scrubbedexpat096

Fascinating, I'm not sure what bit was most amazing to me but it blows my tiny mind the preciseness and calculated risks involved in every tiny step at what was 16000 miles an hour?


When the rocket landed back what looked like perfectly onto the drone ship landing spot my jaw dropped.

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mrken30

The comet is quit visible around sunset in my part of the world.

livinginnyc

Fun fact - the landing burn sequence for SpaceX is managed by a Brit!

Bob

Very nice!
There's way too much light pollution down my way, and it's been really cloudy so I've not bothered to try and catch it unfortunately.

lizzyq

These guys have the best view, start 3 minutes in unless you want the real "where the F@$! is it" experience

Shard

What a fantastic photo.

Shard

3:00 still have me the F@$! experience, 3:20 is cutting to the chase !

lizzyq

Delayed gratification is good for the soul

steveq

For a sense of perspective
https://www.dpreview.com/news/126171...ive-black-hole

livinginnyc

This. I still think its wild that due to the black hole's insanely intense gravity that the 'halo' is actually being able to observe the front and back of the accretion disk at the same time.

steveq

The visualisations of a black hole in the movie Interstellar were developed on supercomputers, by people like Kip Thorne. ISTR that there were something like 15 or 16 research papers published as a direct result.

Shard

Still haven't seen that comet

Pulaski

They got here as soon as they could.

Gravitational waves from a merger of two black holes took 7 billion years to reach earth!

Shard

If they arrived much sooner, no Earth to reach !!

I do sometimes wonder if the cosmologists have delved so deeply into the math and instrumentation, that what they purport to know is mere fantasy. I don't think it is, but it does seem preposterous to be able to identify and measure such a phenomena.

steveq

Except this isn't the first observation, and the observed facts fit existing theories. If you are versed in the physics, this is, yes, its tapping for the very edges of our ability to make measurements, but LIGO now is already much more sensitive than the original LIGO of a couple of years ago. Its still not at the theoretical performance limit