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@obi_jon | 10 January 19 | |
13 new FRB(fast radio bursts) from deep space have been detected by Canada's new CHIME(Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) radio telescope in British Colombia, one of which is an incredibly rare and mysterious repeating FRB, only the second ever to be discovered. http://www.space.com/42943-fast-radio-burst-repeater-new-discovery.html |
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@sisfreak2017 | 16 January 19 | |
@shadow27 | 16 January 19 | |
Omg.. That is huge. We could grow giant fruit/vegetables in space, surely?
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@shadow27 | 16 January 19 | |
From 2008: Giant space vegetables could feed the world. Swollen to ten times their normal size and weighing more than an average man, these giant pumpkins would not look out of place in a science fiction film. And its no wonder that they look out of this world, because the seeds from which these monster vegetables were grown spent two weeks orbiting the earth. On their return they were cultivated in giant Chinese hothouses producing the oversized specimens pictured here, along with a host of other fruit and vegetables. Scientist hope the pumpkins, as well as two-foot long (06.m) cucumbers, 14lb (6.3kg) aubergines, and chilli plants which resemble small trees, could provide an answer to the worlds food crisis. It is thought the near zero gravity conditions in space result in super-sized fruit and vegetables with a higher vitamin content. |
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@shadow27 | 16 January 19 | |
Crucially, the plants are said to produce harvests which are ten to 20 per cent higher than normal - offering a rich source of food for the countrys 1.3 billion people. Struggling for space in giant hothouses at the Guandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences are 21lb (9.5kg) tomatoes and enormous watermelons. Researchers fired off a batch of 2,000 seeds into space in 2006 on the Shijian 8 satellite. After germination the best specimens were selected for further breeding. Researcher Lo Zhigang said: ''Conventional agricultural development has taken us as far as we can go and demand for food from a growing population is endless.'' Bullsh*t or not |
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@bambi60 | 16 January 19 | |
@trunking | 16 January 19 | |
@ sisfreak2017 - 16.01.19 - 02:22am China becomes 1st nation to grow biological life on the Moon thanks to lunar probe Change-4 , mission control in china says the cannabis should be ready for their next manned mission Bong2 We're supposed to keep our contact with outside worlds as sterile as possible in order for us to study the surface and detect any possible microbial life. Now happenings like this is rather careless. Or are we approaching a place of no return: Either study the neighbouring worlds, or Colonise them (places like Mars) before we screw up the Earth? Decisions, decisions.. Or wait..The Moon. There's no atmosphere so they're growing the cannabis shoots inside a pressurised enclosed space. So the Moon is okay, Mars not! |
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@crail | 16 January 19 | |
These cotton shoots are brown bread now, after the lunar night
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@cleancut | 16 January 19 | |
There's a lunar eclipse on the the night of the 21st/22nd of January.
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@sisfreak2017 | 19 January 19 | |
Apophis asteroid could strike Earth in 2068, warn Russian scientists The ominously-named Apophis asteroid could have hundreds of opportunities to hit the Earth over the course of the next century, Russian scientists have warned. Named after the Ancient Egyptian god of evil, darkness and destruction, Apophis 99942 is expected to come within 37,600km (23,363 miles) of the Earth, just a tenth of the distance between our planet and the moon, in 2029. Researchers from the Department of Celestial Mechanics at St. Petersburg State University have warned that the 370-meter-wide near-Earth orbit space rock could smash into the planet at a speed of 7.43km per second sometime in 2068. However, to be on track for such a strike, it would somehow have to thread the cosmic needle of passing through a two-meter wide area of space during its 2029 close-Earth flyby. The [asteroid's] approach causes a significant scattering of possible trajectories, among them trajectories indicating convergence in 2051, the report says. Further orbital resonance reentries contain a great number (about one hundred) possible collisions between Apophis and the Earth, the most dangerous of them in 2068. |
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