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Interesting. Do the circles on the map represent the area of the sky that they can communicate with?

And yet the link still works... you know what with the Olympics being canceled, there should be a big surplus of ways to get oxygen into the bloodstream.

People are also driving much less, That’s gotta be a factor.

The mod itself works fine...

Don’t ask it to make tea.

It looks like “breakfast is a critical function. i approve.

Incredible!

I don't even want to know how much they spent to re-purpose that piece of the shuttle... If the rocket lands wrong it could be mistaken for VSUN and no one would know where it came from!

Makes me think of WeWork for some reason...

Is the rocket infested with Pokémon?

Maybe NY has more hospital beds than the national average?

Adding to the above, the Falcon9 uses grid fins for control during descent. The terminal guidance is performed by vectoring the main engine, this is why F9s with some sort of control failure crash into the ocean, not the landing zone/barge.

It’s probably just an April Fool’s prank.

SpaceX uses nitrogen to avoid having toxic chemicals on a reusable vehicle. They sacrifice efficiency (payload capacity), but can inspect the rocket without a hazmat suit, which is important to the effectiveness of the entire operation. Anyway... reusability doesn’t seem pertinent to an anti-ICBM, so why use cold gas?

@DDE, that seems scarily prone to false positives and confirmation bias. However, having eaten the leftover refried beans from the fridge yesterday, I can confirm that my sense of smell works all too well. ———— I’m currently waiting in the car outside a hospital while my wife attends a routine prenatal checkup. I was supposed to go along but the hospital isn’t allowing guests in.

"players will feel the engines roar to life..." Haptic chair compatibility confirmed!

There is substantial geologic evidence that melting glaciers caused catastrophic floods. These events occurred at the end of ice ages, as glacial dams broke, releasing immense reservoirs of liquid water from mountain valleys across the landscape below. Perhaps the best studied example are the Missoula Floods of Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. The southern tips of the glacier would create lakes in the mountains (blue areas). At the end of ice age cycles, the depth of the lake would increase, eventually the hydrostatic pressure would float the dam out of place and the resulting flood would scour what is now eastern Washington state (red zones on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains), completely removing stripping the topsoil down to bedrock in huge areas (and even plucking out huge chunks of bedrock). The flood followed the path of the Columbia River through the Cascade Mountain range (threading between several large volcanoes), cutting the dramatic landscape of the Columbia gorge, with waters several hundred feet deep. These floods deposited all that rock, gravel and silt in layers hundreds of feet thick in the Portland and Willamette Valley regions of Oregon (red areas west of Cascade Range). This flood is an exciting geologic story because it is a rare case of something actually happening fast. We are trained to think of the earth changing slowly over "geologic time", but a few events, like the floods, and comet/asteroid impacts are truly catastrophic, fast occurrences. My usually acute irony detector is failing me now, @farmerben, are you serious? This Randall Carlson is not a geologist, but a storyteller. He is bringing together lots of dramatic and interesting material to help prop up a quasireligious fantasy about Atlantis. In light of current events (such as other conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones selling poison as coronavirus cures), please try to decouple science from fantasy, and understand the difference between scientists and hucksters. Our lives and our prospects after this pandemic depend on it! The history of geologic and planetary events is interesting enough on its own, there is no need to dilute it with somebody's selfserving fiction.

Thank you, I immediately tried making boat hulls with this, but they all sank, even without resources, so I figured I'd need to make a custom profile. That said, this gives incredible freedom to make non-rocket shapes, and should work great for boats (if I can get them to float)! Something else that might be fun/useful to add would be current volume of the part in m3, (not just resource quantity).

This looks great @CarnationRED. Can you tell me if mass calculation by area and volume is either/or, or can I have a tank scale by both at the same time? dryMassCalcByArea = False dryMassPerArea = 0 dryMassPerVolume = 0.107547 dryCostPerMass = 1264.00041

Seems like it would depend a lot on the static stability of the grounded rocket (height of CM and width of base) & likewise the aerodynamic stability (CM and center of lift/drag).

I didn’t realize that was a definitive model. It’s a new form factor for SpaceX but it looks much like every other CTS supply ship. Aside from some increases to fuel cap, And tougher electronics, it’s is a much simpler craft than Dragon 1/2.

Maybe they couldn’t stomach flying on another rocket if omega doesn’t get off the ground soon. Haven’t heard much about that project lately.

Does a forum like count as peer review?

Is that a vape?!?

I think this is the first piece of the entire program that has a reasonable chance of being ready on time and on budget. I'm sure the dragon will need a few tweaks to get it to the moon and back, but probably not much.