The Space Thread - Launches, Events, Live Streams, Governments, Corporations, drama in Spaaaaaaaaaaaace

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Catgirl Tyranid said:
Us retards don't know what we don't know so having an interesting side topic crop up like that is very welcome.
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Fair enough but counterpoint: Why not lurk in conspiracy or Flat Earth threads if that's what tickles your fancy? I don't see why the dedicated space thread should have to deal with "muh projected moon" mongoloids shitting it up with posts telling everyone other than them that they're stupid during an exciting event like this.

Anyway, does anyone here watch Scott Manley regularly? I remember subscribing to him years ago and I do click one of his videos every once in a while in the hopes of it actually being a fun watch but I don't remember the last time I finished watching one of his videos. It's not even that they're too technical or too in-depth, I don't think. I believe it's the way he structures his videos and the way he presents information. It's unfathomably boring to me and I just cannot seem to get into it at all, which is a shame because apart from the fact that I find his content sleep-inducing, he does cover space happenings very well.
 
imbecile said:
Fair enough but counterpoint: Why not lurk in conspiracy or Flat Earth threads if that's what tickles your fancy? I don't see why the dedicated space thread should have to deal with "muh projected moon" mongoloids shitting it up with posts telling everyone other than them that they're stupid during an exciting event like this.
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I'm a retard, not a masochist.
 
imbecile said:
Anyway, does anyone here watch Scott Manley regularly? I remember subscribing to him years ago and I do click one of his videos every once in a while in the hopes of it actually being a fun watch but I don't remember the last time I finished watching one of his videos. It's not even that they're too technical or too in-depth, I don't think. I believe it's the way he structures his videos and the way he presents information. It's unfathomably boring to me and I just cannot seem to get into it at all, which is a shame because apart from the fact that I find his content sleep-inducing, he does cover space happenings very well.
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I still mostly watch him but yeah, ever since he quit Apple to be full time Youtuber he's somehow gotten worse. They've gotten bloated and too long. The Space news updates used to be fairly quick and concise, but now he goes into long tangents about this or that so I start having to skip. Scott is a genius polymath and is general entertaining for sure still.

Tim Dodd's even worse though with that though. They get along and I wonder if they got their ideas from each other that more is better. It's a general trend lately with a lot of Youtubers.

Also, even though I don't think it was that bad, this is really funny.

 
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mlanguishi said:
I had a thought.. How badass would it be if Trump out of the blue gives these guys a legit old school ticker tape parade in NYC.
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NYC, absolutely not. But the celebration in DC for Americas 250th is likely to include them.
imbecile said:
Arguing with these retards only clutters up the thread with bad vibes. Let them seethe somewhere else.
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If that confuses and angers them they’d crumple seeing what a $300 astrophotography camera can do.
trent said:
Shame that Trump and Bibi's jawa genocide is distracting so many people from it.
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As if the doomers and leftists wouldn’t be crying about something else. Optimism and a genuine love of what humanity can accomplish does not interest these people.
 
mlanguishi said:
They get along and I wonder if they got their ideas from each other that more is better. It's a general trend lately with a lot of Youtubers.
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I'm sure I follow the same bunch of Space YouTubers as others here. Manly, House, Everyday, Felix, Ellie etc.

Some like Ellie I basically never watch. With the others, it usually comes down to whichever weekly news report, update comes up in my feed first and I'll skip through the video. I don't care about most of the reporting and they're all fairly interchangeaby. Tend to watch What About It or Marcus for the news break downs.

Does Scott Manly know adding the rainbow colors to his channel intro makes his channel seem extremely gay?

I tend to only watch Tim Dodd's live streams of launches or if he's interviewing Elon, touring Star base ect.

Vintage Space and Curious Droid have always been reliable for space history.
 
Screamer_2 said:
I'm sure I follow the same bunch of Space YouTubers as others here. Manly, House, Everyday, Felix, Ellie etc.

Some like Ellie I basically never watch. With the others, it usually comes down to whichever weekly news report, update comes up in my feed first and I'll skip through the video. I don't care about most of the reporting and they're all fairly interchangeaby. Tend to watch What About It or Marcus for the news break downs.

Does Scott Manly know adding the rainbow colors to his channel intro makes his channel seem extremely gay?

I tend to only watch Tim Dodd's live streams of launches or if he's interviewing Elon, touring Star base ect.

Vintage Space and Curious Droid have always been reliable for space history.
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Curious Droid's surprisingly good but after his health thing doesn't do as many. I used to watch House and Felix. There was also a guy called SpaceX in the News, he was good but threw in the towel and went into all out preacher or something irl.

Todd's the best live for sure. And yeah I wonder about Manley the rainbow. He's actually pretty responsive on youtube/X comments so someone could ask and he might answer. He does drinking live streams and can get pretty babbly about things too.
 
More new pics-

The Milky Way Galaxy from Orion, 04/07/2026.
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The Crew Module, 04/07/2026.
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Half and half. The far side on the left, near side on the right, 04/06/2026.
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imbecile said:
Fair enough but counterpoint: Why not lurk in conspiracy or Flat Earth threads if that's what tickles your fancy? I don't see why the dedicated space thread should have to deal with "muh projected moon" mongoloids shitting it up with posts telling everyone other than them that they're stupid during an exciting event like this.

Anyway, does anyone here watch Scott Manley regularly? I remember subscribing to him years ago and I do click one of his videos every once in a while in the hopes of it actually being a fun watch but I don't remember the last time I finished watching one of his videos. It's not even that they're too technical or too in-depth, I don't think. I believe it's the way he structures his videos and the way he presents information. It's unfathomably boring to me and I just cannot seem to get into it at all, which is a shame because apart from the fact that I find his content sleep-inducing, he does cover space happenings very well.
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I mostly watched Scott back when he was still playing KSP, which he does use now for visualizations of ongoing missions and such from what I know, but he long ago stopped playing it for entertainment or streaming it. Nowadays for KSP content I go with Raiz Space, dude has an incredible and very much underrated channel for that and I've learned quite a lot about space stuff and aeronautics from him. I always had an interest in space but KSP definitely kicked it into high gear. Quite frankly I think KSP should be part of physics/science curriculum in some cases, it genuinely does make learning orbital mechanics fun and functional, because you absolutely won't get fucking anywhere in that game without developing a baseline understanding of it.
 
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Told people I knew about this, obviously.
Responses:
"You really like that space thing"
"They just went far?"
"So they went a few km further"
"Did they land?"
"Why didn't they use the shuttle?"
"Why didn't they use spaceX?"

Edit: These were responses from adults.
 
imbecile said:
Fair enough but counterpoint: Why not lurk in conspiracy or Flat Earth threads if that's what tickles your fancy? I don't see why the dedicated space thread should have to deal with "muh projected moon" mongoloids shitting it up with posts telling everyone other than them that they're stupid during an exciting event like this.

Anyway, does anyone here watch Scott Manley regularly? I remember subscribing to him years ago and I do click one of his videos every once in a while in the hopes of it actually being a fun watch but I don't remember the last time I finished watching one of his videos. It's not even that they're too technical or too in-depth, I don't think. I believe it's the way he structures his videos and the way he presents information. It's unfathomably boring to me and I just cannot seem to get into it at all, which is a shame because apart from the fact that I find his content sleep-inducing, he does cover space happenings very well.
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you have produced at least as much offtopic verbiage as what you're complaining about
 
85CentSoda said:
That's my favorite response so far.
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The best answer is "NASA reused an engine from the shuttle so they kinda did"

The worst answer is "They didn't want this mission to be the explosive one."

Edit: when the spacecraft is rockin, don't come knockin (first time I've seen how drastic the astros working out actually moves the capsule, looks like it could easily whip the solar panels and damage them if they didn't lock them in place for exercise)

 
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