Space Log

These are the voyages of the Starship Heritage. It's never-ending mission? Find things. Save People Boldly go.

[naturedanger]

[lesbianshepard]

you’re that much closer to joining starfleet.

NASA HAS FINALLY BEGUN THE TRANSFORMATION TO STARFLEET

[panthelomon]

[shiba-khaleesi]

MOTHERFUCKER HERE’S SOME SWIRLY COLORFUL SPACE SHIT FOR YOUR BLOG

[dungeonmama]

We had to make a poster about the color theory, and I chose to use Star Trek uniforms. And I love it. A lot. A lot a lot a lot.

[nowyoukno]

Now You Know (Source)

[kny111]

Katherine G. Johnson

[spacetimebender]

YES

[unexplained-events]

A selfie taken by Aki Hoshide from the International Space Station.

[thechemicalofficial]

Stop trying to humanize astronauts.

[truscumduke-blog]

astronauts are literally human beings in space suits

[unexplained-events]

Did I miss something? 

[eternalcowboy-blog]

Painfully accurate model of the solar system if the moon were the size of a single pixel.

The wit is absolutely fantastic.

[blackflameswithin13]

[darlinjim-deactivated20210416]

per aspera ad astra - through hardships to the stars

[archatlas]

[archatlas]

Beyond Earth Stephen Di Donato

"After recently finding old science fiction magazines dating back from the 1980’s, it reignited my childhood memories of my curiosity of our solar system and of limitless imagination. I began researching heavily on NASA missions and came to the realization that the late 1950’s to mid-1970’s were exciting times for new discoveries, for real photographic images of planets and for limitless possibilities. This gave me the incentive to start a personal project named Beyond Earth."

[spones-in-my-bones]

Only 49 years until First Contact with the Vulcans! We can do it!

April 5th, 2063

[erynwen]

[jameskirke]

[trektags]

#i wonder if he knew #somewhere in his gut #his bones #his fucking cells #that he was home (tags via vulcns)

[sixpenceee]

What Earth would look like if it has rings

[miss-mother-fucker]

Petition for Earth to get rings.

[forsakenauthor]

mars doesn’t want to propose

[zombiemaids]

inspired by [x]

[littorallbones]

Remember in Star Trek: Into Darkness when Sulu told Chekov to beam Khan and Spock back onto the Enterprise but Chekov said he couldn’t do it because “they were both moving and he couldn’t get a lock on either of them”?

But in Star Trek (2009), didn’t Chekov manage to successfully beam both Kirk and Sulu back even though they were falling to their deaths (and the officer who tried doing said she “couldn’t lock on their signal because they were moving too fast”)?

So if i’m reading this right, Chekov should have been able to bean Khan and Spock back. Right?

[spacebromance]

I think the difference is that, in the 2009 film, they are falling at (what one can assume is) terminal velocity. So, yes, they are falling very rapidly, but also at a very predictable rate that can be accounted for.

The transporters account for uniform motion all the time. From a starship’s perspective, any person standing on the surface of a planet is going to be subject to uniform circular velocity sufficient match to the planet’s rotation rate. And that’s after the computer has adjusted to remove the ship’s motion from the geocentric reference frame.

But running through a crowd, on foot, continually bumping into people and changing direction is not uniform motion, and the computer would naturally have a very high degree of difficulty predicting one’s location.

(This is not to say that the transporter theory in the reboot films is accurate. Because Carol Marcus ran away and was still beamed. Scotty beamed them onto a ship travelling at warp. And John fucking Harrison beamed DIRECTLY TO KLINGON SPACE WHAT THE FUCK. But. I digress. In this case, they actually did it right.)

[spacebromance]

Why couldn’t the computer correct for Kirk and Sulu’s falling motion over Vulcan, if they were probably moving at terminal velocity? This depends on how red matter actually works. (*cough BULLSHIT cough*) But my guess is that the local gravitational field strength was changing rapidly, and required Chekov to manually account for the changing terminal velocity.

Now, those kind of calculations aren’t intrinsically difficult, but doing them mentally and in real time is actually sort of mind blowing because:

Chekov would have to make an assumption to characterize the evolution of the planet’s mass, based solely upon what he observed at the navigation console.

Based on that above mass-evolution equation, he would need to reverse-engineer Kirk and Sulu’s drag coefficient from their previous rate of descent to characterize their terminal velocity as a function of time.

And then integrate that equation—mentally—as a function of time to determine their position.

No, I don’t think you understand. When I say ‘as a function of time,’ I mean time of beam-up. If he wants to beam them in two seconds, he has to integrate assuming he’ll beam them in two seconds, and so if he missed the two-second mark, he has to do his calculations all over again.

Holy shit, right?

In conclusion:

Don’t ever let anyone tell you Chekov is not a fucking badass.

[sailoreuterpe]

The inventor of the warp drive will be born this year!

According to the Star Trek: First Contact novelization, Zefram Cochrane (the inventor of Earth’s first warp drive) will be born some time this year!

In fifty years we’ll meet the vulcans! After World War III, of course, but details and all.

XD