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Post by Ptichka on Jan 8, 2018 20:44:58 GMT
SpaceX landing from last night, was a clear sky so could see both boost back burns and then a nice onboard for the landing.
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Post by Ptichka on Jan 8, 2018 20:51:32 GMT
Staying on the same theme, video of the first landing, some good sonic booms at the end. Can't believe it's been two years since then already.
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Post by Ptichka on Jan 8, 2018 20:54:12 GMT
Last one, remember rushing in and putting this on the tv just in time for the countdown, still my desktop background, something weirdly beautiful about it. Either way, so see it happen from a light aircraft must have been insane.
If you haven't guessed, I like rockets.
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Post by atlex on Jan 8, 2018 23:42:55 GMT
Sexy cars are sexy  |
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Post by atlex on Jan 9, 2018 16:17:40 GMT
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Post by melx5 on Jan 9, 2018 20:39:18 GMT
Some very pretty photos of Jupiter.. The colour pictures are artists impressions, the camera on Juno was only fitted for the wow factor. |
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Post by atlex on Jan 9, 2018 20:46:46 GMT
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Post by melx5 on Jan 9, 2018 20:48:44 GMT
Last one, remember rushing in and putting this on the tv just in time for the countdown, still my desktop background, something weirdly beautiful about it. Either way, so see it happen from a light aircraft must have been insane. If you haven't guessed, I like rockets. |
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Post by melx5 on Jan 9, 2018 20:54:19 GMT
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Post by martiny on Jan 10, 2018 13:28:00 GMT
I've seen footage before of ISIS using drones to drop mortar rounds (with much discussion of whether it was fake/game footage). www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ee_1487941582 The view straight down from the drone did look rather like video game footage but then, it would, wouldn't it? Anyway, they were using small, consumer drones, with a simple mod to allow each to drop a single small mortar round onto any target of opportunity. The new article suggests they were sending drones guided by GPS from up to 100km away which seems a bit less plausible. Maybe not impossible, but less likely than a short range attack. It reads like a Russian propaganda piece, suggesting it was somehow sinister that the mortar rounds the drones carried had "foreign" made fuses (rather than what, home made?) and wondering who supplied the weapons. (I assume we're supposed to suspect the US or Israel are secretly supplying ISIS with hi-tech weapons rather than imagine private individual supporters in Saudi Arabia or wherever are just buying stuff for them). |
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Post by atlex on Jan 10, 2018 13:41:42 GMT
also apparently an USN aircraft was flying nearby lol......
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Post by atlex on Jan 10, 2018 14:10:06 GMT
anyway whether you hate it or not, drone tech is 100% the present future of warfare.
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Post by martiny on Jan 10, 2018 14:26:37 GMT
anyway whether you hate it or not, drone tech is 100% the present future of warfare. When you think about how tiny and cheap a drone could be that's capable of carrying something lethal like a minimalist single shot .22 and then add the same camera and facial recognition tech that any smartphone can do nowadays, you can start to have nightmares about the next generation of cluster munitions actually being more like a swarm of hundreds of deadly bees. |
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Post by atlex on Jan 10, 2018 15:21:39 GMT
Something more positive..
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Post by melx5 on Jan 10, 2018 15:29:52 GMT
Another space related image Early curiosity image NASA kept from the public Honest.............  |
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le sigh
Jul 15, 2023 20:03:52 GMT
le sigh
Jul 15, 2023 20:03:52 GMT