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    Kypickle
    December 29, 2023, 9:26 am to Public
    level 40 i am
    hooray
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    Kypickle
    December 16, 2023, 10:42 am to Public
    this is honestly one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while

    so there’s a company called AstroForge that is planning to launch a spacecraft called Brokkr-1 to a near-earth asteroid

    they want to go to the asteroid to mine it, to see if mining asteroids for valuables is possible (and profitable)

    the thing is, they aren’t telling the public which asteroid they’re going to
    and by doing that they’ve annoyed a lot of space nerds with too much free time (including me)

    so we’re gonna find their asteroid
    we already know a lot about it
    -the company has said it’s less than 100 meters wide, and is classified as a near-earth object (NEO)
    -it’s an M-Type (metallic) asteroid
    -they want to launch their mission in April 2024
    -Brokkr-1 will take 11 months to get there

    using this launch date and time itll take to get there, we can eliminate a large majority of the other NEOs because they’ll be behind the sun or other annoying places that make them hard to get to in april 2024
    so, we’re looking for a small m-type asteroid that will be in a good location to launch to in april 2024 with an 11-month travel time

    that leaves just 33 asteroids the company could be trying to go to, and we’re gonna individually research each of them to figure out the most likely target

    we are gonna reveal company secrets and it’s so funny to see dozens of space nerds all working together like this
    Kypickle said 2023-12-16 10:44:30
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    here are the 33 potential asteroids the company could be going to if you’re interested

    (450237) 2002 XY38
    (506590) 2005 XB1
    2010 AE30
    2010 CO44
    2010 CD55
    2010 EX11
    2010 FT
    2010 FE7
    2010 FR9
    2010 FA81
    2010 GZ5
    2010 GL23
    2010 HX107
    2010 JW39
    2010 KP10
    2010 MY1
    2010 QG2
    2010 UC7
    2010 VK139
    2010 WB
    2011 AV55
    2014 FD
    2014 VG2
    2015 FN120
    2015 VF1
    2015 XE
    2016 AD166
    2016 BJ15
    2016 JW28
    2016 LD9
    2016 RW
    2016 TX17
    2016 XA18
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    Kypickle
    November 19, 2023, 7:57 pm to Public
    The Inner Solar System - To Scale


    This is an image I made showing every major object in the Inner Solar System to scale.
    The Solar System is divided into two categories: Inner and Outer. The Inner Solar System includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt, the largest member of which is the dwarf planet Ceres (the smallest object in this image)

    All of the images you see are in true color, and what these worlds would actually look like if you were to visit them.

    They're also accurately sized

    Fun fact about the Inner Solar System: Earth is the biggest member by far. You could combine Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, Ceres, and the entire asteroid belt and you wouldn't get a planet as big as Earth. Most people don't consider Earth to be that big in comparison to everything else in space, but it actually is pretty big.
    Kypickle said 2023-11-19 20:07:43
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    to add onto this:

    You could combine Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt, and every dwarf planet in the solar system (Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and literally dozens of other dwarf planet candidates) and you still wouldnt get a planet as big as Earth

    The only way you would actually get something bigger than Earth is if you included all the moons of Jupiter

    And of all this material, the vast majority of it would be Venus and Mars. Venus alone is 80% the mass of Earth, and Mars is another 10%. That means that nearly every other object in the solar system that isnt the Sun or a gas giant accounts for less than 10% of the mass of Earth.
    Earth and Venus are gigantic
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    November 13, 2023, 7:40 pm to Public

    This is a picture I made of the 51 Pegasi system, which was the first star similar to the Sun found to host an exoplanet (a planet outside the solar system). It's a real star system, and the planet actually exists.
    51 Pegasi b (which has been officially named Dimidium) is about half the size of Jupiter, making it a gas giant. But it orbits its star, Helvetios, every 4 days.
    Dimidium's year is 4 days long
    For comparison, Mercury's year is 86 days long.
    Because of this, Dimidium is extremely close to Helvetios, making diagrams like this possible. This is to scale, and is what the 51 Pegasi system would actually look like if you were to visit it.

    (Keep in mind that the picture of the star and planet are not real, there is no telescope in the world powerful enough to get that much detail. It's just my interpretation of what Helvetios and Dimidium might look like)
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    Kypickle
    November 5, 2023, 8:58 pm to Public
    DISCLAIMER: I am a space fact guy not a politics guy. This is a space fact that relates to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which I am absolutely NOT getting involved in the politics of, this is just a fact I find interesting

    The first ever combat to take place in space just happened today
    Israel has reportedly (altitude not confirmed yet) shot down a Yemeni missile that was above the Karman Line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. This marks the first time in all of human history a war has been fought in space.

    We are truly in the space age now
    Sul4ur said 2023-11-06 07:04:15
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    Holy sh*t WW3 is starting... I mean Russian is attacking Urikane and Iran, And with this...
    GalaxyCat24 said 2023-11-05 21:26:45
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    Ok, wow.
    Just wow
    LegendarySi said 2023-11-05 21:01:57
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    That's actually crazy
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    Kypickle
    November 4, 2023, 8:08 pm to Public
    damn havent posted in a while
    anyway


    DINKINESH HAS A MOON!!!!!



    just a few days ago, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by the first of it's 12 asteroid targets, a small, (less than a mile wide) asteroid named Dinkinesh.
    But instead of just one asteroid, there were two. This was totally unexpected, but turns out Dinkinesh has another, smaller asteroid orbiting around it like a moon. This is an asteroid binary, and it's estimated that about 15% of the asteroids in our solar system are binaries like this.

    Dinkinesh is just the first of Lucy's targets, and it'll arrive at its next one, an asteroid named Donaldjohanssen, in 2025.

    As you can see in the picture, Dinkinesh is a rubble pile asteroid, which is an asteroid that's more like a loose pile of pebbles than a coherent rock, which is seen in the many boulders on its surface. Spacecraft have actually visited several of these "rubble piles" before, which are seen in this image. These asteroids are Bennu, Ryugu, Itokawa, Dimorphos, and Didymos.
    shadowteachesgaming101 said 2023-11-05 07:29:19
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    dinkesh is gud boi
    Drzzter said 2023-11-04 20:14:34
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    BIG NEWS FOR DINKINESH FANS
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    Kypickle
    October 16, 2023, 8:16 am to Public
    QUARTZ CLOUDS ON DITSO???
    Ditsö̀ what a great exoplanet
    thags it’s official name too so it’s not just WASP-17b
    but yeah we might have found clouds made of quartz on it because it’s a hot jupiter that orbits way too close to its star and so is way too hot for its own good
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    Kypickle
    October 15, 2023, 6:02 pm to Public
    a collision of planets in another solar system might’ve been detected

    so there’s a star called ASSASN-21qj which suddenly brightened and then dimmed over a period of a few years, and we have no idea why. But recently there was a new theory that explains everything, and that’s two planets both about 25x the mass of earth hitting each other and being destroyed
    The brightening was caused by the explosion as the planets hit each other, and the dimming was caused by debris from the impact covering the whole system. If this is true, this is the first time we’ve ever spotted a collision of planets actually happen.
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    Kypickle
    October 10, 2023, 2:55 pm to Public
    Fun fact: sharks are older than the north star
    I mean that literally

    Polaris, aka the north star, is about 70 million years old. Sharks evolved 400 million years ago. Sharks are older than some stars in our sky.
    They’re also about the same age as Vega, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky
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    Kypickle
    October 9, 2023, 7:17 pm to Public
    colonizing the moon would literally be the best thing ever
    been thinking about it recently and now i’m excited again
    i made a video about colonizing the moon to explain why: How a Moon Colony Would Change Everything
    youtu.be/EQRuYgj7q00
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    Kypickle
    October 1, 2023, 1:58 pm to Public
    Just made a new video about a special type of planet called a Trojan Planet
    They’re pretty interesting
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCr7JKCkdY
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    Kypickle
    September 25, 2023, 11:27 am to Public
    go to any wikipedia article
    any one you want
    and click the first link in the article, and keep repeating that for all the articles you get to
    you will end up at philosophy
    waffles said 2023-10-08 08:34:55
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    i went from ferrets and ended at philosophy... that's really cool tho
    Ace301 said 2023-09-27 17:37:46
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    I went from the cave of temo'o (or smth, im srry if you got disrespected) to losing my sanity over what the definition of a word is to a symbol, down to a language, but i got to the philosiphy of language

    Cave of temo'o --> languange philosiphy
    Weirdest combo ever
    Kypickle replied to Giganticbowtie's comment below 2023-09-25 19:18:03
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    ohhh wait i know what you mean
    you have to keep clicking
    you get to elegy then click the first link in that article, then the first link of whatever article that leads to, until you get to philosophy
    Kypickle replied to Giganticbowtie's comment below 2023-09-25 18:38:03
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    i know i did both
    philosophy both times
    Giganticbowtie replied to Kypickle's comment below 2023-09-25 18:01:17
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    and that's first link is elegy
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    Kypickle
    September 24, 2023, 2:31 pm to Public
    Just finished my biggest Colonization of the Solar System episode yet: The Colonization of Jupiter!
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcO-6jTAU4
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    Kypickle
    September 22, 2023, 7:26 am to Public
    methane has been being found on a bunch of exoplanets recently and that’s good

    So there’s a bit of a problem in astronomy called the “missing methane” problem. Methane is a very common chemical in our solar system, but for some reason we weren’t finding it in other solar systems, which was weird.
    But recently with the James Webb Space Telescope we’ve found some methane in the atmospheres of two planets:
    -Wadirum, (originally named WASP-80b before being given an official name in 2019) a planet half the size of jupiter and very, very hot
    -and K2-18b, a planet 8x bigger than earth that we recently confirmed was a hycean planet (a hydrogen atmosphere and a gigantic global ocean)

    So looks like the solution to the missing methane was we just weren’t looking hard enough
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    Kypickle
    September 19, 2023, 9:02 pm to Public
    Mulchatna is a cool planet

    It's 3.5x the size of Jupiter (and actually exists in real life), so its bigger than every planet in the solar system combined and then some, and orbits closer to its star than Mercury orbits the sun. It also has a weirdly-shaped orbit. It's an oval, instead of a circle. This means that it's perihelion, or closest point to its star, and aphelion, or furthest point, are very different distances, which causes Mulchatna to have some super extreme seasons.

    Like the temperature variations are measured in the thousands of degrees. It's a crazy type of planet called an "eccentric Jupiter" and we actually know of quite a few of them.

    Here's a video where I explain it more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwbkS-J4zk
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    Kypickle
    September 14, 2023, 8:17 pm to Public
    The planet Janssen: Is it made of diamonds or not?

    55 Cancri is a real star system located 41 light-years away from earth. It has five known planets, the first of them being 55 Cancri e, which is officially named Janssen.
    Janssen is a super-Earth planet, meaning it's not a gas giant, but it's way bigger than Earth. It also orbits its star once every 18 hours, so it's year is less than a day on Earth.
    Because of this, Janssen is really hot. It's a lava planet. However, it's star, Copernicus, has a lot of carbon inside it. This is weird for a star. Because stars and planets form out of the same material, Copernicus's planets, including Janssen, are also probably carbon-rich.

    Carbon, under constant heat and pressure, forms diamonds.
    Janssen is under constant heat and pressure, and is probably really carbon-rich. This means that up to 1/3 of the planet might be made of diamonds. Imagine two entire earths, core, crust, mantle, and all, but just made of diamonds.
    Janssen would have more diamonds than that.

    But, this is unconfirmed. Janssen might not be a diamond planet. But it also could be. It's an actual possibility that a close star to the Solar System could have a planet worth a few nonillion dollars.



    For more information, I made a video about Janssen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXrnXk1hh4
    Ace301 replied to Kypickle's comment below 2023-09-17 07:32:19
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    Ah
    Wait... the milky way is THAT LARGE???? (I truly thought it only fit 1 solar system... I guess i was proven wrong by the guy who knows way more space stuff than me)
    But yeah, honestly, if we could go there, the word "rich" would really lose meaning. No one would be poor again if the planet was ever visited.
    Kypickle replied to Ace301's comment below 2023-09-16 19:51:49
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    Janssen is inside the milky way, so thats not a problem. It's only 41 lightyears away. Compared to the 100,000 lightyear diameter of the milky way, thats pretty trivial.
    You cant buy planets, that "few nonillion" number comes from simply estimating how many diamonds are on that planet and what the cost of diamonds is today.
    Ace301 said 2023-09-16 17:44:31
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    Hmm...
    Firstly, how would we even get there? We can't escape the Milky Way *yet,* so how are we getting to go there?
    Secondly, how would you buy planets? Off of something like planetrental.com or something?
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    September 13, 2023, 7:32 am to Public
    WE MIGHT HAVE JUST DETECTED ALIEN LIFE
    THIS IS NOT CLICKBAIT IM SERIOUS

    Using the James Webb Space Telescope, we analyzed the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b.


    K2-18b is half the size of Neptune, and so is right between the sizes of a really big rocky planet or a really small ice giant, so we don’t really know which one it is. What we do know though is that it has a thick atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, and it might have an global ocean of water.
    This type of planet is called a Hycean Planet, or a planet with a thick hydrogen atmosphere and a huge ocean.

    But hydrogen and water isn’t the only thing that was detected. Methane and carbon dioxide were also found, which are chemicals created by life. However, they are also created by non-living processes, so c02 and ch4 isn’t a definite biosignature yet.
    What is a biosignature is dimethyl sulfide, a chemical produced by so many ocean bacteria it’s called the “smell of the sea”.

    Hints of dimethyl sulfide were detected on K2-18b, an ocean planet. This detection is not confirmed, and needs more data, but if it is real, then we just detected our first sign of alien life outside the solar system.
    Kypickle replied to IGEBM's comment below 2023-09-13 09:19:32
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    maybe
    IGEBM said 2023-09-13 08:15:49
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    :O

    they do exist-
    Giganticbowtie said 2023-09-13 08:06:46
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    Thats so cool
    Kypickle said 2023-09-13 07:37:29
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    i made a video explaining this more: youtu.be/7BARzCAuBWI?si=ig7zaLwTJi13Oa_-
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    Kypickle
    September 12, 2023, 8:48 pm to Public
    telling minecraft players about planets
    its been a while, but today's planet is Phailinsiam

    (Fail-in-see-ahm)

    Phailinsiam, also known as GJ 3470 b, is an ice giant exoplanet about 96 light-years away from Earth. It's 12x bigger than Earth, making it a bit smaller than Neptune.

    Phailinsiam, despite being an ice giant, is over 600 degrees fahrenheit. It's only called an "ice" giant because it's likely made of mostly water, like Uranus or Neptune. But Phailinsiam won't remain an ice giant much longer.
    That's because it's atmosphere is currently being blasted into space at a rate of 100,000 tons per second. That means it looses half the mass of planet Earth every billion years. At that rate, in just a few billion years, Phailinsiam will lose its atmosphere entirely and just become an exposed core, or a Chthonian Planet.

    Phailinsiam's atmosphere is also the most well-studied of any exoplanet, and we even know the color of the planet: a hazy blue. So, it makes sense that the planet was named after a blue Siamese sapphire.
    Kypickle said 2023-09-13 11:06:34
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    also i made a video about this planet
    youtu.be/0UTck4r5Tr4?si=RMF41b8IIN_YHu7z
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    Kypickle
    September 10, 2023, 9:38 am to Public
    Made a new video for my colonization of the solar system project: youtu.be/vtY8nr0UdTQ?si=Ycz8xSdSU3AjpPCc
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    Kypickle
    August 28, 2023, 2:23 pm to Public
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    The potentially rocky exoplanet size comparison
    This is a chart I've made of various rocky exoplanets, compared to Earth. They are:

    WD 1145+017 b: the smallest known exoplanet, its about the size of Haumea

    Draugr, Poltergeist, and Phobetor: These were some of the first few exoplanets ever discovered, and they orbit a dead star called a pulsar. Draugr is about the size of Mercury and Poltergeist and Phobetor are 4x bigger than Earth.

    Kua'kua: Also known as LHS 3844 b, this is an exoplanet about the size of Earth, which has been studied by the James Webb Space Telescope and was confirmed to have almost no atmosphere.

    Kepler-452 b: a potentially habitable exoplanet 5x the mass of Earth.

    Janssen: this one's also known as 55 cancri e, but is properly named Janssen. It's a lava planet 8x the mass of Earth.

    Kepler-22b: another potentially habitable exoplanet, about 9x the mass of earth

    Enaiposha: This planet, also known as GJ 1214b, is the most likely candidate we have for a planet made almost entirely of water, or an ocean planet. "Enaiposha" literally means "large body of water" in the Maa language.

    TOI-849b: the largest known rocky planet, at 40x the mass of Earth. It's most likely the exposed core of a gas giant that got its atmosphere blown away by radiation. This is also known as a Chthonian Planet.
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