Three days ago, Rocket Lab launched one of the most clandestine missions in recent history. But why is a suborbital launch this important? And what else has this little company from New Zealand been up to? #space #nasa #rocketlab Please support my move to Europe! https://www.gofundme.com/manage/move-the-angry-astronaut-to-europe Please support my channel! EARLY VIDEO RELEASES, DISCORD MEMBERSHIP AND EXCLUSIVE CONTENT PLUS 15% OFF MERCH! https://www.patreon.com/AngryAstronaut https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AngryAstro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0-SC55aY

The Angry Astronaut looks far ahead to an amazing future, and a terrifying speculation in the last episode of a 2 part series. Shout out to my friends at 2 The Future who started our 2 part collaborative series today, and to the late, great Carl Sagan for the name "We Who Became One" 2 The Future https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUF-OfqZ3hFCxnnKJ-lG1yg Article on one space based solar power solution: https://www.businessinsider.com/space-based-solar-panels-beam-unlimited-energy-to-earth-2015-9 This article was immediately released when a "natural explanation" was found for the bizarre dimming of "Tabby's Star", but was later debunked when it was determined that this system was far too old to have a dust disk, which is characteristic of developing Solar Systems. A retraction, of course, was not printed. https://earthsky.org/space/kic-8462852-tabbys-star-no-alien-megastructure This far more recent article presents another theory, calling it "Plausible and alien-free" as if an alien megastructure would be implausible. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/dust-explain-star-mysteriously-flickering/story?id=66507595 However, the odds of spotting an exomoon that just happened to be in the process of disintegrating after its planet was consumed are so unlikely, that this theory has also been called into question. Our Solar System, for example, has never had something like this happen in billions of years. Finally, this article admits that, thus far, the possibility of an alien megastructure cannot be ruled out, which is about all we can expect. https://www.space.com/freeman-dyson-sphere-sci-fi-seti-legacy.html However, even more amazing is the fact that a recent study of star charts over the last six decades has concluded that at least 100 stars have simply vanished without a trace: https://gizmodo.com/weird-vanishing-stars-could-potentially-be-aliens-st-1840486666 Of course, the alien hypothesis is regarded as "extremely remote", but are there natural phenomena that could explain so many stars simply "winking out" in a very short time? Red Dwarf flares are one possibility, but that should mean that a roughly equal number of new light sources should also be there...and they don't appear to be. There are many other examples of strange dimming, but I will go on record as saying that this is not definitive proof that alien megastructures exist. However, the tendency to immediately give more credence to natural explanations, no matter how unlikely, is a serious case of unscientific bias. Both natural and artificial theories for these phenomena have been put forward, and it is simply irrational to give natural theories much greater consideration simply because the scientific community believes that artificial theories require irrefutable proof, but na ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9H6DQdCK6k