r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Nov 25 '24

JWST just dropped new photo of Sombrero Galaxy! James Webb

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u/Is12345aweakpassword Nov 25 '24

Give NASA the DOD budget. Let’s colonize the solar system

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u/RandomUselessPersonn Nov 25 '24

There has to be oil in other planets, we must take them over🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/I_Magnus Nov 25 '24

The oil must flow.

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u/LordCommander94 Nov 25 '24

Never let it stop, brother

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u/vidati Nov 25 '24

I understood that reference.

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u/MoistPunch8569 Nov 25 '24

i didn’t

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u/kiteloopy Nov 25 '24

lisan al gaib!!!!

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u/vidati Nov 25 '24

The Spice must flow. Is from Dune.

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u/MoistPunch8569 Nov 25 '24

i remember now, thank you

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u/STRYKER3008 Nov 26 '24

BIG MAC, BURGER KING, TACO BELL, WHOPPER

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '24 edited Nov 27 '24

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u/WalksTheMeats Nov 26 '24

False Flag a Middle East Space Program, we'll be there the week after a deepfake convinces Twitter a Mosque is orbiting Jupiter.

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u/BatBoss Nov 26 '24

I'm pretty sure Iraq is hiding the WMD's on Titan, we gotta get there and make sure the terrorists don't win. USA! USA! USA!

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u/Troll_Enthusiast Nov 25 '24

Idk about oil but there's a lot of other very important minerals

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u/Crotean Nov 25 '24

Just find an asteroid thats all gold. If we could actually colonize the solar system raw materials would become completely valueless because there is so much more of them out there than on the planet.

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u/MrOSUguy Nov 26 '24

Not lumber. We have very little respect for a resource that has never been found anywhere else

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u/24silver Nov 26 '24

how i feel when i play starbound and other planets has increddibly ugly plants and trees

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u/chetlin Nov 25 '24

This exoplanet could be largely diamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Cancri_e go here and put De Beers out of business.

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u/SwordfishOwn4855 Nov 25 '24

would be great for all the rare metals required for batteries

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u/DarthTigris Nov 26 '24

ME2 minigame PTSD increasing ...

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u/-drunk_russian- Nov 26 '24

"Really, Commander?... Sigh, probing Uranus"

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u/big_guyforyou Nov 25 '24

i heard there's oil coming out of uranus

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u/road_rascal Nov 25 '24

That's just the Olestra...

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u/I_Magnus Nov 25 '24

If you know, you know.

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u/BackWithAVengance Nov 25 '24

God those chips were good for all of 10 minutes

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u/Sotonic Nov 25 '24

Titan has lakes of hydrocarbons. Not oil, but still. Just lying in enormous lakes on the surface.

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u/cjinaz86 Nov 25 '24

Sounds like we need to introduce some democracy and freedom to those planets. 🎶Rock flag and eagle 🎶

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u/PhilosophyTop7674 Nov 25 '24

Rise up, kick a little ass.

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u/MrTheFinn Nov 25 '24

Titan has hydrocarbon lakes!

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u/BrickAdventurous6040 Nov 25 '24

Irony is that there is basically unlimited resources in the solar system

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u/Mooseandchicken Nov 25 '24

On a serious note tho, oil is a sign of life. It won't exist on another planet unless they went through a similar life cycle as our planet has.

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u/WheresWeeezy Nov 26 '24

I still can’t get past that. Currently it is one of the rarest things in the universe and we use it for everything.

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u/Butterpye Nov 26 '24

I mean, you can just make it in a lab so you can never run out of it. You can only run out of the cheap stuff that's premade in the ground.

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u/dmadmin Nov 26 '24

I thought sharing our freedom only meant for middle east on earth? We can import freedom to other planets?

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u/Sammyjo0689 Nov 25 '24

Hold on. That might work

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u/indisin Nov 26 '24

What we need is some aliens to start mining on one of them. You bet your ass they'd be learning democracy within 6 months.

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u/psidud Nov 26 '24

I think oil requires life at some point... right?

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u/smith0211 Nov 25 '24

afaik, there would have to have been life on a planet for there to be fossil fuel of any kind. Plenty of other materials though.

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u/ConsidereItHuge Nov 25 '24 edited Nov 25 '24

It tracks though, find life on alien object... Mine it.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Nov 25 '24

You could easily (in terms of creating factories and gas mines on gas giants or their moons) convert methane into methanol and bring it back for use as fuel.

Burning all that non-native fuel into CO2 on Earth, though, would not be ideal as there'd be no easy way to get it back offworld. But great for spacecraft

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u/Jazzlike_Common9005 Nov 26 '24 edited Nov 26 '24

Not exactly while many hyrdrocarbons on earth are referred to as fossil fuels because of how they are created on earth that doesn’t mean earth is the only place they are found. Hydrocarbons are actually very common throughout the universe. Saturns moon titan has hundreds of times the amount of hyrdrocarbons that earth has, it quite literally rains liquid methane and ethane.

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u/smith0211 Nov 26 '24

Fair enough. I suppose my comment should be restricted to just (crude?)oil and coal as those are more complex and directly due to dead plant and animal matter.

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u/Crowzero93 Nov 25 '24

If funding on nasa u will only get another good quality telescope but if you funding Elon Musk (space x) one day u can go that galaxy choose wisely which one do u spend ur tax

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u/Diligent_Barber3778 Nov 25 '24

Boots on the moon!

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u/Is12345aweakpassword Nov 25 '24

Criminally underrated show

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u/STRYKER3008 Nov 26 '24

What's the name?

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u/Is12345aweakpassword Nov 26 '24

Space Force on Netflix

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u/STRYKER3008 Nov 26 '24

Danke! 🖖

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u/Weak-Following-789 Nov 25 '24

it's time to colonize somewhere AS A FAMILY, EARTH!

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u/Cool_in_a_pool Nov 25 '24

I honestly hope that this is the unintended consequence of the creation of space force.

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u/Donner_Par_Tea_House Nov 25 '24

Let's match them in the middle?

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u/LeftRightRightUp Nov 25 '24

Unfortunately we humans cant trust other humans.

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u/McGarnacIe Nov 25 '24

Do we really want to live on Neptune?

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u/R3AL1Z3 Nov 25 '24

Musk is going to try to handicap NASA so SpaceX gets more government money.

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u/My_6th_Throwaway Nov 25 '24

Northrop Grumman built JWST and there are classified parts of JWST (basically the whole back of the mirror) that strongly hint that the tech is being used in spy satellites, so the NASA budget and DOD budget are kinda already the same thing.

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u/asdfgtttt Nov 26 '24

I mean hubble and her sisters are confirmation, and shes been up there for a while.. I will be fair, they do tell us THAT they are up there and even tell us when they launch missions.. its just WHAT exactly they tend to omit, but they do release a few drops of info.

https://newatlas.com/spysatellite/22813/

Hubble was a throwaway design in the end for NRO..

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u/My_6th_Throwaway Nov 26 '24

Yeah the KH-11 had a good run, thanks to the NRO for the help getting the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope going.

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u/ChirrBirry Nov 26 '24

Pax Terra Invictus

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u/jayicon97 Nov 26 '24

Hhahahahahahahahaha. Trump & Elon will decimate NASA. Book it. !remindme 2 years

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u/jayicon97 Nov 26 '24

!remindme 2 years

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u/horyo Nov 26 '24

Elon Musk: "not if I have anything to say about it!"

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '24

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u/STRYKER3008 Nov 26 '24

Would be better that it's for scientific research than war, no?

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u/YellowCardManKyle Nov 25 '24

Ironically this is Elon's goal

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u/Pbleadhead Nov 25 '24

why is that ironic?

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u/YellowCardManKyle Nov 25 '24

Because he's gonna remove funding from NASA

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u/gburgwardt Nov 25 '24

It might be cope, but I think the biggest target for budget cuts is SLS which really should have been cut forever ago. It's ridiculously expensive and doesn't perform well compared to the SpaceX alternative.

If NASA didn't get forced by Congress to spend all its money on a shitty launch platform they could do so much more

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u/Pbleadhead Nov 25 '24

oh. maybe.

I dont really care who does it, as long as we do it, and soon. :)

well. except if china were to do it. that might suck.

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u/bishopcheck Nov 25 '24

We already colonized our solar system....