Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Astrum" channel.

  1.  @sirhandsoap3953  Capitalism is a million times more dangerous than communism, capitalism just takes longer to implode in on itself but when it does the world will change drastically, I don't remember much changing in the west when the USSR fell because it only affected them but capitalism is rubbishing green energy in support of fossil fuels, rubbishing climate change data, ignoring polluted rivers, oceans and space, ignoring health disasters like obesity. Woah betide anyone who tries to stand between a rich man and his cash cow, and so the rich will prosper until it means the end of all of us.
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  2.  @MrHouserobot  Drifting in space just like Voyager 1 and 2 will likely forever do.
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  3. That was one of the original Star Trek movies. Star Trek Voyager is a TV show about a ship called Voyager.
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  4. There is already an updated Voyager, it's called New Horizons and it's been on it's way to Pluto since 2006.
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  5.  @trevorjameson3213  At 52 Clooney was not too old to be an astronaut, in fact most astronauts, particularly non-mission specialists, are around that age as their experience is just as valuable as their physical fitness.
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  6.  @xxpatrick204xx  You mean Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Nighy the Actor Guy doesn't do astronomy.
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  7. Anyone with a basic grasp of maths or science would recognise what it was and I doubt a spaceship would ever be launched by any race without an engineer or scientist on board.
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  8.  @stagdragon3978  Don't worry about it, my sister bought one of those bad dragon dildos and the model number was something like DS-6 so we kept referring to it as the Quark-cock and other Trek-related nonsense even though the serial was three digits out from being in any way relevant or funny. Yeah, we're a pretty open family.
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  9. They weren't designed to only last 5 years, it's just that is how long the mission was, after 5 years they were too far away from Jupiter to achieve more results so NASA gave the probes some new objectives on the way to Neptune as they started shutting things down to save power. No one at NASA ever said that these things would blow up on their fifth birthday and be gone forever. There is no wear and tear in space, only energy loss, you can send up a Honda Civic and then go retrieve it in 10,000 years and it will still be in immaculate working order (after a battery charge) because space is a vacuum where nothing gets dusty or rusts. Nothing magical or secretive, just physics.
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  10. Also it's not lefties it's righties, the left has never been conservative or against progress. Like ever...
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  11.  @giggoty4926  No, so that's something we likely have in common.
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  12. Yeah, I reckon the JWST will be useless swiss cheese inside five years, probably karma for NASA choosing not to rename it.
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  13. Once it gets bad enough it won't be able to be cleaned up, if we can't get into space without being shredded to pieces then we can't clean up the things that are shredding everything to pieces.
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  14. How is that a business? "Ever wanted to spend 10 million and get nothing in return? Then pay me to clean up space."
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  15.  @aj90271  Satellites (at least the ones on our doorstep) are constantly on the move so you don't need to see through them, you image the part of the sky the satellite obscured once the satellite has passed. Space telescopes are long exposure so an AI algorithm trained to detect anomalies could remove satellites from the end result.
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  16. Let's thank American capitalist party for doing the exact same thing previously. genius!
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  17. Being so close to the Sun you would get far more power from solar than any RTG. These fellas only required an RTG because the Sun was going to be a small yellow dot by the time they reached their objective at Jupiter.
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  18.  @joeydepalmer4457  Anything orbiting another body has to move really fast or else they will just fall and crash into the planet/moon. After all an orbit is just a perpetual state of falling. This means that a satellite is only ever out of the reach of sunlight for maybe minutes or even hours before they are back in sunlight and batteries can cover them for those brief periods. A satellite taking pictures of say the moon's far side is in darkness to take pictures then back in the sunlight, then they are back in darkness for more pictures then back in sunlight again, repeat and repeat again as they fly around the moon.
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  19. We launched New Horizons in 2006 to study Pluto, after it has done that it will likely be sent in the direction of one of the other dwarf planets at the edge of the solar system and then leave the solar system like the Voyagers did.
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  20. But millions of things criss-crossing each other a dozen times a day means collisions will be uncommon but not rare, we've already witnessed this, also any collision can increase the amount of debris up there by up to 5% that is an exponential gain that could eventually lead to a cascade where a couple million objects turn into a couple billion and render space travel to dangerous to attempt. Especially if something the size of the ISS was hit.
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  21.  @jamesnewcomer4939  When collisions happen debris flies out in every direction, much like any other catastrophic impact, maybe 40 percent will head straight into the atmosphere and 40 percent will break orbit and never be seen again but 20 percent will fly around the planet in bands of varying angles and speeds meaning that it only takes one, just one, collision to possibly create that cascade and we've already had one collision. It doesn't matter how rare the event is if that single event has the potential to become the main event, and we've already had an event. That's pretty scary, that's like fearing an extinction-event asteroid while knowing that one skipped off the atmosphere less than a decade ago.
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  22. I've only heard people applaud Gravity, though hardcore astrophysicists can obviously see flaws, to call it the most inaccurate of all time makes you sound like it's the only space movie you've ever seen.
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  23. It wasn't the intention, it was just inevitable. Once the probes had finished their mission they were not exactly going to grind to a halt and spend eternity sitting next to Jupiter were they? There is no friction in space so the probes were always going to leave the solar system eventually.
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