I wonder what would happen if Bacon’s Rebellion succeeded. Of course Enlightenment ideas were budding at the time so it probably wouldn’t be nearly as radical as the more ‘revolutionary’ movements 100 years later.
After everyone forgot about Trump's imperialist fantasies with Greenland Bibi is going to bring the prospects of a US-NATO war back.
Lots of people don’t know this but Kansas and lots of the Southern Great Plains have been in a pretty bad drought for a while. 2023 saw the lowest wheat harvest since 1957, a year when the Eisenhower Administration purposely lowered harvests to increase grain costs/farm incomes.
The one actual scandal the opposition has on him during Hank’s 2044 presidential run.
ik it's foolish
but I'm hoping someway somehow some official can convince trump to give NASA 100 billion dollars.
trump did seem to treat Artemis with some wonder, perhaps thinking of it has his own project, so maybe it's possible.
It's an amazing thing that Artemis is an international program shared with people all over the world.
It's a shame that it includes the GOP.
Something, imo just as cool, is that this year the Japanese are launching Martian Moons eXploration. MMX is a sample return mission, visiting Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos, collecting rock samples, and returning to Earth by 2031.
ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED
DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT
SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL
"We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!"
MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972
The date: March 2029
Abigail Spanberger has been elected as the first female president
Donald Trump has not been seen in person in 15 months
The “Last Four Years Never Happened” bill is using the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to declare the second Trump administration Void ab Initio due to his participation in January 6th.
Legally he was never president, thus any bill with his signature legally never passed.
IMO using the abundance of lunar silicon to manufacture satellites, launching them from the moon to LEO, could be an option to start a lunar economy.
But that requires a government willing to fork over a multi-billion (likely tens of billions) dollar down payment.
My guess would be so that Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra aren't split by the edge of the map?
But the prime meridian, unlike the equator, is an arbitrary value. Why not change the old 60°E to be the new prime meridian?
What’s your thoughts on Trump’s recent “a whole civilization will die tonight” post?
Top image with Jerry saying, "You're crying because of Artemis II?" Bottom image with George saying, "The spirit of space travel got to me." Jerry then says, "Alright."
Image of Neptune's moon Triton
I would really like a mission to study Neptune's moon Triton. It's probably a captured dwarf planet from the Kuiper Belt. It has ~40 year long seasons and cryvolcanism, shooting ice plumes deep into space from its subsurface oceans. It was only closely imaged once during Voyager 2's 1989 flyby.
Yeah. There's probably a lot of unnamed craters though. Afaik you have to go out to the Ice Giants, Uranus and Neptune, or even further to the Kuiper Belt, e.g. Pluto or Eris, to find unmapped major bodies in the Solar System.
Interesting. I’ve yet to take my orbital mechanics and spacecraft design courses so I’m not familiar with the physics of Lagrange Pointsz
do the L4 and L5 spacecrafts position themselves by staying in the “flat” part of the gravity well with occasional propulsion to maintain position?
Fallout spin-off set in France where they’re still nuking Germany 300 years after the nukes dropped.
“We propose to put it into the power of every man, woman, and child, black or white, rich or poor, when his rights are invaded, to raise his hand toward the flag, and say, I am an American citizen. Why should it not be so, now that all are free?”
I've been thinking of cool alternate history scenarios without posting them for five years now.
Do you think any voters forgot which James M. they were voting for?
I keep a shot of vodka in my backpack in case im on campus when I get the news.
This is just me spitballing though. I don't think we'd ever do something like that in our home solar system and especially not to the iconic moon.
I don't think we'll make a serious dent in the moon over the next couple centuries. But over over millennia I wouldn't be surprised if we get to a point that we process entire solar systems into raw resources.
Not necessarily good or bad. There's lots of stars, and lots of them probably sterile.
dropping a falklands-shaped nuke on the discourse with "americans are the indigenous people of the moon"
The current discourse is very silly. Building settlements on the moon is ethically akin to the settlement of New Zealand and Hawaii by the Polynesians circa 1000AD, not capital-C Colonialism. If you can't see that this is trivially true you are letting culture-war polarization blind you.
Plastic sealed newspaper from The Topeka Daily Capital titled "Astronauts Plant Old Glory on Moon; Millions Watch 2 Scout Lunar Face, Make 'One Giant Leap for Mankind'", published Topeka, Kansas, Moonday, July 21, 1969
Just got something that belongs in a museum.
I was so excited last night I barely slept. The Artemis program is why I’m pursuing a degree in Aerospace engineering (junior undergrad rn).
Artemis I launched when I was a highschool senior. It just made me star struck.
(Assuming all goes well) tonight will be awesome.
I’ve been annoyed since November 2024 that they get to oversee the World Cup, America 250, the Olympics, and a FUCKING MOON LANDING