NASA's DART will impact asteroid Dimorphos on 09/26 in first-ever test of planetary defense

[Wrexis]

Wow.

 

[discotheque]

Get fucked Dino losers

 

[Zeliard]

I admit it, I applauded in front of my computer

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[TyrantII]

A bunch of apes just changed the trajectory of a heavenly body for the first time. Incredible.


View: https://twitter.com/sciencequiche/status/1574538491454578689?t=wXtk75tOmQxkekdbxjcsEw&s=19

 

[pink]

wow

ive been watching the stream for the last hour

its just amazing to think about what was just accomplished

 

[echoshifting]

Meanwhile, on Dimorphos:

"What the hell was that?!?"

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"Mom said stay away from earth...and I did...I did....whyyyy 😭"

 

[Tygre]

 

[bm1677]

Those final images were super cool

 

[timshundo]

Dang need that as a a full animation. also they should AI us to fill in all the missing frames in those last 30 seconds

 

[vixolus]

That'sa ground texture file

 

[Eferim]

After it struck the asteroid, someone in the live chat on YouTube goes "that one was for the dinosaurs". Lmao.

 

[Ultimate Bear Cub]

Great shot kid, that was one in a million!

 

[UnluckyKate]

Sounds like it could be the plot for Armageddon 2.

Can't wait.

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oh no, the auto pilot failed because of the solar storm that hit us on the way there, someone has to pilot the payload on the final stretch to impact to save earth

 

[Zeliard]

A bunch of apes just changed the trajectory of a heavenly body for the first time.

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i like the way you put that

 

[Crespo]

That was the perfect set-up for the jump scare to end all jump scares.

 

[Jintor]

FUCK YOU, ROCK

 

[Frodo]

I'm assuming all those images are from the stream, so we will get better resolution images from NASA soon, right?

 

[Green]

That was the perfect set-up for the jump scare to end all jump scares.

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Last image is a little green man looking into the camera with a bat.

 

[ZedLilIndPum]

LOL Bill Nye in the control room

 

[Volimar]

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Making me crave a ferrero roche.

 

[ZeoVGM]

That was awesome.

 

[papertowel]

Thats for the dinosaurs

 

[Green]

Oumuamua there in the bottom left like "shit I've been spotted"

 

[Sketchsanchez]

okay but what if this knocks it into a course for earth? smh scientists

 

[pink]

Thats for the dinosaurs

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🫡

 

[Forerunner]

View: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1574539270987173903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

 

[Keyser S]

 

[Zeliard]

Making me crave a ferrero roche.

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uncanny really

 

[Guy.brush]

Definitely more of a "potato in space textured in gravel" sort of asteroid. Not like the ones in the movies.
Quite interesting how Dimorphos looks so mundane.

 

[Witness]

That looked wild and the detail and structure of the asteroid was insane to see up close.

 

[BraXzy]

Damn, it's weird how fake the thing looks. Like it's basically a miniature mountain with no top or bottom. A dumb way to describe it I guess but there is nothing like it on Earth.

Incredible feat.

 

[Guy.brush]

Damn, it's weird how fake the thing looks. Like it's basically a miniature mountain with no top or bottom. A dumb way to describe it I guess but there is nothing like it on Earth.

Incredible feat.

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Looked a bit like a sample material ball from a modern PBR style 3d DCC app like Substance Painter/ZBrush or Quixel :P

 

[alexlf]

Grats to everyone who worked on it, incredible stuff.
Glad such an important mission was a success.

 

[Frodo]

The "time lapsed"video they are showing now on the stream is gorgeous! I want a full resolution version of it.

 

[BFIB]

And some civilization on another planet just witnessed some weird impact on an asteroid.

 

[TyrantII]

There's a small cubesat a few minutes behind that recoded the impact, but we probably won't get any images until tomorrow from it. JWST was also dialed in.


View: https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/1574541625614745600?t=NKjNxotz0HIN5BmxF4VZuQ&s=19

 

[Tobor]

View: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1574539270987173903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

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They hit a football stadium with a vending machine at however many miles an hour. That's truly amazing.

 

[SCHUEY 117]

That was awesome

 

[alexlf]

They hit a football stadium with a vending machine at however many miles an hour. That's truly amazing.

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I think they said 4 miles per second at the end? Wild stuff.

 

[Frodo]

There's a small cubesat a few minutes behind that recoded the impact, but we probably won't get any images until tomorrow from it. JWST was also dialed in.

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And Hubble. First time they both look at the same object at the same time.

 

[Tobor]

I think they said 4 miles per second at the end? Wild stuff.

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Unbelievable. So impressive.

 

[Alucrid]

so they taught professional dart players to be rocket scientists?

 

[Zeliard]

so they taught professional dart players to be rocket scientists?

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Dartmageddon

 

[Duncan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwdzmK35Sk4

 

[danm999]

That's very cool

 

[fontguy]

Expect retaliation.

 

[Art_3]

I don't like the implication

 

[No Depth]

Goddamnit, my Shepherd needed to mine that rock first for resources!

 

[The Silver]

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This is an egg, what have we unleashed.....

 

[Truant]

The mundane gravely quarry look of the asteroid is making me feel strange.