I've seen one article attributing it to the formation of a new black hole but I'm not sure how certain that interpretation is at this point.

Trusr me I know. I lived off of fountain and circle..

Don't threaten me with a good time...

What's the explanation for this? Closer than usual? New phenomenon?

Colorado Springs has been conservative my entire 32 year life.

I know this doesn’t sound like much but I appreciate that you do these things.

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You do realize that is still a theory? Problem is we don’t have actual local black holes to throw things into to test the theory. We have recently learned some black holes spit stars out so some things escape sometimes and we won’t fully understand them for a long time.

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Besides these two back-to-backs, I have not heard of other micrometeorite damage to soyez coolant systems - I am sure others know more than me.

Given that this has been in the news, including testing of the empty descent, this seems novel, and not at all routine. So we are not looking at a sample size of 2, but of ALL Soyuz -- which have been in service for decades, no?

Good observation that the station should provide context on strikes (if not damage).

Go and drive out to the least populated place you can feasibly go. The less lights from houses, cities, cars the better.

There is literally a river of stars in the night sky aka the Milky Way. It will change your life when you see it.

The moon is a fragment of an ancient planet named Theia. It collided with earth and the molten remnants formed into a sphere by gravity. I'm pretty sure there isn't anything weird about the moon being circular like that. There are literally remnants of the planet sticking out of our crust and core of the planet recently mapped.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/bits-of-theia-might-be-in-earths-mantle/ The animation in this article show what I'm talking about.

The point I am trying to make is that we need solutions. And the solution cannot be throw it in the ocean, we have already thrown more things in the Ocean than we ever should have. The average person has no idea that there are all kinds of harmful organisms all around us in the air we breathe, if we killed all those organisms the planet would die and it wouldn’t take very long. Yet we just go about our business, completely oblivious. We are killing this planet, the first step in saving it is stop killing it. The popular answer here is plunge it in the Ocean. That cannot be the right answer. The easiest way to do something is sometimes the worst way and causes more problems than it solves.

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And this event is just that they all appear in the sky, but didn't mean that they're closer than at other times.

I actually think about this every time I throw away a water bottle, because I do use them often. I always dump liquid contents from bottles before I throw them out. I don't do a lot for environment conservation, but not littering and not throwing water into landfills are the two mounds I'll die on.

They're all too far away to have any significant effect on the Earth.

Only the Moon (because it's close) and the Sun (very big) do: they cause tides.

Some more information about this:

The burst was so bright it effectively blinded most gamma-ray instruments in space, which means they could not directly record the real intensity of the emission. U.S. scientists were able to reconstruct this information from the Fermi Telescope data. They then compared the results with those from the Russian team working on Konus data and Chinese teams analyzing observations from the GECAM-C detector on their SATech-01 satellite and instruments on their Insight-HXMT observatory. Together, they prove the burst was 70 times brighter than any yet seen.

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No, you just didn't quite read the comment you replied to.

I generally prefer to include engine development in vehicle development, but plenty of people disagree especially when the engine development happened before the development of a particular vehicle. Merlin was developed for Falcon 1, though there were continued improvements over time.

No one who read that source and understood the context would honestly say "Elon isn't being completely honest or more likely is miscategorizing costs somewhere". You were just confused.

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The volume of water it would take to cover an area of acre to a depth of 1 foot. That's 43560 cubic feet, 325,851 gallons, or 1,233,481.8 liters

It's the only way to see all of the dark details though.

OMG!! is it always Daylight in space?? wow