And in 4 billion years humanity will have either gone extinct, mastered FTL travel and colonized the universe, or evolved in to some kind of sentient non-corporeal being.
If there are other intelligent species out there, we're going to have to switch from explorer mode using faster then light to conquest role. While there's a saying that there is a big universe and lots of room for lots of racing, I say BS, We will have to establish our willingness to conquer and devour all other forms of life to survive.
But on a serious note, Humanity needs to really push forward on things like faster then light travel and colonization if the species is to survive.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
For the first time, astronomers have observed a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. And the star is dancing to the predicted tune of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
The quote has become an easy target for pedants to point out that a 'parsec' is a unit of distance, not time.
Ironically, it's the parsec pedants who are mistaken -- about a great many things. First and foremost, they're wrong about language: a 'run' is not always a race against time, the word is also a synonym for 'route', as used when parents make the school run or a courier makes delivery runs. Han Solo is a smuggler, not a sprinter, and the Kessel Run is not a race track.
So how did Han manage to make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs? As he says in Solo: "Take a shortcut."
Although the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (without using a wormhole), the movie states "You can't plot a direct course to Kessel." This applies at a small scale, flying through normal space in places like the Maelstrom, but also to a large jump across the galaxy in hyperspace, as there are many dangerous obstacles to avoid, everything from tiny micrometeoroids to huge star clusters. So instead of going directly from A to B, a ship would have to travel from A to Z via points B, C and D etc, meaning that ships could take different paths to Kessel.
Launching between July and Aug 2020 The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time. It is hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover. A series of flight tests will be performed over a 30-Martian-day experimental window that will begin sometime in the spring of 2021. For the very first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet from the ground, hover in the air for about 20 to 30 seconds, and land. That will be a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars! After that, the team will attempt additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. After the helicopter completes its technology demonstration, Perseverance will continue its scientific mission.
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So.... Comet Atlas breaks apart and was supposed to be prime viewing may 15th. Now all of a sudden after Atlas breaks up theres a 1 mile long meteor flying through on the 13th somehow cosmically making up for the loss of atlas?
So.... Comet Atlas breaks apart and was supposed to be prime viewing may 15th. Now all of a sudden after Atlas breaks up theres a 1 mile long meteor flying through on the 13th somehow cosmically making up for the loss of atlas?
Strange times.
Do you have a link to some info on this meteor on the 13th? I couldn't find anything.
The Gateway will be a small spaceship in orbit around the Moon that will provide access to more of the lunar surface than ever before with living quarters for astronauts, a lab for science and research, ports for visiting spacecraft, and more.
