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The highly dangerous nature of a Sampler's work requires the most iron discipline and strict adherence to safety protocols. Combine this with each crew member typically having a deep understanding of his work and equipment and you have some of the most competent spacers in the galaxy, for everyone knows an incompetent Sampler is already a dead one.
Samplers are known for running some of the tightest ships in the known galaxy. In 2344, whe a Union ambassador was visitng Sampler 7 on a friendly cultural exchange, he told a Sleigh crew that they had a "near-military" discipline, thinking he was paying them a compliment. By the time his Marine escort had pulled off two ensigns from him, he'd realised his error. This incident is remembered as the "Night of a Thousand Apologies."
But, if Samplers are known for their rigid discipline while on-duty and conducting mining operations, they are also known to celebrate life in its fullest when off-duty.
Indeed, a sun-ship with empty holds coming off-rotation is a completely different ship. To bleed off the stress that comes with one of the most dangerous jobs around, Sampler crews will engage in all sorts of antics. Fart-gas in the ventilation, expanding foam in the shower tanks, food fights and pranks of all kinds are commonplace everywhere but the engine room, which is off-limits.
The crew of the Republic-registered SS Dirty Fracker perphaps took things a little too far. After a particularly taxing mining shift and dispersal of their neutrons, the head chef decided to spike the celebratory meal with Angorian liquor. After an inebriated food fight the crew and captain headed to quarters to sleep it off. The mining shift, however, was up to mischief as usual. The captain woke up to find himself locked in his cabin.
The miners hijacked the bridge by bribng the navigator and helmsman with alcohol and set the course for Altair 7. The off-duty engineering team, meanwhile, had donned spacesuits and EVA'd with buckets of paint and gone over the ship's name, replacing "Fracker" with //CENSORED//.
Once in orbit around Altair 7 (after two marriages and one all-hands brawl), the rogue crew established a geosynchronous orbit above the planetary governor's water yacht. The governor, known for his radical Naturalism, had previously railed against spacers in general and especially Samplers, banning them from the planet.
The crew used the solar shield to create an artificial eclipse above the boat, which was currently hosting the governor's daughter's wedding. Being entirely solar-powered, the yacht quickly depleted its batteries while still out in deep waters.
Only when the governor had paid a healthy ransom and revoked his ban did the crew leave orbit. Incidentally, their departure was celebrated not only by the governor's retinue but also by a tribe of primitive who had heralded the eclipse as the End Times. The first thing the governor did back in port was have a hydrogen-powered engine installed in his yacht.
The captain, who hated seafood (and had thus been fed nothing else), was finally released as the ship arrived at Charlemagne for shore leave. He congratulated the crew on a successful prank, then immediately confined them to quarters on bread and water. He released them after a day and they made landfall together for a bar crawl.
Sampler's oath: "Steel in our blood, our blood in the Steel."
For fun I created an 8-bit level. This comes mostly from growing up playing the Atari 2600 and games on my Ti-99/4A home computer. All pixel art in Interstellar Force was created using pixel art editor Pixen for Mac
IFN = Interstellar Flux Nebula
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Imaging cameras: Nikon d7100
Mounts: ORION Sirius EQ-G
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Software: Photoshop CS 6 Adobe, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop Noel Carboni Actions, PIXINSIGHT PixInsinght 1.8 RC7
Resolution: 4693x3375
Dates: Jan. 25, 2015, Jan. 26, 2015, Feb. 14, 2015
Frames:
50x150" ISO1250
81x150" ISO2500
7x200" ISO3200
26x150" ISO4000
Integration: 6.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.71 days
Avg. Moon phase: 31.29%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.50
Temperature: -2.50
RA center: 145.811 degrees
DEC center: 70.637 degrees
Orientation: 90.057 degrees
Field radius: 3.754 degrees
Locations: Eldorado (6767' elev), @ Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
15.5'' by 15.5'' acrylic on whiteboard
many thanks to Sangroncito for source photo, seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/sangroncito/7825128728/in/photostream
Last night, when the moons slipped below the horizon, the stars were tremendous! I took a drove outside of the city to capture some stars, man, were there the stars!
ILNP Interstellar on top of Morgan-Taylor Deja Blue. Nail tech showed the Interstellar to everyone she could find, then ordered her own. It was her idea to overlay it with the Deja Blue. Wife is also wearing the Interstellar.
You don't want to miss this immersive LUXE Paris haute couture fashion show presented by One on One Agency this Sunday! Attendees receive a beautiful gift too. Learn more here: chroniclesofchrome.com/2020/10/01/luxe-paris-goes-interst...
Strumbellas at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
A lightpainting by R W Watson. Search the "Cameratoss" group for info on the technique.
My photostream - www.flickr.com/photos/elray/
Nothing really related to an 'interstellar burst', just could'nt find a name for it. [ did'nt want to leave un-named either ]
Location : Villingili, Maldives
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. We don't know from where or when the comet started heading toward our Sun, but it won't hang around for long. The Sun's gravity is slightly deflecting its trajectory, but can't capture it because of the shape of its orbit and high velocity of about 100,000 miles per hour.
Telescopes around the world have been watching the fleeting visitor. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the sharpest views as the comet skirts by our Sun. Since October the space telescope has been following the comet like a sports photographer following horses speeding around a racetrack. Hubble revealed that the heart of the comet, a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, is likely no more than about 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields. Though comet Borisov is the first of its kind, no doubt there are many other comet vagabonds out there, plying the space between stars. Astronomers will eagerly be on the lookout for the next mysterious visitor from far beyond.
These two images, taken by Hubble, capture comet 2I/Borisov streaking though our solar system and on its way back to interstellar space. It is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system.
Nov. 16, 2019, photo (left)
The comet appears in front of a distant background spiral galaxy (2MASX J10500165-0152029). The galaxy's bright central core is smeared in the image because Hubble was tracking the comet. Comet Borisov was approximately 203 million miles from Earth in this exposure. Its tail of ejected dust streaks off to the upper right. The comet has been artificially colored blue to discriminate fine detail in the halo of dust, or coma, surrounding the central nucleus. It also helps to visually separate the comet from the background galaxy.
View Nov. 16 image (unannotated)
Dec. 9, 2019, photo (right)
Hubble revisited the comet shortly after its closest approach to the Sun where it received maximum heating after spending most of its life in frigid interstellar space. The comet also reached a breathtaking maximum speed of about 100,000 miles per hour. Comet Borisov is 185 million miles from Earth in this photo, near the inner edge of the asteroid belt but below it. The nucleus, an agglomeration of ices and dust, is still too small to be resolved. The bright central portion is a coma made up of dust leaving the surface. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in late December at a distance of 180 million miles.
View Dec. 9 image (unannotated)
"Hubble gives us the best upper limit of the size of comet Borisov's nucleus, which is the really important part of the comet," said David Jewitt, a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy, whose team has captured the best and sharpest look at this first confirmed interstellar comet. "Surprisingly, our Hubble images show that its nucleus is more than 15 times smaller than earlier investigations suggested it might be. Our Hubble images show that the radius is smaller than half a kilometer. Knowing the size is potentially useful for beginning to estimate how common such objects may be in the solar system and our galaxy. Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to learn how many others there are."
Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered the comet on Aug. 30, 2019, and reported the position measurements to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working with the Minor Planet Center, computed an orbit for the comet, which shows that it came from elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy, point of origin unknown.
Nevertheless, observations by numerous telescopes show that the comet's chemical composition is similar to the comets found inside our solar system, providing evidence that comets also form around other stars. By the middle of 2020 the comet will have already zoomed past Jupiter's distance of 500 million miles on its way back into the frozen abyss of interstellar space.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. The Minor Planet Center and the Center for Near-Earth Orbit Studies are projects of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters.
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/interstellar-comet-2ibo...
Credits: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
A wonderful IMAX evening, and let me just say, without spoiling any of the story line pre-release, that the word “stay” in the movie is the perfect setup for the Sentinel Mission.
Astronaut Ed Edward Lu opened with a story of how they would sit on the shuttle roof flying upside down and backwards — a glass-bottom boat screaming across the panoply of thunderstorms crackling like muted fireworks below, while eating freeze-dried spaghetti and waxing philosophic about the fate of the Earth.
The Interstellar movie itself sprinkled so many 2001 Space Odyssey allusions that it makes my head spin. Perhaps it’s inevitable with a long movie that ends with a trippy sunsplashed jaunt of awe and wonder, but the soundtrack remix, obelisk bot, docking to spinning station, and gas-giant flyby (swap Saturn for Jupiter) drove the point home. But it continued right on to the cover image from Arthur C Clarke’s subsequent novel Rendezvous with Rama.
The opening previews were the Trial by Fire promo for the Orion capsule and the B612 Impact Video on how the nuclear test ban treaty sensors have detected 26 explosions over the past 13 years, ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, and all of them from outer space.
Sentinel Mission will enable us to defend Earth from catastrophic impacts by detecting the possible threats and modeling their trajectories for the next 50-100 years, allowing plenty of time for deflection of dangerous paths.
Interstellar is a fantastic movie. I love the way it explores the depths of time dilation. And the Endurance is a cool unique looking ship.
I saw a lego version of the Ranger in the link below and thought I'd see if I could make one like his. I think it turned out okay. I put and opening hatch on the back and also gave it landing gear.
.lxf file
www.dropbox.com/s/ui40qmsvi2vgzb1/Ranger.lxf?dl=0
link
www.flickr.com/photos/jp_velociraptor/16339532836/in/phot...
They say the flap of a butterfly's wings can set off a tornado on the other side of the world. But what happens when a butterfly flaps its wings in the depths of space?
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1410a/
Credit:
NASA, ESA, and R. Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)