Our universe is so rad!

[LoathedVermin72]

http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-an ... atmosphere

[nyquillyn]

I watched this today on a co-worker's Retina 4K iMac. It was insane.

[Rangi Guy]

http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-announce-key-findings-fate-martian-atmosphere

Unless they're about to tell us there's Martians up there who are desperately waiting for us to get there for a mass orgy - I'm out!

[E.H. Ruddock]

I watched this today on a co-worker's Retina 4K iMac. It was insane.

That is

Spoiler: show

AWESOME!

[E.H. Ruddock]

NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever

http://www.blastr.com/2015-11-4/nasa-ju ... -time-ever

[Kaius]

[E.H. Ruddock]

I think it was just Matthew McConaghuey that was finally being spit out of the blacc h*le.

[LoathedVermin72]

Waiting another 4-5 hours for the big Mars announcement is going to kill me.

[Simple Torture]

Waiting another 4-5 hours for the big Mars announcement is going to kill me.

I'm sure it has something to do with a new understanding of the gasses that make up the atmosphere. /r/science on reddit is a good place to have the announcement broken down after it happens, since lots of people who post regularly really know their shit.

[McParadigm]

I hope they explain why the astronaut payscale starts way down at $66,000 a year.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I hope they explain why the astronaut payscale starts way down at $66,000 a year.

Is that true? Or is that just a mcparadigm?

[bart]

Money goes way farther in space, though.

[E.H. Ruddock]

So what was the big news?

[Norah]

solar winds blew away the martian atmosphere

[Norah]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... -live.html

[LoathedVermin72]

I'm finding this announcement much less exciting than the water one

[Kaius]

So, why we do we think it's a good idea to send people there?

[BurtReynolds]

That's not very rad.

[Norah]

it's kind of rad

[LoathedVermin72]

So, why we do we think it's a good idea to send people there?

Because we can! And it's cool!