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Save $100 and get free two-day shipping on the ‘Asteroids’ cabinet arcade game from Walmart

sudshr47 December 18, 2018

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The popularity of barcades — AKA bars-cum-arcades — have proven people still yearn for the days you could spend a whole day at the arcade with friends. 

But it would be nice to have an alternative to running up a bar tab to enjoy classic arcade games. Like, what if you could play those classic cabinet-style arcade games at home?

Thankfully Walmart can help with that.

The Arcade1Up Asteroids Machine is on sale for $199 on Walmart right now, which is $100 off the original price of $299. Walmart is also offering free two-day shipping on the cabinet if you can’t wait or need an insanely good last-minute holiday gift. Read more…

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NASA spacecraft finds signs of water on Bennu asteroid

sudshr47 December 11, 2018

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has found water on the asteroid Bennu, after finishing its two-year trip to the formation.

Sitting 12 miles (19 kilometres) from the surface, the probe has discovered water hidden inside the asteroid’s clay minerals, thanks to data obtained from the probe’s spectrometers.

During its two-year, 1.4 million-mile (2.2 million-kilometre) trip to the asteroid, instruments aboard OSIRIS-REx — that’s the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer — began to make scientific observations of Bennu between mid-August and early December. Read more…

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Mesmerizing video shows what would happen if an asteroid crashed into Earth’s oceans

sudshr47 December 4, 2018

In films like Armageddon, Hollywood has valiantly tried (and failed) to take on the question of what would happen if a comet or asteroid plunged into the oceans on Earth, but what has scientific research actually determined it may look like?
America’…

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‘Armageddon’-style asteroid will now not destroy human race, sorry

sudshr47 September 30, 2018

This post is part of Science of Sci-Fi, Mashable’s ongoing series dissecting the science (or lack of science) in our favorite sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books.
Some days are so damaging to your faith in humanity, you may find yourself idly wishing …

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That interstellar visitor from another solar system wasn’t an asteroid after all

sudshr47 June 27, 2018

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Scientists spotted a strange object flying through the solar system last year. It looked skinny, like a cigar, and may have been a quarter-mile in length.

They named it `Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “messenger from afar,” and after analyzing its trajectory, were sure it arrived from a distant solar system.

At first, scientists suspected it was a comet. But after the European Southern Observatory found no wake of dust and gas trailing behind it — the telltale signs of traveling comets — the International Astronomical Union classified it as a rocky asteroid. But that’s not the end of the story.

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Official near-earth object plan will look into nuking asteroids and other ‘planetary defense missions’

sudshr47 June 20, 2018

Space is a big place, and mostly empty — but there’s no shortage of objects which, should they float our direction, could end life as we know it. A new national plan for detecting and handling such objects was proposed today, and it includes the possibility of nuclear strikes on the incoming asteroids and other “planetary defense missions.”

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That interstellar asteroid probably came from a solar system with two suns

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

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Remember the interstellar asteroid that zipped through our solar system last year? It likely came from a very alien place. 

According to a new study, the asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua, probably came from a solar system with two stars.

(Perhaps the best analog for this kind of binary system is actually in fiction. In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine orbits two stars, or suns. A star is a “sun” if it’s the center of a planetary system.)

Researchers have some good reasons for thinking that ‘Oumuamua — which clocks in at an impressive 1,312 feet long — came to our solar system by way of a binary system.  Read more…

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Elon Musk’s outer space Tesla will overshoot Mars and land somewhere in the asteroid belt

sudshr47 February 7, 2018

After spending six hours orbiting Earth, Elon Musk’s outer space Tesla rocketed deeper into space.
SpaceX originally planned for the vehicle to land in a solar system orbit that would at times bring the Roadster near Mars, but it appears the Tesla wi…

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Elon Musk’s outer space Tesla will overshoot Mars and land somewhere in the asteroid belt

sudshr47 February 7, 2018

After spending six hours orbiting Earth, Elon Musk’s outer space Tesla rocketed deeper into space.
SpaceX originally planned for the vehicle to land in a solar system orbit that would at times bring the Roadster near Mars, but it appears the Tesla wi…

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A group of scientists will listen for alien signals coming from that interstellar asteroid

sudshr47 December 11, 2017

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In October, an oddly-shaped asteroid that came from interstellar space shot through our solar system. 

On Wednesday, scientists will point a large radio telescope toward it as it continues to hurtle through space millions of miles away. Why? It’s all in the name of searching for alien life. 

Researchers working with the alien-hunting Breakthrough Listen project, backed by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, plan to use the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to try to see if the asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua, is more than just a very cool space rock. 

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An interstellar asteroid has been studied for the 1st time… and it looks really odd

sudshr47 November 20, 2017

In October, astronomers using a powerful telescope in Hawaii caught sight of something they’d never seen before: an asteroid from interstellar space hurtling through our solar system. 
Now, about a month later, we have some sense of what that fa…

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