darthgently

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All water heaters I've seen use mains power for ignition with a gas cutoff kicking in when power goes out. The batteries must be something in other countries. Related: That video reminds me of flatulent teens playing with a Bic lighter

"Freighter" connotes something voluminous to me. Something at least the volume of a 53' cargo trailer, but I picture a good sized seafaring cargo ship. I suppose it is all relative to other ISS servicing cargo craft.

Yeah, that FAE post spin-prime was what I was recalling. I remember it being a spin-prime test anyway

Do they issue overpressure warnings for spin primes? It would make sense as ignition may possibly accidentally occur I suppose

Wasn't there a rumor/report that it was testing resistance of its own systems or some payload to Van Allen belt radiation and so the increasingly higher orbits and longer durations? Any way, I don't think it was radiation of the payload, but of the environment

Here, here. If the ISS can continue functioning with all that is happening, this forum can surely do the same. I bet they don't talk politics much on the ISS

A little ambiance for the family room big screen https://youtu.be/a4sZPWLD

G A T E W A Y T O E A R T H

It's like Peter Dinklage standing on a milk crate playing the part of a sociopath very convincingly

Honestly, I think it would be a great idea if moderators considered discussions about Musk's personal life and views as "politics". Because the venn diagram between political camps and opinions about Musk is a near perfect stack of pancakes.

If it has a larger single centered headlight the resemblance would be spot on

They frakked up the number one rule of passenger vehicle design: Every road vehicle has a "face" with an "expression". Don't frakk it up. Seriously, if a meth-head were a car...

Success or excitement guaranteed?

If all you are testing is pressure, then no issue detected. But if testing lengthwise compression as in SpaceX's "can crusher" wouldn't the different length play a role in the force at which it may buckle?

Was j/k. Looked like it had enough DV to Buran aero braking and landing in Mars, that's all. The Mars Direct is a reference to Zubin's plan to get to Mars more directly than current Starship plans

I would think ocean covered crust would cool more easily than continent covered crust creating a bias for continents having liquid plumes closer to the surface. Add plate edges into the mix for another place where magma release would be easier and perhaps non-ocean-cooled plate edges are favored for higher plumes? The more we know that we don't know much the more we will be open to learning I suppose

Is that the Mars Direct Shuttle?

The structural characteristics will be fairly different for compression, pressure, tension, etc, but if they are confident in their ability to model and translate/extrapolate the test result numbers from one form to the other then it's useful to them I suppose

I'd like to visit this memorial someday and leave a wreath for the cosmonauts and a bone for Laika

They are working for me, but loading much slower. Could be a server load or related issue.

Isn't "glish" the longest 5-letter word in English?

1m+ dia googly eyes would be optimal. On Starship 28, maybe the full Monty: