Science addicts here?....

[Wayne Evans]

Reveille weed hoppers....

Is anyone going to try to view the Jup-Sat conjunction?

I may have a clear enough view to get lucky.
'An hour after sunset' look toward the southwestern sky.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+...6KLvUoWc1bVW2M

Should any of you take any pics (especially having a magnified view) please feel free to treat us.

Have a great day and a great Christmas with family/friends.

Carry on....

[OldFartTom]

Heavy cloud cover, and rain on/off. Please take a look at it for me.

If EH is reading? Please could roll back the roof from the eye of Sauron and take a pic to post here. Thanks!

[Wayne Evans]

Heavy cloud cover, and rain on/off. Please take a look at it for me.
If EH is reading? Please could roll back the roof from the eye of Sauron and take a pic to post here. Thanks!

Will do....it looks like I might get lucky but we'll see.

Yep....maybe E.... will have his scope setup and have some favorable night sky.

Carry on....

[supramax]

On a clear day, I can see 5 mountain ranges. The closest one is 20 miles away and at the moment, I can't see it. It doesn't look good for tonight.

[Wayne Evans]

On a clear day, I can see 5 mountain ranges. The closest one is 20 miles away and at the moment, I can't see it. It doesn't look good for tonight.

Well....I have NO mountain ranges in my turf and I saw nothing.
We had some haze that was blurring the sky view and there was some ******t light (street lights) making it worse.

So....as they say...."I've got nothin'".

Carry on....

[supramax]

Well....I have NO mountain ranges in my turf and I saw nothing.
We had some haze that was blurring the sky view and there was some ******t light (street lights) making it worse.

So....as they say...."I've got nothin'".

Carry on....

Gray skies in this neck of the woods.

[OldFartTom]

Won't be quite as aligned as last night, but you guys might see something tonight? (I've still got dark gray sky and drizzle)

[supramax]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

[OldFartTom]

Another aerospace themed post...

Somehow I missed this the other day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55721587. Interesting to see satellite launch from a rocket carried under a 747

This has some interesting defence implications and especially interesting to see placing satellites this way since air launch has became the defacto anti satellite method while laser etc is still a work in progress (ASAT -- Russian https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3931/1 US https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT or less details China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASAT_program_of_China)

[OldFartTom]

Anyone following the Perseverance mars rover. It's going to have its "7 minutes of terror"

Edit: it's re entering

Edit: Parachute deployed, subsonic speed it atmosphere, looks like it's going to make it...

Edit: it's attempting to land

LANDED!!!

[ChazWood]

Any Martians spotted or captured yet?

[Wayne Evans]

Anyone following the Perseverance mars rover. It's going to have its "7 minutes of terror"

Howdy gents....

No...dammit...I lost track of this event....I must be getting old.
I'm catching up now.

Thanks for the reminder.

Carry on..

[OldFartTom]

Any Martians spotted or captured yet?

Meh... All the space stuff is just filmed in a warehouse outside of Las Vegas. I read that on the internet.

Edit, if this space thing does turn out to be genuine, the good news is they will try to catch a Martian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File...r-20200714.jpg

You can clearly see the gun in the top left of the rover (below big camera). The plan is that it will slowly trundle across the surface of Mars for 2 years making duck calls. If a Martian breaks cover it'll bag one!

[ChazWood]

Meh... All the space stuff is just filmed in a warehouse outside of Las Vegas. I read that on the internet.

Edit, if this space thing does turn out to be genuine, the good news is they will try to catch a Martian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File...r-20200714.jpg

You can clearly see the gun in the top left of the rover (below big camera). The plan is that it will slowly trundle across the surface of Mars for 2 years making duck calls. If a Martian breaks cover it'll bag one!

haha! I assume the camera is also programmed to scan the landscape for any illudium Q-36 explosive space modulators.

[jellodirt]

Pluto is a planet, then it isn't, then it is again? Science is like politics, believe what you want.

Science lost it's way when it confused theory with facts. They so bad want to be right.

[OldFartTom]

Tomorrow morning before sunrise, take a look up in the sky, there should be meteors at about 18 per hour, or every 3ish minutes. Enjoy

[Wayne Evans]

Tomorrow morning before sunrise, take a look up in the sky, there should be meteors at about 18 per hour, or every 3ish minutes. Enjoy

Howdy OFT....

Thanks for the heads up (literally).
It's been cloudy as hell here for several days so don't know if I'll get lucky but I am an early bird. (that doesn't eat worms, BTW )

Have a good one....thanks again.

[OldFartTom]

Didn't look this morning due to forecast cloud cover, but tried last night
I didn't see a single one

Maybe around 12/13th August? We have the Perseid shower then. I saw a couple in the 2019 Perseid shower, they do exist!

[PhDPepper1111]

No joy for me either in the PNW - was cloudy although not completely. Was out before sunrise but only for a few minutes. was hoping to see some fireworks.

[Wayne Evans]

Howdy OFT and Pep....

Same here....nothing but cloud cover.
I had the same lack of luck during the Jupiter event a couple months back.
Why can't the cosmos perform these events during the summer!

Have a great day all....

(on spread for your contributions)

[steffo99]

Soon....green ladies, here I come.

[weiss1967]

old news Steffo, I haven't seen anything legible since Sonni White's lecture on warp drive.

[supramax]

Whenever I see the phrase 'space/time', I know that people don't know what the **** they're talking about.

[OldFartTom]

Goodness me, watched about half the video, seemed a lot of nonsense desperately trying to sound very clever. Whatever the answer to warp drive? it wasn't in that video. Thanks for posting though Steffo.

After watching someone trying to sound so clever I felt the need to watch something that is not trying to be clever. This is engineering not science so not sure if it will incur the wrath of Wayne for posting

This is a MotorHorse and it might just be the future of personal transport


And showing you how to build your own MotorHorse, follow this video

[Wayne Evans]

This is engineering not science so not sure if it will incur the wrath of Wayne for posting

Ha....no....absolutely not OFT.

I'm pretty accomplished at not 'being clever'.

I'm off to a 'motor horse' distributor.
Although, I think it would be far cooler to have a motorsaur.

Carry on....

[steffo99]

Ok guys, I decided to solve this warp drive issue myself. I've only worked as a chicken catcher before so may be a bit of a challenge. Will ask Chaz for help.

[OldFartTom]

Splashdown!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-56962932

[OldFartTom]

Wayne, you're a Jarhead, what do you make of this technology
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-56979994

I'm thinking... great so you board a ship like ironman, you land on the ship, someone aims at you. At that moment you realise you have jets strapped to you hands and you can't shoot back. Seems like a great way to board friendly ships???

[Wayne Evans]

Wayne, you're a Jarhead, what do you make of this technology
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-56979994

I'm thinking... great so you board a ship like ironman, you land on the ship, someone aims at you. At that moment you realise you have jets strapped to you hands and you can't shoot back. Seems like a great way to board friendly ships???

Well howdy OFT....

Would I love to try one?....absolutely!

I think it's one hell of an invention and a worthy addition to the military for the purpose of boarding ships in non threatening/peaceful applications only.
Also great for recon work and mapping of areas, military or otherwise.

As you infer, if there is no 7.62mm weapon (loved my M14) he can trigger it's a death trap because you still have to focus on navigating oneself.
Even then, a 7.62 still has some recoil and that could further prove it may have little efficacy in a hostile situation.

With regard to my experiences (13 months in the jungle) one would only make oneself a fine target for those hostiles on the ground.
Of course, they'd probably hear you coming too and the shooting gallery would have their fun.

That's my quick take so maybe I'm missing another negative aspect in an offensive scenario.

Thanks for chiming in (on spread for contribution)

Have a great day everyone....

[OldFartTom]

Jupiter, large gaseous planet. The big spot was first seen when optics/telescopes started getting good about 300 years ago. The great spot is a storm and about 1.5 times the size of earth...

And the point of this great spot post? I just read it's getting smaller and estimates it might be gone in about 20 years time!!!