CMDR Luke Aran 038

Elite Dangerous RP and fun science things. Exodus Coalition for life.

[determinate-negation]

no offense but the us military is the biggest terrorist organization in the world

[koyla-archived-deactivated18112]

[presidentdavis]

In no way shape form or fashion could that be taken as not offensive. Fuck right off. I normally try to be as polite as I can, but quite frankly there is no way to be polite to a statement like this. Fuck you.

[determinate-negation]

sorry was that too politically incorrect? were you offended by me exercising my right to free speech?

[socialistexan]

This bootlicker: “I’m so not PC, just wait until Offend you leftist snowflake”

Leftist: Military Bad

This schmuck:

[cmdr-la038]

I know there's been a lot of talk lately about Betelgeuse dimming; has there been any info about why that happened? My current thought is that it might have something to do with gravitational lensing - maybe there's a system or cluster that typically resides between us and Betelgeuse that moved out of position, or maybe there have been a series of them moving between us and we just experienced a gap between systems.

[stupidkid-yourealoser]

People have been saying it’s because it’s due to supernova soon.

The gist I got was that sometimes, before a star supernovas, it releases gas around it, which could contribute to the dimming. Kind of like a nebula I guess, but the star should still supernova at some point. 

But also, red supergiants are really unstable, and can shift in magnitude. Sometimes they can even change colour (I can’t remember exactly why, I think it’s either change in temperature or change in composition).

Whilst I think it’s possible there used to be another star system in front of Betelguese, I think that’s the kind of thing we would have noticed, as it is possible to detect that kind of thing. You could still be right though, no one really knows what’s going on atm as far as I’m aware.

I really hope it supernovas soon. I’ve been waiting for this since I was like 7-8. It would be amazing.

[cmdr-la038]

Neat! I'm trying to learn more about astrophysics right now; I'm getting ready to start an online course at MIT. Thanks for the insight!

[cmdr-la038]

I know there's been a lot of talk lately about Betelgeuse dimming; has there been any info about why that happened? My current thought is that it might have something to do with gravitational lensing - maybe there's a system or cluster that typically resides between us and Betelgeuse that moved out of position, or maybe there have been a series of them moving between us and we just experienced a gap between systems.

[cmdr-la038]

Part 2; spent a shift evacuating civilians from Evangelis today before starting the trip back home to 1301.

[cmdr-la038]

[phoenix-flight-explorers]

Launch day of the Perseus Reach Expedition had some fun events scheduled, one of which was a station race around Davy Dock in Procyon...

Transferred over the optimized racing Imperial Courier 'Quetzalcoatl' for the race...

This picture was taken just moments before the 'Quetalcoatl' smashed into the back of Davy Dock and exploded; a harsh lesson learned, and an ominous beginning of this 4-month expedition to the opposite edge of the Galaxy

[cmdr-la038]