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General => General Chat => Topic started by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on August 07, 2013, 10:21:15 am
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Astronomers have taken of photo of the smallest exo-planet to date, a gas giant 4 times larger the Jupiter. GJ 504b lies 57 light-years away.
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/031/476/original/gj504b.jpg)
http://www.space.com/22265-small-alien-planet-direct-photo.html
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I am subscribed to this thread. I expect daily updates on all space news.
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[h=2]The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip[/h][/FONT][/COLOR]
Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip.
“It looks like we’re no more than 3 to 4 months away from a complete field reversal,” says solar physicist Todd Hoeksema of Stanford University. “This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system.”The sun’s magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years. It happens at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun’s inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself. The coming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Half of ‘Solar Max’ will be behind us, with half yet to come.Hoeksema is the director of Stanford’s Wilcox Solar Observatory, one of the few observatories in the world that monitor the sun’s polar magnetic fields. The poles are a herald of change. Just as Earth scientists watch our planet’s polar regions for signs of climate change, solar physicists do the same thing for the sun. Magnetograms at Wilcox have been tracking the sun’s polar magnetism since 1976, and they have recorded three grand reversals—with a fourth in the offing.
[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR]http://earthsky.org/science-wire/the-suns-magnetic-field-is-about-to-flip
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The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip
The last time that happened, all the Dinosaurs had died.
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Same thing happens every time you change your avatar.
Another species goes extinct.
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Same thing happens every time you change your avatar.
Another species goes extinct.
It will be cats next.
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How big's Uranus?
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How big's Uranus?
Uranus is so big, it achieved nuclear fusion and now we have two suns.
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(http://i.qkme.me/35rxo4.jpg)
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(http://funny-pictures-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/space.jpg)
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How big's Uranus?
Uranus has a radius of 25,362 km.
The planet's pretty big as well.
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Meteor shower that will last from 50 hours to 100 hours will start on the 10th of August.
I have not bothered to see if that's the 11th for us, or not.
Look at the sky on Sunday night, at least.
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I saw some hipster type instagrammy photo with text on it that said that. I don't know if we will be able to see it here, what part of the sky should be looked at?
spaceape, find out.
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I saw some hipster type instagrammy photo with text on it that said that. I don't know if we will be able to see it here, what part of the sky should be looked at?
spaceape, find out.
It's apparently meant to be seen world wide
As for where, I have no clue :D
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Persiads every year.
http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/meteors/meteors.html
http://earthsky.org/tonight/start-meteor-watching-the-weekend-of-august-9
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This weeks Space news is not about space.
Super awesome billionaire Elon Musk, creator of the Tesla electric car, and big rockets. Has plans to make a high speed Hyperloop, which will transport people from LA to San Francisco (but not back to LA, cause no one wants to go back to LA), in less then 30 minutes at the speed of 966 km/h.
He will reveal more about it tomorrow.
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/015/978/original/091231-spacex-elon-02.jpg)
Elon Musk, standing in front of a huge rocket.
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Holy shit, this sounds amazing.
I'm more looking forward to tomorrow than I would be for an Apple product launch.
(http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA4LzA4Lzg0L0h5cGVybG9vcEluLjFmMDg2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4/9dc66901/d24/Hyperloop-Infographic-Gocompare.jpg)
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I have no idea what most of this means but it sounds awesome and I want one.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/08/perfect-optical-lens/2/
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRfvyouCYAAWIn0.jpg)
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop
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([url]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRfvyouCYAAWIn0.jpg[/url])
[url]http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop[/url]
I saw his Thing
I have seen bigger
I am not impressed.
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Trying to download the pdf, but no luck so far, site must be overloaded.
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It's a low pressure tube thing on pylons.
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/031/715/original/passenger-capsule-hyperloop.jpg)
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/031/712/original/hyperloop-tube-la-sf.jpg)
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Is that solar panels along the top of it?
They need to build this shit right now.
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Is that solar panels along the top of it?
They need to build this shit right now.
Yes, The solar panels on the top would generate more power then is required to run the system.
The distance between LA and San Francisco is around 350 miles, about the distance between Auckland and Palmerston North.
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Elon Musk's executive statement at the start of the pdf report is fuckin' awesome.
Highlights:
When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? Note, I am hedging my statement slightly by saying “one of”. The head of the California high speed rail project called me to complain that it wasn’t the very slowest bullet train nor the very most expensive per mile.
The pods and linear motors are relatively minor expenses compared to the tube itself – several hundred million dollars at most, compared with several billion dollars for the tube. Even several billion is a low number when compared with several tens of billion proposed for the track of the California rail project.
I'll have a read over the rest of the report in the holidays (I have about 15 FSAE/IEEE reports on ECU's and data aquisition systems to read first)
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You do that BH.
I expect a full summary on my desk next Monday.
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You do that BH.
I expect a full summary on my desk next Monday.
In crayon, gotcha.
Will you be requiring illustrations?
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You do that BH.
I expect a full summary on my desk next Monday.
Is your desk made from the bones of your enemies?
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Is your desk made from the bones of your enemies?
an F&P clothes dryer box....so more like the packaging his enemies came in...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t15vP1PyoA&feature=youtu.be
So cool.
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Yes, cool indeed. Vertical landing rocket, it's like Thunderbirds!
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It's a low pressure tube thing on pylons.
([url]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/031/712/original/hyperloop-tube-la-sf.jpg[/url])
Monorail!
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Monorail!
A better comparison would be a Maglev, except it uses air to levitate instead of fucking magnets.
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A better comparison would be a Maglev, except it uses air to levitate instead of fucking magnets.
Typical fucking engineers....coming along and ruining ideas with their rational, and their logic, and their....maths!
http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/?utm_content=buffer4df12&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
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[url]http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/?utm_content=buffer4df12&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer[/url]
I wonder how many rockets has this 'pure' mathematician launched into space to dock with the ISS.
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Kepler is Dead
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg/349px-Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg)
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure.
Skybound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.
He died in 1630, at the age of 58.
The Kepler spacecraft which has his name, has also come to the end of it's life. Launched in 2009, Kepler has detected 3,548 candidate planets to date, 135 of which have been confirmed by follow-up observations. Outlasting it's initially 3.5 year mission.
However, the spacecraft requires 3 of the 4 reaction wheels it launched with in order to orientate the spacecraft to search the heavens. One wheel failed in 2012, but the spare allowed it to continue operating. A second one stopped working this year, restricting the spacecraft's ability to orientate itself. While NASA has managed to get the wheels spinning again, they are causing to much friction to be any use, and have declare the original mission as over.
Kepler orbits the sun rather than Earth and is currently millions of miles from our planet, so sending a repair mission is not possible. NASA is conducting studies to see what else the crippled space craft could possibly be used for.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Telescope-KeplerSpacecraft-20130103-717260main_pia11824-full.jpg/640px-Telescope-KeplerSpacecraft-20130103-717260main_pia11824-full.jpg)
http://www.space.com/22387-nasa-planet-hunting-kepler-spacecraft-problems.html
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Cromwell, and the centre of lake Taupo are closer to space than they are to the ocean.
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This weeks space news. Other countries are going to space.
China's space program is going strong, with it's crewed Shenzhou 10 rocket launched in June this year and many more to come.
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/029/834/original/shenzhou-10-launch.jpg)
Their rocket is also thunderbirds cool.
http://www.space.com/22474-china-space-program-empire.html
Japan are also planning to launch their Epsilon Launch Vehicle at 4:27am GMT today.
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/032/066/i02/epsilon-rocket-launch-pad.jpg)
http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
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Reading that China article.
It just blows my mind that 40ish+ years on, going to the moon is still almost impossible for these rich nations.
If space travel progressed like everything else we would have the moon completely populated with daily trips to Europa.
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Don't you love how the Chinese rocket and platform looks stereo-typically what you would expect it to look like, meanwhile the Japanese one is typically clean, sleak and efficient looking as you would expect.
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Don't you love how the Chinese rocket and platform looks stereo-typically what you would expect it to look like, meanwhile the Japanese one is typically clean, sleak and efficient looking as you would expect.
I thought exactly the same thing, but thought people might call me a rocket-racist if I called it out.
The Chinese just had to slap a few extra rockets on the sides, and a pointy thing on top
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Also the japanese one looks like anime.
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Voyager 1, with its 64kb of memory, leaves the solar system and enters intersteller space.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/
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Voyager 1, with its 64kb of memory, leaves the solar system and enters intersteller space.
[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/[/url]
....again
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....again
But this time for real.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BT_BAEVCQAA0Ek6.jpg)
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Its now official.
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Voyager 1, with its 64kb of memory, leaves the solar system and enters intersteller space.
[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/[/url]
The 36-year-old spacecraft's communications technology is lacking by today's standards. A smartphone has thousands of times more memory than Voyager 1 and the space probe's main transmitter radiates just 22 watts, about the same amount of power as a typical ham radio or a refrigerator light bulb
Below is a photo (in the radio spectrum) of the signal that gets transmitted from Voyager 1 back to Earth. It takes 17 hours to get here.
(http://i.space.com/images/i/000/032/675/i02/blue-speck-voyager.jpg?1379074086)
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Below is a photo (in the radio spectrum) of the single that gets transmitted from Voyager 1 back to Earth.
Is this the single that gets transmitted from Voyager 1?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Yes it is.
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Never Gonna Give You Up was topping charts when Voyager was launched.
Imagine when aliens first discover voyager and watch the video. They will think they have found a race of highly stylized, ginger haired beings with extraordinarily deep voices and strange maneuvering technique.
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Todays Space News
SpaceX's recent attempt at landing it's Falcon rocket vertically on a floating platform in the ocean.
Didn't quite make it, but still impressive.
Raw: SpaceX Releases Video of Crash Landing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZIuFXCswo#ws)
It's actual mission, to delivery cargo to the Space Station, was a success.
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What the hell, I thought this forum died but then I got an email saying spacemonkey replied to a thread im watching.
So hi spacemonkey!
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Hi Bell, good to see you again.
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Has getsome been around the whole time? You guys moved url to get rid of me didnt you? :P
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It's been here since the death of OnFree.
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Has getsome been around the whole time? You guys moved url to get rid of me didnt you? :P
Playtech apparently sued (or threatened to sue) because the twat that owns Playtech owns the trademarks to ON3, and the admins had to shut the forums down overnight, and reopen them months later with a new name.
Details are sketchy because the head admins have never publicly confirmed exactly what went down (nor it would seem are they ever likely too).
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Has getsome been around the whole time? You guys moved url to get rid of me didnt you? :P
Playtech apparently sued (or threatened to sue) because the twat that owns Playtech owns the trademarks to ON3, and the admins had to shut the forums down overnight, and reopen them months later with a new name.
Details are sketchy because the head admins have never publicly confirmed exactly what went down (nor it would seem are they ever likely too).
which is entirely conjecture from Lias not based on any publicly accessible information ;)
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Has getsome been around the whole time? You guys moved url to get rid of me didnt you? :P
Playtech apparently sued (or threatened to sue) because the twat that owns Playtech owns the trademarks to ON3, and the admins had to shut the forums down overnight, and reopen them months later with a new name.
Details are sketchy because the head admins have never publicly confirmed exactly what went down (nor it would seem are they ever likely too).
which is entirely conjecture from Lias not based on any publicly accessible information ;)
Nah there was stuff posted by other people over at GPforums too :-)
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Talking about space..
Do you think space ships have good disaster recovery?
Like, if someone was to go into the space ship, and take the servers out of it, and walk off with them, in the middle of the day
Do you think they would be able to replace the hardware and restore from an off site backup?
It must be a lot harder for spaceships to maintain off site backups than it would be for like, a website or something.
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Talking about space..
Do you think space ships have good disaster recovery?
Like, if someone was to go into the space ship, and take the servers out of it, and walk off with them, in the middle of the day
Do you think they would be able to replace the hardware and restore from an off site backup?
It must be a lot harder for spaceships to maintain off site backups than it would be for like, a website or something.
External USB - stick it in orbit and just dock with it to recover.
Simple
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1.5 billion pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/ (http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/)
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Its all speckly :(
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Its all speckly :(
That's because there are lots of stars.
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Falcon Heavy | Flight Animation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM#ws)
This video made my rocket hard.
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Another SpaceX Launch today (about an hour and a half from now), the Falcon rocket will launch a NASA weather-monitoring satellite (DSCOVR).
Also, when the rocket returns to earth, they will attempt another vertical landing on the floating drone platform.
Can view it live here
http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html (http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html)
or here around 11:50 am http://new.livestream.com/spacex (http://new.livestream.com/spacex)
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/qzknsxju.q5f.jpg)
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SpaceX stream is live now.
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10 minutes
Chillin' the turbo pumps.
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scrubbed
Rocket is fine, some air force radar wasn't working.
Will Launch tomorrow.
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Having another go today around midday.
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It's no go for today.
Too much winds!
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Saw the bright white flash through my windows last night. Didn't know what is was at the time.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11400450 (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11400450)
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Then spark had mobile network issues
Aliens.
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(http://iforce.co.nz/i/3uv4nzme.e2u.png)
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Then spark had mobile network issues
Aliens.
So the aliens were causing some kind of lightning to disrupt our communications?
Some kind of xeno lightning?
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That, or it was the government.
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10 minutes to Falcon launch, no platform landing this time, seas are too stormy.
http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/3783845 (http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/3783845)
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Elon Musk says the coolest things...
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/trqyievl.but.png)
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Another Space X launch to the ISS today. Around 8am our time I think.
SpaceX CRS-6 Launch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csVpa25iqH0#ws)
And it will be another attempt to land the first stage vertically on the floating drone landing platform. (The first landing attempt exploding, and the second cancelled due to weather)
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/yte0oa52.z5z.jpg)
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/jxkd4y3p.kx3.jpg)
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Launch was successful, dragon is in orbit.
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Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588076749562318849 (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588076749562318849)
Looking forward to video of rocket exploding.
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/d3qtrn2i.351.png)
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Tres cool.. progress is progress.
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Apparently the rocket landed vertically.
Then fell over.
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Todays stupid headlines brought to you by the New Zealand Herald.
Rocket Lab unveils world's first battery rocket engine
Auckland-based Rocket Lab has unveiled what it says is the world's first battery-powered rocket engine.
[url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432396[/url] ([url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432396[/url])
Battery-powered rocket engine... which uses Kerosene as fuel.
Forget Musk's Mars: Billionaires Branson, Allen seek Earth orbit
As Elon Musk dreams of missions to Mars, fellow billionaires Paul Allen and Richard Branson focus on breakthrough spaceflight closer to home: cheap cargo trips to Earth orbit.
[url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432473[/url] ([url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432473[/url])
uh, Elon Musk is already doing cheap cargo trips to Earth orbit. Did one today.
Anyway, Mars is much more ambitious. I don't understand the point that headline is trying to make.
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Apparently the rocket landed vertically.
Then fell over.
Too much KSP for them
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Apparently the rocket landed vertically.
Then fell over.
Too much KSP for them
Landing video
CRS-6 First Stage Landing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMSzC1crr0#ws)
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Todays stupid headlines brought to you by the New Zealand Herald.
Rocket Lab unveils world's first battery rocket engine
Auckland-based Rocket Lab has unveiled what it says is the world's first battery-powered rocket engine.
[url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432396[/url] ([url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432396[/url])
Battery-powered rocket engine... which uses Kerosene as fuel.
well technically the turbo pumps for pumping the fuel are battery powered - so its not totally stupid, just not complete. if there are no pumps its just a fuel tank standing vertically, ready to explode
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Todays stupid headlines brought to you by the New Zealand Herald.
Rocket Lab unveils world's first battery rocket engine
Auckland-based Rocket Lab has unveiled what it says is the world's first battery-powered rocket engine.
[url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432396[/url] ([url]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11432396[/url])
Battery-powered rocket engine... which uses Kerosene as fuel.
well technically the turbo pumps for pumping the fuel are battery powered - so its not totally stupid, just not complete. if there are no pumps its just a fuel tank standing vertically, ready to explode
I'm actually really impressed by the rocket itself. More so because it's being designed by a NZ company.
It's just the Herald article which is silly.
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Apparently the rocket landed vertically.
Then fell over.
Too much KSP for them
Landing video
CRS-6 First Stage Landing ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMSzC1crr0#ws[/url])
Yep.
Definately looks like some of my KSP landings ;D ;D
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Space X launch in 10 minutes, launching the first-ever satellite for Turkmenistan.
Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with TürkmenÄlem Satellite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77qyJl3jGQ#ws)
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Russian cargo ship en-route to the ISS, is now spinning out of control.
Russian Space Station Freighter Launches (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMnIIrUTBI#ws)
Video of the International Space Station Progress 59 cargo craft (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r9zq6pMP00#ws)
http://www.space.com/29243-russian-cargo-spacecraft-malfunction-progress59.html?adbid=10152784373601466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150428_44795506&short_code=2vzsj (http://www.space.com/29243-russian-cargo-spacecraft-malfunction-progress59.html?adbid=10152784373601466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150428_44795506&short_code=2vzsj)
In other news, the NASA's MESSENGER space probe, it's mission complete and it's fuel spent, will crash into Mercury as planned tomorrow.
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Watched the launch yesterday... was good..
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Russian Cargo Ship is Doomed, Doomed!
http://www.space.com/29257-russian-progress-59-spacecraft-doomed.html?adbid=10152786456246466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150429_44882836&short_code=2wbbx (http://www.space.com/29257-russian-progress-59-spacecraft-doomed.html?adbid=10152786456246466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150429_44882836&short_code=2wbbx)
It contained food, water and supplies for the ISS for 4 months. However the ISS has plenty of extra supplies so there is no cause for concern.
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Russian space junk...
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Why are you not up there fixing it with a monkey-wrench?
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Why are you not up there fixing it with a monkey-wrench?
I think the monkey Wrench was left inside it last time he was working and it broke loose causing the problem..
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Ahhh, he's been up to his monkey business again ay!
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If the space community would stop monkeying around maybe this wouldn't have happened
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Russia don't use monkeys, they send up dogs.
That's their problem, a dog can't fix anything. Got no thumbs.
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Russia don't use monkeys, they send up dogs.
That's their problem, a dog can't fix anything. Got no thumbs.
But at least in the Impending explosion and burn up in the atmosphere it will go "WOOF"
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Russia don't use monkeys, they send up dogs.
That's their problem, a dog can't fix anything. Got no thumbs.
But at least in the Impending explosion and burn up in the atmosphere it will go "WOOF"
First funny thing you've ever said.
http://www.getsome.co.nz/forums/index.php?topic=3385.125 (http://www.getsome.co.nz/forums/index.php?topic=3385.125)
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First funny thing you've ever said.
[url]http://www.getsome.co.nz/forums/index.php?topic=3385.125[/url] ([url]http://www.getsome.co.nz/forums/index.php?topic=3385.125[/url])
Oh that Ming and his dastardly world domination plots.
Lucky for us they always failed.
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I'm a 6th form high school student
Make a good living at that do you?
What qualifications are needed?
LOL. My first lol of the day.
I lolled again.
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In other news, the NASA's MESSENGER space probe, it's mission complete and it's fuel spent, will crash into Mercury as planned tomorrow.
A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet’s surface.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-completes-messenger-mission-with-expected-impact-on-mercurys-surface (http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-completes-messenger-mission-with-expected-impact-on-mercurys-surface)
(http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/ew1023055902g.jpg)
Mercury
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RIP
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In other news, the NASA's MESSENGER space probe, it's mission complete and it's fuel spent, will crash into Mercury as planned tomorrow.
A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet’s surface.
What about the monkey crewman?
Did his airbag work?
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In other news, the NASA's MESSENGER space probe, it's mission complete and it's fuel spent, will crash into Mercury as planned tomorrow.
A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet’s surface.
What about the monkey crewman?
Did his airbag work?
at that speed he is Mercury now, at one with the planet.
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SpaceX Abort Test
SpaceX Crew Dragon Spacecraft Takes Flight During Pad Abort Test at Cape Canaveral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhW2h08zhY#ws)
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What a shame that the test failed and they were forced to abort.
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Russian Orbital Dump Incoming
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/i1fqb2yc.bbd.jpg)
http://www.space.com/29344-falling-russian-spacecraft-reentry-tonight.html?adbid=10152799475496466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150507_45388106&short_code=2y5vk (http://www.space.com/29344-falling-russian-spacecraft-reentry-tonight.html?adbid=10152799475496466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20150507_45388106&short_code=2y5vk)
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Pretty awesome read about Elon Musk and SpaceX, might have to get a copy of this book.
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/ (http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/)
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That looks like an good article. Musk is like the most awesome rich guy.
Branson's Virgin Galatic has been a bit of a disappointment so far.
Also, iforce is back online.
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Pretty awesome read about Elon Musk and SpaceX, might have to get a copy of this book.
This is the one right? I'd like to get one as well.
http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Elon-Musk-Ashlee-Vance/9780062301239 (http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Elon-Musk-Ashlee-Vance/9780062301239)
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Yep that's the one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6tZtGrShg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6tZtGrShg)
I like how he stutters a lot. He makes him more relatable. Makes me take more of an interest in what he actually taking about.
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Pretty awesome read about Elon Musk and SpaceX, might have to get a copy of this book.
This is the one right? I'd like to get one as well.
[url]http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Elon-Musk-Ashlee-Vance/9780062301239[/url] ([url]http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Elon-Musk-Ashlee-Vance/9780062301239[/url])
Fucker now I have to buy a book after watching that vid pacemonkey linked. $20 for the book from Google Playtore https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ashlee_Vance_Elon_Musk?id=_LFSBgAAQBAJ&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ashlee_Vance_Elon_Musk?id=_LFSBgAAQBAJ&hl=en)
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lol, SpaceX has big balls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TQ6tZtGrShg#t=1215 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TQ6tZtGrShg#t=1215)
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Space Internet!
Spacemonkies regularly use space internet for all sort of things. (mostly space monkey porn)
Now you can too.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has asked the FCC to let it start testing a new Internet service, delivered to customers from space.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/10/technology/musk-spacex-internet/index.html?sr=fbmoney0610internetspace1200story (http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/10/technology/musk-spacex-internet/index.html?sr=fbmoney0610internetspace1200story)
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YouPorn have just launched a crowd-funding campaign to get two porn stars in space and fuck (not sure what else they'd be doing).
Don't want to link sources because Googling "YouPorn Space Sex" is not a good idea when at work.
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Will they be erecting their own rocket?
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Yeah, it's called the Cocket.
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Yeah, it's called the Cocket.
I heard that's what they named the class of ship.
I heard they'll name the first prototype 'Davy'.
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YouPorn have just launched a crowd-funding campaign to get two porn stars in space and fuck (not sure what else they'd be doing).
Don't want to link sources because Googling "YouPorn Space Sex" is not a good idea when at work.
Now I ain't no scientist. But if you were to cum in a girl in space, wouldn't the force the cum flies out be enough to send her to the moon and back?
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Now I ain't no scientist. But if you were to cum in a girl in space, wouldn't the force the cum flies out be enough to send her to the moon and back?
That's why she shies away from human affection.
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https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/ (https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/)
Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy
4.3gb full size image FTW
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Now I ain't no scientist. But if you were to cum in a girl in space, wouldn't the force the cum flies out be enough to send her to the moon and back?
That's why she shies away from human affection.
But somewhere in a private place ,She packs her bags for outer space and now she's waiting for the right
kind of pilot to cum.
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SpaceX went boom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Y3b81Iq6A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Y3b81Iq6A)
http://www.space.com/29789-spacex-rocket-failure-cargo-launch.html (http://www.space.com/29789-spacex-rocket-failure-cargo-launch.html)
Two Hololens' on board would have been incinerated.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2940460/nasas-taking-microsofts-hololens-to-the-space-station.html (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2940460/nasas-taking-microsofts-hololens-to-the-space-station.html)
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Haha.
Rockets are awesome when they explode.
Waited for the swearing to start on the commentary, but just silence.
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It didn't look like a normal rocket 'splosion though.
Usually there's Michael Bay 'splosion and Bruce Willis, but this time it was all puffy and white and then disintegrated. Not sure why?
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It didn't look like a normal rocket 'splosion though.
Usually there's Michael Bay 'splosion and Bruce Willis, but this time it was all puffy and white and then disintegrated. Not sure why?
Maybe because of how high it was. Less oxygen the higher you go, I'm just guessing though.
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Maybe because of how high it was. Less oxygen the higher you go, I'm just guessing though.
plenty of liquid oxygen on board to make a big boom.
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That rocket had no fins, no surprise it went belly up.
Pretty basic construction error imo.
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That rocket had no fins, no surprise it went belly up.
Pretty basic construction error imo.
The fins fold out when it comes in to land.
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That rocket had no fins, no surprise it went belly up.
Pretty basic construction error imo.
Where we're going, we don't need fins!
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http://www.wired.com/2015/07/pluto-will-send-earth-love-letter-tomorrow/ (http://www.wired.com/2015/07/pluto-will-send-earth-love-letter-tomorrow/)
I bet its addressed to SM!
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You can look here to see when it transmitting back (at an amazing 1 kbit/s).
http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html (http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html)
It can't transmit while it's taking picture because it needs to rotate it's dish towards earth. All data and images get stored on 8GB of solid state storage, it'll take 1-2 months to transmit it all back to earth.
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Whew, and I thought MY internet was slow!
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One has to wonder whether they would get higher throughput by putting it onto a large drive and jettisoning said drive back to earth
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One has to wonder whether they would get higher throughput by putting it onto a large drive and jettisoning said drive back to earth
It's going 52,000 km/h, so they would have to jettison the drive at twice that speed back to Earth, where it would arrive 10 years later.
Then the package would need some way to communicate (a big dish) and adjust it's course (engines) on the way back so it doesn't get lost, as well as a separate power source. All that extra stuff would double the weight at launch.
Then it'll need a way to slow down once it gets here.
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All I hear is excuses.
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All I hear is excuses.
Here's a close up photo of Xeno's face.
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/g4sf42yy.2ci.png)
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/from-mountains-to-moons-multiple-discoveries-from-nasa-s-new-horizons-pluto-mission (http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/from-mountains-to-moons-multiple-discoveries-from-nasa-s-new-horizons-pluto-mission)
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Xeno's face=Spacemonkey's arse.
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SpaceX believe they know what made things go boom.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/07/spacex-says-faulty-strut-led-to-falcon-failure/ (http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/07/spacex-says-faulty-strut-led-to-falcon-failure/)
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They didn't know how to strut their stuff.
Following the June anomaly, SpaceX reported that the Dragon cargo vehicle survived the incident and even received telemetry from the craft until it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. If the cargo Dragon had been equipped with the same software as the crewed version, the chutes could have been deployed, and the vehicle and its over 4,000 pounds of cargo would have been recovered. During today’s teleconference, Musk said that all versions of Dragon will be equipped with this software in the future
It's a good sign that the cargo vehicle survived the explosion.
It's a massive advantage over the space shuttle, with the shuttle, when things went boom, there was no escape.
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http://www.space.com/30832-kepler-telescope-alien-megastructure.html (http://www.space.com/30832-kepler-telescope-alien-megastructure.html)
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This happened yesterday. Spacex falcon has a successfully launch deploying 6 satellites into orbit.
10- minutes later the first stage successfully landed on the ground
http://www.spacex.com/ (http://www.spacex.com/)
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/pdaw4xvo.gqm.jpg)
First stage landing
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/tenh12n1.j2b.jpg)
Long exposure of both the launch and first stage landing.
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He must be one unlucky guy.
For the first time in recorded history, a meteorite is reported to have killed a person.
If scientists confirm that a meteorite — and not space junk or other debris — led to the man's death, this would be the first scientifically proven meteorite fatality in modern times, NASA said. "It is so rare, there has never been a scientifically confirmed report of someone being killed by a meteorite impact in recorded history,"
http://www.space.com/31866-did-meteorite-kill-indian-man.html (http://www.space.com/31866-did-meteorite-kill-indian-man.html)
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A challenger appears: http://imgur.com/gallery/Ync4o (http://imgur.com/gallery/Ync4o)
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What with the inbuilt "radar" I think SM's been beaten!
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That was so inspiring... i'm crying now... Spacebat is my hero.
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The Curiosity Rover has become self-aware, and now can shoot lasers all by itself.
Mars now belongs to the robots.
The car-size Curiosity rover recently began autonomously choosing some of the targets for its ChemCam instrument, which blasts Martian rocks or soil with a laser and analyzes the composition of the resulting vapor.
http://www.space.com/33506-mars-rover-curiosity-fires-laser-by-itself.html (http://www.space.com/33506-mars-rover-curiosity-fires-laser-by-itself.html)
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"ChemCam has fired more than 350,000 shots on Mars as of July 2016."
We are now at war with Mars.
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All I hear is excuses.
Here's a close up photo of Xeno's face.
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I must've been drunk when I posted this, because I don't remember it. And I missed my opportunity to retort.
Next time!