttle returning from Space.
Artwork by G. Harry Stine
Date: 1978
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Esa/JAXA’s Bepi Colombo Spacecraft during one of its Earth flybys before heading towards mercury
Orbiter Columbia OV-102 had a unique external feature the “SILTS” pod (Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing), it was located on the top of her vertical stabilizer. It was installed after STS-9 (1984) to acquire infrared and other thermal data on the vehicle’s environment. The instruments were removed after several missions but the pod remained.
Full Moon rises behind a Soyuz rocket
View of Earth from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
Saturn Behind the Moon : What’s that next to the Moon? Saturn. In its monthly trip around the Earth – and hence Earth’s sky – our Moon passed nearly in front of Sun-orbiting Saturn earlier this week. Actually the Moon passed directly in front of Saturn from the viewpoints of a wide swath of Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. The featured image from Sydney, Australia captured the pair a few minutes before the eclipse. The image was a single shot lasting only 1/500th of a second, later processed to better highlight both the Moon and Saturn. Since Saturn is nearly opposite the Sun, it can be seen nearly the entire night, starting at sunset, toward the south and east. The gibbous Moon was also nearly opposite the Sun, and so also visible nearly the entire night – it will be full tomorrow night. The Moon will occult Saturn again during every lap it makes around the Earth this year. via NASA
I say it was one of NASA's worst decisions. Really it wasn't their fault. They didn't have enough government funding to contract two companies to build landers, so they went with the bare cheapest bidder (SpaceX).
It's genuinely possible that Starship HLS might not be ready before Blue Moon MK 2 is.
21 · female · diagnosed asperger'sThe vacuum of outer space feels so comfy :)
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