Mad Rocket Scientist

I feel like there's a 90% chance that you were reacting to the show as intended. A lot of reality TV seems intended for people to laugh at the dumb decisions of the people on the show.

Sounds like a shoo-in candidate.

The first one on that list, the Friede, is the ship in my avatar.

Looks like no more ridiculous vernor landing skids. That was a bit cheaty anyway.

KRS A Statistically Anomalous Number of Boosters KRS Cornucopia of Boosters KRS Make Boosters, Not War

Slow rotation doesn't seem that complex to me, especially in 1/6th gravity. Another option would be to use something like an inverted cone covered in mirrors so light was always reflected down onto stationary solar panels. Something like that, or vertical greenhouses, would be required for food anyway, since plants require so much energy. I think we can all agree on that.

If you can build giant lasers on earth and receivers on the moon, it's hard to imagine not being able to produce solar panels on the moon. Especially if a lunar colony is on the poles, since you would have continuous power.

It might be time to revive this thread: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-47975564?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter

The cake "celebrated" the tests in the Bikini Atoll. https://conelrad.blogspot.com/2010/09/atomic-cake-controversy-of-1946.html

What exactly isn't working? If it's just not going high enough, you might want to try playing around with TWRs throughout the flight, since the gravity/drag loss balance is quite different for very small, pointy rockets.

Rimworld? A bit more management focused, but definitely has a tech tree and survival elements. Satisfactory is a game that's heavily inspired by Factorio, with a bit of Subnautica's focus on exploration. At some point in the future it will have a full story. It's on the Epic games store for the next 6 months. Mount and Blade: Warband doesn't have a traditional tech tree, but it has progression a lot like that. I haven't had time to really get into it yet, but it does have a demo.

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@ARS I think I found a better match for the first plane: The Kawasaki Ki-61. The Hurricane's exhaust and canopy don't match as well as this one. EDIT: To narrow this down even further, this appears to be the Ki-61-I Hei As opposed to the Ki-61-II Kai: Note the small windows at the bottom front of the canopy.

It's a big air force: I just copied that photo from wikipedia without noticing, but it's from the Philippine Air Force.

This is how I feel when trying to find this kind of thing: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extended_mind.png

This looks like a North American F-86D Sabre to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law This is bizarre.

Suggestion: This sentence: "Immediately after Orion’s systems checked out and orbital inclinations aligned, Falcon Heavy would launch expendable, carrying an unmanned Dragon 2, into the same orbit." Might read better as: "Immediately after Orion’s systems checked out and orbital inclinations aligned, Falcon Heavy would launch in an expendable configuration, carrying an unmanned Dragon 2 into the same orbit." Other than that, the only potential issue I caught was the one @Ultimate Steve already mentioned, that the Dragon 2 docking port might not work. However, it would still be relatively cheap to develop a docking port with autonomous rendezvous as a FH payload.

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@Bill Kerman and @Bob Kerman are both KSC staff. So are @Jebediah Kerman, @Valentina Kerman, @Wernher von Kerman and @Gene Kerman. They're novelty accounts created by SQUAD. They've only replied to the guess who will reply next thread. Help! Help! I'm being censored!

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https://spacenews.com/lockheed-martin-fragrance-april-1/

Spoilers for Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red/Green/Blue Mars

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