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It seems entirely possible that it might, as it seems, and has seemed from the start, an unlikely configuration. If it does, might it break up, and then fuse back together? Could that have happened before?

I imagine it is a usually not too well used feature; most people listen to recordings stored on the memory, or stream from the internet, not listen to the radio. Perhaps I am incorrect.

Well, debatable, but I will grant that the were very much involved for their early existence. As for the Orion/SLS/Future of Space Exploration, I will say, if and when SLS starts going, there will be some great potential for unmanned missions as well as manned ones. We can already go to Mars with robots, but with SLS we could send truly massive spacecraft, fleets of spacecraft, just about anywhere in the Solar System. Humans to Mars would be neat, and probably good for publicity, but it would be a bit of a pity to do as we did with Saturn V, and only launch manned spacecraft (Skylab was not manned yet, but was part of the manned program). There is just so much heavy lifters can do.

Would you be able to link to some of the articles/papers? I am not doubting your sources, just interested in the information they might have.

5/10: interesting image, but cut in half.

That was a nice Duna landing, congratulations and welcome to the forum.

'Joe the Plumber''s taxes pay for Einstein's research grants. If the average person thinks science is useless, their congress should think science is useless. Einstein is already into physics; we need those other people to be, too.

Can you give us more context about this debate? Why are you trying to prove this? Why does the other believe in the recent planetary formation?

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. I was ninja-ed

While it would be impractical to use on objects as close as the Kuiper Belt, we do have an incredibly powerful lens rather close by: the Sun. There have been proposals for getting to the Sun's focus, so as to be able to map exoplanets in nearby star systems. Yes. Map exoplanets. Of course, getting to the focus would likely take a considerable length of time in itself, but no where near as long as getting to another system. Link to basic description of FOCAL mission Link to more recent news article

I think that there is a fair consensus that cameras/telescopes should be implemented as important science tools. They were certainly vital to the US Apollo Program, in Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, Surveyor, and Apollo itself, and are the essential device for many investigations of current solar system exploration. I think that part of the difficulty is in how you need to set the thing up; not all telescopes will be in LKO, you need to be able to put one around Jool, on the Mun, wherever, and deciding how much science that should get you, is not always very easy. Alternately, there are ideas (requests) to implement stock mapping satellites to perform a variety of mapping functions of deciding good landing sites and prompting contracts et cetera. But still, it would be a major thing to implement.

Same here. We are a minority, and Microsoft probably does not care.

Why does Green Iron Crown still have only five posts? Looking at the recent posts, he has made way more than that....

Update: Looking into how to track the satellite, GPS units are apparently really expensive for cubestas, and tracking systems using radar and optics are not always straightforward and simple. Happily, NORAD my give for free all the information we need. Moss design seems a bit to be on hiatus, pending further updates on the experiments we will do on the ground, which should start later this month. We have attempted further looking into the proposal by Northstar, as well as another KSP Cubesat project, which none of us knew existed. We may collaborate on some aspects, and are in contact with their team now. We have access to Solidworks, and are working on modelling probably the entire satellite in that software, though currently mostly just the moss area. Visit us here. Thanks for reading.

Muy bien, y gracias por sus videos. Ellos no pueden ayudame, porque ya conozco los conceptos, pero ellos son buenos. Gracias, otra vez.

Holography seems to be used too generally, sometimes referring to just about any 3D projection/simulation, not so much the technical definition. In that way, this is holography because it involves interaction with a computer through a virtual 3D interface. It is, I imagine a popular term to use for its ability to conjure up images of Star Trek and Star Wars, which is exciting to a fair number of people, and not annoying to the rest.

Also this from JPL. I am feeling a bit less skeptical now.

Regardless, you should not go somewhere just to plant a flag, have you ever heard of national prestige?

AS was mentioned, Vesta is not Earth. Vesta is also not Mars. Vesta, is Vesta, and though some of the process on Vesta are very similar to those we may find elsewhere, some of them have different details, some may have entirely different origins with outwardly similar results. Thus we should be cautious in jumping to conclusions here. As for this being evidence for liquid water, according to that article, it is not. Rather, they are proposing that there is ice, melted during impacts, which is able to form small gullies in the breif amount of time it has before it boils away in the vacuum.

If it is your first serious docking attempt, do not feel bad when it fails. My first serious go at it resulted in an abort when I realized that I had changed the trajectory that both craft were falling out of orbit. The next time I did it I knew all the mistakes I had made, and it went really smoothly. Usually, if they pull together there should not be an issue in construction, not that I have encountered, anyway. Did you transfer fuel or anything between the two craft?

Togas were common dress in the Athenian Democracy, and Ancient Greece generally.

Well, erm, uhh, wow. Did you have an over powered upside down Mun launch vehicle?

That robot in particular? No. Although elements of it certainly do look familiar. The main team I am working with currently is FTC, so I would not have been together with you at any competition. Are those white tubes that I see hydraulics? That must be one powerful throwing arm if they are.

Saying that you would pay for something, is not actually paying for it. This looks really neat, a very capable, and arguably more sensible way to interact with computers. This seems to have enormous potential in a lot of different areas, games, 3D design, et cetera. But.... There seem to probably be problems that arise from trying to get developers of different software to make something compatible with a yet unproven tool. Screen/mouse/keyboard/speakers seem to work just fine for a lot of people, so why should devs of other software try to build their software to work with this new device? Of course, if you cannot get programs that use it, it is difficult to develop a userbase, and it is difficult to get new software to run with your interface without a decent userbase, or a higher than usual price. I am interested to see how this goes. I doubt that the setup we have now will last forever, but it will take some time to incorporate new devices, even if they are revolutionary, grand, and they way of the future. I am not sure that this is, and if it is, it may not be this jab at the idea that gets through to the mainstream.

You, are not alone.