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Ganymede receives about 0.08 Sv of radiation per day from Jupiter. So people would need to travel by shielded ships and immediately go under the ice. It's not undo-able for a mining or science station, but I don't think a lot of people are going to want to colonize it.

Here in California they are considering a requirement to have electric meters on electric cars for the purposes of taxing them. I'm not sure what kind of plan they have for reading them. I guess they could go wireless or have them read at a garage like a smog inspection.

Yes, look for the paper airplane symbol in the upper right of the video display where you first linked to. Press the symbol and a popup window will show, next copy the "Link" not "embebed". Nice video.

Sometimes extinction is a good thing.

What they need is a flying sub. Just put a heat shield and a parachute on it.

Pilot: "Huston, we have a problem. I have lost the number two engine and I am declaring an in air emergency. We will attempt an emergency landing with the renaming 19 engines." Control: "Understood, we will foam the runway"

Well it's time to start Winnipeg Suborbital then......

Good report, I need to get back to the Outer Planets Mod, it adds a lot to the game.

I have live next to Vandenberg AFB for the last 30 years, so I can't remember them all. Well 40 miles away from it, but rockets are bright even in day light and leave long smoke trails. I also grew up next to a Rocketdyne test facility. I know it's not the same thing, but listening to Shuttle engines so loud that they shake the picture frames out of alinement at home has a big impact on a little kid.

Now just add a tail hook and you can launch and recover from an aircraft carrier......

@Mazon Del I think that could be a direction for future machine tools. Instead of one machine just using one technique, it uses multiple ones. We have already seen this done on modular automated assembly lines where they pass the parts back and forth between machines. Just take it a few steps further and combine more advanced metal 3D printing, CNC type milling, sanding and welding. You would have something like a machine shop in a box that might be able to preform most of the simple jobs that come into a machine shop for.

Wouldn't it be easier to combine something like a heavy duty Makerbot and a MIG welder?

I think repairing satellites in orbit is still too hard right now for robotic craft. Look at the effort it took to do the Hubble missions. Companies would need to first design their satellites to be repairable and modular before there would be any chance to repair them. Otherwise you might just end up creating more space debris removing bolts, drilling and cutting off parts of body panels. You would probably need a government mandate to get companies to spend money to deorbit dead spacecraft too and I don't see much interest in that from Congress.

CNN was saying it "could" go as far south as Tennessee or Oklahoma (about lat. 35 degrees, that's about Vandenburg AFB in Ca. ), but that was much earlier today. Well we have a small storm front in California anyways, so we won't see the end of the computer age coming.

They are already combining 3d printing and lost wax casting: http://www.3dprintingcolor.com/wax-pattern-3d-printing/ And a similar technique: http://3dtopo.com/lostPLA/

Is this what you need to know? http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalAcademy/comments/1x06wa/how_to_make_a_kerbinduna_aldrin_cycler/ and here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24393-Proof-of-concept-Duna-Cycler-trajectory

Are there ever any clues to an object's orbit that might suggest that an object is extra solar or is there just too much randomness?

I thought Cygnus was based off a Multipurpose Logistics Module? Edit: I guess it was only very distantly related.

A modified Unity Node?

Oh god! Someone get the giant butterfly net!

Well the ISS is 320% heavier than Mir was.

I just saw this story about powdered Alcohol on the news. Basically you can pour this powder into a liquid to add the alcohol. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/regulator-okays-powdered-alcohol-n322496 The alcohol is absorbed in cyclodextrins that molecularly encapsulated it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder There are several other things that can also encapsulated liquids: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water http://www.medindia.net/news/healthwatch/powdered-water-the-next-big-innovation-123370-1.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_polyacrylate There are many more, but I got to thinking what else could you use them for. Some people like to experiment with making solid rocket motors. Does anyone think there could be a combination that might work as a motor? Even if it is weaker than a standard motor it might be a fun experiment.

Well he definitely doesn't fit in well in the politically correct world of the BBC. I like him on the show and I can imagine him getting out of control at times, but this should have been handled in private. The BBC would be crazy to get rid of him, but this is the BBC. Although, to be fair, the public doesn't know if he really is terrible to work with.

Would something like this give you enough information? http://www.amazon.com/P3-P4455-Power-Monitoring-Dummies/dp/B00685UBYQ/ref=sr_1_8/181-2848632-9120515?ie=UTF8&qid=1426132051&sr=8-8&keywords=kill+watt+meter