Planetary Society - How many are in ?

Red Fox Four

Red Fox Four
Disclaimer: I tried to find an OOC forum, but couldn't find one. Maybe a moderator can move the thread to an appropriate forum to make up for my failure [cool]'

Since I am assuming most, if not everyone here, have an above average interest in space, sci-fi, cosmology, planets and all the other exciting things happening in the world outside of Earth since we play this game I was curious... how many of you all are in the Planetary Society (found at http://www.planetary.org/) ?

Or maybe some of you haven't even heard of it before?

They have quite a lot of nice information on current happenings in space, and they have their own projects, like the CubeSat LightSail (http://sail.planetary.org/) which is really cool. It also explains some physics like how can sunlight 'push' a Lightsail when photons have no mass? :)

It's also a great place where you can get involved too in various ways and they issue newsletter with lots of awesome sci-fi news :)

Anyways, just wanted probe the forum and see if there are others beside myself who are in the Planetary Society, as well as using it as an opportunity to spread the word to others who have a similar interest in space beyond just the video games!

Keep looking up! :)
 

Red Fox Four

Red Fox Four
If you want some awesome podcasts where Bill Nye (CEO of the Planetary Society) is sometimes guest hosting or participating then check out Startalk Radio @ http://www.startalkradio.net/ as well. Lots of really awesome podcasts with amazing people who all promote science and technology :)

I listen to Startalk podcasts when commuting to/from work :)
 

Gaarp Kobayashi

Gaarp Kobayashi
Pretty cool CG movie from NASA over there, showing a dive into one of Mars' craters:

[video=youtube_share;ftS4rujxJWo]http://youtu.be/ftS4rujxJWo[/video]

...and please do tell me, you dont experience the same wonderfull views while diving to similar craters at one of a stellar bodies in our Milky Way A.D. 3302!!!

Amazing!!!:) Thank you Commander Red Fox Four! Have some rep!:)
 

Zeta Legion

Z
Red Fox Four said:
If you want some awesome podcasts where Bill Nye (CEO of the Planetary Society) is sometimes guest hosting or participating then check out Startalk Radio @ http://www.startalkradio.net/ as well. Lots of really awesome podcasts with amazing people who all promote science and technology :)

I listen to Startalk podcasts when commuting to/from work :)
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I credit Bill Nye with my ongoing interest in science since I was just a wee lad in the early 90's watching TV on the family CRT behemoth.
 

Red Fox Four

Red Fox Four
Zeta Legion said:
I credit Bill Nye with my ongoing interest in science since I was just a wee lad in the early 90's watching TV on the family CRT behemoth.
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The big challenge with the science, technology and space exploration is getting the information out there and making people aware.

The Rovers on Mars is really amazing and they are finding all sorts of things, like water in the soil! :) And the Pluto Flyby last year by New Horizons was amazing. We were in 2015 and had yet to get pictures of the last planet (yes planet! although downgraded to dwarf planet) in our solar system. That really says something about both how far we have come, but at the same time how much further we have to go. We don't even fully know or understand our own solar system!

But a lot of people miss out on these fantastic things not because they aren't interested, but because they simply don't know what's going on or where to get the information.

The support of the science and space exploration is really important though. Just image we only recently discovered the age of universe, and noone knew about dark matter, dark energy or even black holes until fairly recently. But these days we throw the words around like they were always known.

Plus a lot of the research that is done in the space programs directly benefits us all. For instance the bone-loss issues they have had with astronauts staying in space for too long, e.g. when on the ISS led to development of medicine that help prevent boneloss, and that is used in medicine today to help against osteoporosis.

Space and science is awesome! :)
 

Zeta Legion

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Red Fox Four said:
The big challenge with the science, technology and space exploration is getting the information out there and making people aware.

The Rovers on Mars is really amazing and they are finding all sorts of things, like water in the soil! :) And the Pluto Flyby last year by New Horizons was amazing. We were in 2015 and had yet to get pictures of the last planet (yes planet! although downgraded to dwarf planet) in our solar system. That really says something about both how far we have come, but at the same time how much further we have to go. We don't even fully know or understand our own solar system!

But a lot of people miss out on these fantastic things not because they aren't interested, but because they simply don't know what's going on or where to get the information.

The support of the science and space exploration is really important though. Just image we only recently discovered the age of universe, and noone knew about dark matter, dark energy or even black holes until fairly recently. But these days we throw the words around like they were always known.

Plus a lot of the research that is done in the space programs directly benefits us all. For instance the bone-loss issues they have had with astronauts staying in space for too long, e.g. when on the ISS led to development of medicine that help prevent boneloss, and that is used in medicine today to help against osteoporosis.

Space and science is awesome! :)
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It's too bad the one rover had its' motive systems fail so quickly, it could've gathered a lot more data.

We also had the Titan fly-by fairly recently too.

I'm a little sad that they are replacing the Hubble although I understand why. I hope they find a way to preserve it as a historical artifact.
 
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