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Kypickle
February 1, 2024, 5:54 pm to Public

so a few things
1. china has a series of moon missions called Chang’e that have been landing on the moon (only robots, not people yet)
2. Shackleton is a crater on the south pole of the moon that is unique because it possesses huge deposits of water ice, making it the best place on the moon to establish a permanent human colony
3. China currently has plans to establish a base on the moon, and they do have the capability to do it

china’s 7th chang’e mission is targeting a landing near Shackleton
because of shackleton’s potential, this is definitely more than a just a science-focused mission

thing is the usa also has interests of landing people near shackleton crater

things are about to get fun
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Kypickle replied to ScotsMiser's comment below 2024-02-02 07:03:34

yeah the outer space treaty isn’t gonna help lmao
because
1. you don’t need to claim land to establish a colony, just build something there and say “this building is mine, and due to safety concerns there is a radius 50m around said building that belongs to me” which is completely allowed under the outer space treaty because you technically didn’t claim any land
The Artemis Accords is (i think) the only law that even talks about this and they say (i think) that a country can claim a 10m area around their habitats for safety. Only thing is China hasn’t signed the artemis accords and so isn’t subject to that number

2. the outer space treaty was never meant to be permanent space law, it’s considered to just be a placeholder until something more serious gets put in place, so i don’t expect it to hold any weight for much longer

3. even if people took the outer space treaty seriously there’s no way to enforce it, and a law without a way to make sure people follow it isn’t really a law

4. China has been known to take a… unique viewpoint on laws. They’ve literally built islands in the ocean and said “hey look since I own this island my border actually extends out to here, not the internationally recognized one” and i find it extremely likely they’ll do the exact same thing on the moon (“hey look, i built another storage facility here, my colony borders are actually here”)

5. The outer space treaty says nothing about private companies, so countries could just get companies to build stuff for them and then eventually take over (british east india company is a nice example of this from the past that i could see something similar happening with the moon)

ScotsMiser said 2024-02-01 20:20:14

…but, but, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "[precluds] any country from claiming sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body", so nothing bad can happen 'cuse there's paper….
Kypickle
January 23, 2024, 6:42 pm to Public

i wonder how close ive been to something classified in my life
surely there has been one moment in my life where i was closer to something classified than any other point
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Kypickle replied to TheGuyAcrossSpace's comment below 2024-01-23 20:21:56

nice

TheGuyAcrossSpace replied to Kypickle's comment below 2024-01-23 20:13:33

yes i got reccomended that J1407b video and it was very good

Kypickle replied to TheGuyAcrossSpace's comment below 2024-01-23 20:02:38

i make space videos

TheGuyAcrossSpace said 2024-01-23 19:55:54

You that guy from youtube?

Purpl3_ said 2024-01-23 18:42:27

i remember you
Kypickle
January 20, 2024, 4:29 pm to Public

fun fact
Because of the planet HATS-72 b being officially named Zembretta in 2023, there is now at least one planet for every letter of the alphabet

There are also two planets that start with X, their names being Xólotl and Xolotlan respectively

and theres a planet named Indépendance
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Kypickle
January 14, 2024, 3:30 pm to Public

I found a cool website that has a full 3d map of the moon with real terrain taken by years of satellite data

https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/layers?camera=-337370.552%2C537687.756%2C2125663.865%2C1.298%2C-0.561%2C6.283%2C2218416.976%2C60.000&id=lroc&showTerrain=true&queryOpts=N4XyA&trailType=0&layers=NrBsFYBoAZIRnpEBmZcAsiEIHYFcAbAyAbwF8BdC0yioA&proj=22

the graphics are kind of low quality, but most of these pictures were taken hundreds of miles above the ground so its actually crazy how detailed it is
also the controls are very finnicky so if you dont know how to move around on the moon ill help
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Silabear said 2024-01-14 16:44:43

that’s awesome!! reminds me of zoom.earth which is one of the bestest sites ever

Kypickle said 2024-01-14 15:31:42

also when you click this youll be on a 2d map, to switch to 3d click the globe in the corner and switch the projection to Lunar Globe (3D)
Kypickle
December 29, 2023, 3:59 pm to Public

it has come to my attention that my last post did not in fact contain the smaller screenshot of the mariner valley image like i wanted but in fact was the full 23,000x11,000 pixels

out of all the websites for that picture to work why planet minecraft

anyways don’t look at my last post it’ll lag your computer really badly (i can’t delete it for this reason it keeps lagging i’ve tried like 3 times)
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Kypickle replied to Silabear's comment below 2023-12-29 16:05:28

thanks

Silabear said 2023-12-29 16:03:45

i manually did it for ya
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
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Kypickle said 2023-12-16 10:44:30

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
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.
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Kypickle said 2023-11-19 20:07:43

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
Kypickle
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
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Sul4ur said 2023-11-06 07:04:15

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

Ok, wow.
Just wow

LegendarySi said 2023-11-05 21:01:57

That's actually crazy
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.
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shadowteachesgaming101 said 2023-11-05 07:29:19

dinkesh is gud boi

Drzzter said 2023-11-04 20:14:34

BIG NEWS FOR DINKINESH FANS
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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Halloween Datapack Jam post by Cyprezz
September 28, 2023, 1:49 pm to Public

Introducing our Halloween Data Pack Jam! It's a spooktacular event open to data pack creators of all skill levels and in collaboration with the Datapack Hub. Let's see what you can do this coming month!
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NonaThaSpaceBunny replied to TADC_Jax's comment below 2024-05-04 13:41:11

lol youre late this was eight months ago

Papa Enny said 2024-04-04 16:24:59

100 level yay!

TADC_Jax said 2024-03-08 01:12:09

wait but its March

Papa Enny replied to cutecatkid's comment below 2024-02-22 17:03:07

you should not beg for it. If they want you in the team, you would get an info

cutecatkid said 2024-02-21 12:11:40

can i be a site monider
plez
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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
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waffles said 2023-10-08 08:34:55

i went from ferrets and ended at philosophy... that's really cool tho

Ace301 said 2023-09-27 17:37:46

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

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

i know i did both
philosophy both times

Giganticbowtie replied to Kypickle's comment below 2023-09-25 18:01:17

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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