What, no thread on DART?

[cytg111]

So NASA has launched Bruce Willis into outer space on a mission to punch The Rock in the face.

Slightly misleading... anyway, here:

 

[IronWing]

Maybe the asteroid will return fire.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

This is like flicking a bug at a speeding freight train.

 

[eelw]

Precision lock on Dimorphos!!!

 

[brianmanahan]

This is like flicking a bug at a speeding freight train.

well you don't want to perturb it too much

 

[Artorias]

Niel has got a video explain more about it.

 

[eelw]

Impressive. Only 38 second video signal delay.

 

[cytg111]

t-2m

 

[brianmanahan]

i feel like i just watched armageddon IRL

 

[eelw]

Got teary eyed there

 

[cytg111]

RIP Bruce Willis

 

[cytg111]

Mankind is pretty friggin awesome when we wanna be.

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1574543024448851975

nice, one for the dino's

 

[IronWing]

That asteroid is really cool, a bunch of little asteroids stuck together.

 

[Amused]

We now know with absolute confidence that NASA is not storm troopers.

 

[BoomerD]

Google celebrates NASA's DART mission with a new search gimmick

In celebration of NASA's DART mission, searching for information about it will result in an animation and tipped screen.

www.npr.org

NASA DART - Google Suche

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Ahhh, so there WAS another thread.

 

[snoopy7548]

I hope it knocks the asteroid onto a course with Earth and we all die.

 

[brianmanahan]

I hope it knocks the asteroid onto a course with Earth and we all die.

well aren't you a peach

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got around to watching the footage, Imagine watching this live when it's the real thing I think we'd all be glued to the screen. It was really neat to see the surface of it, I never realized it was very "planet like" with individual rocks on it, I always thought it was just a giant rock.

I still don't get how sending something relatively small dead on can actually affect the trajectory as it's like trying to stop a runaway cement truck with a gun shot, but I will assume NASA knows what they're doing. You only need to divert it slightly so guess in the end it would make a difference.

 

[IronWing]

In the real deal, the probe would bury a barb deep into the asteroid and then deploy tethered helium balloons to float the asteroid away from earth.

 

[BoomerD]

So...how do we KNOW this actually worked? Are we just supposed to take the word of the people who lied to us and fooled us into believing we had actually landed men on the moon?

(The moon landings actually took place on a big set in Area 51.)
Everyone knows this.

 

[Racan]

Looks surreal

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/xp8nsb

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/xp4le6

 

[Racan]

 

[jpiniero]

I don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cuz I miss you, baby
And I don't want to miss a thing