My adblocker did a decent job. I appreciated the warning though.

Damn that site was overfilled with ads, would not click again

Couldn't a moon city just recycle water the same way the International Space Station does?

The article this pop-sci article is based on is weird.

It takes a number of observations of near-surface water ice, slaps a 30x multiplier on there, and then calls that an estimate of the total water mass on the moon. No justification for the 30x multiplication, no error bars, no citations for actual estimations. Just call it "one billion" and work from there.

It seems like the purpose of the article is not to get accurate answers, but to put down tech bro fantasies.

Seems rude to call it "Little Mercury", maybe Mercury had just gone swimming and the water was cold

Pretty sure that they currently live on Pennsylvania Avenue.

That's Celestial Pig's Nose, you illiterate cosmo-amateurs! Pray you won't find Celestial Pig's Ass!

I love what Japan is doing with these missions!

JAXA is really killing it with their deep space probes. Seriously, hats off to all the scientists and engineers making that happen, it's incredible work!

This is such an incredible mission. I love that Japan keeps doing these sample returns. Hyabusa 1 and 2, now MMX, and potentially NGSR to a comet next decade.

Fuck. It is, isn't it?

Just a conspiracy of cartographers

I didnt see it in the article, so I looked it up: it'll be positioned at the L2 Lagrange point

They're looking for someone that knows the question.

So that's how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop!

Why? We already know it’s 42.

No problem! This was my favourite time and niche in the mainstream comics, starting roughly with the 2004 Thanos series by Starlin which lead directly into Annihilation and later Nova and GotG and a bunch of big cosmic events tying everything together.

All of these stories took place far away from Earth, largely disconnected to the happenings in the more popular Marvel titles, and mostly ran on the idea of taking super obscure D-listers, both heores and villains, and having the freedom to rework them into great characters. Like, nobody cared about Groot.

The team was introduced into the MCU at a time this line of comics more or less ended after 10 glorious years. Suddenly they became hot stuff, so of course they started popping up all over Marvel, and of course the new writers didn't respect the continuity and the new cosmic stuff was largely trash. That's how it goes I guess.

No I had to stay in the toilet

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

This was the original team from 1969 - the main character is an astronaut (Vance Astro) who was sent to Alpha Centauri - in suspended animation, because the trip took a thousand years. When he arrives, he finds that faster than light travel was discovered in the meantime and Alpha Centauri has already been colonised by humans for centuries. He ends up forming a superhero team, with a bunch of its members being used (heavily changed) as the Ravagers in the MCU.

The modern incarnation of the Guardians (from 2008) sprang up from a big cosmic event Annihilation: Conquest, though its roster was to a large extent similar to an older team called Infinity Watch. They are joined by Vance Astro - amnesiac, having traveled through time and dimensions, since the original GotG run took place in an alternate universe from the mainstream Marvel continuity, and take up the GotG name on his suggestion, though otherwise they have nothing to do with the old team. There are some crossovers with various versions of the original team later on in the run.

Interesting. Could you elaborate?

Amazing, that we can get such a detailed picture of a star hundreds of lightyears away!

Pluto is only 68% of the size of the Earth's moon. It is only about 2.5 times larger than Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system.

A large part of science is refining your understanding as contradictory evidence is found. I used to think Pluto should be a planet, and even met Clyde Tombaugh once, but I have absolutely no concerns about Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet. It is just a label and our understanding evolves.

The IAU can go to buggery: Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet!

Elon Musk said by the end of 2026.