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What do you think about Jeff Bezos suing NASA?
kerbiloid replied to Pawelk198604's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Is Bezos's launch site situated in a place full of crocosaurs, too? If no, they should also set zoo defenders on BocaChica, for frying the helpless crocos alive. -
As "owner" I mean the Starship's country, not company. *** https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_инцидентов_с_участием_иностранной_авиации_над_СССР_(1946—1991) It's not so easy to start a war even when something is shot down. Read the list.
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Even if so, should then its owner start a nuclear war and get the whole country destroyed? Unlikely. That's why Starship won't be used as a Death Star.
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There were a lot of war conflicts and incidents, but nobody wants to bring a war to the homeland.
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totm dec 2023 Artemis Discussion Thread
kerbiloid replied to Nightside's topic in Science & Spaceflight
They are the recon phase, 2030+ till 2050. -
The superheavy orbital thing is immediately hit by a small a-sat missile. Suggestions? Decisions? (Yes, it's known who has hit and the hitman says he will do this again next time.)
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Does Isaac Arthur realize how many megatons are in a typical hurricane?
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The hill stands still. Still Hill.
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The topic itself is formulated ambiguously. Does the "starship" mean exactly Starship (the wannabe-reusable upper stage) or the SuperHeavy as well? Starship (in the narrow sense): even if it ever flies and lands, is just a vulnerable, slow, and large target. Too negligible for a developed opponent, too expensive for colonial wars. SuperHeavy: cryogenic and large. So as ICBM it's a return to the 1960s early ICBM which have been replaced exactly because they were cryo. Its reliability (with 30 engines) is unknown but doubtful. Its fueling would be just a signal to the opponent that he is under attack. It isn't storable when fueled. So, as an ICBM it's nothing. If it ever flies, it could mass deliver sats or turn the Moon into minefield. But this would just cause a mass-and-dirty response countermeasures. So, the most real dangers from it are adding several thousands more craters on the Moon and making the opponent to spend money on a same thing.
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She-cats are clean. Except the mating season outdoors. Which happens often. Unless she spawns subcats and sits with them. Then she's dirty because too tired to clean. And "sterilized" he-cats, too. They don't have the mating season. They are fancy guys. He-cats are lazy pigs by their nature. Dirty lazy pigs in case if they have a chance to stay outdoors as long as they want. Usually in scars. Happily, they don't like beer, otherwise they would be also burping. Of course, an indoor cat is clean because it has not so much entertainments, and self-licking is one of them. But very soon you realize that a scary dirty lazy catpig is not worse than heartbreaking screams and marked... everything. They can stand for their rights very well. A cat licks its (donkey), then your face. Or vice versa, they anyway don't see any difference between these parts. It's normal. It allows you to get your portion of the cat midichlorians which helps you to establish more friendly and close relations to the catkind.
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I know it had. And of course I'm not going to support the flood, especially since the second part of the phrase, which is obviously provocative and false. Btw, Buran has flown at least once. Starship still never.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Just to be sure. Not a strangelet? -
You are a mole???
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Being repeated twice, it still hasn't gotten less significant. Why? N1 gave NK-33 which allow Antares to fly in XXI.
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At the very least, its purpose was to teach SpaceX how a proper reusable spacecraft should look like. N1 was for their first stage.
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Buran had its purposes, and it was actually good for them, unlike the hypothetical Starship. It has nothing common with forced money spending.
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You didn't have a building permission. His former hill for sale.
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The obvious purpose of Starship is to make others start making their own Starships and spend money on bird instead of useful purposes.
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KSP + Tundra + BDArmory
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totm dec 2023 Artemis Discussion Thread
kerbiloid replied to Nightside's topic in Science & Spaceflight
So, without COVID they were going to develop everything in a year or two? And they were not developing for two years? NASA doors were closed? Just don't tell that every engineer in space industry was on duty in hospital or was sitting for two years and doing nothing. Were these plans ever taken seriously when no LOP-G or lunar module is in any degree of readiness for visiting? This just looks ensuring for me that actually nobody never took seriously any lunar plans till 2030s. And probably won't. *** Say, the purpose of the Moon exploitation is to mine the hypothetical platinoids/lantanoids from the impact sites, if the further studies confirm their actual existence (still staying just hype-othetical). The only way to do it in industrial scale is the usage of cheap and available fusion power. Solar panels and mirrors are enough good for a pilot refinery plant, but not in planetary scale. The obvious fuel choice is D (from lunar ice) + 3He(from lunar ground). This mix is absolutely useless on the Earth (D+D is much better) and in board fusion reactors (too undense cryogenic components, B+H or so are much better). But it's perfect on the Moon. Aneutronic fusion + a lot of room around to place cryotanks. So, the obvious way to mine on the Moon (if the faery tale about the lunar treasuries appears to be a truth) is to mine the ice for water, hydrolox, HPO, methane (contained in the ice), deuterium and the ground for 3He, platinoids/lantanoids, construction metals for rough structures (hulls, bars, trusses, etc). burn the deuterium + helium-3 to melt the ground and extract everything other. In any case the necessary, unavoidable condition for the lunar industry is a D+3He fusion reactor. *** The very first fusion reactor is being awaited for by ~2050. When it appears, the next step will be the D+D and D+3He fusion, and everything looks being bet on that date. Cars. The developed countries and car manufacturers are basically planning to stop selling combustion cars by 2030 and prohibit their usage by 2040. The less developed have no choice but follow. The hydrogen energetics and other decarbonization hysteria. The "green" (i.e. electrolytic) hydrogen. And so on. Obviously, nobody could seriously bet his money on that solar panels and windmills could produce as much electrolytic hydrogen as it needs. This can mean only that the bet is made on the coming fusion epoch, when indeed the cheap and available oceanic deuterium will electrolyze the oceanic water and give a lot of "green" hydrogen rather than hydrocarbons. And the current noise about "carbon footprints" and so is just a temporary half-century long campaign to prepare the power infrastructure (telling that it's for windmills) for pure electrics; make the customers to buy new (more greener cars) instead of their still normally working ones (which are just draconically clean by 1980s standards, and the human average lifespan still hasn't raised to 90); and buy/sell/utilize as much hydrocarbons as possible before the fusion makes them useless as fuel. So, don't take it close to your heart. Thirty years later they will say: "Ok with carbon, you saved the world, good boys! Btw this "Green Boy" T-shirt is available with 25% discount this month, order two by price of one right now !" So, in any case, the aim is fusion by 2050. *** Once in ~2050 the D+T fusion starts fusing, it will take, say, a decade to develop D+D and a decade more for D+3He. Just because D+T is useless. Not so much wild tritium in wild nature. So, we can estimate the possible beginning of lunar fusion and industrial plants somewhat by 2050 + (15..20) = 2065..2070. This means that a pilot helium and plantanoid lunar refinery plant should prove all required tech but fusion by that date. *** Once the fusion comes, the pilot plant will get useless, so there will be no need to keep it. As the ISS/Mir modules look having normal lifespan ~15..20 years, this means that the solar-powered pilot refinery should be build somewhat by (2065..2070) - (15..20) = ~2050. I.e. simultaneously with the first fusion plant. On another hand, if the fusion project fails, and the fusion gets postponed, there will be no need in the pilot refinery until the fusion anyway. So, we can say, that the pilot refinery plant building should start immediately on the first successful fusion ignition, whenever it happens. As it's going to happen by ~2050, so we can take the pilot refinery building by ~2050, too. (And because of then-now fusion, and because of then-future aneutronic fusion), *** The start building the pilot refinery they should first have totally studied the lunar mineral resource deposits. For that they need temporary local camps (like the LEK/Dynetics/USI/WBI/etc) at the points of interest. With drills, etc. So, with humans getting to there in shifts. And probably a major base with a flagstick and a biolab (to study, how long could the lunar labourers can be exploitated before being utilized as soylent green). Also, some orbital base, like LOP-G, ROSS, etc. As the modules lifespan is ~15..20 years, and local bases unlikely will be in use longer than several years each, this means that the temporary lunar camp building should start somewhere by ~2050-15 = ~2035. *** In turn, this means that the orbital stations should be ready by 2035, but still intact by ~2050. This means, that the orbital stations should be being assembled since ~2030. *** By that time the lunar spaceships will be actually required, but not earlier. Earlier they have no aim to reach, So, the real test flights of the lunar spaceships should be coming close to 2030. *** SLS/Orion will be probably ready and tested by that date. I don't see, why not. *** PTKNP faced known problem with the composite hull due to sanctions and countersanctions, so they (temporarily?) equipped it with aluminium hull, and it appeared to be overweighted for lunar flight and excessively heavy for LEO. That can be not a problem, because in first flights it wil anyway get only to ROSS in LEO, and they have ten years to re-equip it with a lighter composite hull, using the tested systems. Angara universal block has been tested for 6 times. 4 successful, 2 failed due to 3rd party reasons. *** So, we can expect that by 2030 both SLS/Orion and Angara/PTKNP will be able to start performing the lunar flights, using the coming LOP-G and ROSS respectively. *** But no need in these ships before 2030. There is Falcon/Dragon, (whatever)/Starliner, and Soyuz/Soyuz for current needs, until ISS gets down somewhere by the same 2030+/-5. *** LOP-G needs Orion, no options. ROSS will be first supplied by Soyuz/Progress, so PTKNP has a decade to become a cutie. *** And the current decade is when all hail Probe. The preliminary phase. We can see this massively. Everyone either sends a lunar bot, or is going to send them all the decade. *** So, unlikely until ~2030 any interesting lunacy will actualy happen. All of them will be trading, suing, trying to get a VIP seat on the ~2030 show. *** P.S. Now ask yourself, is there any chance for a Martian expedition before 2070? 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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Not the actuator cable, but the actuator pipe/bar/boom штанга, as I had read. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://www.rbc.ru/society/01/09/2021/612ec7529a79478f241ba52a *** Probably, wires instead of mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire The wires are soft, they can be curved and pass at several tricky routes, so at least one stays intact in case of fire. -
One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
That's because the whole Minecraft is a money milking from old, bugged, slow Java-based, unhumanly organized temporary project instead of properly develop the game from scratch using a normal, proven game engine. -
The elected hill is full of election particles, so-called "electrons". They say, electrons are negative, while happy people are positive. A Positron village on the Electron Hill.
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I saw something odd at Starbase, Texas....
kerbiloid replied to StrandedonEarth's topic in Forum Games!
They shot a video where the robodog guard marks the territory of the rocket base to make alligators get away from it.