Is it a bird? Is it a plane?! No, it's a ...rock?
TL;DR - There is now a boulder on an asteroid that NASA is visiting with a satellite.
The article - https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=first-official-names-given-to-features-on-asteroid-bennu
Hello, this is my first time posting on reddit at all, sorry for any naiveness, but I thought that this was something the Worm and Parahuman community would appreciate as a whole, and my friends pressured me into putting it here...
I have had the honor and pleasure to be working on the OSIRIS-REx NASA mission for almost a year now while we orbit and prepare to return a sample of Asteroid (101955) Bennu. One of the important tasks for the mission is to name prominent features on the planetary body but the caveat being that each mission almost always has a theme they have to stick to. Ours was birds, particularly mythological ones, hence the name of the asteroid, Bennu, after the Egyptian Bird Deity of Creation since we are looking to sample Bennu to give us insight to how the solar system and planetary bodies formed in the early solar system. A few months into working on the mission I also had another milestone of finishing all of Worm and knew I wanted to honor such an amazing story and community. We have had unofficial names for feature on the asteroid since the beginning of the mission but when the push came to formally naming them I helped push for one of my favourite and mission critical rocks on the surface to be named Simurgh. We have to provide reasoning and official sources of information to the IAU (International Astronomical Union) on why the feature deserves the name so the official reference was to the original Persian mythological bird of wisdom and teaching, which is fitting for a rock we use on the mission to define our Prime Meridian. From the rock all of our data products, maps, and science is based basically and it is a an area of the asteroid I work with frequently. It seemed a very fitting name and a great homage to the Endbringer at the same time.
Thank you for reading! I know it isn't the most relevant post to the Worm story and characters but I hope you enjoyed.
SIR, THEY'RE PLANNING TO MINE ASTEROIDS WITH ALL OF YOUR MONEY
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LAST TIME ON DRAGONBALL Z...
I wrote a fine-ass thread giving a rough price estimate and laying out the details as to how we apes can build a skyhook. That thread turned out to be one of the more popular ones here on Ape Philanthropy, and although there was some criticism in other subs saying the price estimate was a bit optimistic, everybody was pretty much sold on the idea of building skyhooks.
I still remain sold on the idea -- even if the things cost twice or three times as much as the original estimate, the benefits they offer are so expansive that I am writing this thread on asteroid mining on the basic assumption that we have built at least one to get crap to and from LEO, drastically reducing launch costs.
That being said, let's talk important shit. Let's talk:
ASTEROID MINING
If you've never heard of it, I highly recommend watching Kurzgesagt's video on the subject and also the SFIA with Isaac Arthur episode on it. It's really fascinating stuff.
We apes need to get ourselves in the industry and start mining the shit out of some space rocks not only because we'll need off-world materials to build colonies in orbit and around other planets, which I imagine if you're reading this thread you're already down for in the first place, but for a much more important, much more down-to-earth reason: politics. Basically, we need to go off-world to mine rare-earth minerals from asteroids because people down here on the Earth are dicks and controlling the industry for their own benefit. And we apes can, with our collectively put together pile of sweet and delicious MOASS tendies, and should, specifically to keep governments and other shitty corporations from getting their greedy little hands all over them and abusing other people through artificial resource scarcity.
The things are worth tens of trillions of dollars apiece. No, seriously.
With our sweet delicious tendies with sides of Szechuan sauce, we can ensure the human race will have a near limitless supply of rare-earth metals that will last bare minimum thousands of years. In today's episode of [
... keep reading on reddit ➡Today is the seventieth of July (such a shame, such a shame, missing the sixty-ninth by one day)! MOASS almost definitely confirmed for today - because I returned from my holidays just to arrive at an Earnings Call (which is apparently at 23:00 in Dutch timezone, which is just a tad too late for me...). Look what this day brought us over the past years, and just imagine what that day will bring us in 2021! <3
Events
617 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
1100 – Election of Antipope Theodoric.
1198 – Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of Germany (King of the Romans)
1253 – Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by king Bolesław II.
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1276 – Pope John XXI is chosen.
1331 – Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.
1380 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
1514 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1522 – Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the first circumnavigation.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1761 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a na
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
8 декабря в Японию доставили капсулу с грунтом астероида Рюгу, который был собран космическим зондом «Хаябуса-2». Как и планировалось, тремя днями ранее капсула с грунтом, сброшенная зондом на подлете к Земле, упала в Австралии. Этим окончился основной этап миссии «Хаябуса-2», которой теперь предстоит исследовать еще два околоземных астероида — мимо одного она пролетит в 2026 году, второй посетит в 2031 году. А в конце октября важные события произошли рядом с еще одним околоземным астероидом — Бенну: зонд NASA OSIRIS-REx успешно завершил операцию по сбору его грунта. Теперь OSIRIS-REx должен дождаться удобного момента для старта к Земле. Это, если все пройдет по плану, произойдет в марте 2021 года, а сам путь займет еще почти два с половиной года.
«Хаябуса-2» — вторая миссия Японского агентства аэрокосмических исследований (JAXA) по доставке образцов внеземного вещества на Землю (название миссии в переводе с японского означает «сапсан»). Первый аппарат, «Хаябуса-1», изучал небольшой околоземный астероид спектрального класса S (25143) Итокава, но в ходе выполнения программы произошло множество неполадок. Первой серьезной проблемой стала солнечная вспышка в ноябре 2003 года, которая повредила солнечные батареи станции. Затем вышли из строя два из четырех маховиков системы ориентации, которые должны были удерживать зонд в устойчивом положении на орбите вокруг астероида. Кроме того, когда «Хаябуса» достиг Итокавы, он должен был сбросить на астероид посадочный зонд Minerva для исследования его поверхности. Однако произошла ошибка, и небольшой робот весом 1,1 килограмма и стоимостью около 10 миллионов долларов был потерян во время спуска.
Тем не менее, космический аппарат все же смог доставить на Землю крупицы внеземного вещества (всего удалось соб
... keep reading on reddit ➡They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
When I got home, they were still there.
