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4.6 billion years ago the creation of our solar system was a current event.
Observed by aliens in the outer reaches, now long perished through climatic disaster, the news may well have been recorded on an Internet forum such as this, a similar forum with alien trolls, poseurs, sickos, Deniers, sociopaths and psychotics with diminutive penises - just like this one.
Today our Current Event is a rather remarkable achievement by the Japanese- you know, those smallish people that we dropped atomic bombs on during WW2- an event of pure science, an event of soulful discovery, not the concealed militaristic exercises that our ' explorations ' have become. The Japanese endeavor was not designed for spooks to watch us 24/7, not engineered to present idiot generals with the co-ordinates to kill us remotely. It's an innocent endeavor, a quest after Life and further evolution- not Death and termination of species.
So well done, Japs. You will, no doubt, make your discoveries available to the world for free, as so you should, in the spirit of universal kinship which we, in the West, have lost.
A waste of effort and money ? Probably. Nobody is ever going to discover anything that somebody hasn't already imagined and our earthly needs, in this critical age of crisis, are far, far more important than discovering some element, some trace of a living thing, organic or otherwise, which will give us the proof that we are not alone in this vastness.............as we fucking deserve to be.
Touchdown: Japan's Hayabusa2 makes final landing on asteroid
The spacecraft collected data which scientists hope could provide clues to the origin of the solar system.
A Japanese spacecraft has landed on a distant asteroid and collected underground samples that scientists hope will provide clues to the origin of the solar system billions of years ago.
Japan's space agency said on Thursday that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed inside a crater it had created on the Ryugu asteroid months earlier and collected samples that scientists believe contain valuable data unaffected by space radiation and other environmental factors.
Hayabusa2 is the first spacecraft to successfully collect underground samples from an asteroid. A similar mission is planned by NASA on another asteroid, Bennu.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said the data shows Hayabusa2 touched down and rose safely after collecting the samples.
The news was greeted with cheering and applause in the JAXA mission control room, with officials grinning and shaking hands.
JAXA officials said earlier that the probe appeared to have landed successfully, but confirmation came only after Hayabusa2 lifted back up from the asteroid and resumed communications with the control room.
Research director Takashi Kubta told reporters that the touchdown operation was "more than perfect", adding that project manager Yuichi Tsuda told the team: "We have made history".
Thursday's brief landing is the second time Hayabusa2 has touched down on the desolate asteroid Ryugu, which lies some 300 million kilometres from Earth.
The complex multi-year mission has also involved sending rover and robots down to the surface.
"I hope Hayabusa2 will return to Earth safely after successfully extracting samples from the asteroid, which would be a first," Kotaro Nogami, Japanese deputy government spokesperson said.
'Extremely attractive' materials
The touchdown was intended to collect pristine materials from beneath the surface of the asteroid that could provide insights into what the solar system was like at its birth, some 4.6 billion years ago.
To get at those crucial materials, in April an "impactor" was fired from Hayabusa2 towards Ryugu in a risky process that created a crater on the asteroid's surface and stirred up material that had not previously been exposed to the atmosphere.
The second touchdown required special preparations because any problems could mean the probe would lose the precious materials already gathered during its first landing.
News of the landing was greeted with cheers and applause in the JAXA mission control room
A photo of the crater taken by Hayabusa2's camera after the April blast showed that parts of the asteroid's surface are covered with materials that are "obviously different" from the rest of the surface, mission manager Makoto Yoshikawa told reporters before the latest touchdown.
"It would be safe to say that extremely attractive materials are near the crater," Project Manager Yuichi Tsuda said.
The touchdown is the last major part of Hayabusa2's mission, and when the probe returns to Earth next year, scientists hope to learn more about the history of the solar system and even the origin of life from its samples.
"I'm really looking forward to analysing these materials," Yoshikawa said.
At about the size of a large refrigerator and equipped with solar panels to keep it powered, Hayabusa2 is the successor to JAXA's first asteroid explorer, Hayabusa - Japanese for falcon.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...150615178.html
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
canceled.2021.2 (07-24-2019)
Tsuki wa min'na no tame ni
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
canceled.2021.2 (07-24-2019)
Closer than the Moon: 3 giant asteroids will whizz by Earth on Wednesday
Three massive asteroids are expected to pass by Earth today, with one of the approaching space rocks flying closer to our planet than the Moon, NASA has warned.
Estimated at 360 feet wide, asteroid 2015 HM10 is expected to fly past our planet on Wednesday, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).
The next asteroid, 2019 OD, will be only 222,160 miles from Earth on July 24 – meaning that it will be closer to us than the Moon. A final one, 2019 OE, will trail 2019 OD but is much smaller in size and will be traveling at a much more modest speed. While 2019 OD’s relatively close approach to Earth is something of an anomaly, there’s no cause for alarm.
https://www.rt.com/news/464917-aster...on-nasa-space/
There's ' no cause for alarm, folks. '
RUN! Haw, haw.......................................haw.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
canceled.2021.2 (07-24-2019)
I like Chinese food,better than Japanese.
AM I, I AM's,AM I.
What day is Michaelmas on?
canceled.2021.2 (07-24-2019)
Science? So...science is grounded in "HOPE"? Indeed....its real science that uses terms like HOPE, Safe to Say, hope to learn, obviously, could mean....to reach a conclusion. That scientific method thingy of observing, reproducing in a constant manner...through experimentation is just an antiquated thing of the past.
Delta Aquariids tonight.
https://www.rt.com/news/465261-meteo...lta-aquariids/
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
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