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Imagine being the one and only person in space. I consider myself a pretty extreme loner, but even I think that would be terrifying.
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Well the ISS will be destroyed in a few years so idk if this will be true
China has a station. There are others planned.
It's likely it will be true, even if it's not the ISS or a NASA funded station.
Artemis II landed yesterday after returning from orbiting the moon. In a test flight mission that marks the beginning for long term plans for a lunar station, a base of operations for going to mars.
Does anyone have any random fun facts about a very niche subject.
A fucking sentient encyclopedia:
the future is now old man
I have a love/hate relationship with a lack of a comma somewhere around "old" in your message.
I was recently talking about this but with the moon. I'm not sure about a moon base but the next time mankind will land on the moon is 2028. If they settle and get a rotation going for supplies people could probably be living on the moon in 2030.
Enjoy looking up at a deserted moon while it lasts, soon you'll always be looking up at moonmen.
So if orbiting earth doesn't count as "on earth", why does sitting in a plane just couple hundred kilometers away count?
The limit of space is widely defined as 100 km, which no commercial plane even nearly crosses.
Yeah that's called Kármán line, but it's just arbitrary line. ISS is still orbiting within Earth's thermosphere
The Karman Line's lowest theoretical point is still substantially higher up than commercial airplanes and its highest is substantially lower than the ISS. Most nations agree on it as the boundary for the purposes of law and regulation. Commercial airplanes fly about half as high as the line, while spacecraft orbit at four times its altitude or more.
It may be scientifically arbitrary, but it's got a lot going for it as a rough approximation.
What does "ISS" stand for again? I forgot.
International Space Station
Islamic State of Syria
Imperial Starship. Wait, wrong comm.
My favorite fact is that earth's atmosphere extends 95,000 miles / 150,000 km beyond the moon.
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But a plane is not "on earth"?
Extremely pedantically, sure. But under that level of pedantry, the whole metric falls apart anyway because there's surely never or rarely been a point in recorded human history where someone hasn't jumped/fallen/not been physically touching the ground themselves (let alone this having been measurable). What about "touching"; your feet are just repelling the ground via electromagnetism.
It's really obvious what the metric is, and trying to pedant-proof it isn't worth bloating it into a mouthful. We can just recognize what it obviously means, say "oh, neat", and move on with our day.
The last time everybody was touching a solid object connected to the Earth by touching other solid objects is probably around 15,000 years ago, when humans crossed over into the Americas. Before then, it would probably occur regularly that nearly all humans are asleep and the handful that are awake happen to all be touching the ground.
Does it really count as being “on earth” if you’re standing on a floor instead of having your feet directly touch the dirt?
I guess you could count the atmosphere as part of earth, then things over 100km are in little enough of the atmosphere that it's not really 'touching' it the same way. (For example not generating significant lift)
That's probably when the timeline split, and we got stuck in this one.
Seven days after that was the election that gave Bush Jr the presidency over Al Gore, due to a bullshit call by the state Bush's brother was the governor of.
so yeah, we definitely got sorted into the shit timeline.
Can you imagine how extraordinary different our lives would be today if Al Gore was the President on 9/11 so Dubya couldn't use it as an excuse to reboot his Daddy's war? Fuck every single irredeemable fucktard involved in that deliberate choice.
If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he'd have become president.
Can I tell you a funny joke? Regardless of the Nader voters, Gore actually won in Florida and by a margin of a few thousand votes - still close, but an order of magnitude greater than the few hundred by which Dubya quote-won-unquote - but because of batshit ballot designs, unfair winner-takes-all methodology for awarding electoral college votes, endless bad-faith legal fights and a complete refusal/inability to shift the date of the inauguration, this was only agreed upon after it was too late to do anything about it.
In 2000, the people of Florida and the United States as a whole voted for Al Gore for President, but their intent was stolen from them and the power to decide upon the direction and tone of the following twenty years was given to Bush instead.
Oh, sorry, did I say "funny joke"? I meant something else.
that election wasn't decided by votes. it was decided by the supreme court
If the votes had been even a fraction of a percent in either direction, the Supreme Court wouldn't have had a role to play.
every single time I look at the news
I think it was in 2016. The Cubs won the World Series a week before Trump won the election. I blame a Cubs fan with a monkey's paw or time machine.
That we know of...
That one North Korean that fucked off to Mars in the 1990s.
what?
For All Mankind reference.
And what's going to happen to him now!?
That's fucking awesome
At least we all got one last Halloween together :')
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