Space stuff

[pechelman]

Still in a bit of disbelief how well today went

[mclaincausey]

Congratulations! It's really hard to get my head around the magnitude of that achievement and very humbling.

Unrelated to this stunning accomplishment: to any Audible subscribers, included for free with your subscription: Ray Porter, one of my favorite narrators, did the narration for the book The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by the incredible Leonard Susskind, and it is truly excellent. Almost as good as having the author read it himself (he is a fantastic lecturer).

Lots of mind-bending stuff in there around black holes, string theory, quantum field theory, and the hypothesis that our reality is a hologram coded on a distant 2D surface, presented fairly accessibly without too much math (thank goodness).

[Giles]

@pechelman To tell you the truth, I'm pretty neutral about space exploration stuff, but I teared up at the human magnitude of that achievement. Extraordinary.....

[WhiskeySandwich]

Why would NASA risk ruining their own credibility regarding a mission to return to the MOON, by scheduling it on APRIL FOOLS DAY?! Aren't there already enough skeptics? That's an Elon-level troll.....I approve.

[Jord]

@WhiskeySandwich I clicked on this thread expecting it to be "WTS to make space"... of course the IH forum has a space thread

Yeah it's a little crazy it's on April fools, I love a good ol' conspiracy theory and I'm sure this "return to the moon" will have people saying they didn't actually go back (or go to begin with)

Pretty cool though.

[Giles]

If I was the guy scheduling this stuff, and it made the most sense from a successful mission POV, the very last thing that I would be bothered about would be whether it was 1st April or any of the other 364/5 days of the year......

[pechelman]

Rocket launches and iron heart releases are very similar; IWHWIH.

[goosehd]

Hard to believe that I was only a few months old when the last man walked on the moon. Grew up thinking and reading that we would all have that chance. Probably won’t happen in my lifetime, but today gives me a little hope that younger generations could.

The possibility of the unknown is a great opportunity for all of us.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@Giles oh I agree my previous post was a product of my childish mind and what I find to be hilarious irony

[1WayTrip]

I am on call until midnight so letting my daughter stay up to watch the launch with me. As long as it doesn’t get pushed back late into the launch window.

[Giles]

@WhiskeySandwich

Looks like you may have been right

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g4ygw0r02t

[Denimhead 0]

Good start

[Lynne]

First job of the day was for Mr Moon - how apt

[louisbosco]

space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement

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