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Yeah baby! I don’t like Elon, but I respect what SpaceX did there :heart_hands:

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Go Europa Clipper!

:star_struck: :rocket: :artificial_satellite:

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Book your spots now folks! Advertising spots available on the moon soon:

:money_mouth_face:

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Thank goodness for the foresight of that treaty because money corrupts and we dont need more space junk!

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Could there be an as-yet-undiscovered body in the Kuiper Belt that meets the definition of “planet”? (Not Pluto, sorry friends. That time has passed.) There is an unexplained alignment of orbits for some smaller bodies in the Kuiper Belt that, in one astronomer’s view, suggests the existence of a (new) 9th planet in our solar system.

Check out the details of the case here, and drawn your own conclusions folks:

:male_detective: :female_detective: :mag: :new_moon:

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Unlimited solar power… beamed from space to Earth? It is happening soon - in Iceland :smiley:

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Social media is full of “Aliens confirmed, they live under water” ?
What did I miss? :smiley:
Do we still have to go to work tomorrow?

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I’ve just finished a fiction book called Final Equinox written by Andrew Mayne. He’s a real jack of all trades kind of man; scientist, magic trick artist, mathematics spod, and many other disciplines as well litter his writing. I really enjoyed his Theo Cray series on finding serial killers with mathematical patterns and behavioural mapping.

Anyway, this one was about lifeforms outside of Earth. The way it was discussed throughout the novel really made me believe we cannot possibly be the only life forms in this “World” or whatever we want to call something that is unquantifiable. That, or we are in a highly advanced life simulation/study :eyes::see_no_evil::unicorn:.

Caveats:
Anything could happen. Ellie Golding, said so.
I hate sci fi.
I don’t care really. I think we have enough to worry about in our simulation, here on turf. :woman_shrugging:t2:

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Unfortunately yes :upside_down_face:

Lauren Boebert asked some questions about whether aliens had bases in the ocean:

They don’t:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-pentagon-report-ufos-includes-hundreds-new-incidents-115875197

Here’s the full Pentagon report, from June 2024, if you’d like to read through it:

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/14/2003583603/-1/-1/0/FY24-CONSOLIDATED-ANNUAL-REPORT-ON-UAP-508.PDF

The deep ocean would be a great place to hide if there were aliens here though: a vast, unexplored, inaccessible place. That would be my pick for a secret base :alien: :innocent:

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Currently I’m watching the Hearing of some guys (L. Elizondo is one of them) on CNBC.
“Do you have prove?”
“Yes”
“Can you show us said prove?”
“No”
Lol

Of course not.

Damn :smiley:

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Frickin’ space lasers! This is James Bond level stuff, and it’s gold!

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Interesting, but all speculation until something is found. If it exists I don’t think it could be in the Kuiper Belt itself as it would have failed to ‘clear it’s orbital path’ there, the same reason Pluto was demoted… :thinking:

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Parts of the Space UFO / UAP net is freaking out at the moment because “a video of a real eggshaped UAP” was shown.
It’s an egg on a thin line all in green.
It’s everywhere :sob:

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:star_struck:

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WowThatIsSoCoooool!!!

I love this. What a fascinating set of discoveries!

:star_struck:

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The line up in the sky at present

A link for a nightly update of the night sky.

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Can not vouch for the credibility of this chart but looks good.

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So I’m watching my most fav YouTube guy and today’s topic is Mars. Ain’t this planet cool? See:


Link to this picture is here: Mars Orbiter Camera | Image Explorer
You have to zoom in and scroll up. Very interesting.
Of course there are those um…special person’s on the Web who say it’s Aliens. Of course. What else could it be :joy:

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This is awesome. What a cool geometry that geology has :innocent:

The online discussions about this :arrow_up: remind me of the discussions about the “Face on Mars” image taken by the Viking I orbiter in 1976. Here is the original, and below, a more recent (and much higher-resolution) photo taken in 2007:

Source (photos, and also interesting background on the images):

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The zoom function on my phone isn’t the best. Still got to take a pic of the partial eclipse today. Which was cool.

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