kerbiloid

Banned for using TCP/IP instead of Named Pipes. Also for not calling Cthulhu in Gaelic.

Doing computer things in a kitchen (with the fridge) is cheating.

Bright off.

A collapsed cryptocurrency turns into a cryptoblackhole, and noone can see that money anymore.

It's penny wise to walk by Penny Lane. PenniWise Hill.

Argentrock Isle and The Plateau

La Plata

Mini-Mag Orion still uses fission charges (by default made of curium, but plutonium is also acceptable). Its reaction zone is still far behind the ship, so its heat problems are not much harder. A fusion Mini-Mag is a theoretically possible further development.

The polybutadiene acrylonitrile (PBAN) which is the SRB binder and another fuel component is hardly solid at that temperature. It can be treated as a viscous liquid with aluminium suspension.

Radio "Crater"

Silverplate

Thrust = ISP * consumption rate Power = force * speed Energy per time = thrust * ISP * g No difference for the thrust. Just very non-dense fuels need bigger and thus heavier nozzles and are affected from the air pressure, so their thrust is limited. The thrust can be made a little (2 times or so) higher, but this doesn't solve any problem.

The mountain has arrived from beneath. Volcano.

dense = high atomic number = high atomic mass = low heat speed = low ISP

https://www.craiyon.com Much more primitive.

I'm one of those first hand people, our IT department (and two side jobs) had fixed the 2k problem on a whim, and that was a real-time 24/7 transport company. Just distributed the workplaces between the IT staff, relaxedly walked to everyone and set up the CMOS and system settings. Several (less than five) very old computers had the clock "hard-coded", and didn't allow to save the time settings. So, they were replaced with less old ones (by bying several new ones for the best people, and shifting down the others), and used in the janitor department and storehouse. Also some DOS programs had been finally killed and replaced with their Windows analogs. The problem was completely forgotten in a week after the New Year. Because US had started the computerization much earlier, so by the 2 000 it was full of obsolete computer junk and old programs for it. While the ex-USSR was just starting, and its computer park was much younger and more relevant. Another bright example: the COBOL language. While the poor dear 'Murican IT staff keeps suffering from this nightmare legacy of the dark old times, the ex-USSR just skipped it (mostly together with other dinosaur horrors like PL/I, Ada, Modula, etc.), and feels happy with much more developed development tools. A one fun more. Periodically watching for reasons some photos and videos from California small shops, I was shocked that they were still using CRT monitors a decade after we dropped the last of them. Currently I know only one place where such monitor is really used for server, and that company is very... economical. Also, while in 1990s the Americans had to pay for software and keep using it until it's finally agonizing, this problem was not relevant in ex-USSR till 2006 (when the campaign of software legalization started), so nobody cared of that non-existing trouble. To use the newest software version just find it. The current events and sanctions tend to revive that good old tradition in near future. Sometimes it's bad to be rich. +1 I doubt that US can get out of fossil fuel at all. Australia as well. The British, German, and Polish coal mines also look not depleted. And a lot of resources can be saved by the coming robotization, unification, and virtualization of the life space. So, that's the pro-renewables campaign looks somewhat slyly. Seattle. In any case we need Seattle for KSP-2. Most part of that domino is caused just because everyone is using available tools. If the tools are American, why not.

The problems with hardware were minimal. The problem was with that software where the developers were using short date formats, because nobody was looking that far. Though, as we were moving from local data files to SQL server, this was not a problem but a motivation to drop such software. It took several months of talks and several days of action (almost only because some computers were locked and users were absent.)

SU & US Antarctic rovers (video in Russian, but a video) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkovchanka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vityaz_(ATV) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Snow_Cruiser

One Ring to rule them all.

We upon hill

BDArmory

Promenade

AI photo mix https://pikabu.ru/story/midjourney_mj4__mixes_of_different_9639441

Several videos from different places, but they contain bad English words, so didn't post direct links. https://pikabu.ru/story/na_aviashou_v_dallase_bombardirovshchik_b17_stolknulsya_s_drugim_samoletom_9640606 https://pikabu.ru/story/vozdushnyiy_taran_9640260

... with mad laughter in earphones.