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    "I like to get it out at night and extend it to its max-"

    "Cuff him, Constable, I've heard enough"

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      It's all about the girth.

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        "Ooooooooo - I remember the windows rattling at the time...": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53993937

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          https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1305525282674216962

          Apparently, the phosphine levels detected in the Venusian atmosphere are more consistent with production by microbial life, rather than natural processes, though that doesn't exclude other processes, similarly to the Martian meteorite in the Nineties.

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            "Phosphane" <pedant - IUPAC name>

            (no wonder I'd no idea what it was supposed to be)


            Also a by-product / pollutant from industrialusation


            An ancient technologically advanced society now extinct leaving evidence of its existence? *


            * no. It isn't

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              Guy Profumo, wished young ShortyMedlocke a happy free-travelcard day yet?

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                Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                Guy Profumo, wished young ShortyMedlocke a happy free-travelcard day yet?
                Given he didn't wish me a free prescriptions day, what do you think?

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                  This is a big fucking deal, by the way. It's not a smoking gun, but it's a big step towards finding extraterrestrial life. The scientists involved must be absolutely blown away.

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                    I'm still pretty skeptical it's life, though hopefully it will generate lots of missions to Venus to further test the hypothesis. I mean, we don't even no what the biological process is that creates it, and we've already detected it on other worlds, in lower quantities. I know they claim to have eliminated known abiological mechanisms, but just a priori it seems far more likely that it's an unknown chemical process or some countervailing factor preventing it from breaking down (Venus is pretty weird and hasn't been explored much), than it is biology.
                    Last edited by Ginger Yellow; 15-09-2020, 11:36.

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                      It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

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                        Arthur C Clarke (I think) long speculated about the possibility of life existing in a "habitable zone" layer inside the gas giants. The idea of entirely airborne species is pretty mind-blowing for us land-dwellers but in context it's no more preposterous than, say, fish.

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                          Robert Zubrin and Elon Musk "We must go to mars to try and discover life on another planet"

                          Some guys in hawaii, "We can see it from here!!!"

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                            Mars was extremely bright when rising in the night sky about half an hour ago - unfortunately has become rather overcast here now, but you can't miss it if the horizon's clear where you live.

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                              https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1318998199818964993

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                                a) Cheese. American cheese.
                                b) Full on Space Force. Boots on the Moon.
                                c) That's no moon.

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                                  d)They found a WW2 Lancaster Bomber
                                  e)The Soup Dragon attacked the satellite.
                                  f)A fuck off great big monolith

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                                    The Agencia Espacial del Paraguay had a Space Week a few weeks ago.
                                    Even though this is 8 hours, I think it's pretty thorough in case you're wondering how satellites are used for natural disasters or agriculutre.
                                    ​​​​​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzcrQV98o

                                    Here were some of the links from it:
                                    ​​​​​​NASA's satellite data with layers
                                    https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/


                                    International Space University
                                    https://www.isunet.edu/


                                    Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET)
                                    http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/arset

                                    https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/

                                    (Looking at Wildfires, algae blooms, deforestation)

                                    SERVIR - Nasa
                                    provides state-of-the-art, satellite-based Earth monitoring data to help environmental decision making

                                    https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/servir/index.html


                                    https://www.servirglobal.net/about-Servir

                                    https://www.servirglobal.net/ServiceCatalogue/

                                    SERVIR Amazonia (satellite data for ecosystem management in the Amazon)
                                    https://servir.ciat.cgiar.org/


                                    Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
                                    http://ceos.org

                                    Live realtime access to 3 satellites from ceos
                                    https://www.ceo-cove.org

                                    World Group of Satellite-launching countries
                                    https://www.earthobservations.org

                                    NASA Satellite Catalogue of Disasters
                                    https://disasters.nasa.gov

                                    It the top right it says "View Products on the NASA Disasters Mapping Portal" and it has unbelievably cool junk like this 3D rendering of a cloud structure of Hurricane Laura...
                                    https://nasa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/we...201d0635abf9e1


                                    NASA's Maps of Disasters
                                    https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/


                                    NASA's Earth Science Applied Sciences
                                    https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/wha...acity-building

                                    https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/join-mission/training

                                    NASA's Solar System Exploration
                                    https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/


                                    NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
                                    https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
                                    https://www.youtube.com/c/NASAScient...lizationStudio


                                    www.navteca.com
                                    company dealing with various satellite-based technologies

                                    European Space Agency Copernicus services
                                    https://www.copernicus.eu/en


                                    AGRICULTURE

                                    Global Agricultural Monitoring
                                    http://earthobservations.org/geoglam.php


                                    Global Agriculture Monitoring System
                                    https://glam.nasaharvest.org/


                                    Agricultural Monitoring of the Americas
                                    https://www.agamericas.org/


                                    Geoglam Crop Monitoring
                                    https://cropmonitor.org/


                                    AmeriGeo The AmeriGEOSS community Platform is a regional resource to promote collaboration and coordination among the GEO members in the Americas.
                                    https://www.amerigeoss.org/


                                    World Resources Institute - Sustainable Food Future
                                    https://research.wri.org/wrr-food

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                                      Sorry - 6 hours. Somehow I put "8 hours" instead of "6 hours."

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                                        Originally posted by jason voorhees View Post
                                        The Agencia Espacial del Paraguay had a Space Week a few weeks ago.
                                        Even though this is 8 hours, I think it's pretty thorough in case you're wondering how satellites are used for natural disasters...
                                        GoldenEye will give you a shorter overview of this part.

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                                          On a our little trip one night was spent in the middle of the outback in the Pilbarra and we were given a tour of the night sky. Three shooting stars and one satellite later we agreed it had been quite spectacular.

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                                            NASA announces that millions of "micro-pockets" of water have been found in the moon, that could be serviceable for a lunar mission.

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                                              ITV news is running this story as "water was known to be on the dark side of the moon but has now been discovered on the sunlit side". I'm seriously not making that up.
                                              Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 26-10-2020, 18:59.

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                                                The 2020 'Great conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn falls on the winter solstice, a neat coincidence. Both planets are already visible to the naked eye in the night sky low in the south west after sunset, and by December 21st should be (to the eye) right next to each other. Through a telescope I expect it'll be quite an amazing sight.

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                                                  MrsT bought me a telescope for my birthday in the summer.

                                                  I’ve had good sightings of Mars and Venus lately, just waiting for Orion to come into better view so I can spend a bit of time on that.

                                                  Ta for the heads up on the conjunction Rogin, look forward to seeing it.

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                                                    https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334555383877279746?s=20

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