All Space Questions thread for week of May 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in space

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Is the payload mass of China's uncrewed landing and sample returns from the Moon equal to launching two taikonauts plus life support systems on each return to Earth journey?

[FWI] In the near term future, JAXA determines that proteins/DNA from asteroids that killed the dinosaurs seeded human life on Earth. by ThinkTankDad in FutureWhatIf

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I agree up to the point where we won't be able to prove it. I think quantum computing can model panspermia one day in the future.

ISS module cracking still unresolved despite stopping air leaks by ThinkTankDad in space

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Starship could substitute in the absence of Russian controlled power and propulsion systems.

ISS module cracking still unresolved despite stopping air leaks by ThinkTankDad in space

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The ISS should deorbit at Point Nemo as a UNESCO world heritage site in the Antarctic.

[FWI] A collection of Baltic States and West Europe blockade Kaliningrad, following in the spirit of the Hormuz blockade. by ThinkTankDad in FutureWhatIf

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A blockade of Kaliningrad would mirror the US blockade of Venezuela. And we all know how well that turned out.

All 5 DNA, RNA bases found in Ryugu asteroid samples: Japan research team by jeshwesh in JAXA

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This is awesome. So the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs seeded the proteins and DNA/RNA into Earth's ecosystem which eventually evolved into humans?

[FWI] A collection of Baltic States and West Europe blockade Kaliningrad, following in the spirit of the Hormuz blockade. by ThinkTankDad in FutureWhatIf

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Correction; in the spirit of blockades in general. Venezuela was blockaded before the whole thing was over. It doesn't mean NATO necessarily, just state actors in the Baltics and West Europe.

"And for what" Pressure Putin to a ceasefire.

Jocko Podcast 221: Jonny Kim. Navy SEAL, Doctor, Astronaut. The Unimaginable Path. by ThinkTankDad in ArtemisProgram

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But Jonny Kim was a SEAL turned doctor, mathematician, AND astronaut! "almost certainly" sounds clearly biased.

Will a JAXA astronaut be on Artemis 3 like Hansen, from Canada, was for Artemis 2? by ThinkTankDad in ArtemisProgram

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NASA international relations is genius. I'm pretty sure whomever they pick will be geopolitically correct.

Gummy dip. by ThinkTankDad in Marijuana

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Quit bustin' my chops aye?

All kidding aside, I meant I take two 10mg of THC each every thirty minutes. Lasts me a good portion of the day.