/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16187902
is this the ugliest manned spacecraft ever built?

tractor configuration spacecraft when?

>>15491699
Gateway

>>15414070
I'd love to read the Chinese technical intelligence directorate evaluations of SpaceX and Blue Origin

>He isn’t necessarily looking for complete extraterrestrial spacecraft, but is instead focused on searching for technology at sub-micron scales, in the guise of those novel, high-performance molecules. He reasons that a species no more technologically advanced than us might have begun mining asteroids in their home planetary system, producing voluminous clouds of debris that could contain traces of advanced technology. “Think of exotic metals in drill bits that spall off tiny traces as they bite space rock,” suggests Pinault.
>Or, a species slightly more technologically advanced might have seeded the galaxy with ‘programmable matter’—nanomachines capable of turning raw asteroidal material into something more useful, such as larger probes perhaps designed to study planetary systems or to engage with any life that the probes discover.
>Whether it be dormant nanomachines or metallic flakes from drill-bits, Pinault’s hypothesis, building upon research begun in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, is that over the eons some of this tiny artificial detritus could have arrived in interstellar dust and fallen upon the Moon or other airless bodies of our Solar System, where it may still lurk, hidden in the lunar regolith. It’s even possible that remnants of extraterrestrial probes, long since powered down and churned back into the regolith by space weathering and constant micrometeorite impacts, could be poking up above the surface of the Moon or other similar bodies.
>“The chances might be just one in a trillion, but machine learning and nano-scaled detection systems make this a surprisingly tractable task,” says Pinault. “We shouldn’t rule out well-preserved environments on Earth, either – studies of ancient micrometeorites strewn across the Antarctic deserts might be surprisingly productive, too."

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/sleuthing-through-history-for-alien-artifacts

>>15138462
>SpaceX can reach Mars with Starship in 3 months
With a once a millennium synod maybe lmao