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OT: The Because Science Thread (Now With Aliens!)

Monty Burns theory of disease confirmed

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It is pretty wild how fucked up the IVF industry is. I’m not even sure what’s more common—women being implanted with the wrong embryo that’s unrelated to either parent, like this case, or the male owner of the clinic just non-consensually knocking up every female client with his own sperm.
 

These four astronauts are about to travel farther from Earth than anyone before them​

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Clockwise from top left: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. (Josh Valcarcel / NASA)
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These four astronauts are about to travel farther from Earth than anyone before them

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen could launch on a trip around the moon as early as Feb. 8, traveling farther from Earth than humanity has ever gone before.
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View: https://x.com/argosaki/status/2018809637643128983?s=20

"What sounds like science fiction is unfolding in marine biotech facilities where underwater respiration is becoming biological.

Engineers created membrane systems inspired by fish gills using hydrophobic polymers that separate dissolved oxygen molecules from H2O at 92% efficiency. Test divers breathe normally at depths to 60 meters with zero equipment failure across 2,400 hours of submersion.

The gill unit costs $28,000, mounts on chest harnesses, and operates on ambient water flow. Navy applications include covert operations and submarine escapes. Recreational diving is being transformed. Scuba tanks and decompression sickness are becoming obsolete. Humans are evolving aquatic capabilities through engineering."
 
axlsalinger said:

View: https://x.com/argosaki/status/2018809637643128983?s=20

"What sounds like science fiction is unfolding in marine biotech facilities where underwater respiration is becoming biological.

Engineers created membrane systems inspired by fish gills using hydrophobic polymers that separate dissolved oxygen molecules from H2O at 92% efficiency. Test divers breathe normally at depths to 60 meters with zero equipment failure across 2,400 hours of submersion.

The gill unit costs $28,000, mounts on chest harnesses, and operates on ambient water flow. Navy applications include covert operations and submarine escapes. Recreational diving is being transformed. Scuba tanks and decompression sickness are becoming obsolete. Humans are evolving aquatic capabilities through engineering."
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View: https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2018938203198439567?s=20

"The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt.

To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms.

NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of 70-meter antennas, then reconstructs coherent data from it at 160 bits per second. That’s slower than a 1990s modem. Downloading a single photograph at that rate would take weeks.

The spacecraft itself runs on 8.8 kg of decaying plutonium-238 that generated 470 watts at launch in 1977. Today it produces roughly 200 watts, losing about 4 watts per year. NASA has been shutting down instruments one by one since the 1980s to keep the math working. They turned off the cosmic ray sensor just this year.

And here’s the part nobody’s talking about: there is exactly one antenna on Earth that can send commands to Voyager. Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra. It went offline for major upgrades from May 2025 through early 2026. During that window, if Voyager had a critical fault, the team would have had to wait months to respond.

A 48-year-old spacecraft built on 1970s computing, running on a plutonium battery that’s lost 60% of its output, transmitting at a power level that barely qualifies as existing, from a distance where light itself takes 23 hours to arrive. And a German observatory just casually picked up its carrier signal on a live stream.

The engineering margin NASA built into this mission was designed for 4 years to Saturn. Everything after that is borrowed time the engineers keep extending by doing math with 200 watts."
 
axlsalinger said:

View: https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2018938203198439567?s=20

"The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt.

To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms.

NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of 70-meter antennas, then reconstructs coherent data from it at 160 bits per second. That’s slower than a 1990s modem. Downloading a single photograph at that rate would take weeks.

The spacecraft itself runs on 8.8 kg of decaying plutonium-238 that generated 470 watts at launch in 1977. Today it produces roughly 200 watts, losing about 4 watts per year. NASA has been shutting down instruments one by one since the 1980s to keep the math working. They turned off the cosmic ray sensor just this year.

And here’s the part nobody’s talking about: there is exactly one antenna on Earth that can send commands to Voyager. Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra. It went offline for major upgrades from May 2025 through early 2026. During that window, if Voyager had a critical fault, the team would have had to wait months to respond.

A 48-year-old spacecraft built on 1970s computing, running on a plutonium battery that’s lost 60% of its output, transmitting at a power level that barely qualifies as existing, from a distance where light itself takes 23 hours to arrive. And a German observatory just casually picked up its carrier signal on a live stream.

The engineering margin NASA built into this mission was designed for 4 years to Saturn. Everything after that is borrowed time the engineers keep extending by doing math with 200 watts."
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This shit just blows me away - always has, and I love it. Used to hang out with cats that could math this stuff to death, all day, any day, and I barely grasped a teeny, tiny, little crumb of wtf they were mathing. Sometimes they'd give me the tin cans and string comms version of it, and man! I'd hold on for dear life to one of those cans. ☺️
 
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