I remember as a kid getting super obsessed with underwater shipwrecks, not long after the Titanic was found in 1985. It was such a huge part of my childhood - flipping through books, encyclopedias and magazines and seeing pictures of it. Robert Ballard was like a childhood hero.
This has to be one of the most significant wreck finds of our time. The photos coming from the news article today give me straight up goosebumps. Much like the Titanic, I found the new photos and video haunting to look at but yet can't turn away. The fact it has remained in such pristine condition in the Weddell Sea is just amazing.
A few months ago I listened to a multi-part podcast on that expedition. It's such a cool story. I can't imagine attempting something like that, or similar expeditions in the Arctic.
A few months ago I listened to a multi-part podcast on that expedition. It's such a cool story. I can't imagine attempting something like that, or similar expeditions in the Arctic.
The fact that nobody died after all the crazy #### they went through is unbelievable. I'm surprised their story hasn't received the Hollywood treatment yet, seems like prime material
The fact that nobody died after all the crazy #### they went through is unbelievable. I'm surprised their story hasn't received the Hollywood treatment yet, seems like prime material
It's like the Apollo 13 of the early 20th Century.
There's an excellent documentary about the Endurance expedition made in about 2000. Saw it years back, and I just found it on YouTube:
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I remember as a kid getting super obsessed with underwater shipwrecks, not long after the Titanic was found in 1985. It was such a huge part of my childhood - flipping through books, encyclopedias and magazines and seeing pictures of it. Robert Ballard was like a childhood hero.
This has to be one of the most significant wreck finds of our time. The photos coming from the news article today give me straight up goosebumps. Much like the Titanic, I found the new photos and video haunting to look at but yet can't turn away. The fact it has remained in such pristine condition in the Weddell Sea is just amazing.
What a great piece of news to wake up to.
I didn't actually realize Titanic was only found in '85. It's just something I never thought about
Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space.
This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth.
The light from this space laser traveled a whopping 36 thousand billion billion miles (58 thousand billion billion kilometres) to reach our planet.
An international team of astronomers, led by Marcin Glowacki, observed this light, using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory's MeerKAT telescope. (MeerKAT is shorthand for Karoo Array Telescope, preceded by the Afrikaans word for "more.")
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Megamasers are created when two galaxies crash into each other. It is the first hydroxyl megamaser that MeerKAT has observed, Glowacki said.
Hydroxl, a chemical group consisting of one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom, can be found inside galaxy mergers.
"When galaxies collide, the gas they contain becomes extremely dense and can trigger concentrated beams of light to shoot out," Glowacki said in a statement.
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This kind of ingenuity is whats going to keep humans ahead of the climate change issues we're facing.
This is why I'm not nearly as paranoid as others. Now that our attention is fully on solutions to these problems, those solutions will present themselves in time. With models and projections we're only accounting for what we know presently, but not what technologies we may have discovered and applied to every day life decades from now.
Also the earth is headed toward another ice age at some point, probably in the next several thousand years.
It's nuclear threats that are a more pressing issue in the meantime.
This kind of ingenuity is whats going to keep humans ahead of the climate change issues we're facing.
This is why I'm not nearly as paranoid as others. Now that our attention is fully on solutions to these problems, those solutions will present themselves in time. With models and projections we're only accounting for what we know presently, but not what technologies we may have discovered and applied to every day life decades from now.
Also the earth is headed toward another ice age at some point, probably in the next several thousand years.
It's nuclear threats that are a more pressing issue in the meantime.
The next ice age cycle should have started about long ago, a lot of scientists think the methane from large scale human farming probably averted it, as long as human population continues to grow we may never see another ice age.
Early risers waking up before the crack of dawn will be rewarded with great views of the planets through the end of the month, and the daily spectacle will be even more impressive at the start of next week.
Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn have lined up in the early morning sky and will continue to glow in a row throughout the rest of April. The quartet can be easily seen without a telescope in the eastern sky, and another celestial object will join the alignment early next week.
The crescent moon will appear near the four planets about an hour before sunrise on Monday, April 25, and Tuesday, April 26.
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Rocket Lab launches satellite into orbit and catches their first stage with a helicopter. Interesting idea, as it allows re-usability and reduces launch weight by not needing excess fuel for landing. Nice to see some unique ideas! Congrats to them.
Launch at 37 min, catch at 52. They need a wider field camera for the catch, though, you don't really see if.
Rocket Lab launches satellite into orbit and catches their first stage with a helicopter. Interesting idea, as it allows re-usability and reduces launch weight by not needing excess fuel for landing. Nice to see some unique ideas! Congrats to them.
Launch at 37 min, catch at 52. They need a wider field camera for the catch, though, you don't really see if.
