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Dear culture-shock-video-maker, if you were to lonely witness a landing of an extra-terrestrial #spaceship

Standing all alone in the nowhere and you would be conscious that you must react now somehow.

However, already the landing flap of this spaceship opens, some smoke rises, a billowing #species approaches,

... two, three tentacles reach for you and slowly driving up into your nostrils... (1/2)

Thousands of rockets have launched into space over the last several decades. But what would it take to build an elevator that goes from Earth to space? Thousands of meters of cable, for starters. @sciencefocus has more on this impossible-sounding idea that more people have been giving serious thought over the years.

flip.it/4foPpY

BBC Science Focus Magazine · Just one cable stands between us and space elevators

Galaxy NGC 1097 in Fornax constellation the bright area in the upper right is satellite galaxy ESO416-19. you can click the link below to view this beautiful behemoth and its neighbors on the zoomable map of of outerspace from the Legacy Survey of the night sky. #stars #galaxies #space #outerspace #legacysurvey #telescope #astronomy #nightsky
#staratlas #Simbad
legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=4