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autuni 2 hours ago [-]
I'm quite excited by planetary defense missions. While I don't think that anyone has any reason to be fearful of the constant danger of being wiped out by an asteroid, in my mind it marks a big milestone for us as a species to be able to (in not so distant future) protect ourselves from something that wiped out dinosaurs. Just feels like a mission that is not driven by global power struggles/projections, but is just a positive for everyone.
It seems weird to think about how much more developed we are as a species, and yet so far we are still vulnerable to the same incident that ended their reign over this planet, completely out of their (and our) control.
botanical 5 hours ago [-]
From the name, I wondered how this was going to be related to HERA (it isn't), a radio telescope array in South Africa:
Quite impressive this spacecraft will really orbit around a binary asteroid system using a camera-based autonomous navigation system
shevy-java 18 hours ago [-]
ESA must defend against Trump-NASA. Recently the USA threatened Europeans again if they "prevent" entry of US-Starlink and other AI slop spam working for Putin. The USA has become a security risk not only for Ukrainians but all Europans under agent Krasnov.
philipallstar 18 hours ago [-]
What on earth do you mean?
bigyabai 17 hours ago [-]
Starshield is being abused to endanger European interests.
philipallstar 2 hours ago [-]
How so?
Heronsunny 20 hours ago [-]
Spent time doing shape modeling from flyby imagery and the thing I'm most curious about is whether they get good enough lighting geometry on the crater rim.
malfist 18 hours ago [-]
I am absolutely positive someone thought about illumination of the subject before they spent 356 million euros on the project.
rbanffy 16 hours ago [-]
It's not a flyby, so I assume there will be multiple opportunities for photography under varied lighting conditions.
It seems weird to think about how much more developed we are as a species, and yet so far we are still vulnerable to the same incident that ended their reign over this planet, completely out of their (and our) control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Epoch_of_Reionization...