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kerbiloid

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  1. There is weather on the Witch Mountain Mount Weather
  2. Banned for Infinity Black One Plus.
  3. Mesa is Black. You come into their diner and read: "Barnacle tongue with potato mess." Mesa Diner
  4. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Радий#Получение In early XX to produce 1 g of pure Radium it required to spend several railroad cars of uranium ore, 100 railcars if coal, 100 cisterns of water, and 5 railcars of various chemicals. 1 g of Ra costed 200 kg of gold.
  5. Just for a minute you had left your submarine in the street, and look... Where are its wheels?
  6. Airship accuracy sounds like oxymoron. It will spend more energy to stay at the point than a helicopter to fly.
  7. That's why I wrote "virtual". The place of combustion had no walls. Though, the shaped charge had a nozzle-shaped volume filled with solid material used as propellant after vaporization, so it was a weird kind of SRB with combined nozzle and chamber. Actually, a normal thermal rocket, just overturned. And the pusher plate was a reflector part of the distributed nozzle system, reverting the gas flow. Like the turbojet reverse. Except of the pusher plates, of course, lol. It would receive radial hits of expanding matter, and this would kill the whole idea together with the ship. The parabola is inside the nuke. It's the nozzle between the primer and the membrane. The advantage of Orion is exactly in absence of radial stress limiting the engine size and power. That's why the Mini-Mag Orion should anyway have no chamber, but should ignite the pellets with X-ray emitters far behind the ship, outside of its structures. And that's why irl the Mini-Mag "pellets" would have complex structure, not simpler than the classic Orion nukes one. They anyway would need heavy metal as final propellant, to carry momentum in dedicated direction. Just without fissiles. (And it's a question if it's easier to make such Z-pinch portable machine or to produce twenty tonnes of oralloy more.) Also, when the D-D fusion reactors working on oceanic deuterium will be usual, the oceanic uranium will be being extracted and enriched as well. So, the unlimited power of D-D and unlimited oceanic uranium can easily make oralloy and tritium production by orders of magnitude higher, and fission Orions normal, due to their simplicity compared to remote fusion.
  8. It's a virtual chamber! But anyway neither nozzle, nor throat. None of them has a real nozzle. It's semi-open chambers. But anyway not throats. The nozzle is a shaped post-combustion fluid reflector. It turns a spherical gas cloud into a jet.
  9. The pseudoscience becomes psyonic. Preudopsyscience Hill
  10. Banned for thinking that you are Star Trek.
  11. Calling the game with a ball of socks soccer is cheating.
  12. Absorbing the photons is not an art, it's a science. Sciencificial Hill
  13. Star Trek is banned because I don't watch it, too.
  14. Yes. Playing football with hands is cheating. The sockermen don't.
  15. Calling 911 to check the phone connection.
  16. Helide A salt of helium acid H2He Li2He dilithium helide
  17. SLS supports the SRB makers, SH doesn't. SLS supports the RS-25 makers, SH doesn't. Drop SLS, and RS-25 will follow F-1. While all those Raptors and BE-4 are just hydrocarbonic, not hydrolox. So, why not rename SLS into White Elephant?
  18. Floor 3113: A large red caption on the wall "Teddy-Bear, Teddy-Bear looked around... Teddy-Bear, Teddy-Bear touched the ground... Teddy-Bear, Teddy-Bear switched off the light... Teddy-Bear, Teddy-Bear said goodnight..."
  19. Kanye West has three evil twins Kanye East, Kanye North, and Kanye South. Nobody knows what happens if they had gathered together.
  20. Floor 3111: A plushy bear lying on the floor with a paper note on top. "I am not Teddy"
  21. Because it's AT-ST. 2 and 2 are legs, ^ is a cabin. Is "Palpatine" from "palpation"?
  22. Do they carry the rocket from the crawler to the launcpad and back? Do they refuel it? Maybe this matters.
  23. A water pistol. THIS is a fire extinguisher. No need in winglets, no need in heatshield. Pure profit.
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