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Researchers have spotted the fastest-growing black hole ever found; it devours a mass equivalent to Earth's sun every two days.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Researchers have spotted the fastest-growing black hole ever found - and have seen the (thankfully) distant devourer consume a mass equivalent to Earth's sun every two days.

Researchers used newly released data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite to confirm that the brightly shining object is a black hole, which appears to have been the mass of about 20 billion suns when the light was released and was growing by 1 percent every million years, researchers said in a statement released today (May 15).

"This black hole is growing so rapidly that it's shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy, due to all the gases it sucks in daily that cause lots of friction and heat," Christian Wolf, an astronomer at the Australian National University and first author on the new research, said in the statement. [ The Strangest Black Holes in the Universe]

"If we had this monster sitting at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it would appear 10 times brighter than a full moon. It would appear as an incredibly bright, pinpoint star that would almost wash out all of the stars in the sky," he added.

Luckily, though, the black hole is far enough away that it likely released its light more than 12 billion years ago, the researchers said. The energy it emits is mostly ultraviolet light, but it also releases X-rays. "Again, if this monster was at the center of the Milky Way, it would likely make life on Earth impossible with the huge amounts of X-rays emanating from it," Wolf said.

Because of its distance and the expansion of space, that light had shifted into the near-infrared during its billions-of-years journey. Wolf and his colleagues spotted the light with the SkyMapper telescope at the ANU Siding Spring Observatory. They then used the Gaia satellite to measure that the object was sitting still, thereby also confirming that it was incredibly distant and likely a supermassive black hole, the researchers said. Then, another ANU telescope measured the wavelengths released from the object to verify its composition.

"We don't know how this one grew so large, so quickly in the early days of the universe," Wolf said. "The hunt is on to find even faster-growing black holes."

Wolf added that distant black holes like this one can help scientists study the early universe. Researchers can spot the shadows of other objects in front of the black holes, and their radiation also helps clear away obscuring gas.

With giant new ground-based telescopes currently under construction, scientists will also be able to use bright, distant objects like this voracious black hole to measure the universe's expansion, the researchers said.

The new work was accepted to the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Scientists Just Found the Fastest-Growing Black Hole. Here's How Fast It 'Eats'

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Researchers have spotted the fastest-growing black hole ever found - and have seen the (thankfully) distant devourer consume a mass equivalent to Earth's sun every two days.

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NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano on May 6, 2018, using its Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument. The yellow-green "hotspots" are newly formed fissures and lava flows; red is vegetation, and the gray-black areas are old lava flows.

Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and US/Japan ASTER Science Team

You can get a bird's-eye view of Hawaii's ongoing volcanic outburst, thanks to two newly released satellite photos.

The Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been erupting continuously for more than 30 years, but this background activity flared up significantly late last week after a powerful earthquake struck the island.

A dozen new volcanic fissures have since opened up on Kilauea's flanks, and the combination of flowing lava and noxious gases has forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people (though there have been no reports of serious injuries to date). [ Photos: Fiery Lava from Kilauea Volcano Erupts on Hawaii's Big Island]

STER spotted huge plumes of sulfur dioxide gas, shown here in yellow and green, coming from Kilauea's active vents. Image captured on May 6, 2018.

Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and US/Japan ASTER Science Team

In one of the images, these new fissures and flows stand out as bright green and yellow hotspots surrounded by seas of red (vegetation) and gray-black (old, cold lava).

The other photo shows huge plumes of sulfur dioxide gas, also represented by yellow and green hues, wafting away from volcanic vents.

Both images were captured on Sunday (May 6) by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite. As the name suggests, ASTER can detect light in thermal infrared wavelengths - basically, heat.

The Terra satellite launched to Earth orbit in December 1999, on a mission to monitor the planet's climate and other large-scale processes and to help scientists better understand humanity's impact on ecosystems.

As the new photos show, Terra data can additionally help researchers, government officials and first responders prepare for and deal with natural disasters. ASTER also images wildfires, and another one of Terra's five science instruments, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), commonly keeps tabs on hurricanes as they churn toward populated areas. (A MODIS instrument also flies aboard Terra's sister satellite, the Earth-observing Aqua spacecraft.)

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Eruption Spotted from Space (Photos)

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You can get a bird's-eye view of Hawaii's ongoing volcanic outburst, thanks to two newly released satellite photos. The Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been erupting continuously for more than 30 years, but this background activity flared up significantly late last week after a powerful earthquake struck the island.

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The graceful arcs at the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope are actually the distorted light of distant galaxies, twisted to form an "Einstein ring" by the gravitational influence of the closer galaxy cluster SDSS J0146-0929.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt

The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region.

The galaxy cluster, called SDSS J0146-0929, features hundreds of individual galaxies all bound together by gravity. There's so much mass in this region that the cluster is distorting light from objects behind it. This phenomenon is called an Einstein ring.

The ring is created as the light that comes from distant objects, like galaxies, passes by "an extremely large mass, like this galaxy cluster," NASA said in a statement. "In this image, the light from a background galaxy is diverted and distorted around the massive intervening cluster and forced to travel along many different light paths toward Earth, making it seem as though the galaxy is in several places at once." [ Hubble's Most Amazing Discoveries]

The ring is named after Albert Einstein, who wrote his theory of general relativity in the early 1900s. In it, he suggested that a massive object would warp space and time. This process is known today as a gravitational lens. When the most massive galaxies and galaxy clusters get in line with a more distant object, they produce an Einstein ring - a type of gravitational lens.

Einstein rings (and gravitational lenses more generally) give astronomers a huge advantage when they are trying to look at faraway objects. The rings and lenses magnify objects that otherwise would be too distant and dim to see in today's telescopes.

In 2015, for example, astronomers took advantage of an Einstein ring to look at star-forming regions in a galaxy formed just 2.4 billion years after the Big Bang. This will provide more insight into how galaxies came together in the early universe.

Another Einstein ring popped up in 2016, in a star group within the Sculptor dwarf galaxy. At the time, researchers said there are less than a dozen known Einstein rings that are partial or full. The scientific team added that they plan to use this particular Einstein ring in Sculptor to probe the nature of dark matter. This may help scientists learn about the large-scale structure of the universe, since roughly 80 percent of it is made up of dark matter and dark energy, which cannot be directly observed.

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Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space

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Did you know Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin?

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In his 1954 novel Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined seas filled with life and underwater cities on our neighboring planet. It wasn't long, however, before we discovered what really lurks beneath Venus's thick cloud cover. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States' and Soviet Union's spacecraft found a dense, toxic atmosphere on Venus full of carbon dioxide and clouds of sulfuric acid. On the surface, temperatures were hot enough to melt lead, and the crushing pressure was akin to that found in Earth's deep oceans.

All of this means that Venus is violently hostile to life. Even so, the planet is so similar to our own celestial body in size, makeup, and location that it's often referred to as Earth's twin. And in its distant past, it may have been even more Earthlike-scientists now believe that Venus could have once held oceans and a gentler climate.

"People don't really fully appreciate how similar these two planets are," says Suzanne Smrekar, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We hear so much about Mars, and yeah, currently its surface temperature is like Earth's. But probably for most of its evolution Venus was much more like the Earth."

Despite this similarity, it's been nearly 30 years since the United States sent a mission to Venus. Smrekar and her fellow Venus researchers believe it's high time we returned. Venus, they argue, can shed light on Earth's history, what conditions a planet needs to become habitable, and whether the distant ones we are discovering beyond our solar system might have them.

"The quest to understand life in the universe involves not just the Earth, but the Earth's twin," says Stephen Kane, a planetary astrophysicist at the University of California at Riverside.

A world of difference

Billions of years ago, Venus and Earth formed relatively close together from similar materials.

Earth went on to become a wet, mild world ripe for hosting life. "You really need to have a way to create climate stability for life to get started," says Michael Way, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. On Earth, plate tectonics, which cycles carbon in and out of the atmosphere, make that stable climate possible. When volcanoes erupt, they shoot carbon dioxide out from the planet's interior. This greenhouse gas traps heat, keeping Earth toasty enough to support life. If carbon dioxide were allowed to build up, you'd get a hothouse like Venus. However, the Earth slowly recaptures carbon dioxide when it dissolves in rainwater, flows into the ocean, and is used to build carbonate rocks like limestone on the seafloor. As pieces of Earth's outer shell shift and grind together, they carry carbon back into the mantle.

In other words, plate tectonics powers Earth's thermostat. Our planet's restless crust also recycles other nutrients, like phosphorus, that organisms need to survive. "The surface of the Earth is continually replenished by the plates moving underneath each other, Kane says. "Whereas Venus has essentially a single plate."

While present-day Venus lacks plate tectonics, it may have behaved more like Earth in its early history. "Earth has been remarkably successful at keeping relatively clement climate conditions for at least the last 3.5 to 4 billion years," Way says. Because the two planets are similar in so many ways, this suggests that Venus might have had a stable climate and oceans at some point as well, he says.

In fact, there is evidence of past water on Venus. Pioneer Venus, an American mission launched in 1978, measured a form of hydrogen called deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen. On Earth, this isotope is much less common than regular hydrogen. But on Venus, deuterium isn't quite so rare in comparison to ordinary hydrogen, indicating that a great quantity of the lighter version of the element has vanished. "If you measure a big difference in these numbers it tells you that something has escaped from the planet, basically, and that something is water," Way says.

Another clue came when Venus Express-an orbiter launched in 2005 by the European Space Agency- measured twice as much hydrogen as oxygen escaping from the planet's atmosphere. This suggests that the elements had once been joined as water.

It's not clear how much water Venus actually had on its surface; it could have been anywhere from a few yards deep across the entire surface to hundreds of yards or more, Way says. To figure out what ancient Venus might have been like, he and his colleagues used a series of computer models to simulate the planet's atmosphere. They reported that Venus could have had a shallow ocean and surface temperatures similar to those on present-day Earth for several billion years, up until around 715 million years ago.

Venus rotates more slowly than the Earth, which could have helped make it more habitable. Because the Venusian day is so long, the sun heats parts of its terrain for months at a time. At that point, "Warm air rises rather forcefully and creates a planetary-scale cloud that blocks much of the incoming sunlight," Way says. "That can provide you a shield basically to help you be close to your parent star without overcooking in essence or boiling off your oceans." This cloud would unleash heavy rains, although they would be concentrated around the area directly facing the sun.

At some point, though, Venus's fate diverged from that of Earth's, and the planet wound up as an "uninhabitable hellscape," Way and his colleagues wrote last month in a paper published to the arXiv. It's not clear why this happened, Way says. One possibility is that Venus's seas began to evaporate because the planet receives more solar energy than Earth. In the upper atmosphere, sunlight would have broken the water vapor into oxygen and hydrogen, which then fled into space. Without water to weaken the crust so it could break up, there could be no plate tectonics as we know it. Venus would have become hotter and hotter as water vapor and carbon dioxide built up in its atmosphere.

"It has undergone this runaway greenhouse and now it's stuck there," Kane says. "All the carbon is in its atmosphere, it has nowhere to store it because it has no liquid water oceans."

Earthlings, take heed

The scorching, poisonous place Venus has become can actually give us a glimpse into our own planet's history.

When the Magellan mission orbited Venus in the 1990s, it took radar images of the planet's surface that revealed mountains ranges. These features resemble mountains and plains of cooled lava created here on Earth when pieces of crust were jostled about by the sluggish churning of the mantle beneath them, scientists reported in December at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans. Similar forces might be active on Venus; it's possible that the planet's intense heat warms its crust enough that small pieces can slightly detach from the mantle about six to nine miles down. Some of the plains surrounding Venus's mountains had been deformed, suggesting that blocks of crust could have been moving about pretty recently.

This isn't full-fledged plate tectonics-but it might be the first step in the process. We have little record of how plate tectonics kicked off billions of years ago on Earth, so the more recent activity on Venus might offer a few clues, Smrekar says.

Our sister planet can help us understand present-day Earth as well, she says. Back in the 1970s, Venus proved key to our discovery that chlorofluorocarbons-chemicals used in hairspray, air conditioners, and other products- were a threat to the ozone layer. While creating computer models for the atmosphere of Venus, researchers at Harvard and MIT found that chlorine is really good at breaking apart oxygen compounds like ozone. Before long, another group at the University of California, Irvine, had realized that the extra chlorine we were pumping into our atmosphere might be doing the same thing on Earth.

Venus also offers a preview of our future. Over time, stars increase in luminosity. This means that the planets in their orbit will be bathed in more solar energy. For a planet with liquid water and an Earth-like atmosphere, that means a one-way ticket to Venusville. "Once you break a planetary atmosphere...[it's] almost impossible to unbreak," Kane says. "Venus could be the eventual outcome of all atmospheric evolution."

In fact, it "seems inevitable" that Earth will eventually follow Venus's path, he says. "The Earth has a delicate balance at the moment; it won't last forever."

Jekyll or Hyde?

We're getting better and better at discovering planets beyond our own solar system-including ones about the size of Earth. We can't study the soil or atmospheres on these planets to find out if they might be amenable to life, though. "The planets that we're studying around other stars are planets that we will never be able to go to, at least not in the next several hundred years," Kane says. "Venus is very much a warning to us, because if we did not have Venus in our solar system...we may very well be far more cavalier in discovering Earth-sized planets around other stars and just assuming that they're habitable."

Instead, we realize that two worlds that look the same from a distance can in fact be the Jekyll and Hyde of rocky planets. "As we discover new planets, the only basis we have for comparison are the planets in our own solar system," says Lori Glaze, a planetary volcanologist at NASA Goddard. "Being able to differentiate between an exo-Venus and an exo-Earth is going to be really important in how we go forward in our exploration."

It's possible that Venus's proximity to the sun is the main reason why it turned out so differently from Earth. But there could be other, more subtle forces at work too, like Venus's lack of a strong magnetic field. "We'll need to take those into account because it could mean that we have evil Venuses hiding amongst the planets we find around other stars," says Kane. On the other hand, if Venus's slow rotation rate once helped it sustain habitable conditions, it would make sense to measure how quickly exoplanets rotate as well.

"There's this great cosmic accident that we have in our solar system: two planets that are so similar in size and adjacent in the solar system yet they are on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of their habitability," Smrekar says. "If you really want to understand what makes a planet habitable, really the big question is, why are Venus and Earth so different?"

Planning a visit

Even though Venus is our closest neighbor, there's a lot we don't know about it.

The planet's thick blanket of clouds makes it difficult to observe, although missions like Magellan and Venus Express have taken radar and infrared images of the surface. Those pictures revealed another challenge: The surface of Venus isn't very heavily cratered, indicating that it hasn't existed for long enough to get dinged up much. "Over the last billion years and perhaps over a much shorter time even, the surface of Venus has been completely reworked," Smrekar says. Perhaps because the planet lacks plate tectonics, heat periodically builds up underneath the crust until the surface is melted. Because of this, much of the evidence for what Venus's surface was like in its ancient past has disappeared.

Then there's the fact that Venus's extreme conditions destroy any lander that visits within a matter of hours. "It's a very tough place to send missions; it's expensive and it's risky," Way says. "Mars is much easier to deal with."

This means that funding is harder to secure for Venus than for the Red Planet. "Success begets success," Smrekar says. "If you find an exciting discovery on Mars you want to follow up on that, and it's been so long that we've had a mission to Venus that it's hard to get over that hurdle."

Still, Glaze says, "There's getting to be quite a groundswell of support for Venus exploration." Akatsuki, an orbiter launched by JAXA, Japan's space agency, is currently gathering information about Venus's climate. And last year, NASA scientists proposed two missions that would have sent probes directly into the planet's atmosphere. The agency did not select either to advance in its New Frontiers program, but Smrekar, Glaze, and their colleagues are undeterred.

Smrekar would have led the Venus Origins Explorer (VOX) mission to investigate how present-day Venus behaves. It would have used an orbiter to map the planet's surface and a probe to sample gases in its atmosphere. One of the questions Smrekar and her colleagues would have examined is whether Venus's craters have been buried in lava flows, which would be a sign of recent geologic activity. They'd have also looked for chemical signatures of active volcanism, such as a thin coating of new minerals formed when lava flows are exposed to the atmosphere.

Another mission headed by Glaze-called Venus In situ Composition Investigations (VICI)-was awarded funding to hone its technology for future competitions. It would have sent two landers to visit highland plateaus that are older than the rest of Venus's surface. These features might be similar to Earth's continents, which are built from different kinds rock than its oceanic crust. VICI would have fired a laser into these rocks to vaporize a tiny bit of material, then measured the minerals present in both the plasma it had created and in un-vaporized rock. If Venus's plateaus have a different composition than the rest of the surface, it could mean that water was involved in forming them.

During its sojourn, the spacecraft would also have measured gases like krypton and xenon. "Once they're put into the atmosphere when a planet is forming it's very hard to change them or remove them," Glaze says. "They kind of remain there like little atmospheric fossils to tell us about what went into the original makeup of Venus's atmosphere."

She and her colleagues have built a full-scale prototype lander and tested its landing abilities here on Earth. The vessel is about 14 feet across and has a squat shape stabilizers that resemble spider legs to make it harder to tip over.

Glaze and her team are unfazed by Venus's fearsome conditions. "We send things down to far deeper in the ocean [to] much, much greater pressures than we're talking about on the surface of Venus," she says. And most of the mission's key measurements could be taken in under two hours-so by the time Venus's scorching heat melts the lander's electronics, they will likely have done their duty.

"Venus is hard to explore, sure, but it's not like it hasn't been done before 40 years ago," Smrekar says. We haven't sent a probe down into Venus's poisonous skies since last century's Venera, Vega, and Pioneer Venus missions. To know what to expect on the exoplanets are discovering far away, however, we'll need to take another trip next door. "It's incredibly important that we get back to Venus," Glaze says.

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Venus may once have been habitable. Now it can tell us if other worlds might be as well.

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In his 1954 novel Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus , science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined seas filled with life and underwater cities on our neighboring planet. It wasn't long, however, before we discovered what really lurks beneath Venus's thick cloud cover.

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The Most Dangerous Object in the World - The Elephant's Foot

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Dava's little seceret about a robot dog! (SHHHH you cant tell)

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Dava's little seceret about a robot dog! (SHHHH you cant tell)

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click this link to resd further about this incredible robot dog. Will he be super robot dog one day? Mabey he will save superman or spiderman tommorow. Robot dog by day super hero by night?

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SpotMini is a robotic dog that can act as a human assistant in the home or office.

Credit: Boston Dynamics

An amazing video of a robot dog fighting off a human as it tries to open a door is not only creepy, but it also has raised the question: Why are we teaching a robot to fight back against humans?

The "dog" in question is the SpotMini, a 66-lb. (30 kilograms) robot designed to fit comfortably in a home or an office. In the video, the dog is shown attempting to open a door-when a human comes with a hockey stick and shoves the robot's grasping arm away from the door knob. The robot manages to open the door anyway, and even continues standing when a human tries to pull "him" away from the door using a huge leash.

It turns out, any successful robot assistant for the home needs to be good at dealing with "disturbances," according to the company - and that may sometimes include pesky humans. [ Robots on the Run! 5 Bots That Can Really Move]

Unlike some of Boston Dynamics' other robots, such as the humanoid Atlas, SpotMini isn't designed to help people in a disaster situation. Instead, he's meant to be a vaguely cute home or office assistant. But that means he actually needs extra capabilities that a disaster robot might not.

For instance, to be useful, a fetching robot would need to be able to pick up objects of different sizes and bring them to its "master," which many battlefield robots aren't designed to do. And the home environment also involves challenges, such as doorways, stairs and slippery obstacles, which earlier versions of the robot struggled with. So far, Boston Dynamics has shown that progressive iterations of SpotMini can do these tasks: The company has posted videos of this little dog climbing stairs, crawling under tables, loading a dishwasher, filling the trash and bringing someone a Diet Coke.

And of course, many homes have children, who are not known for their restraint when dealing with pets and other moving objects, as this video montage of babies riding Roombas reveals.

Boston Dynamics doesn't explicitly mention the hazards of small children, but its tersely-worded description of the robot in the YouTube video does hint at that type of challenge.

"The ability to tolerate and respond automatically to disturbances like these improves successful operation of the robot," the company wrote in the caption.

Originally published on Live Science.

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The Day Humans Taught Robots to Fight Back

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 Daniel Xiong’s Research On Time Travel?

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 Daniel Xiong’s Research On Time Travel?

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Daniel Xiong’s Research On Time Travel? A man named Noah had been put on”The Telegraph” yesterday. Today is 2-15-18. He claims that:

Current US president Donald Trump will be re-elected in the year 2020

Phones are going to start getting bigger towards the year 2030

Robots that can run a home are being slowly introduced

Bitcoin is being used more but money - including pennies - are still in use

Global warming issues have increased and Northern America is now hotter, while Europe is colder

Humans fly to Mars in 2028 - the same year time travel is made public

Electric cars can travel 600 miles on a single charge

Some diseases have been cured - including some forms of cancer

Artificial intelligence will be huge by 2021 and a popular device which will look like Google glasses but have the processing power of today's computers, will take over

This man claims to have traveled from the year of 2030, but he states that 2021 is his natural year. If this is true let's also focus on this man who claims to have traveled from the year of 2048, now if i can add this up i can make this somehow believable in some way because he claims to have been sent back to our year to warn us of an alien invasion. Also the man from 2030 said that people fly to mars in 2028 if this is so then maybe other planetary travel methods will be discovered over the amount of time being, he also stated that the power of today's computers will take over, maybe the technology in computers will get so advanced that they could be able to discover other ways to get to other planets. If that's the case maybe our humankind will make a mistake with a robot, just enough to reveal our ways of travel, if they see and study our ways of travel for long enough they might just be able to even COPY it, this will allow them to fly down to our planet and cause that invasion. But this person was said to be “drunk” so i might have to do some more research for the time being. Ok so i now read that the man from 2048 states the only way he was able to time travel, was because “aliens filled his body with alcohol” you may be wondering how that makes sense, don't worry i'm trying to figure that out. i read that “merely a taste of beer can trigger a rush of chemical pleasure to the brain.” The man who traveled from 2030, who i'm now going to call “Noah” was asked a question related to “What's it like to time travel?” Well here's what i got,

(Noah: "I use a bunch of electricity around me, and -- or, if I'm in a place where I'm supposed to time travel, usually I'm in this giant [garbled] underground, where, like electricity generates, and then the technology [garbled] my body to fire up, and then I just, time travel."

I will continue to study this when i have time so for now thats all.

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Dōmo arigatō misutā Robotto
Dōmo arigatō misutā Robotto
Mata au hi made
Dōmo arigatō misutā Robotto
Himitsu wo shiritai

You're wondering who I am
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
Machine or mannequin
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
With parts made in Japan
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
I am the modern man

I've got a secret I've been hiding
Under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling
My brain IBM

So if you see me acting strangely
Don't be surprised
I'm just a man who needed someone
And somewhere to hide

To keep me alive
Just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide
To keep me alive

I'm not a robot without emotions
I'm not what you see
I've come to help you with your problems
So we can be free

I'm not a hero, I'm not a savior
Forget what you know
I'm just a man whose circumstances
Went beyond his control

Beyond my control
We all need control
I need control
We all need control

I am the modern man
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
Who hides behind a mask
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
So no one else can see
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
My true identity

Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto
Dōmo (dōmo)
Dōmo (dōmo)
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto
Dōmo (dōmo)
Dōmo (dōmo)

Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto

Thank you very much, oh, Mr. Roboto
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)
And thank you very much, oh, Mr. Roboto
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)
For helping me escape just when I needed to
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)

Thank you, thank you, thank you
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)
I want to thank you
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)
Please, thank you
(Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto)
Oh, ya

The problem's plain to see
Too much technology
Machines to save our lives
Machines dehumanize

The time has come at last
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
To throw away this mask
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
Now everyone can see
(Secret, secret, I've got a secret)
My true identity

I'm Kilroy!
Kilroy!
Kilroy!
Kilroy!

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this is a real pic and if you stand next to it for 2 minutes you will get lite headed this is magma mixed with radiation and is sinking down to water this happens when a factory blew up and radiation from the bomb mixed down with magma  scientist search and are still trying to find out how they can stop it from leaking into the ocean.by.jasmine  kelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxwCbuhU4po

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The British Antarctic Survey has released the first-ever video footage of an enormous iceberg as it broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf in July 2017.

To capture the incredible video and stills, cameras carried by helicopters circled over and around the iceberg, called A-68, as it continued to move into the Weddell Sea, away from the Larsen C ice shelf. The massive iceberg weighs an estimated 1 trillion tons and spans more than 2,300 square miles (6,000 square kilometers). It has been described as about the size of Delaware, twice the size of Luxembourg or roughly four times the size of London.

Whatever your frame of reference, the newly released video and images confirm that A-68 is an impressive sight. Seen from the sky as the helicopter flies alongside the iceberg, A-68 towers above the sea ice surrounding it. Though it is about 623 feet (190 meters) thick, only about 100 feet (30 m) of it is visible above the ocean surface, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) representatives said in a statement. [I n Photos: Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf Through Time]

Larsen C, where A-68 originated, was one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves. These vast structures build up over thousands of years, forming when ice sheets and glaciers on land flow past the coastline and over the ocean. By contrast, sea ice forms on the ocean surface when seawater freezes and is typically just a few meters thick.

Since A-68 separated from Larsen C, so-called "bergy bits" - clusters of smaller icebergs - have broken away from the large, floating ice mass.

Credit: British Antarctic Survey

In 2010, a large crack formed on Larsen C's western peninsula. The crack grew for years; scientists monitored it for years with satellites as it gradually expanded. A second crack appeared in May 2017, further weakening the shelf.

By June 2017, only 8 miles (13 km) of ice tethered the iceberg-to-be to Larsen C, and when the big break happened between July 10 and July 12 of last year, giant iceberg A-68 was born. When it separated and drifted away from the ice shelf, Larsen C lost approximately 10 percent of its surface area; this is the smallest the shelf has measured since record keeping began in the 1960s, according to the BAS.

Researchers tracking A-68 reported in August 2017 that it had traveled about 3 miles (5 km) from Larsen C and that it was breaking apart even further, with smaller "bergy bits" calving from the larger iceberg. The biggest of these minibergs measured about 8 miles long, BAS representatives said in a statement released that month.

Over the past two decades, Antarctica's western peninsula has suffered substantial ice loss in three of its ice shelves, Live Science previously reported. Though there is no simple explanation for why Larsen C fractured, atmospheric warming trends and changes in the surrounding ocean due to climate change may have contributed to the shelf's collapse, BAS representatives reported in the statement.

However, such upheavals could also be part of the ice shelf's normal cycle, according to the BAS.

Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf lost about 10 percent of its area when iceberg A-68 broke away in July 2017.

Credit: British Antarctic Survey

Researchers are now scrambling to take advantage of a rare opportunity to investigate portions of the seabed near Larsen C that were covered in ice for more than 120,000 years and were recently exposed after A-68's departure. And they are racing to do so before exposure to sunlight brings new species to the water and changes these mysterious environments.

Meanwhile, A-68 continues on its ocean journey, drifting away from its icy source. Recent computer simulations suggest that the loss of A-68 did not significantly weaken Larsen C, but scientists will continue to monitor the monster iceberg and its parent ice shelf, to better understand the impacts of significant calving events on Antarctic ocean ecosystems.

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Monster Antarctic Iceberg Gets Its Big Break in First-of-Its-Kind Video

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The British Antarctic Survey has released the first-ever video footage of an enormous iceberg as it broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf in July 2017. To capture the incredible video and stills, cameras carried by helicopters circled over and around the iceberg, called A-68, as it continued to move into the Weddell Sea, away from the Larsen C ice shelf.

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The Trump administration wants to eliminate a broad swath of the nation's climate change research infrastructure, including satellites, education programs and science centers.

Though it has little chance of being enacted, the Trump administration's budget proposal unveiled yesterday targets hundreds of millions of dollars in climate science, renewable energy research and climate mitigation efforts across a variety of federal agencies, including NASA, NOAA, U.S. EPA and the departments of the Interior and Energy.

Many of the proposals are a reprise of last year's spending plan from the White House, which congressional appropriators largely rejected. Already, Republicans and Democrats alike have slammed some of the White House's latest spending proposals and promised they would not survive congressional scrutiny.

The new White House proposal calls for a reduction in climate research at NASA, including a 6 percent cut to earth science programs for fiscal 2019. The budget request calls for an overall funding increase of more than 2 percent at NASA, which would have a $19.9 billion budget.

The NASA budget request calls for an end to financing for the International Space Station and a push to encourage private investment in that work, but Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have said that is a non-starter. Increasing privatization of the space industry has been a priority of congressional Republicans as well as Vice President Mike Pence-who chairs the revived National Space Council-over the last year.

Once again, the administration has proposed eliminating a number of climate-related satellite programs, including the functions of some already in orbit. The total savings would be $133 million for the five missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which is scheduled for a 2022 launch. As with most satellites, PACE has multiple functions and can be used to forecast harmful algal blooms, which have plagued the Great Lakes in recent years. Trump's proposal would also eliminate the Earth-observing abilities of the Deep Space Climate Observatory, which was proposed by then-Vice President Al Gore and also measures solar storms.

"We can't do everything, and as always, we've had to make hard choices, but we will continue to forge new paths and partnerships that strengthen our industrial base and our engagement with other nations to achieve challenging goals that advance our capabilities and increase our security and economic strength," acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot said in a statement.

At NOAA, the budget would be trimmed 20 percent, by about $1 billion, to $4.6 billion in 2019. The White House called for the elimination of $273 million in grants, something that congressional appropriators have also rejected. Those include the National Sea Grant College Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, coastal zone management grants, the Office of Education and the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund.

The Interior Department's chief science agency would take a major hit under the proposed budget. The U.S. Geological Survey is the lead federal agency in providing science and mapping on ecosystems, energy and mineral resources, water use and natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes. It would receive just under $860 million, about a 20 percent decrease from funding levels enacted for fiscal 2017. The White House's proposal is $62 million less than it asked for last year to fund USGS (see related story).

The budget request includes $13 million to fund only three of the eight regional climate science centers and one national climate adaptation science center-the others would presumably close. That is $4.4 million less than the administration allocated in its fiscal 2018 budget proposal and less than half of what Congress enacted for fiscal 2017. Established by Congress in 2008, the climate science centers develop science and tools to help land managers address climate change-related impacts to land, water, fish and wildlife, and cultural sites.

All other climate change research at USGS would be renamed under the new "land resources" program, formerly the "climate and land use change program."

Boosts thanks to the budget deal

The phrase "climate change" only appears once in the narrative summary of Trump's budget request, and that is for the proposed elimination of the Climate Change Research and Partnership Programs at EPA. However, there are some areas where climate-related research is supported. For instance, U.S. facilities in Antarctica would be upgraded through a $2.2 billion funding package that is part of the congressional budget deal reached last week.

Trump's budget proposal would also slash funding for EPA's Office of Science and Technology to $449 million, down from $714 million in fiscal 2017 enacted levels. The number of full-time-equivalent staff positions would also fall to 1,481 in fiscal 2019 from 2,124 under fiscal 2017 enacted levels.

Meanwhile, the administration touted EPA's continued commitment to improve air and water quality.

"These activities prioritize robust science, refocusing EPA's research and scientific analysis to inform EPA policy and regulatory development actions, and creating consistency and certainty that outlines exactly what is expected of the regulated community to ensure good stewardship and positive environmental outcomes," the budget request read.

On the climate front, EPA would continue to implement renewable fuel provisions under 2005 and 2007 energy laws and would "ensure compliance" of regulations aimed at reducing emissions from "highway and non-road sources." The agency would also continue to track greenhouse gas emissions nationally and has suggested maintaining the popular voluntary Energy Star program (see related story).

Some of the Trump administration's targeted reductions in climate research could be offset by the bipartisan spending plan reached by lawmakers last week.

For example, the White House plan includes a request for the National Science Foundation to receive a 30 percent cut, but that request was amended after the congressional spending plan was agreed to last week. In an addendum to its budget, NSF would receive $7.5 billion, which would keep its funding flat compared with 2017 levels.

Similarly, the Department of Energy's science programs would have seen a 22 percent reduction under the White House proposal, but the funding amount was updated to $5.4 billion, which means they would essentially remain flat.

Under Trump's plan, DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy-a high-tech research division that has worked on more durable solar cells and lighter batteries-would be eliminated, although that is not likely to happen. Senators advocated for record levels of funding for ARPA-E for fiscal 2018.

"Budgets are about priorities, and a close examination of this year's request shows the direction we're seeking to lead the department," Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a call with reporters yesterday. "Budgets are also about making difficult choices, but it would be a mistake to judge our view of the merits of any program solely on a one-year budget request."

Congressional Democrats widely panned the administration's spending plan.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, said the plan shows that the Trump administration has no appreciation for the role that research at federal agencies plays in driving the economy or protecting the environment and public health.

"When I was first briefed on 'highlights' of President Trump's budget request, I was incredulous at its treatment of our federal science agencies," she said in a statement. "The only good thing about this budget is that it's so extreme, I have no doubt that it will be summarily rejected by both sides of the aisle."
Reporters Brittany Patterson and Niina Heikkinen contributed. Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News. E&E provides daily coverage of essential energy and environmental news at www.eenews.net.

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Trump Budget Would Slash Science across Agencies

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The Trump administration wants to eliminate a broad swath of the nation's climate change research infrastructure, including satellites, education programs and science centers. Though it has little chance of being enacted, the Trump administration's budget proposal unveiled yesterday targets hundreds of millions of dollars in climate science, renewable energy research and climate mitigation efforts across a variety of federal agencies, including NASA, NOAA, U.S.

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SpaceX Launched the World's Heaviest Rockets

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SpaceX Launched the World's Heaviest Rockets

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When SpaceX successfully launched its first Falcon Heavy booster Tuesday (Feb. 6) from the same Florida pad used by NASA's Apollo missions, the company claimed the title for the most powerful rocket. And for some companies, that might be a year-defining feat.

But SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk have a lot more coming this year, including launching astronauts on its crewed Dragon spacecraft and preparing its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) for potential tests in 2019.

First, there's the Falcon Heavy, on which SpaceX spent nearly $500 million over seven years to enter the heavy-lift market for launching huge satellites and spacecraft off planet Earth. The rocket can carry twice as much payload as its closest competitor (United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy) at a lower cost, and its three first-stage boosters are designed to be reusable. For SpaceX, that's a launch vehicle triple threat.

"Falcon Heavy opens up a new class of payload," Musk told reporters after Tuesday's launch. "It can launch twice as much payload as any other rocket in the world... It can launch things right to Pluto and beyond, no stop needed." [ SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Flight in Pictures]

SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket launches from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Feb. 6, 2018. It's one of many big projects under way for SpaceX.

Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy can launch up to 141,000 lbs. (64 metric tons) of payload into orbit, and sent Musk's Tesla Roadster on a deep-space ride toward the asteroid belt when the rocket blasted off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida Tuesday. That lift capacity allows SpaceX to launch heavier satellites into low-Earth orbit, or reach higher geostationary orbits used by some satellites to keep station over the same part of Earth.

SpaceX advertises Falcon Heavy flights for $90 million a launch. The Delta IV Heavy, meanwhile, can launch 32 tons (29 metric tons) into orbit and costs between $300 million and $500 million per flight, according to Tommy Sanford, executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation told Space.com before the launch. That's a potentially huge cost savings.

Musk told reporters this week that given a successful test flight, the next Falcon Heavy could launch within 3 to 6 months. And make no mistake, Tuesday's launch was a successful flight.

Only two events didn't go as planned: The center core of the three-booster first stage missed its droneship landing and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, and a final engine burn of the rocket's second stage was stronger than expected, sending the Falcon Heavy's unique payload ( Musk's Tesla Roadster and a mannequin named "Starman") into an orbit that extends out to the asteroid belt, beyond the orbit of Mars as initially planned.

There are two more Falcon Heavy missions expected to fly in 2018: the launch of a beefy communications satellite called Arabsat 6A; and Space Test Program 2 for the U.S. Air Force, a flight that will also launch the LightSail 2 solar sail for The Planetary Society.

SpaceX's flight manifest also includes future Falcon Heavy missions to launch satellites for the companies Inmarsat and ViaSat.

So, Musk expects SpaceX will be flying a lot of Falcon Heavy rockets, enough to ensure the boosters will be certified to launch heavy satellites on national security missions for the U.S. military. SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 missions for the military in 2017.

"We have a number of commercial customers for Falcon Heavy," Musk said. "I really don't think it's going to be, in any way, an impediment to acceptance of national security missions."

But remember, the Falcon Heavy isn't the end game for SpaceX and Elon Musk in 2018. The company still plans to launch astronauts on its Falcon 9 and Dragon by the end of the year.

SpaceX has been flying uncrewed cargo delivery missions to the International Space Station for NASA for years, and in 2014 the space agency picked the Hawthorne, California-based firm as one of two companies to fly American astronauts to the station. (The other company is Boeing, which will launch astronauts on its Starliner crew capsule using Atlas V rockets.)

"We're making great progress on Crew Dragon," Musk said.

Mission assurance for each SpaceX launch is the company's number one priority, with Falcon Heavy a close second until recently, Musk said. But a month ago, the Crew Dragon program took over that second spot.

"We're aspiring to fly crews to orbit at the end of this year." "I think the hardware will be ready."

In fact, the spacesuit worn by SpaceX's Starman on the Falcon Heavy flight is the same one astronauts will wear on Dragon, he said.

And finally, there's the BFR: the ship Elon Musk wants to use to colonize Mars.

On paper, SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket looks like the megarocket to end all megarockets. It's a completely reusable launch system and features massive spaceship on top of an equally massive booster powered by 31 SpaceX Raptor engines (the Falcon Heavy uses 27 of the company's Merlin engines). [ The BFR: SpaceX's Mars-Colonization Architecture in Images]

The combined rocket and spaceship will stand 348 feet (106 meters) and be able of launching 150 tons to low-Earth orbit (LEO), making it more powerful than NASA's Saturn V moon rocket - which could launch 135 tons to LEO. (The Falcon Heavy may be the most powerful rocket in operation today, but it would take more than one to match the Saturn V, Musk said.)

SpaceX's envisioned BFR will be bigger and far more powerful than the company's other rockets.

Credit: SpaceX

Each spaceship may carry up to 100 passengers, and the spacecraft on its own -without the booster -could potentially be used for superfast point-to-point travel around the Earth, Musk said last year when describing the system at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.

This week, Musk said work on BFR - which he first unveiled to the world in 2016 -has been going so well, the company no longer plans to use its brand-new Falcon Heavy rocket to launch astronauts on deep space missions.

Last year, Musk announced SpaceX would use the Falcon Heavy and a Crew Dragon capsule to launch two passengers on a trip around the moon. That mission, he said then, could potentially launch by the end of 2018. But now, SpaceX will likely not certify Falcon Heavy to carry astronauts as it has for Falcon 9, and will for the BFR.

Simply put, the BFR is the better choice, Musk said.

"The ship is capable of single-stage to orbit if we fully load the tanks," Musk said of the BFR's spaceship without its booster.

The BFR will be capable of lofting 150 tons of payload to low Earth orbit, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said.

Credit: SpaceX

That spaceship could be ready for short demonstration hops in 2019, Musk said. Those hops would be much like SpaceX's prototype Grasshopper rocket tests that led to the reusable Falcon 9 first stage boosters the company relies on today.

While SpaceX could try to do short hops of the BFR spaceship offshore, flying between its two droneship landing pads, it's more likely those tests will occur at the company's newest launch site in South Texas, near Brownsville.

"It will most likely be at our Brownsville location because we've got a lot of land if it blows up," Musk said.

If the BFR test hops are a success, SpaceX would fly a series of ever-more-complex flights to prove out the system, he added.

"I think it's conceivable that we do our first test flight in three or four years," Musk said. That one would send the full BFR system to low-Earth orbit.

So that's a big year for SpaceX, with potentially more big years to come. And it's all happening as the company continues its traditional Falcon 9 rocket launches for mid-size satellite missions and NASA cargo deliveries to the International Space Station.

Falcon Heavy was SpaceX's third launch of 2018, following two Falcon 9 missions in January that launched the mysterious Zuma payload for the U.S. government and the GovSat-1 communications satellite.

The next mission to fly will be a Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Paz satellite for the Spanish company Hisdesat. That mission is targeted for Feb. 17, according to Spaceflight Now, and could be followed on Feb. 22 with the launch of another Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Hispasat 1F communications satellite for Spain's Hispasat.

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SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket. So, What's Next?

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When SpaceX successfully launched its first Falcon Heavy booster Tuesday (Feb. 6) from the same Florida pad used by NASA's Apollo missions, the company claimed the title for the most powerful rocket. And for some companies, that might be a year-defining feat.

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This Dutch Inventor Is Transforming Our Roads

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This Dutch Inventor Is Transforming Our Roads

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Dutch inventor will improve infrastructure with paint, stones, solar power, and reflective lines.

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This Dutch Inventor Is Transforming Our Roads

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His innovations will improve infrastructure with paint, stones, solar power, and reflective lines.

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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Is Headed to the Asteroid Belt 

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A red car for a Red Planet. That's what Elon Musk was hoping for when he launched his own Tesla Roadster on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday (Feb. 6), headed for an orbit that might have extended out to the orbit of Mars. But his car, it turns out, is taking a detour through the asteroid belt.

Musk's Roadster and its mannequin "driver," dubbed "Starman," launched into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a "mass simulator" aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy test flight. The launch was a huge success, Musk said, leaving only the fate of SpaceX's Starman and the Roadster up in the air.

Would the car and mannequin, attached to the Falcon Heavy's second stage, survive an experimental 6-hour coast phase that would send it through Earth's radiation-flooded Van Allen belts? And would an engine burn by the second stage after that coast go as planned, sending the Roadster out to the orbit of Mars? [ In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Success!]

This orbital diagram shows the path of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its Starman mannequin around the sun. The orbit loops out beyond Mars, into the asteroid belt, at its farthest point.

Credit: SpaceX

In a late-night update, Musk announced that the Falcon Heavy stage did survive its daring slog through the Van Allen belts.

"Third burn successful," Musk wrote on Twitter. "Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt."

Starman and the Roadster are now flying in a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. At its farthest point, that orbit extends nearly 243 million miles (390 million kilometers). That's 2.61 times the average distance between Earth and the sun, which is, on average, about 93 million miles (150 million km).

For reference, Mars orbits the sun at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km). At their closest point to the sun, Starman and the Roadster will fly just inside Earth's orbit, according to the diagram.

So, yeah. That's one epic trip.

At a news conference after Tuesday's Falcon Heavy launch, Musk said the Roadster will orbit the sun for millions, perhaps even billions, of years.

He wondered what aliens might think if they ever came across the Roadster drifting through space. After all, SpaceX packed other weird items in the car, among them a small toy Hot Wheels Roadster (complete with a miniature Starman) on the dashboard.

"Maybe [it will be] discovered by an alien race, thinking, 'What were these guys doing? Did they worship this car? Why do they have a little car in the car?'" Musk said. "That will really confuse them."

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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Is Headed to the Asteroid Belt

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A red car for a Red Planet. That's what Elon Musk was hoping for when he launched his own Tesla Roadster on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday (Feb. 6), headed for an orbit that might have extended out to the orbit of Mars.