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[unsungmystery]

Are We Alone? Exploring the Wow! Signal and Its Alien Possibilities

🚀🔭 Ever wondered if we're alone in the universe? 🌌✨

Ever heard of "The Wow! Signal"? It’s one of the coolest mysteries in the search for extraterrestrial life! 👽✨ Imagine a single, mysterious radio burst from space that could be a clue to intelligent aliens – and it’s been baffling scientists ever since!

Dive into our latest blog post for all the juicy details: how this signal was discovered, what makes it so intriguing, and why it’s still making waves in the world of space exploration. 🌟🛸🔭

Don’t just scroll by – embark on this out-of-this-world journey with us! 🚀🔍

🔗 Hit the link to unravel the cosmic enigma of the Wow! Signal! 👇

Read the Full Post Here!

[dodgebolts]

Callahan is alive and messaged Sapnap “fucking call me a good kitten” 😭😭I miss him

[wormsontoast]

yeah ok i think thats it for spaceblogging. sorry

[kosher-bimbo]

Mod Klara!🩰🎠

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Hello!💗 my name is Klara and this is my writing blog! I’ve had this blog for three years now! Crazy!!!! This blog is for the girlies(gnc) and will only feature Lesbian or platonic relationships ^•^.

A little about me :), I love fashion, cute, and vintage things. My fav artists are Ethel Cain, Nicole Dollanganger, Lana Del Rey, Kimya Dawson, Mazzy Star, really the list goes on hehe. I’m a huge theater and history nerd, and I’ve been in numerous shows/musicals.

I’m not really that active :0!!! I’m busy most of the time and my personal writing is on the back burner as a go through life. But I will actually try and upload!

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Pro-ship/com-ship, nsfw/kink blogs, little-spaceblogs (makes me uncomfortable), DDLG, homophobic/white supremacist/racist, TERF, Zionist

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• you can request platonic stuff!!

•I do have a right to not write a specific request please don’t get butthurt

• please send asks in my inbox and not my dms! :)

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•Pokémon !

• JoJo’s Bizarre’s Adventure !

• More to come ! Suggest plz :))

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[natepilot-blog]

Hi all! Im Nate, a space pilot. / Всем привет! Я Нейт, космический пилот. I just graduated from Federation Space Fleet Academy. / Я совсем недавно закончил Академию Космического Флота Федерации. And decided to start my own space blog, where I will talk about myself. / И решил завести свой космоблог, где буду рассказывать о себе. The whole hard truth about the life of a space pilot. / Вся жёсткая правда жизни космического пилота. The world will never be the same. / Мир никогда не будет прежним. Мир никогда не будем прежним.

L02: 6 sept 23:59 m.h

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[nasa]

Astronaut Journal Entry - Launch & Docking

Currently, six humans are living and working on the International Space Station, which orbits 250 miles above our planet at 17,500mph. Below you will find a real journal entry, written in space, by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle.

To read more entires from this series, visit our Space Blogs on Tumblr.

The launch went as planned. Our Soyuz spacecraft did a great job getting the three of us to the International Space Station (ISS).  

A week later, it all seems like a blur. The bus driver played me a video of my family and friends delivering their good luck messages. After exiting the bus at the launch pad, I was fortunate to have the Soyuz chief designer (Roman) and NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations (Bill Gerstenmaier) walk me to the stairs and elevator that would take us to the top of the rocket for boarding. The temperature at the pad was approximately -17 degrees centigrade, and we were wearing the Russian Polar Bear suits over our spacesuits in order to stay warm. Walking in these suits is a little hard, and I was happy to have Roman and Bill helping me. 

We walked into the fog created by the systems around the rocket, climbed the ladder, and waved goodbye. My last words before launch were to Bill, “Boiler Up!”. Bill is a fellow and very well-known Boilermaker. We strapped in, and the launch and docking were nominal. But I will add that the second stage cutoff and separation, and ignition of the third stage was very exciting. We were under approximately 4 Gs when the engine cutoff, which gave us a good jolt forward during the deceleration and then a good jolt back into the seat after the third stage ignited. I looked at Anton and we both began to giggle like school children.

We spent two days in orbit as our phase angle aligned with ISS. Surprisingly, I did not feel sick. I even got 4 hours of sleep the first night and nearly 6 hours the second night. Having not been able to use my diaper while sitting in the fetal position during launch, it was nice to get out of our seats and use the ACY (Russian toilet). Docking was amazing. I compared it to rendezvousing on a tanker in a fighter jet, except the rendezvous with ISS happened over a much larger distance. As a test pilot, it was very interesting to watch the vehicle capture and maintain the centerline of ISS’s MRM-1 docking port as well as capturing and maintaining the required speed profile. 

Just like landing at the ship, I could feel the vehicle’s control system (thrusters) making smaller and faster corrections and recorrections. In the flight test world, this is where the “gains” increase rapidly and where any weaknesses in the control system will be exposed. It was amazing to see the huge solar arrays and tons of equipment go by my window during final approach. What an engineering marvel the ISS is. Smooth sailing right into the docking port we went!  

About an hour later, after equalizing pressures between the station and Soyuz, we opened the hatch and greeted our friends already onboard. My first view of the inside of the space station looked pretty close to the simulators we have been training in for the last several years. My first words were, “Hey, what are you guys doing at Building 9?”. Then we tackled each other with celebratory hugs!

Find more ‘Captain’s Log’ entries HERE.

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[temporalcomet]

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[crypticphysicist]

I wouldn’t reccomend the last nature one, the space one, because it’s not super plausible in the near future of our solar system due to the predictability of physics and our ability to map our solar system pretty well. We aren’t aware of anything nearby, other than the surrounding planets, that are big enough to move Earth to any real degree, and certainly not anything that would be thrown out of its own orbit. We’re expecting (or we were a couple years ago) a relatively minor asteroid impact in 2027, so something like that couldn’t catch us off guard even if it was plausible. There’s even speculation on the existence of a super-earth/gas dwarf (a planet between Earth’s size and Uranus’s) in the outer reaches of the solar system just because of some orbit shape irregularities in comets we track over time. The movement of large-scale bodies that function with the parameters we already understand are very, very predictable, which is, while great for physicists and astronomers, not fantastic for creative writing.

reasons for the apocalypse that aren't super over used??? idk if there are any but ??? (thank u:))

Hi :)

I already answered a similar question here, but I want to expand my answer a little bit.

There are different categories of apocalypse that can happen (or cannot really happen but you could write them):

Causes for the apocalypse

Natural causes

major impact of asteroids, meteorites, etc. on earth (look at the poor dinosaurs)

a (not man-made) natural disaster that triggers other disasters

a near impact that knocks our planet out of orbit and therefore changes our distance to the moon and the sun etc.

Man-made disasters

overpopulation which can lead to world hunger and/or disease

climate change - a pretty likely cause that can (and probably will and already is) destroy entire habitats and therefore causing mass immigration and a change in the world’s ecosystem

the oppression of mankind by technology like AI’s (see Person of Interest in a way and I, Robot)

the oppression of lower and middle classes with the oppressor being the rich and/or corporations (which could lead to a civil war)

World War 3 - probably connected to the possibility of a nuclear war

an epidemic that can either attack everyone or only specific groups of people, maybe even with a cure that has disastrous side effects

the sudden collapse of important technology (I think it would be interesting to see how the world would cope if from one second to another the internet would somehow stop working or electricity wouldn’t be as reliable anymore as it is now)

a small organization (maybe a group of hackers) cracks the theory of everything making it somehow possible for a few people to overthrow our whole society by oppression all governments with their knowledge (pretty far fetched)

Supernatural Causes

the common zombie apocalypse but maybe with a twist, a different kind of monster or even an old forgotten deity coming back to take their rulership back

the second Flood with no rainbow happy ending in sight

disease that has a supernatural cause

superheros turned supervillians after having to save the ungrateful world one too many times

A lot of these are already pretty common in fiction, but I always think that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The best thing is to take a popular trope and make it your own. Put your own twist on it.

If you know more causes of an apocalypse let us all know in the comments!

- Jana

[spacecasted]

WOW another successful spacecast and yknow what i think this is one of the BEST ONES so far!!! as always check back later if you missed it when i’ve uploaded the full episode to my spaceblog @the MIDNIGHT GOSPEL !!! and tune in next time! 

[thefallencomet]

Sorry if you thought this was a spaceblog because above all else this is a me blog so we’re going to me you are free to unfollow at any time those of you who followed me during my DART-posting

[dodgebolts]

here's a link to the space recording for anyone who wants it :)

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[thisdaynews]

BREAKING:FG Lists NIN Enrolment Centres Nationwide.

New Post has been published on https://thebiafrastar.com/breakingfg-lists-nin-enrolment-centres-nationwide/

BREAKING:FG Lists NIN Enrolment Centres Nationwide.

The Federal Government has approved 173 centres and 30 state government institutions for the National Identity Number enrolment across Nigeria. This was contained in a public notice on the website of the National Identity Management Commission titled, ‘ Approved Data Capturing Agents ( Digital Identity Ecosystem)’ on Wednesday. The Nigerian Communications Commission had recently asked telecommunication service subscribers to block SIM cards not registered with NIN after two weeks. However , the House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to extend the deadline for the provision of NIN by telcos to 10 weeks.

The House, at the plenary on Wednesday , described the two weeks given to SIM card users by the Nigerian Communications Commission to provide their NIN to service providers as grossly inadequate . The notice read , “ The Honorable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy , Dr . Isa Ali Ibrahim ( Pantami ) , has approved the licensing of 173 Agents and 30 State Governments/Public Sector Institutions to conduct enrolment of all persons including legal residents into the National Identity Database on behalf of the National Identity Management Commission . “ Pursuant to the above , find the list of all the successful firms who satisfied all the evaluation criteria as stated in the Advert for the Expression of Interest ( EOI) of each of the respective categories in full . The Commission congratulates all those who have been cleared to conduct enrollment of all persons on behalf of NIMC for data capture services .

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[nasa]

Astronaut Journal Entry - The Last Week

Currently, six humans are living and working on the International Space Station, which orbits 250 miles above our planet at 17,500mph. Below you will find a real journal entry, written in space, by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle.

To read more entires from this series, visit our Space Blogs on Tumblr.

I can’t believe that Expedition 55 is already over. Today is Sunday, and we will depart the International Space Station (ISS) next Sunday morning (June 3). 

168 days in space. 

There have been many challenging moments, but even more positive highlights of our time on ISS. The new crew from the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft (Oleg Artymyev, Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold) joined Norishige Kanai (Nemo), Anton Shkaplerov and I last March. Since then, we have completed two spacewalks, captured and released the SpaceX Dragon-14 cargo craft, captured the Cygnus OA-9 cargo craft and completed a myriad of maintenance and science activities. 

The team on the ground controlling, monitoring, supporting and planning has been amazing. It is always great to work with them, and especially during the moments where the equipment, tools, procedures or crew need help. It is incredible to see how much a good team can accomplish when methodically placing one foot in front of the other. 

I have been lucky in that the first crew (Mark Vande Hei, Joe Acaba and Alexander Misurkin (Sasha)) and the second crew (Drew, Ricky and Oleg) were all amazing to work with. I do believe the planets aligned for my mission onboard ISS. 

Drew and Ricky have been friends forever, and listening to them nip at each other provided a ton of great humor for the ground and for us. Their one-liners to each other reminded me of several scenes from the movie Space Cowboys. 

This a great example that happened as I was writing this log entry:    

Ricky:  Hey Maker, is this your smoothie?   

Maker:  No.  

Ricky:  It must be Drew’s.

 Drew:  Hey Ricky, don’t drink my smoothie.

Ricky:  What smoothie? This one has my name on it (as he writes his name on it).

 Drew:  Okay, Grandpa Underpants, hands off my smoothie.

Ricky:  Okay, Feustelnaut – we have rules around here, so this is my smoothie now!

All:  Much laughing. (To quote my kids: “LOL!”)

One the hardest things to do in space is to maintain positive control of individual items such as tools, spare parts, fasteners, etc. We try very hard not to lose things, but even with all of the attention and positive control, items can still float away and disappear. 

We generally hold items in a crew transfer bag (CTB). Inside the CTB are many items for the system that it supports. When the CTB is opened, the items are free floating inside the bag and tend to escape. It is very difficult to maintain control of the items – especially if they are small, do not have Velcro, or when the daily schedule is so tight that we are rushing to stay on time. We always try to close the CTB’s and Ziploc bags after removing or replacing each item to maintain positive control, but this takes much more time to do for individual items, and if the timeline is tight, we absorb more risk by rushing. 

The same applies for tools, which we usually keep in a Ziploc bag while working on individual systems and tasks. Last month, I was installing a new low temperature cooling loop pump that had failed a month or two earlier. I gathered the needed tools into my modified (with Velcro) Ziploc bag as I always do and floated over to the work area. When I got there, one of the tools that I had gathered was missing. I looked for 30 minutes, and could not find it. Lost items are very hard to find because the items that escape are usually barely moving and blend in with the environment very quickly. A lost item could be right in front of us and we would never see it. 

Our crew, after learning these lessons, decided that when anyone loses something, we would tell the other crew members what we had lost with a general location. This has had a huge impact on finding items. If a different crew member can help within the first minutes of losing an item, the new crew member has an excellent chance of finding the item. We have proven this technique several times during the expedition – and Nemo was the very best at quickly finding lost items. But, in my case, we still could not find the missing tool. Our amazing ground team understood and vectored me to a replacement tool and I finished the job. I spent the next 3 weeks watching, looking and never forgetting about the lost tool. Then, one day last week, Oleg came to the lab and handed us a tool he had found in his Soyuz spacecraft, way on the aft side of the ISS. Amazing. We finally found the tool and I was happy again. This was a lucky ending. ISS has many corners, crevices and hard-to-see areas where missing items could hide and never be found.

We captured a Cygnus cargo craft last Thursday. I was very impressed with the entire team. Our specialists and training professionals in Mission Control did a great job preparing the necessary procedures and making sure we were proficient and ready to conduct operations. The robotic arm is a wonderful system that we could not operate ISS without. Being in space, however, it has some very unique handling qualities. If you think about a spring-mass-damper system just as you did during physics or control theory class, and then remove the damper, you will see a system that is very subject to slow rate oscillations. 

In test pilot terms, damping ratio is very low and the latency is well over a half of a second. Also in test pilot terms – this is a pilot-induced oscillations (PIO) generator. These characteristics require crew to “fly” the robotic arm using open-loop techniques, which requires a huge amount of patience. Test pilots are sometimes not very patient, but understanding the system and practicing with the incredible simulators that our ground team built and maintain help keep our proficiency as high as possible. The capture went flawlessly, and I was very impressed with the professionalism across the board – crew, flight controllers and training professionals – what a great job!

Drew, Ricky and I got to play guitar a few times while on ISS. This was fun! Drew connected pickups to the acoustic guitars and then connected the pickups to our tablets for amplification. I’ve never heard an acoustic guitar sound like an electric guitar amped up for heavy metal before. We had a great jam on the song “Gloria”, and a couple others. Rock on!

Last night we had our last movie night. The entire crew gathered in Node 2 and watched Avengers Infinity Wars on the big screen. We enjoy each other’s company, as we did during Expedition 54, and this was a welcome break from the daily grind of trying to complete the required stowage, maintenance and science activities while preparing for departure.

Our last full weekend here on ISS. I gave myself a haircut. We usually clean our spaces each weekend to make sure we can maintain a decent level of organization, efficiency and morale. This weekend is no different, and it is time for me to vacuum out all of our filters and vents. You’d be amazed at what we find!

The top 5 things I will miss when I am no longer in space:

The incredible team that supports ISS operations from our control centers

The camaraderie onboard ISS

The breathtaking view of the Earth, Moon, Sun and Stars

Floating/flying from location to location with very little effort

Operations in the extreme environment of space

Find more ‘Captain’s Log’ entries HERE.

Follow NASA astronaut Scott Tingle on Instagram and Twitter.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.  

[thetechyguide]

All you need to Know About Earth:–SPACE, whenever we imagine space, we have stars, asteroids, planets in our minds. But can we understand the space? No, because till now we’ve only explored around 5% of space. And of course, there are so many secrets. There are so many people who want to know about space but they are not able to get free sources from where anyone can get knowledge easily about tech and space. So, this is the reason we publish our article about technology and space just for helping purpose for our readers and for us also.