Kinda fucked up tbh
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This is kind of mind blowing.
It's the year 3250. Two harsh desert planets are in a bitter dispute over mineral and water mining rights over the asteroid belt. The Mars coalition insists that Earth may lay claim only to those rocky bodies that fall past her orbit. Earth insists that anything beyond their respective atmospheres is fair game. They use loaded language and plan to argue that an 'atmosphere' is one that sustains life, meaning she plans to mine uninhabited stretches or Martian soil too. There is serious debate on Earth of the inhabitants of Mars are even human anymore, cross breeding has become exceptionally difficult. Martians have a lower natural fertility rate and often need IVF to reproduce. Earth gravity is too strong for martians to safely return to the home planet, and so few Earthlings have ever seen one in person.
The dispute, unresolved, leads to the second interplanetary war. A billion people will die on both planets. Mars will lose precious irreplaceable atmosphere. Earth will lose access to much needed water. The conflict only ends when neither can keep up the fight any longer.
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The Milky Way is in a sort of orbit around the center of the Local Group which is the name for the local group of galaxies. It's not a clean circular orbit and it's not possible to calculate the rotation time, because the pull from other galaxies is stronger than their collective centre of point of gravity, but sure, it rotates overall on that scale too.
The next levels are different. The Local Group is part of a larger supercluster of galaxies that do not seem to rotate. It's more like flows of galaxy clusters. Depending on the point and scale we look at, it may be shrinking or expanding.
Perhaps there is some rotation to it, but the scale of both distance and time is so incredibly large that it's meaningless.the Local Group, which is the name for the local group of galaxies
sounds like they spent a lot of time coming up with that name
jokes aside, thanks for the interesting info!
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What about Bogdan, who was catapulted into space in 1377 in a freak trebuchet accident which was never recorded?
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Well, maybe sooner than 2030... https://spacenews.com/musk-calls-for-deorbiting-iss-as-soon-as-possible/
Let's hope that Musk has nothing to say in that when it is time
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What about Bogdan, who was catapulted into space in 1377 in a freak trebuchet accident which was never recorded?
that would be the first time not all of humanity was on earth
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Are we technically a space fairing civilization?
unfortunately i feel you can't call yourself spacefaring unless you actually control the ship, and we have about as much control over our trajectory as a mosquito has control over the amount of blood inside a blue whale
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Well, maybe sooner than 2030... https://spacenews.com/musk-calls-for-deorbiting-iss-as-soon-as-possible/
i agree with him, provided we de-orbit it onto his skull
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gotta keep someone up there to watch space just in case it gets the wrong idea
Well, someone needs to keep the lights on in the ISS....
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You see, you just take out the 'I', and... oh.
i believe the USA is working on that right now actually
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that would be the first time not all of humanity was on earth
You mean you don't think he's still out there?
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Karman line could be a good limit sure, but I think the orbit still kinda makes sense to include "on the planet".
Say for example if the apartheid baby gets his Mars colony thing going, from Earth's perspective it wouldn't make much difference if a person is standing on Mars surface or on the orbit - we could say that the person is on Mars.
i'd say being in orbit is arguably the least on a planet can be, since an orbit is specifically continuing to miss falling onto the planet.
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This must be a glitch someone's tweet from a different timeline went through ours.
Long term occupancy of the ISS started in November 2nd, 2000. Since then there has always been at least one person Manning the ISS.
So at least one human has not been on earth for every day since then, thus, all of humanity was last on earth on November 1st 2000. The statement is factually correct.
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Being born after 2000 should be illegal
As a fellow old person, former millennial, I agree.
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They're old enough to have finished a master's degree
That is so crazy don't say that
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The loser has to go to space.
Oh no I'll 'accidentally' lose and finally be free from this world.
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China will still have an operational station. Probably.
Cool! I had no idea that Tiangong space station was a thing.
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You mean you don't think he's still out there?
no, he was found by aliens and respectfully returned in 1792
