So if orbiting earth doesn’t count as “on earth”, why does sitting in a plane just couple hundred kilometers away count?
The End of an Era
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hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The limit of space is widely defined as 100 km, which no commercial plane even nearly crosses.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Yeah that’s called Kármán line, but it’s just arbitrary line. ISS is still orbiting within Earth’s thermosphere
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I was recently talking about this but with the moon. I’m not sure about a moon base but the next time mankind will land on the moon is 2028. If they settle and get a rotation going for supplies people could probably be living on the moon in 2030.
Enjoy looking up at a deserted moon while it lasts, soon you’ll always be looking up at moonmen.
OhioComrade@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Both NASA and China are planning some kind of bases. So with both those going it could very well be a Moon era.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
at least one
Imagine being the one and only person in space. I consider myself a pretty extreme loner, but even I think that would be terrifying.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
there’s some places on earth where when the iss files over they’re gonna be the closest other human to you if there’s anyone on board at the time:
TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
That’s probably when the timeline split, and we got stuck in this one.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
8 days after that was when Bush Jr won the presidency over Al Gore due to a bullshit call by the state his brother was the governor of.
rmuk@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Can you imagine how extraordinary different our lives would be today if Al Gore was the President on 9/11 so Dubya couldn’t use it as an excuse to reboot his Daddy’s war? Fuck every single irredeemable fucktard involved in that deliberate choice.
guitarfosec@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I think it was in 2016. The Cubs won the World Series a week before Trump won the election. I blame a Cubs fan with a monkey’s paw or time machine.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Well the ISS will be destroyed in a few years so idk if this will be true
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
China has a station. There are others planned.
It’s likely it will be true, even if it’s not the ISS or a NASA funded station.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Artemis II landed yesterday after returning from orbiting the moon. In a test flight mission that marks the beginning for long term plans for a lunar station, a base of operations for going to mars.
Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That we know of…
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Is this another site where the reply is positioned above the quote? How does this bother noone?
Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
looks like ex-Twitter with dark reader extension or similar
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
That’s fucking awesome
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
At least we all got one last Halloween together :’)
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A fucking sentient encyclopedia:
Mercy (Overwatch) Offers a Hand meme
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
the future is now old man
TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I have a love/hate relationship with a lack of a comma somewhere around “old” in your message.