Spaceships Made of Ice, Best Space Pet, Astronomy and Photoshop

Spaceships Made of Ice, Best Space Pet, Astronomy and Photoshop | Q&A 196

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How do you clean up astronomy images and what part does Photoshop play in it? Can you make spaceships out of ice found in space? When will SpaceX carry people to Mars? What pet will be the best companion for a long space trip? And even more questions in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.
00:00 Intro
01:41 [Tatooine] How do you "clean up" astronomical images?
06:41 [Coruscant] Why Moon spin is synced with Earth?
09:31 [Hoth] How many habitable worlds are out there?
13:35 [Naboo] Wen hop?
18:57 [Kamino] Best space pet?
20:46 [Bespin] Can a planet pierce through an accretion disk?
22:56 [Mustafar] Remote telescopes?
27:12 [Alderaan] Mars mission by 2029?
30:20 [Dagobah] Spaceships made of ice?
33:08 [Yavin] Why do they sit on data?
36:47 [Mandalore] How Q&As are made?
39:34 Outro
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@steverobbins4872 Жыл бұрын

Arthur C. Clark's novel Songs of Distant Earth describes a interstellar spacecraft with a huge mass of ice on the front to shield against radiation.

@talkingmudcrab718 Жыл бұрын

The guy was so imaginative, insightful, and ahead of his time. Sci-fi authors like him are just as important to our scientific understanding of the Universe as any white coat.

@richardvanasse9287 Жыл бұрын

Good book...

@illustriouschin Жыл бұрын

@@talkingmudcrab718 You should read Fountains of Paradise.

@caldodge Жыл бұрын

There's also "Gallagher's Glacier", by Walt and Leigh Richmond

@F_L_U_X Жыл бұрын

Nerd.

@vapormissile Жыл бұрын

I had a pet cricket named Chirpy. It started as a 5-gallon terrarium with a bunch of wolf spiders. I fed them crickets from the store, but then one big cricket outlived them all and lived for a long time. I'd take a chirpy pet cricket with his box, especially if the other choice was a dimwitted silent tilapia with his huge messy tank.

@stuartreed37 Жыл бұрын

Most underrated channel 🏆 (thanks Fraser and team)

@Creatiff777 Жыл бұрын

I love starting my day watching your Q&A shows and Space Bites while I do my morning exercises. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us. It's great to start the day with good news and new knowledge.

@anthempt3edits Жыл бұрын

Dagobah was my favorite. Super fun idea

@mapsofbeing5937 Жыл бұрын

i listened to the raw livestream but you've done an awesome job editing this video, it'd nearly be worth watching again

@sdluedtke7803 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for presenting and explaining these newest Astronomical findings. It seems like there is so much new science discovery information these days -- very interesting. 😊

@MapleYum Жыл бұрын

Space hamsters. That’s my vote. They turn into space balls when frightened. Seems appropriate.

@itsfahys Жыл бұрын

Excellent Show. I always look forward to watching this every Saturday in Ireland.

@TheyCallMeNewb Жыл бұрын

Your Mandalore at the end was about as reassuring as it was surprising. Nice stuff.

@mhult5873 Жыл бұрын

Mandalore ! :) Thank you for always great content! Best regards

@lukasmakarios4998 Жыл бұрын

Tattooine was a great question about "cleaning up" images for astrophysics or astrophotography. Your answer was really clear too. Good job! The Hoth question about habitable places in the solar system was good too. And the Iceships of Dagobah were a supercool idea.

@harlockmbb Жыл бұрын

Ships build inside ice was how the people of Free Planets Alliance scaped from the Empire in Legend of Gactic Heroes.

@davidguillen6611 Жыл бұрын

I love nerds!

@WilliamDye-willdye Жыл бұрын

30:20 Deep-space concrete: get far enough away from the sun that water stays frozen, barely melt some in-situ ice, and use the slushy water as a construction material.

@NFawc Жыл бұрын

COOL!

@_RedWizard Жыл бұрын

Great Starship prediction

@gzbd0118 Жыл бұрын

Great show! Two questions to choose from: 1. How will astronomers deal with megaconstellations? 2. When, if ever, will we achieve all-sky all-time all-wavelength coverage in astronomy?

@johnholleran Жыл бұрын

To get into astrophotography, first find an astronomy group near you! Most astrophotography setups cost less than $5000, but you can sometimes borrow equipment or go to an event to give astrophotography a try

@sp1hund Жыл бұрын

Question for your next q&a: what would happen if a cubic light-year of lead (enough to stop neutrinos) just popped in existence halfway out from the center of the galaxy? I'm guessing the mother of all black holes, but how would it affect the milky way? What if it was 1000 cubic light years instead? Thanks.

@tonywells6990 Жыл бұрын

A cubic light year of lead would have the mass of about 10 billion galaxies! You can imagine 1000 cubic light years would be have the mass of 10 billion billion galaxies, or about a million times the mass of our known universe!

@sp1hund Жыл бұрын

@@tonywells6990 woah! Some pretty dire consequences for the immediate galaxies then I'd imagine.

@vhhawk Жыл бұрын

Really appreciate those images at the end. It's a really nice humanizing touch, which sounds weird when I say it like that, but I hope you understand.

@prometheus95 Жыл бұрын

Hey, gravity has made handles on my sides, as well. Thank you, now I have a real good explanation of where these handles came from. LOL

@matroussell7490 Жыл бұрын

I have a Celestron nexstar 8se for a telescope, saw Jupiter, and it's four major moon Saturday night. It was beautiful. 👍🏼

@AnonymousFreakYT Жыл бұрын

29:34 - I still think the most reasonable answer is to tether two Starships together and spin them so they have centripetal "gravity". Then despin and disconnect a day or two before planetary approach.

@churchdiscography Жыл бұрын

HOTH because of the cool clips. Questions: Do planetary ring systems always form along the equatorial plane? On gas giants with cloud bands, are these bands always parallel to the equator?

@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT Жыл бұрын

Rings: Some rings may be the result of moons that were disrupted by the planet's gravity or moons spewing material out (like Enceladus and Io do), and not all moons orbit in or near their planet's equatorial plane (particularly if, like Triton, they were captured by the planet rather than formed in place), so inclined rings might be possible. I wouldn't expect them to be as stable that way, though-they might get spread out more quickly by the gravity of other moons, for example. Cloud bands: Because they're caused by the planet's rotation, I don't see how they could be any way but parallel to the equator, unless the planet rotates so slowly that the atmosphere doesn't feel the rotation (but then there would have to be something else to make the clouds form parallel bands like that).

@robertmacdonald1864 Жыл бұрын

I’m grappling with this question Actually our solar system is a giant ring system around our Sun and all the planets formed within this ring system Our solar system is actually made from the left over debris that didn’t form to make our Sun Gravity pulled everything together from a giant gas cloud At the core of this cloud where gravity is strongest the Sun formed and the left over stuff formed into planets and moons an asteroids and all other material Some of this is still theoretical but they can witness this process unfolding in other nebula This is the reason astronomers are so interested in viewing what’s happening within these stellar nurseries There’s disks or ring system that form around new born stars They seem to form around the equator of the companion star but I’m not a rocket scientist and can explain this process from my own readings of this process Believe it has something to do with angular momentum and spin What’s amazing is there’s a second solar system around our Sun at a 30 degree angle to the initial solar system And it’s believed Planet X could be found in this other system or another theory there is no Planet X but a whole bunch of undiscovered worlds out past the Ourt spelling Think the second theory is more plausible Not really sure a lot of science began as speculation or theory Just saying I’m not completely sure about all I said If you agree that’s great Thanks for your time just trying to give my own answer to your question about ring formation 😅

@carlfollmer1767 Жыл бұрын

Love the channel. Always so impressed by your ability to give clear and concise answers at the questioner's level. Question: Because the moon doesn't have erosion or plate tectonics, could we learn more about Theia from in-depth sampling of regolith in core samples?

@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT Жыл бұрын

It does have erosion, from impacts, but maybe. You'd probably have to find a spot where there has never been a crater (which I don't know exists) or drill below the layers that have been churned up by impacts.

@olorin4317 Жыл бұрын

It would be cool to see chandelier cities kissing the cloudtops of Venus.

@seditt5146 Жыл бұрын

Given the densities we work in venus I wonder why we never hear of such concepts like a boat. You figure, a Large, hemisphere with a little bit of water at the bottom for stability should allow such a platform to float as density gradient on venus can get rather large. Curious exactly how large it should entail but sounds plausible. Buoyancy is a function of displacement so large enough should create a boat that rides on the cloudtop with zero energy or mass input like leaking helium. Our minds might initially go against the idea of solids floating on gasses but its not without precedence as we do it with I believe sulfur hexafloride as a science demo here on earth.

@pgg1509 Жыл бұрын

Dagobah what a great idea

@RockawayCCW Жыл бұрын

@ 19:00 GroundHog (also called Woodchuck) is pretty tasty. It's a little fatty mammal that eats veggies and tastes a lot like beef. We could call them MoonChucks and raise them in an underground farm on the moon.

@foxrings Жыл бұрын

Hoth I am inspired by all the places where we can look to narrow down the answer the Fermi paradox. And places in our solar system that we can colonize early days.

@bygabtier1137 Жыл бұрын

Hi Fraser, i have a question here. when we see the renders of accretion disks around black holes we see themglowing very bright. It is only due to they are hot or is it possible beacause there could be fusion in the open due to the extreme conditions, thanks

@element5377 Жыл бұрын

pets required! -- kamino - nope, "budget the luxuries first"... (robert a. heinlein) especially with high risk living where psychological disorder is disastrous. warm furry, cuddly, soothing friends are essential in space, and artificial spin gravity will also be required, both for physical and mental health. every ship needs a cat, seas and space alike, and yes, mice will get on board.

@CyberThug1080i Жыл бұрын

A spaceship not necessarily made out of ice but a spaceship made in the traditional way but with a void along the entire structure's frame where you can pump in water (On orbit) where it would freeze providing protective shielding between the outer, iner layers of the spaceship. For an example like one of those thermos cups with liquid in between the drinking vessel and outer shell.

@kylegoldston Жыл бұрын

Tilapia does well in polluted waters and are herbivores so you could grow some floating feed crops and call it the gray water system. Might be nice to look at.

@caladonn2659 Жыл бұрын

I encountered the Idea of an Ice Spaceship back in 1979 from a book by Walt Richmond called "Gallagher's Glacier" Aswsome story!

@fnln-namaemyouji Жыл бұрын

I have sort of three questions, all related to the 'frame rate' of our space observations. Feel free to combine them or just take individual questions if only one seems interesting. I know most modern observatories work by taking a series of images over time, not literally someone putting their eye up to an eyepiece, and that usually, the image are stacked on top of each other to create a final image. What is the 'frame rate', if you will, of some of the big well known telescopes? In other words, how much time goes by between individual images in the stack? And to ask the other side of that question, what are the most powerful observatories that can still capture something like video? And while it makes a lot of sense to me intuitively that in deep space things usually happen very slowly because of large distances between objects bright enough to observe, how well tested is that intuition?

@doncarlodivargas5497 Жыл бұрын

Spaceships made of ice must be a Canadian idea? Where the astronauts will ice skating around in the spaceship? But the hockey sticks, those you leave at home?

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

We tried to make an aircraft carrier out of wood and ice during WW2. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrGKpZWbsrnFl4k.html

@petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

What's that sport with the brooms and the rocks you slide across ice,... it sounds like that in reverse, ice is sliding between the rocks..

@doncarlodivargas5497 Жыл бұрын

@@petevenuti7355 - it could be many more will appreciate a rocket made of ice, not only the Canadians, and those rocks can double as pets also, as some suggest we use instead of cats and dogs

@MuffinHop Жыл бұрын

Hey a question. Do any major laws of physics change when we add or subtract dimensions from the universe?

@markmurex6559 Жыл бұрын

I think a good pet that would actually be a pet for space travel would be an octopus.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

Agreed. And they're clever.

@winstonmontgomery8211 Жыл бұрын

❓️Hey Fraser 3 part question. Is the expansion of space related to time moving foward? If so does that mean that if the universe began to shrink back to a singularity that time would rewind and run everything backwards? And if time is linked to the expansion of the universe would time speed up as the universe expands quicker and quicker ❓️

@WGSMRW Жыл бұрын

How would we detect a sentient cloud creature? And what would gaseous life look like?

@mattchriss645 Жыл бұрын

You put a smile on my face when you said an amada of ships to mars, I straight away thought of the Spanish amada😄. Man to mars on mass one full Scoop would be awsome. We have to avoid the feme, firmi? Paradox .we can't just die out as a Specie..we have to spread ourselves Out there. Now couldn't be sooner. Have to start sometime. We have come along way in the last 100 years what's ahead the next 300years. Wish i could be their to See it.😎

@JarcoArt Жыл бұрын

Bit late here but why would we take water to space? Ice is plentiful out in space. Just found it a weird way to answer that question. Anyway, great Q&A episode as always. :)

@maschwab63 Жыл бұрын

Current NASA plans are to use space station modules and systems. How about a Bigelow module that expands, with milk bags that are filled with water around the outside, from a central bag that is emptied. This would be the radiation safe room, used for sleeping or working with portable equipment.

@paulweiler6494 Жыл бұрын

Hi did I miss the raw stream link for this one?? Can’t seem to find it

@concinnity9676 Жыл бұрын

I vote for Bagobah. Aurthur C. Clarke rules. It makes sense to stop your interstellar voyage to take on more water.

@CyberiusT Жыл бұрын

Re: Crickets. "Locusts and wild honey"? Bringing biblical feasts to Mars - what a universe we live in!

@MrVillabolo Жыл бұрын

How about pizza with locusts as a topping?🍕

@CyberiusT Жыл бұрын

@@MrVillabolo I think the Bible predates Cyberpunk, but yeah - I thought of that too. :)

@davidguillen6611 Жыл бұрын

I enjoy your show with such enthusiasm, you rock.

@jaydonbooth4042 Ай бұрын

If you don't want to take serious professional astrophotography photos it's not nearly so expensive. Can get a motor for a couple hundred dollars, and then just get a phone mount for your telescope and you can take some pretty good pictures, if all you want to do is admire the photos yourself and share them on social media casually, then it doesn't need to be pro quality.

@TheBruceKeller Жыл бұрын

If you go with a spacecat, better make sure they don't have toxo. Can't imagine how supercharged that would get in 0 g lol.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

Brain worms everywhere.

@ioresult Жыл бұрын

Dagobah: Go to Saturn, harvest ice from the rings to make your interstellar shield. Bam.

@theinqov Жыл бұрын

Using ice as a protective shield against radiation on space ships is an interesting idea. If there was a way to get water molecules to be attracted to the outside of your space ship would that work? So you wouldn't need to do manufacturing of ice, just a kind of fly-by.

@andyf4292 Жыл бұрын

spacecats...... sounds like a good film

@LordOberic1 Жыл бұрын

How do I know when/if JWST will focus on any of the popular alien star system? such as Zeta Reticulii. etc.

@strcat666 Жыл бұрын

Are there other/better tracking mounts then the newtonian mount? I just like to plug Sir Isaac newton for inviting the tracking mount.

@kcollett Жыл бұрын

Hoth hath the best Q&A.

@TLH442 Жыл бұрын

I think legs on the booster will happen after they see how bad the damage is when a booster or starship slams down and explodes like a vacuum bomb. Temporary legs why not? Need them eventually anyways. I think this is a mistake. The legs are heavy but they help insure timely success and protect valuable ground assets like tank farms. RUD on launch becomes the only risk to major infrastructures.

@Rob-eg8qc Жыл бұрын

My cat "Apollo" would love to go on a mission to the stars.

@timbrewster6679 Жыл бұрын

Hey Fraser I can't find my original question I had. It had to do with the expansion of the universe and u told me to DM you but I couldn't figure out how to do that

@rowlflikes944 Жыл бұрын

Question - As we know the moon is slowly moving away from the Earth. What happens when it breaks free of the Earth? Does it become a rough moon and moves thru the cosmos? Is it drawn into the Sun? Does it set up its own orbit plane? If it is in its own orbit or share the same orbit of Earth…would a collision be inevitable? Also if the moons moves does it disrupt Esrt’s orbit?

@aaronburgin3246 Жыл бұрын

My question is would virtual particles pop into existence and then annihilate. One. Another could that be an explanation for the expansion of the universe? Also could it contribute to the big bag as well?

@billmilosz Жыл бұрын

Personal opinion: Starship + superheavy will eventually become a successful system. Further development of Starship will also then occur... it may take a lot of trials. I doubt that they will try to catch the booster until they do many trials and have some confidence.

@poletooke4691 Жыл бұрын

I'll vote Yavin.

@ruspj Жыл бұрын

hey its looking a bit dark in there any plans to bring back the old bright forest green screen ? lol

@solarwizzo8667 Жыл бұрын

BESPIN, because I feel it was NOT well answered. Your answer raised more Follow-Up Question for me: From my understanding it would make a difference at what angle an object approaches a black hole, wouldn´t it? If the object (Rogue planet or whatever...) is on a tangential trajectory close to its ecliptic it would end up in the accretion disk, pulled into an orbit and torn apart by the extreme gravity. I understand that. But what, if the original trajectory is aimed dead center at the point of singularity or at a point within the event horizon? Or if it approaches the "North/South Pole" of the black hole. Wouldn´t that be a straight swallow-up? What about an object, that hits the accretion disk from above or below? I imagine mud hits the fan-type effects? Wouldn´t the 2D accretion disk turn into an 3D accretion ball? Love your content!

@dave4882 Жыл бұрын

Would the JWST be able to see an exoplanet in the Centari system?

@ivantuma7969 Жыл бұрын

if the rogue planet was moving at relativistic speed (10% the speed of light - and these do exist) ... depending on its mass wouldn't it just maybe partially get torn apart, but most of it would just pass through? My related question would be - what if a planet sized object moving at relativistic speed hit a black hole head-on ... would the time dilation near the event horizon basically just cause it to spaghettify into the accretion disk because time slows down so much at that point (in other words - nothing can pierce the event horizon "period" without going through the accretion disk first.

@michaelgoble8928 Жыл бұрын

Question: considering E=MC2, and assuming there is a boson that carries the gravity force or something that works similarly to create that force… is it possible that a black hole is converting the fermions on fatter into bosons? Seems one could stack as many bosons as one you want without need space? Perhaps as this conversion happens as matter enters the event horizon and the resulting excess energy creates the GRBs we see only when black holes are eating? Thank you the shows are amazing! 🎃

@sulljoh1 Жыл бұрын

Kamino for sure

@rmavro 4 ай бұрын

Please explain dust. Is it microscopic or planet sized or both?

@NeilABliss Жыл бұрын

Oceanside Telescope....nice..... if it wasn't for the rain, much of the island would be excellent viewing areas.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

I have dark skies on my island, they're just hidden behind the rain clouds

@NeilABliss Жыл бұрын

@@frasercain I'm familiar with that Island....lived in P'ville for years.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

You had a good view of my home island from there... Hornby. :-)

@quiron139 Жыл бұрын

Naboo :)

@crp9985 Жыл бұрын

In the end, I believe Starship's best use will be to get heavy payloads into space to build space ships that are better suited to solar system travel. Maybe nuclear engines, artificial gravity, large ships with decent size landers for where ever. Etc. etc. I do not think Starship will ever fly a bunch of people to Mars.

@jeffjefferson7384 Жыл бұрын

A Venus + Mars human flyby mission by 2030 might be the best start. Landing on (and taking off from) Mars is still dangerous and difficult.

@legacysearches4481 Жыл бұрын

You don't need to drop $5,000. A quality wide field scope or lens with a digital camera on a star tracker or light weight equatorial mount can be done for under $2,000.

@FinGeek4now Жыл бұрын

Where is it habitable in the solar system? Well, depending on what you mean by habitable, every square inch of the solar system out to the Oort cloud and beyond would be habitable. All it would take would be a little bit of research into advanced materials, heating/cooling systems, and logistics. I might be understating the "little bit" part a tad, but whatever. Also: If I was chosen to go to Mars and be the first one to touch down on the planet, the first thing I would say would be, "Mission control, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore, over."

@rulesofimgur Жыл бұрын

Ignoring the pure science fiction aspects, do you think that the book Project Hail Mary by Andy whier has an accurate representation of interstellar travel? How close could we get to the technology used in the book?

@sagmilling Жыл бұрын

Kamino for the stew.

@robertgraybeard3750 Жыл бұрын

at 30:20 Yes, that's a great idea. An AI factory rendezvous with a comet and grows/manufactures AI spacships, launches them on separate orbits to go to cislunar space by using the comet volatiles as reaction mass? Should be possible less than a century from now.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

Sounds good, let's get to it. 😀

@sunny_ua Жыл бұрын

Speaking of ice spaceships, couldn't we find a small asteroid (say, building-sized), park it around the Earth, hollow it out, put some thrusters on it for maneuvering, pack up all we need, fire up the thrusters and just keep using the rock as a spaceship?

@TechNed Жыл бұрын

Pet space crickets: Fun and delicious.

@batbat224 Жыл бұрын

“Coruscant” When eventually the earth is tidally locked with the moon wouldn’t be bad for whatever city or area that was underneath the Moons shadow ?

@zapfanzapfan Жыл бұрын

Kamino. I'll bring a cat and name him "Spot" 🐱

@ArmoredNeko Жыл бұрын

When we start to actually live in space, with tens of thousands of ppl living in orbit I can see ppl at least try to bring pets to space with them. And we'll see if any animal could adapt to low or zero g, if they can't well guess they'll have to stay in rotating rings or the moon bases. I for one can't wait to see all the crazy moves a cat can do once it's adapted to zero/low g environment.

@tambourine_man Жыл бұрын

Hey Fraser, since the universe is expanding, shouldn’t a wide spectrum telescope see a light trail going from infrared to ultraviolet instead of a fixed point image of a star? Like a slow shutter photo of a hue changing car headlight? I mean, light emitted 10b years ago from a star reaches us with a different wavelength and position in the sky than the light emitted by that same star 5b years later, right? Shouldn’t that draw a light trail? Love your channel, thanks

@tambourine_man Жыл бұрын

Thanks Fraser. Got it now. Your channel is one of those ever rarer places where the internet is still, against all odds, unbelievably amazing. Answer: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbmkZKSitb_Im4E.html

@russellosborne4051 Жыл бұрын

Conditions of the tornado on earth compared to everywhere else seems so much like these black holes and if you remove the air and atmosphere and look at the possibilities of speed this thing must rotate no wonder it cares everything apart and sucks it in you know it ends up somewhere else

@misskrissie9893 Жыл бұрын

So I have a few questions but I will start with this one, and it may sound stupid but it makes sense to me. Let's say that we were to be able to design a flashlight that can easily be shined upon, and seen on the surface of the moon. If we did so, would we see the light hitting the moon at the speed of light, or at half the speed of light? Half the speed being that the light would hit the surface, but would have to reflect back at the same speed to our eyes. Now obviously the time discrepancy is very small when speeking on the speed of light on an object as close as our moon, but the question still applies.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

If you turned on the flashlight, you'd see the light on the Moon 2.6 seconds after. The light takes 1.3 seconds to get to the Moon, and then 1.3 seconds to reflect off it and come back to your eyes.

@misskrissie9893 Жыл бұрын

@@frasercain Thank you. :) That's exactly what I was thinking, but I had to ask in case.

@kayakMike1000 Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... Not a bad question.

@radioboyintj Жыл бұрын

Ok how do you heat it?

@michaelpettersson4919 Жыл бұрын

Aren't comets essentially icebergs in space? Maybe drill out living quarters inside one and attach rocket engines on it etc.

@MrVillabolo Жыл бұрын

I oppose Starship because it is too complex and fragile; a lot could go wrong with it. Remember the Space Shuttle of which 2 out of 135 flights were disasters. Would Starship have the same rate of catastrophic failures? How would that impact the public perception if a hundred people were to die? In its place, I would have Sea Dragon, an old 1960s design for a huge, reusable ship with a 550 ton payload. It is an extremely simple design. The simpler something is the more reliable it becomes. It would be launched from sea, thus avoiding the destruction of a launch pad.

@Usurped Жыл бұрын

In UK seemed dark this morning was it to do with the asteroid going between the moon and earth?

@Usurped Жыл бұрын

Hi, I guessed my question was too simplistic, Ive been hearing about asteroids coming near Earth, 2 in the last couple of days, we had a short heavy storm with torrential rain the first day, and it was very dark this morning, one was suppost to come between the Earth and moon would an Asteroid affect our weather, the asteroids had numbers that I cant remember, Im 74.

@chrisoconnell8432 Жыл бұрын

I've been saying for years that crickets are the protein of the future. They are quite common as a food in Mexico, I've seen them mixed in with guacamole and as a pizza toping. I've tried them and they're... meh. Given a choice I'll take steak every time, but on Mars you're not going to get that option. I can also see beef becoming too expensive for the average person to afford to the point where crickets make more sense.

@petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

Metal eating Cyber space locust swarms ... Yeah, no

@edwardrichard5665 Жыл бұрын

How many guests show up at your dinner parties?🤮

@chrisoconnell8432 Жыл бұрын

@@edwardrichard5665 lots show up, then they all quietly leave. I don’t get it 🤷‍♂️ 😆

@filonin2 Жыл бұрын

Coruscant

@DerInterloper Жыл бұрын

Onions have layers. 12:33

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

So do ogres.

@harshalshah4685 Жыл бұрын

Kamino Instead of raising crickets we'll probably be growing mushrooms and then if the technology has advanced enough, maybe texturized cloned tissue 🥩🍗. Could you imagine what would happen if the crickets broke containment? They'd get everywhere and in everything that wasn't hermetically sealed.

@MrVillabolo Жыл бұрын

Mushrooms have barely any calories. I would prefer RockawayCCW's woodchucks or chickens. Something will have to be done with the skeleton and flesh that is not eaten.

@masterofthegame8764 Жыл бұрын

What hapens if you leave a big mountain like ice in space?

@Threedog1963 Жыл бұрын

Kamino I disagree with your proposal that crickets would be used as protein source though since there are many protein rich plants available and I'd eat beans and legumes 24/7 before a cricket ever gets close to my mouth. Now, if we found a planet that has fish, I'd use the crickets as bait.

@frasercain Жыл бұрын

They asked about pets. Are plants pets?