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The Unistellar citizen science program, a collaboration between the SETI Institute and Unistellar, had an impressive 2024 filled with groundbreaking discoveries. In a recent Q&A session, Franck and Lauren shared the program’s achievements and previewed what’s in store for 2025. 🧪

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Onboard footage from US Navy Full Ship Shock Trials involving DDG-81 Winston S. Churchill: youtu.be/vxPTyJfTihk

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I've made a number of videos using positional data from aircraft captured using ADS-B data - for example this story of a passenger landing a King Air after the pilot dies. youtu.be/D3MVTOnxCrc But there's an underlying technical story I want to share about the precision of this data.

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The science behind making sonic booms quieter www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM5l...

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Multichord observations of a Transneptunian object with several observations from @unistellar.bsky.social including 2 positive chords recorded by our citizen scientists. Bravo!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The US Forest Service AND The National Park Service once tried to use sonic booms to trigger avalanches.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

How do you image shockwaves around an aircraft in flight? You need a light source that's well collimated.... like the sun.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Doing math on how big a spacecraft would be needed to divert 2024YR4 in 2028 so it would miss in 2032, according to Ed Lu at B612 the velocity uncertainty is 0.35m/s with a 2.3% chance of impact. That means there's roughly a .008m/s range in velocities which lead to an impact in 2032.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

What happens when you suddenly realize the passenger jet you're flying is upside down.....

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NASA U2 submitted a PIREP for severe turbulence at 58,000 feet! NID UA /OV NID360065/TM 2010/FL580/TP U2/TB SEV

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Fly through some clouds.... how hard could that be?

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Firing NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range

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I spent a day at NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range, and even after editing I still ended up with 50 minutes of video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5G9...

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Here we go, the full length version of my show at the Vulcan youtu.be/_U29d2w007Q

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My phone is permanently set to vibrate, but for nostalgia I'm thinking I should setup a ringtone that sounds like GSM interfering with my computer speakers.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Using public data to reconstruct the accident at KDCA

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

San Carlos airport will have no controllers because the company that won the contract to run it gave everyone a massive pay cut and they all quit. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAS...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Vulcan rocket launch at the Vulcan Gas Company in Austin

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: F-35 fighter jet crashes at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. The pilot survived

submitted 25 days ago • 167 comments

Glad to get back in the air, the plane flies a whole lot better when the air temperature is lower.

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That's my weekend sorted.

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In October 1958 NASA had just assumed responsibility for a great deal of US spaceflight, and less than 2 weeks after founding they would launch Pioneer 1 towards the moon. There had been a previous attempt to launch this spacecraft design, but that had failed 79 seconds into launch.

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I just posted my aircraft transit prediction code over at my patreon, it's not plug and play by any means, but here's some proof it works. www.patreon.com/scottmanley

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This sky looks pretty blue

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments