Nigel Nahous

Holy moly…. 🤯 Can see Venus in second image at lower right

@luke_leisher_ Unless they are already colonized.

Terraforming every non-gas giant uninhabited planet in the galaxy into earth N+1 is our moral obligation, actually.

@Robotbeat @ChrispyLispy Mars and earth have similar atmospheric escape rates at the moment, but that changes during solar storms or higher solar activity. If we can liberate enough surface gases to offset that lost to atmospheric erosion then we can build up the atmosphere.

@NigelNahous @ChrispyLispy Nope. Only relevant over 100 million year timescales. Super annoying this fact is almost never mentioned.

10 million tons of solar mirrors with 5g/m^2 density could provide a Petawatt of sunshine to liberate volatiles on Mars. That should be enough to partly terraform the planet. That’s 1 year of Starship’s launch capacity, according to recent presentation. They’ll last >10yrs.

@erikfinman Beautiful rendering

This is what a terraformed Mars can look like by 2060.

@Truthful_ast @KYKYPY3A_B Honestly my favorite startup sound

@KYKYPY3A_B Yep youtu.be/X2dEpe8WS1A

It's the old ignition sound that was sampled and has been in KSP mods for years, I lost my damn mind hearing them spam the same sound FX 😭😭

@Truthful_ast Interesting that we don’t have any failed giant cores in the solar system, unless they’ve been dynamically ejected or scattered deep into the outer system such that we can’t detect them. Planet 9 may be one of it exists.

I’d trade these 3 boring slobs instantly for a Mars sized ice world with rings

Grateful for a community that shows up. This weekend, 585 volunteers covered all 6.5 miles of Boca Chica Beach and removed 5,740 lbs of debris. Thank you to our partners at Cameron County, @SpaceX, @TXAdoptABeach, and @TXGLO

@highfreqhertz Same thing I mentioned

“devastation” They literally have been coordinating beach cleanups with actual environmentalists.

@SciGuySpace What the hell is going on with this program

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman just testified before Congress that both the Lunar Gateway habitable modules delivered to NASA (HALO and I-HAB) were corroded. 🚨

@BradRTorgersen @StephenFleming I’m wondering if Venus is the way it is because it doesn’t have plate tectonics to recycle the co2 back into the mantle. So all the carbonates form as deposits and stay on the surface then the runaway greenhouse decomposes it back into co2 that created the massive atmosphere.

Things that fascinate me: there must have been a point right around the time the oceans of Earth were first harboring simple life, that there were oceans covering Venus and Mars as well. Three watery sisters circling a younger sun. One of them would become an almost airless, freeze-dried desert. The other would become a cooked hellscape of sulfur-tinged carbon dioxide, pressurized to a terrestrial water depth of 200 feet. What circumstances spared the middle world? Was it the orbit? The fact Earth has a large moon? Was it that our planet has just enough volcanic activity for plate tectonics, but never enough to outgas lethal quantities of CO2? There might be a time in the future when Mars has oceans again. It will probably take thousands of years of harvesting and dropping Kuiper and Oort objects into the atmosphere. But it's a near certainty Venus will stay like it is until billions of years from now the sun swells up and swallows both it and the Earth. Because there's no obvious way to put all that CO2 back into Venus' crust. Still, that finite period when the three worlds were truly clement . . . I wonder about it. And try to imagine what it would be like if those two ancient companions to Earth could somehow become now as they were then. What would it change about our space colonization effort? How much more urgent might we be?

@AnthonyFGomez We appreciate you and everyone for the work yall are doing at starbase.

@NigelNahous ALL absent. Not a single one. Meanwhile I'll probably end up cleaning that stupid costume and those signs off the dunes on the next cleanup.

youtu.be/xpGbvOK-ALE?si… Look at these uninformed idiots protesting the greatest conservation effort in the history of humanity. We just cleaned over 5,000 pounds of trash from the beach they came to pollute with their selfish ideology. I feel sorry for them. GO SPACEX! GO ELON!

@AnthonyFGomez 😔

Let's relive liftoff 🚀

BOOSTER TOUCHDOWN! “Never Tell Me The Odds” has done it again!

@SpaceKoala I feel like that typo was intentional for engagement

It's glorious

@mcrs987 They might want to reconsider pad 1 tank placement so close to the trench, or at least put a very durable and effective deflector wall between them.

can..? park there mate

First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

@Raptor_54321 Is that debris?

Holy moly! Holy shit! It was short but we could have had a 33 engine static fire attempt!