Science thread [merged]

[Judge Roughneck]

Judge only recently a large number well respected media outlets worldwide also published the giant mud crab "crabzilla" story as a headline which turned out to be completely bogus and in fact the guy who created it did it for a bit of fun and never thought that anyone would have taken it seriously.

 * http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/mind-blowing-story-of-russian-cosmonauts-who-saw-angels-in-space

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell#Views_on_UFOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPsBV0TZLy4

Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell, Sc.D., is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronau

 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc&feature=related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper

[tiga]

I agree judge, if the pics were of something seriously legit, the NASA photoshop dudes would have covered it over like it was Kardashian cellulite.

[Penelope]

W0ts the go with this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite

NASA official website gots several pics of it ...

Anyone? 

bottom right looks like a stealth bomber

[Judge Roughneck]

W0ts the go with this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite

NASA official website gots several pics of it ...

Anyone? 

bottom right looks like a stealth bomber

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=70 

bottom right looks like a stealth bomber

its not 

Identification

Mission: STS088 Roll: 724 Frame: 69 Mission ID on the Film or image: STS88
Country or Geographic Name: OCEAN
Features: SUNGLINT, SPACE DEBRIS
Center Point: Latitude: Longitude: (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Stereo: No (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area)
ONC Map ID: L-05 JNC Map ID: 51
Camera

Camera Tilt: High Oblique
Camera Focal Length: 250mm
Camera: HB: Hasselblad
Film: 5069 : Kodak Elite 100S, E6 Reversal, Replaces Lumiere, Warmer in tone vs. Lumiere.
Quality

Film Exposure: Normal
Percentage of Cloud Cover: 90 (76-100)
Nadir

GMT Date: 19981211 (YYYYMMDD) GMT Time: 201824 (HHMMSS)
Nadir Point Latitude: -24.5, Longitude: 13.1 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)

Nadir to Photo Center Direction: Northwest
Sun Azimuth: 223 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point)
Spacecraft Altitude: 214 nautical miles (396 km)
Sun Elevation Angle: -28 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point)
Orbit Number: 118

 Battlestar Gallactica, looking space debris

[dwaino]

Congratulations to the European Space Agency for being the first to land a space craft on a comet http://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-robot-makes-historic-landing-rubber-duck-comet

[Judge Roughneck]

Someone did some good maths

calculate 4 different gravity assists

[tiga]

Congratulations to the European Space Agency for being the first to land a space craft on a comet http://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-robot-makes-historic-landing-rubber-duck-comet

And I thought finding a parking space at the shops on a Saturday morning was tough....

Comets travel pretty quick from memory so I hope we don't hear the words from the ESA "It was there a second ago..." 

[dwaino]

Congratulations to the European Space Agency for being the first to land a space craft on a comet http://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-robot-makes-historic-landing-rubber-duck-comet

And I thought finding a parking space at the shops on a Saturday morning was tough....

Comets travel pretty quick from memory so I hope we don't hear the words from the ESA "It was there a second ago..." 

  good one

[Diocletian]

Forget about all that....apparently this is the most pressing issue to come out of it:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/13/living/matt-taylor-shirt-philae-rosetta-project/

[Yeahright]

I prefer reading about Kim's booty

[dwaino]

Forget about all that....apparently this is the most pressing issue to come out of it:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/13/living/matt-taylor-shirt-philae-rosetta-project/

http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/11/13/dr-matt-taylor-dude-put-probe-comet-cannibal-corpse-fan/

[tiga]

Move over Marty McFly.....

http://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/tony-hawk-does-tricks-on-a-real-life-hoverboard-1609693/

[Diocletian]

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/stephen-hawking-unveils-new-predictive-speech-platform-says-ai-could-spell-the-end-of-the-human-race-20141202-11yzrn.html

Can't come quickly enough....just hope we win the flag first....

[dwaino]

Won't happen as long as Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics are in place.

In other news, Hawking wants to be a Bond villian.

[Judge Roughneck]