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  1. DDE
    Actually, given diminished absolute speeds and a bouncy exterior, airship docking should be easier than airplane docking.
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    Some of the touted advantages of Nova/Saturn-8 was that it could resupply a whole division, or drop in a battalion.
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    Yes. The An-225 would double the range and speed of a converted troop carrier ekranoplan.
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    The Mythbusters were unable to shatter any glass, even with a jet fighter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtAElaDVz8 Edit: oh, wait... apparently under some circumstances it works.
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    Reminds me of the old Global Rescue System proposal!
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    Well, this is optimism-inspiring: RKK Energia has declared a Federatsya abort to the Pacific unsurvivable because of lack of naval S&R assets. https://ria.ru/20190706/1556272736.html
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    As a late teen, I clambered atop the toilet seat cover to reach a shelf... and I used one knee... right in the middle of the cover...
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    At surface level? It’s a reversed railgun - no power source and a self-propelled projectile make it a very simplified, but fully functional model of an electric generator. I can definitely see how it can generate a current, diesel or not. Question is how that field affects a car.
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    You might be surprised. Apparently there’s a slow line of inquiry into electrically-fired, electrically-throttled solids; we’ve skycraned people with solids, and electrical attitude controls actually debuted on an early Venera probe.
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    That, and I can’t imagine the heterogenous monoprop is not a major explosion hazard. The components must slowly react even in storage.
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    None of these, I’m afraid. The electrics are pushing them out of the small satellite market, whereas the larger you go, the more attractive MMH+NTO becomes.
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    Guys, we need to talk. Whichever of you stole the time machine again and talked to von Braun? https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/6q5j0q/found_von_brauns_original_1948_novel_mentioning/
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    And then you throw in a religious angle and it all goes to heck...
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    Not an unusual situation given their considerable quantity. I still have Stellaris and C:S on the distant backburner. Gotta accept some free hugs first:
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    Ah, that gives me an idea for a thread of its own. “Most contrived robot rebellions in fiction” Right now I’ve got two candidates, the other being Detroit.
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    They and what Shuttle payload bay?
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    LOL.
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    Why are you bothering with a Gauss gun? Just eject the rails once expended, or better yet, let the recoil eject them out the other end.
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    FYI it’s just a pressure hull at this stage. These we do know how to, ahem, launch:
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    https://youtu.be/b2CkJYLOQV0?t=84
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    Unimpressed.
  23. DDE
    They mention KDU, we know it means the service module engine.
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    They’re arguing with NASA, then.
  25. DDE
    Not norminal
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