I feel like we take space exploration for granted. This is a panorama of Mars. It's a totally different planet than the one we live on. It's really far away. We sent robots there to take pictures and stuff. I think that's pretty god damn amazing.

That is a great view. I've lived all my life in the SW US so it looks like home to me. And it's possible life on Earth originated there so it isn't all that far away.

I go back and forth. We've done amazing things. But at the same time the technology seems crude and unreliable. We need near miraculous improvements to make interplanetary travel practical. Like emdrive and cold fusion level of breakthroughs.

My 25 year old daughter, who graduated with a degree in Philosophy, is now a junior-level administrator (with her own assistant) for a large non-profit.

One doesn't need to treat college like a trade school in order to secure a good job after graduation.

The Pluto flyby never got enough love from the public. Just a few years ago was the first time in history we ever had decent-quality images of wtf Pluto looks like.

Evidence Trump can read.



https://twitter.com/virginiahughes/s...31597183844352

Naw we could do it with 1960s technology using nuclear pulse propulsion aka throwing nuclear bombs behind the spaceship and have them push the ship along.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proj...ear_propulsion)

!!!

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-ll...-idUKKBN1FO0UL

Lloyd's bans Bitcoin purchases by their credit card users to prevent them from running up debt

That's bizarre. Maybe even incredible. Perhaps even bull****.

Don't follow football too closely, but lol Brady. Satisfying AF. MAGA you prick.

Meh, PA is Trump country and Philly sports fans are pricks in general.

Trump wanted Pats to win, pats lost, **** pats **** trump

Conceded re: Philly sports fans but this is still way way way better than seeing the adopted team of basically the entire alt-right triumphing

Some US banks have already done this AFAIK - boa and wf I think

Yep. Still a big loss for Bitcoin.

Wow

I guess that commercial had some different MLK speech during the football game?

Yeah, it's on youtube. It wasn't MLK's voice though? Pretty lame to do an impression, on top of it being lame to use in a car commercial.

MLK stealing a bit from The Rolling Stones in Heuhue's version.

Looks like the ad was condensed from this portion of The Drum Major Instinct


kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/

I love how this picture seems to be black and white at first glance, but then you notice the colors.

In other space news, the Falcon Heavy rocket has its test flight tomorrow (currently scheduled for 1:30). It's launching Elon Musk's Tesla to a Mars-distance orbit of the sun. Assuming all goes well, it will be:

-The fourth privately developed orbital rocket (behind the two earlier Falcon rockets and a New Zealand start-up)
-The most capable currently operational rocket for all missions other than Trolly's beloved launches of space probes to the outer planets.
-I can't find hard confirmation of this, but I think the payload will be the first private payload ever to leave earth orbit.
-The payload will be fourth fastest-moving wheeled conveyance ever, after the three Mars rovers.

The webcast will be at spacex.com/webcast and will be very worth watching. There will be a huge rocket launch, then boosters getting landed all over the place. And you can see a car in outer space.

awesome

Seems like they could have given some scientiticians a free satellite launch. So dumb to launch a freaking car into solar orbit