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New one I found in recent news... Calling 911 to complain about getting an amber alert.

Calling 911 to ask about the current time.

Calling 911 because you were reading the works of Philosopher G. W. F. Hegel and now you're very confused.

KSP ruined! mod: Whenever a vehicle leaves the atmosphere, any incoming asteroids with un-plotted trajectories automatically adjust to intercept it at the highest possible speed to register a collision.

The Bouncy Castle Mod Disables part destruction, enables unbreakable joints, all collisions (including with water) are reflected while retaining 90% of the energy at collision.

Well, never thought I'd hear about this again... I heard about that in the late 90s, from an episode of Beyond 2000, back when TLC wasn't an ironic name. At the time, it was a study of spider silk and if goats could be modified to produce it, as trying use spiders wouldn't produce nearly enough silk to be practical overall. Interesting to see an end result now.

Just to get the answer out of the way quick, no. Although the relevant law initially sounds like it, there's a distinct (although not always clear) difference between say, The Twist (as a dance) and the performance of The Nutcracker (as a series of choreographed sets). Not sure if that made sense to you. If you're still confused, I recommend the Lawful Masses with Leonard French video, 2 Milly Denied Fortnite Dance Copyright.

Committee Funding mod: Potentially increasing or decreasing up-front contract funding based on convincing a committee (in a visual-novel style) of 10 NPCs, each with their own agenda, of the merits of whatever contract you take. After a presentation and a short discussion with each, the contract is put forward for amendments by the committee. This can result in potentially adding more objectives to the contract, adding more stringent requirements, and potentially changing the funding based on amendments put forward and voted on by the committee. After all that, then they let you take the contract you wanted.

Okay...note to self... …When intending to grow anything on the Moon, bring a very good heater and a really, really good (and full) battery.

That doesn't make terraforming impossible, just very, very difficult. Kidding aside, sounds like it would be better to create a station near Titan and mine/extract resouces from it instead (after the science surveying, of course.)

I like to think of this as what happens when people put their minds together to focus on a goal. I'm not sorry.

I think this question has pretty much been answered. But for those holding out, I find it easier to come to answer based on earlier precedent, which would be from the navy and the air force. As for cities in space, what about cities on the water? What determines who is counted as a sailor on an aircraft carrier?

I found this video from the International Mars Society Convention. Warning: sections of low volume and general stammering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Cz6vF4ONE Mostly a re-iteration of what we knew of SpaceX's plans, with a few 'new' details on selecting landing sites and general plans.

Okay then...what do we know about the current state and development of inflatable hypersonic decelerators? Also, how does being an hypersonic decelerator make any different compared to a heatshield outside of avoiding re-entry heating versus managing re-entry heating?

Last week I went and visited the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada. There are a few radio telescopes there, the newest one being CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment). You could spend two or three hours there, more if you visit on a day with the guided tour. Anyone else been there?

I'm not the one who gets to decide what is attached to what. That's an exercise for the reader. Edit: Just remember to include whether the treadmill is on top, inside, or attached to the plane (or similar) before you explain what might happen.

One last thing...because I'm tired and slightly loopy. What if, instead of have a jet on a treadmill, you have a treadmill...on a jet. If you start the jet's engines, does the treadmill take off or remain stationary?

Then logic dictates that he would bump up other threads instead of posting in this thread. This follows the rule that the thread with the latest post is on the top of the sub-forum. But like the plane taking off, this concept is not always thought out on an individual level.

Hahaha...You can't just kill a thread by demanding it die. Threads die when no one posts, when everyone has lost interest. Apparently, even though we know the plane takes off and the majority agree why it takes off, we aren't done batting the subject around some more. Just be patient and so more worthy intellectual challenge will come along to draw all the posters away.

B00M error: unexpected temperature change. This system has lost all of it's magic smoke and will shut down. It is recommended to call your local fire department.

I throw one in here for a laugh. I believe the the purpose of the belt is to moved opposite to the acceleration of the vehicle on it. It has to, or the vehicle would easily leave the belt. As a non-science major, I would say a plane takes off, unless a conveyer belt can accelerate to cancel out the plane's acceleration. So far, the last part appears to be purely hypothetical. But that's not fun. So I'll ask instead, if a plane accelerates to 50 kph and the belt matches that speed, is the plane moving forward, or is it stationary? Edit: I don't factor the landing gear wheels into the matter because I don't know how they know the difference between runway tarmac and a conveyer belt.

Yes, petty people will be petty. But I doubt anyone, like a judge, would agree. This wouldn't just be, under condition x, your y is in my domain and requires my approval. Not only has some time passed, but Hatfield made his retirement announcement publically. As well, his has likely had that book for a while and likely shown it around to people, so there's no real secrets there, if there ever were. So either it was already cleared, or someone was incredibly negligent in vetting documents. This horse left the barn a long time ago, very hard to make a case for closing the door. That said, if Hatfield dies, NASA might ask for the notebook back as a historical document, which would involve wrangling with the Canadian Space Agency over whose museum it would go to.

It doesn't need to be said. But I would think that if NASA was worried about the matter, they would have taken it from him after each flight, or when he announced his retirement from spaceflight. Seem incredibly careless to make a fuss about it now. Besides, I doubt anyone fears that information falling into 'the wrong hands.' I expect it would mostly apply to the space shuttle, which is also retired. Anyone worried about rogue nations making STS-style shuttles needs to calm down and do some basic research.

So, how many more pages will it take before we can agree on how wheels, propellers/jet engines, and treadmills work?

I'll hedge this a little then and say that a heatshield would be for atmospheric entry instead of a 'landing system.' And yes, I know that a controlled crash is, in a purely technical system, 'a landing system.' I'll re-define the question then. How could a probe with payload deliberately crash on Mars and still have an intact payload? Additionally, would it be simpler to just use the landing balloons than a deliberate, controlled crash?