James Webb Deep Field // Betelgeuse's Doing It Again // Starliner Fail

Betelgeuse is unexpectedly bright. An update of JWST’s Deep Field program. Big problems with the Boeing Starliner.
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00:00 Intro
00:13 Betelgeuse Is Acting Weird Again
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03:15 Webb Deep Field
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06:25 Organic Molecules Seen Farther Than Ever Before
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07:59 Last Week's Vote
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08:33 Why Jupiter Stripes Change Color
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10:14 Things Are Not Looking Good for Boeing
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12:09 NIAC Interviews
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13:22 Satellite Beams Power To Earth
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15:44 Cool Space Videos
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18:48 Outro
Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov
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[@hookeaires6637]

Seeing Betelgeuse in a supernova state would the icing on the cake of a lifetime of stargazing.

[@stephenwise3635]

I know!!! Epic :)

[@AnthropomorphicTrilobite]

"F- you too" - Life around Betelgeuse probably

[@greysnake2903]

You high?

[@mitseraffej5812]

Yes it sure would be a privilege to witness. So far the icing for me was over 50 years ago when a a kid was on a camping holiday with my family. One clear and moonless night I was lying on my back and I spotted a comet with my acute childhood eyesight. I tried to point it out to my father but he couldn’t see it and couldn’t find it with hand held binoculars. Over the following months I tracked the comet as it made its way across the sky and then to my horror and disappointment it was announced that a new comet had been discovered by some amateur astronomer. I still feel ripped off as it should have been named after me.

[@hookeaires6637]

@@mitseraffej5812 for me it began on a dark moonless night over sixty years ago as I watched a large meteor seemingly cross slowly from horizon to horizon, it’s incandescence bright and colorful. Not knowing what it was (assuming it was fireworks) I asked my dad and the neighbor who were not looking up, but chatting what it was, and they had time to witness it too. My dad answered “that’s a fireball”. By 1995 I had built a large reflector telescope so my kids could witness comet Swift-Tuttle. Life is good.

[@zenxavier2612]

I like the thought of Betelgeuse being ~500lyrs away but also estimated to be 10s to 100s of years before going nova, meaning its already gone nova, we're just waiting for it to get here.

[@movax20h]

Honestly we don't know when. It can take 100 thousand more years before it explodes. Or maybe it already exploded.

[@deltalima6703]

If it already exploded we would have seen it.

[@J_Caban]

@@deltalima6703not how it works

[@deltalima6703]

@Josue Caban oh really? You sure about that?

[@SynomDroni]

​@@deltalima6703yes, we are all sure about that.

[@a59x]

The work on graphics as you lay down the news just gets better and better, really amazing work being done behind the scenes to edit these videos i love it! Thank you.

[@afonsosantos8364]

And he dropped the boring repetíve intro. Improvements alround.

[@stuartivins7846]

Maybe it's the "attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion!" (Betelgeuse)

[@themog4911]

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

[@haikarate3876]

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." -- Roy Batty

[@absalomdraconis]

It occurs to me that the ancient myth of Orion being killed by the Scorpion would tie in nicely with a surge in brightness of Betelgeuse. I doubt that it's possible to know if that's where that myth came from, but it would be interesting if it was an ancient memory of a prehistorical surge in brightness.

[@CaryGuyer]

Very good thought process of what time really is to humans. Maybe the Egyptians had it right all along and knew way more than what we now know. I am a firm believer in time travel, just that humanity has yet to understand the fundamentals and principals of harnessing the forces needed to make it safely possible. For example, where did the map of what Antarctica looked like before becoming just a snow and ice covered continent? Who was around that long ago to see what it actually looked like........

[@davidsheckler4450]

It came from the same people that indoctrinated you into believing in space

[@SanderHollebrand]

Thanks for this update, it always makes me happy seeing you get so excited and joyful bringing us these spacebites.

[@jeremyeharris]

Love this segment each week, the quality of your work just keeps getting better and better. My vote this week goes for the Betelgeuse story 👍 I so want to see it go boom 🤞

[@seadog8807]

Great episode! Really well put together, interesting stories and commentary, thank you for posting! 👍👍

[@Rob2]

The reason that video of the landing Falcon 9 first stage appears to be so perfectly locked, is that this has been post-processed. A video is recorded that is not so perfectly tracking, and then a smaller section is cut out of this that is centered on the image of the rocket. So the result appears to track the rocket much better than it was in the original. You can see that when they zoom out at the landing, and a black bar appears at the top, revealing that they now don't have a recording of the part of the image that would have to be there. That issue would not occur on the raw video.

[@frasercain]

Ah, of course, I should have realized that. Have you seen those videos where the Milky Way remains in place and the Earth's horizon turns. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6utanmkhr2ggKs

[@Rob2]

@@frasercain Ah yes, that is a similar thing. When they would zoom in on only the milky way so the horizon is out of the picture, you would have a similar thing. But the video where I saw this technique used before was one from an amateur that tracked ISS and showed things like a spacewalk or a docking. He also uses similar post-processing to stabilize the image.

[@hairybear7705]

Oh no! Don't tell me. Next you'll be telling me Father Christmas isn't real!! Oh Calamity...

[@advorak8529]

As to the focus - infinity. We are hundreds of meters away from the rocket …

[@warrenosborne6044]

You explain concepts very well. From one goeey mass of stardust and water, thank you.

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot!

[@Raptorman0909]

Interesting to see how many people really want to see Betelgeuse blow up, I have to confess to being one of them. But, losing Betelgeuse would also be quite a loss as it is one of the brighter and most identifiable of stars given its location around Orion and its distinctive red color. Still, what a show that would be, nothing in our lifetime or the life time of all humans going back hundreds of years at least will compare to the show it should be. I do hope that there is always at least one good telescope watching Betelgeuse at all times. I also hope all the gravitational wave observatories are in operation when she pops... Of course, it might not pop for a million years.

[@armastat]

If it does go it will be a spectacular object for 100's of years. don't worry.

[@ltdees2362]

There will be no need of telescopes as it will be viewable night and day...by just looking up 😎

[@Raptorman0909]

@@ltdees2362 Seeing isn't the issue, anyone with eyes should be able to see it, the issue is having the tools watching it that can learn more about the process. Spectrographic tools for example. For a long time it was believed that heavy metals like gold were made in Supernovas but more recent understanding is that most of the heavy metals are created when neutron stars merge. Being able to quantify the waste products of a Supernova would be very valuable. Also, this star at about 600LY is actually fairly close and the Hubble can actually kind of image it -- can't do that with your eyeballs alone!

[@swinde]

As of today's date, July 2, 2023, no telescope on Earth or in space can image Betelgeuse, because it is too close to the Sun in the sky from Earth or anywhere near Earth perspective. It will become viewable again in late July in the early mornings worldwide.

[@armastat]

@@swinde For safety reasons this would be a good time for it to go boom. For entertainment it would suck. On the other hand we have - I think - 3 solar observation platforms around the sun who could see it in certain modes. Now that I think about it, their sensor types are even the best ones to use to analyze a Nova.

[@hive_indicator318]

The possibility of someone watching your channel but not the NIAC interviews is unbelievable. Id tell someone to watch them if nothing else. Great talks with amazing people you can't find anywhere else! Edit: please tell me the rain in Spain fell mainly on the plain

[@daveken9936]

Lex fridman

[@learnpianofastonline]

Thank you very much for sharing. Like you say, what a Time to be alive!

[@BLD426]

Really enjoying your channel Fraser. Thank you.

[@jeroenk3570]

I know you've been in there for a while now, but I like your new studio. The lighting is good and the image and sound are really on point.

[@frasercain]

Thanks, it's a process. Definitely so much easier to create content now.

[@soundararajanmanthiri1505]

Thank you for the excellent coverage of space news!

[@laudbentil8184]

Super excited about the NIAC interviews, great work!

[@williamsmithii4804]

JADES, my vote is definitely for the deep field of JWST. The find of orgo that soon, wow!!! I wonder how many super Nova would have to happen to get enough elements for large amount of orgo molecules,?

[@lagrangebees]

I really want to see a supernova too! (Thankfully we're at a safe distance :D)

[@frasercain]

Yeah, nothing dangerous is close.

[@yo-ry1np]

​@@frasercainwe hope

[@jurgenblick5491]

As always you deliver good info

[@alfonsopayra]

Fraser, do you know if the falcon 9 has any moving parts to transfer the center of mass from one tip to the other? i really can't grasp my mind around a huge steal hollow rod going up and down at tens the speed of sound and then landing like a hummingbird on a flower

[@basfinnis]

Great episode. So much great information 😘

[@MrJdsenior]

Plants are NOT doing it around my house right now, because it is dark. That's amazing, because the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. Couldn't resist.

[@jonarment1229]

I hope Betelgeuse 'splodes in our lifetimes 🤞👀🤞 What a magnificent site that would be, and what an honor it would be to witness it!

[@frasercain]

Yep, it would really be amazing if it actually happens on our watch.

[@billmilosz]

Will the pre-launch cabin announcement on the Starliner include "In the unlikely event of a water landing, your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device..."

[@frasercain]

I'm sure they'll have an enormous safety book.

[@hmp01]

Thanks for the news man!

[@triskeliand]

I like the starliner story. They really need to double check their MCAS systems, to the MAX

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Seeing these molecules are in line with doubting our ideas of deep time atleast in the concept of entropy time form.

[@Travisesty]

Awesome story. Love your KZbin channel and what you do!! I learn so much!!! Boeing will get it figured out. Better to find out now than something happens on flight 😮. Great job as always

[@paulwalsh2344]

Oh Fraser... I get it... Rockets that land like in Buck Rogers ! It's still gives me goosebumps !

[@frankyboy4409]

Hi, very random question: How would one measure mass in microgravity - lets say on board the ISS? I.e. I would imagine it comes up in various experiments, and apart from a centrifuge and measuring the pull i couldn't really come up with a decent way. And the centrifuge way might not be the best choice for all scenarios, for example if we want to measure how much biomass we produced in some plant growth experiment, where the object can be somewhat large (plus the plant might not take it kindly).

[@GrindThisGame]

I hope we get to see it!

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

The rain in Spain is mainly in (terfering with pictures of) the plains (of Mars being seen).

[@jeffreyschweitzer8289]

Thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one who remembers

[@goldfish31ful]

Will they put in a proposal to look at Betelguese with the JWST to see what's going on with it?

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

JWST will just see a point, it's mirror isn't big enough. You need an interfermeter telescope, they could use the Event Horizon Telescope to get a radar picture, for visible, they won't get high resolution like EHT, but you can use the Very Large Telescope to see how the radius changes.

[@patrickwalsh2361]

@@annaclarafenyo8185 thanks for that information Anna!

[@brick6347]

​@@annaclarafenyo8185 didn't they directly image Betelgeuse? It's the thumbnail. What telescope was used for that? Google says Hubble, but I'm skeptical.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

@@brick6347 In ultraviolet, where the wavelength is about twenty times smaller, so the Hubble mirror is effectively 20 times larger for resolution purposes. JWST doesn't do ultraviolet, only infrared AFAIK. If you want a good picture of Betelgeuse, any reasonable single-mirror telescope is too small IMO.

[@gavincurtis]

Is there a reason why JWST bypassed UV which would also make it 20X bigger?

[@hairybear7705]

I often stand in our darkened garden, in the Southern Hemisphere, gazing at Betelgeuse and quietly pleading "Go on, just do it! Just explode before I shake off this mortal coil." It never does. Eventually my wife calls me to come back indoors. She threaten's to speak to our doctor!

[@richardgabriel8088]

Hi Fraser love your content as always. Everywhere we look in space we detect CMB. Any chance that is what is pushing the expansion of the universe?? Inside of dark energy as we think?

[@robertbihn3005]

this is exciting ! thank you

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

That falcon 9 booster video is as brilliant and it is beautiful.

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati]

@Frasier Cain Would it make sense to launch a Solar Gravity Lens mission to catch Betelgeuse in the act? Or maybe send probes in it's direction for direct sampling and/or monitor the effects on the Heliosphere?

[@frasercain]

You could never reach it from here. I think it would be a great target for an SGL mission, though.

[@ericfielding2540]

I assume that the 500 light year distance of Betelgeuse is enough to protect Earth life from significant effects when it goes supernova. Maybe you covered this issue in a previous video. Great explanations. I also hope that Starliner flies successfully before too long.

[@frasercain]

Yeah, supernovae are only a problem if they're within 30 light-years or so.

[@ioresult]

About the perfect locked in view of Falcon 9 landing: several artifacts show that it's been digitally stabilized. First when the engine lights up, the rocket wobbles a bit. That means the view moved a bit and the shutter scan had an effect on the apparent size of the rocket. So it wobbled. Second, you can see the framing in top of the image when the rocket lands. That means the camera tracked too low. It was good, but it was not a perfect tracking.

[@sheaalexander157]

I’d guess the best definition of “live” would be “events communicated at the speed of whatever medium is communicating them, like speed of sound and speed of light. So I think you would still say the Mars cam is live, even though it’s delayed 15 minutes? Right?

[@aurtisanminer2827]

When Betelgeuse explodes everybody on the planet will experience what the summer is like at night in Alaska. Lol

[@frasercain]

It won't be that bright. Not a second Sun, more like a crappy moon.

[@aurtisanminer2827]

@@frasercain I was wondering about that. Still would be pretty incredible to see!

[@WillYouVid]

You're the only proponent of competitive market that I listen to without mumbling anarchist commentaries. You do great work Fräser and you've been doing it for so long!

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot! Monopolies are bad. It's like having only one internet provider in your area. That suuucks.

[@WillYouVid]

@@frasercain ahah that's for sure. Having only one internet provider is not what I wish for. Free, decentralized networks are what I wish for! Keep up the good work!

[@charlesball6519]

Space based power was a thing in the old Maxis/EA Sim City games. Microwave power, only caveat was that there was a disaster available where the satellite could get misaligned with the ground station and you have some nice crispy microwaved citizen sims. The video of the Falcon 9 landing was a software stabilized video, if you noticed how the top of the frame moves down near the end.

[@TheDarkFalcon]

Oh noooo the NIAC interviews finished? I found those really interesting. Oh well, here is hoping for next round not being tooo far away 🤞

[@jasonsinn9237]

Hey Fraser, what percentage of matter rotating around a quasar escapes the black hole and is ejected back into the universe? Have we ever measured this and if so how? Thanks and love the show!

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@frasercain]

Thanks as always!

[@benclawhauser886]

NASA contracting with private companies completely killed the vibe. It’s like awesome space exploration, except now we’re making a few rich a-holes way more rich… for some reason… 😒

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

A couple ways power from an orbiting satalite could become viable would be if most of the machinery/hardware was built from the moon or astroids or if we ever did get a space elevater built.

[@darrkstarg]

I really hope it goes supernova in my lifetime (and yours too Fraser!!!) Edit: Also hoping to see pop 3 stars via JWST.

[@frasercain]

Same. I'm so ready.

[@armastat]

I have it on ny list. right under a dual lap dance from Joey Heatherton and Ann-Margaret.

[@sookendestroy1]

Take a shot every time beteguise does something weird

[@richardzeitz54]

To see it go supernova, we all need to say "Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!" at the same moment. Maybe if we chew betel nuts and chant Betelgeuse?

[@frasercain]

It could happen.

[@dropshot1967]

I sure hope Betelgeuse will go nova in my lifetime. That would be even better than watching Halley's comet. It will need to hurry though. lol. So Betelgeuse is my favorite story this time. As for power from space. One of the big advantages when the technology is developed enough would be that the power receivers on earth would receive power long before sunrise and long after sunset. That would drastically reduce the time that energy needs to be stored or generated in another way. (if I remember correctly, there are even some satellite constellations that could generate power close to 24/7)

[@_lcfiorini]

This is exactly why I think wind farms are a better idea than solar panel arrays.

[@drbigmdftnu]

What would be the best way to beam energy? Signal going through storms, rain, wind, snow. But it seems a network of geostationary satellites with highly-efficient transmission of energy whether laser, microwave, radio...should give a nice boost to global grids.

[@yerry_verse]

The camera shacked a lot, but they stabilized the video, you tell for the black bar at the end of the landing sequence, Still a great video.

[@theonewhowas7709]

have to remember too.. we arent seeing the star as it is now.. but as it was... ( however long ago determined from speed of light) whatever many years ago

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@djashley2002]

It's probable that the main reason that Betelgeuse is behaving so weirdly is because of the mass ejection that caused it to dim in the first place. When that amount of material is ejected from a star there are going to be aftereffects, in this case large amounts of plasma sloshing around in the same way a bath sloshes around if you quickly pull a large bucket of water from it. In this case the effects on Betelgeuse would include shockwaves causing the core of the star to ring, and collisions between large amounts of plasma at very high speeds, the effects of which would lead to increased fusion and a brightening of the star.

[@_lcfiorini]

I wonder if these brightness fluctuations could be attributable to the end of an elementary burning cycle, be it Carbon, Oxygen or any other heavier element(s).

[@JungleJargon]

*Solution to the "Time Light Problem"* The reason why people often stumble over the *assumption* that light years in outer space equals the same measure of distance and passage of time on earth is because general relativity is not being taken into account. In general relativity, the local rate of time and the measure of distance depend on the amount of matter or mass in the vicinity. Locally, the rate of time and measure of distance doesn't change much inside of our galaxy. However, the distance in our line of sight between us and distant galaxies is extreme and running at a much faster rate of time as well as an expanded measure of distance outside our galaxy compared to where we are near Sagittarius A's Milky Way black hole (where our rate of time is much slower and our measure of distance is much more contracted). The same way the earth appears flat locally, our universe also appears to be flat locally. However, over great distances throughout the universe there are differing measures of distance and differing rates of time from black holes to the lagrange points between black holes where there is very little acceleration compared to our relatively flat contracted local frames of reference near Sagittarius A. When we observe other galaxies, we are effectively looking at vastly differing measures of time and distance relative to our local observations within the gravitational force of the mass of the Milky Way galaxy. This can lead to various observed phenomena as we look into outer space such as redshift, superluminal motion and the apparent faster motion of the outer spiral arms of galaxies. It's not the same as our flat observations of cats and dogs locally here on earth where we don't observe differing measures of distance and time. So the supposed expansion of the universe, imaginary inflatons, invisible dark matter and dark energy or vacuum energy are *not* required to explain the observed redshift of light from distant galaxies or the faster than expected motion of the outer spiral arms of galaxies. As predicted by general relativity, the expanded space between galaxies due to the absence of matter in our line of sight where much less acceleration can explain the observed redshift without the need for a nonsensical universe expanding into oblivion for no apparent reason and it explains the faster than expected motion of structures and objects the farther it is from supermassive black holes. It turns out that the vacuum energy of space is due to the frame dragging of black holes that are growing from gobbling up spacetime regardless of the amount of matter being consumed. Recent findings of a team of scientists have found that dark energy or vacuum energy is associated with supermassive black holes that are all growing in size, as opposed to an ever expanding universe. It turns out that light is blue shifted going into a gravitational well so the converse is true of being redshifted traveling great distances outside of gravitational wells. Supermassive black holes are the most powerful forces in the universe with far reaching effects of gravity and vacuum energy. The problem and solution is that between galaxies, all of the galaxies all around are all together pulling and drawing in spacetime as well as exerting equal gravitational forces on empty space. This is the reason there is very little acceleration between galaxies and where there is expanded distance and a faster rate of time. The clocks are running faster outside of galaxies and the measuring sticks are larger meaning things are actually less distant than they appear. The more gravity drops off outside of the galaxy and in between galaxies, the more distance will be expanded and the faster the rate of time will be. As predicted by general relativity, the expanded space between galaxies due to the absence of matter in our line of sight where there is less acceleration explains the observed redshift without the need for a nonsensical universe expanding into oblivion for no apparent reason at all. The differing rates of time and differing measures of distance also explain *how* a day is the same as a thousand years and a thousand years is the same as a day, at the same time in the same universe. 13.8 billion years is the same as 6,000 years and 6,000 years is the same as 13.8 billion years *within the same created universe!*

[@ophirmadar]

Hi Fraser, Firstly thank you for all your hardwork! Your podcast makes long distance driving much more enjoyable with something interesting to listen too! I’ve been wondering for a while, have we been thinking about terraforming all wrong. Shouldn’t we be focusing on “bio-forming” . So instead of trying to make a planet like earth, we make a dynamic ecosystem which is setup for organisms on that specific world. Such as creating a biosphere on Mars which creates its own magnetosphere via bio-magnetism. Is this all gobbledygook or actually feasible? Thanks, Ophir

[@frasercain]

I can't think of how an organism could generate a magnetic field that's equivalent to a 1000 km ball of spinning metal. But it could help produce an atmosphere that would help block the radiation.

[@liamgross7217]

Hi Frazer please do a piece on Cecilia Payne, a brilliant astronomer long overlooked.

[@universemaps]

Yes, what a time to be alive!!

[@Morntong]

Did anyone notice what looked like lightning on the Mars live stream at 17:38? About four frames have a moving flash but it would be really big, so it must be a glitch.

[@vdiitd]

How are they transmitting the power to and from space? Wouldn't it be dangerous with more power, in case of some issues with the satellite or if something get in between?

[@adamdezsi]

My new favorite drinking game is taking a shot every time Fraser says STRONOMERS... Send help!

[@frasercain]

Take care of your liver...

[@ltdees2362]

Being 73 I would not expect to be around to witness the supernova phenomenon of Betelgeuse...but what an absolute life experience that would be...terrifying but at the same time, the most fantastical, beautiful show the cosmos could ever provide us...🌃

[@dmon1088]

Quite interesting, the contrast between our sentiment about it and that of a hypothetical civilization that exists within the kill zone..

[@AstroEphemeris]

9:45 Just spitting ideas. But it would be cool to know if, Jupiter being Jupiter had a collision with another smaller planet or other with a core. But it had a different density which is why there seems to be separation and influence on the surface scans.

[@UngaMan]

I would also like to see it, but please... (my wishful thinking) during the Northern Winter. If it goes off in summer, we all be veeeery dissapointed!

[@Milan_Openfeint]

15:24 I am unable to find the "Space Power Grid" interview...?

[@frasercain]

Here it is kzbin.infoXDWTPGPoqko

[@yanchee2023]

I was wondering if could we map the path of our galaxy could we look back at that region of space and see our own path space?

[@sirjimmy71]

Did the rain in Spain fall mainly on the plain?

[@blogsfred3187]

Was the rain in Spain mainly on the plain?

[@iRwatcher]

Space based power might find a niche in solving the long haul electric aircraft problem. Battery technology might advance sufficiently to negate even that, but it's a use case where I can't think of an alternative power source that doesn't involve hybrid propulsion.

[@ianmatthews7385]

Rumor has it if you say Betelgeuse 3 times in a row it will explode!

[@alanmassoli5989]

A bit off topic on this week's show but... Did anyone else sign their name on to the poem that's going along for the ride aboard the Europa Clipper spacecraft?

[@charlessomerset9754]

In Bladerunner, when Roy Batty gives his iconic speech at the end, he says in part; "If you could see what Ive seen with these eyes. Attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion." It was many years later that I realized that the shoulder of Orion is actually Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis). Just putting that out there. Kinda wonder if those attack ship were on fire because of war, or Betelgeuse was throwing a fit and hitting them with unexpected solar flares about a thousand times more lethal than our sun. Becuase if you think about it, there couldnt be an offworld colony there. Betelgeuse is far too volatile.

[@D0li0]

At 14:45, isn't it literally possible and no longer theoretically possible, since they succeeded with a demonatrator project? Not sure how practical it is, but it sounds like it's no longer just theory, then again i think we have demonstrated terrestrial power transmission this way before.

[@privateerburrows]

What NASA could do regarding Starliner's electrical cabling and its flammable insulation is to paint all the cables with West System epoxy, the hardest and toughest epoxy in the universe (used for boats and canoes), and absolutely non-flammable. Far cheaper than having to redo the wiring, and far easier than to wrap anything around the cables; and probably far safer, as a wrapping would leave gaps, while a couple of coats of epoxy will probably not leave even a single point of exposed flammable material.

[@frasercain]

I wonder about the additional weight?

[@privateerburrows]

@@frasercain This WS epoxy is pretty light, in spite of its amazing strength. I know because when I've used it I often had a glassful of mixed liquid left-over, which solidified in the plastic cup or whatever I mixed it in, and then it hardened and I kept it as a souvenir, and it is definitely lighter than water. And thinking about this in comparative terms, the solution that NASA considered, of over-wrapping all the cables, THAT would definitely add more weight than a coat or two of this epoxy varnish. To get to a millimeter thickness, as used to bullet-proof those kayaks for navigating rocky rapids, for example, it takes about 10 coats of the stuff. This solution would be superior, in that a manual over-wrap would leave gaps, whereas painting with epoxy, specially a double-coat, would not leave even a point anywhere of exposed flammable material. Additionally, WS epoxy is the toughest in the world, famous for it, and so doing this would strengthen all the cabling against accelerations, vibration and whatnot. I left a message for NASA through their website Contact; I hope they read it and consider it. EDIT: Been looking for density info on West System epoxy, but can't find density data. However, suffice it to say that this epoxy does not "want" to be applied thickly; it "slowly runs", pardon the oxymoronic sound... This is counterintuitive because it is quite viscous, which one might incorrectly assume to imply something about surface tension ... West System epoxy has almost zero surface tension; it flows slowly but it flows steadily. If you paint it on top of a wooden surface with a thin crack, it will slowly but steadily penetrate the crack and start dripping from the underside. Painting cables with it, and trying to be "generous" with it, would probably result in the stuff dribbling down the cable to the lowest point and dripping from there; so it kind of forces you to apply it thinly for it to NOT do that.

[@johnburr9463]

Did rain in Spain stay mainly on the plains.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

Space based solar power good for polar orbit satellites, down to temporary science or military outposts where the extra infrastructure would be hard to bring. In the summer get power above the Arctic, 45 minutes later you're beaming it to Antarctica.

[@kaarlimakela3413]

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.

[@jennifersaar1611]

I'd also like to add that the JWST images of these earliest galaxies are beginning to show up on Galaxy Zoo for classification. If you're someone who likes astronomy and has some spare time, you might want to take a look. (For those who don't know what I'm talking about, Galaxy Zoo relies on citizen scientists to classify galaxies and point out anything of note. Occasionally you'll see something really spectacular.)

[@frasercain]

That's fantastic. Many hands make light work.

[@abc_def-55]

14:45 I think it demonstrated it to be possible in practice, not just in theory, considering they did it. ;) 18:20 It's been stabilized in post, far less impressive of a feat than perfect tracking with a camera. Still a pretty cool video though, even if my vfx-artist side is bothered by the shoddiness of the execution and the absolutely zero effort made to avoid the stabilization artifacts. :)

[@frasercain]

Yes, of course. Yeah, I should have realized that it was stabilized in post...

[@peterblasek7356]

It's as live as it gets!

[@frasercain]

It's in your light cone, anyway.

[@SpaceG95]

Was the rain in Spain falling mainly in the plains? 🤔

[@Chumhart]

Using entangled particles for point-to-point audio particles

[@WthyrBendragon]

Re: Jupiter's blue spot... Is it possible that Jupiter has what could be described as a compound core where there are 2 or more large masses of heavy material rolling around each other? I would imagine such a configuration could exist if high mass or high density objects conjoined during the early formation of the planet without collapsing into each other.

[@RodMartinJr]

The problem with expecting life from quasi-organic materials is that we still don't know the methods by which nature *_could_* have developed life. Too many steps along the way require the materials formed to be *_protected_* for an extended period of time. But even if you had ALL of the building blocks near one another, the *_Granddaddy of Hurdles_* is the mind-numbing crunch called *_"intelligence."_* How did intelligent code (DNA, RNA) first form without a "programmer?" What process in nature would create DNA code naturally? Arguably, NONE!... *_Ouch!_* 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯

[@thedenial]

Question: Do we know of any worlds sufficiently close to Betelgeuse that the supernovae would be more than just a light show?

[@johnpeace1149]

Google said no.

[@tauceti8060]

There are several stars withing 10 Light years of the sun so no doubt there are atars withing 10 light years of beatelgeuse and beyond and no doubt some of these stars have planets.

[@DrDeuteron]

@@tauceti8060 not for long

[@FleshWizard69420]

​@@DrDeuteron they're gonna get incinerated lol

[@TimberStiffy_]

there's a 2200 day cycle and 3 shorter period brightness cycles, so I would assume it's burning carbon to neon/Oxygen. if it's large enough to supernova it's got less than 10k years, if it's nearing the end of the carbon cycle it could be ~ 200 years to 20 years away from exploding. neon ~ 15 years. Oxygen ~ 6 years. Silicon ~ days. Iron ----> boom

[@rpk5568]

It rained in Spain, were they on the plain?

[@nymike907]

As everything is cyclical the old universe collapsed and boom, the big bang happened but this may have happened in multiple places and different times across the universe. It would be silly to think there was only one big bang. It would be like thinking there was only one galaxy or one star system. This concept would allow for differences in our thoughts on distance and time.

[@pgantioch8362]

Technically, the Great Red Spot is an anti-cyclone. It’s in Jupiter’s Southern Hemisphere but rotates counter-clockwise.

[@jc4evur661]

So when will we see the 32-day JWST Ultra Deep Field?

[@TimDavies1955]

Might be a series of micro novas , could go on foe a very long time ?

[@RodMartinJr]

Having *_competent_* competition is far better than merely the *_Lowest Bidder_* on a contract! Astronauts in the 1960s worried about such things. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯

[@tekoneiric]

Maybe if all of humanity says "Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse" at the same time, it'll explode. :D

[@Bowie_E]

What would a hypothetical planet like ours, in betelgeuse's goldilocks zone, have been going through these last few years until now (taking into account the speed of light, I know it'd be in the past technically but you know what I mean)? Thank you so much 🤗

[@AbAb-th5qe]

Betelgeuse is only around 10 million years old. It's the wrong sort of star to support the evolution of life as we know it. Goldilocks zone or not, there hasn't been enough time.

[@zachb8012]

If the first stars in the early universe had much shorter lifespans and all formed about the same time, shouldn't there be a sweet spot in time where super novae happened with relatively common frequency? Is that something observed? Expected?