cubinator

The railgun shipping those metals to lunar orbit will be pretty obvious, whichever country first builds it.

Awesome, that's definitely a tried-and-true method. I hope you enjoy your cubing journey! The first cubes were quite sticky, that may be a contributing factor. I got down to averaging maybe 40-50 seconds with a lucky best time of 21 seconds before going all in to CFOP (which had already been invented ). Nowadays if I try solving using only layer-by-layer on a modern speedcube I can almost crack 20 seconds. In any case, people will call you smart no matter what speed you solve it at, and they will say: "You can solve it in (X) seconds/minutes? It would take me (X) years!"

Congratulations! I think you'll soon be averaging 55 seconds or so with whichever method you're using. Is it layer-by-layer, or Roux, or something like edges-corners, or another method?

Did any tiles fall off? It looked like it was holding together pretty well during the burn.

"Why can't I implement staging on my builds in Zelda?" -a KSP player

The time has come....Execute order clickxty-clicks.

So how long is this "late stage" carbon burning supposed to last? That's one thing I couldn't find from that paper or my quick searches. Once it's over, it's decades, but how long until that 'final countdown' starts?

Whether an object is pushed toward or away from the star by radiation depends on its size and the way it re-emits heat, I don't remember exactly how that goes though. There is also a lot of influence from other planets, especially Earth and Jupiter. My guess is Venus will get pushed and pulled by gravity from the other planets more than radiation pressure. The orbit will also precess due to relativity over millions of years.

This was pretty cool!

I just got to the Mario Sunshine part.

2" digital scope. About 20 15-second exposures stacked.

Magnitude was about 11 Monday night.

I joined in high school, in order to achieve the title of 'first person to do something on the internet'. I ended up doing that a few times...I was a kid then. Now I am grappling with the fact I have become a rocket scientist.

One thing I'm curious about is the combined light from the multiple galaxies, clusters, etc. Within the Milky Way we'd say that most of the stars are much too far away for us to see, yet we see their combined light in the galactic plane because there are enough of them together. Could the galaxies be packed visually close enough that the clusters would be at least a little visible?

Just look at the apparent magnitude of the various galaxies in the sky. If you imagined the Milky Way disappeared and all else remained in the sky, you'd see Andromeda fairly clearly, and could probably pick out Triangulum. Wikipedia lists out the galaxies that are bright enough to be seen by naked eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_galaxies It's a very short list. As they start getting into magnitudes 8+ and on they are most likely not visible to humans. So you wouldn't be able to see the web-like galactic superstructures, and most of the sky would be dark, but there would be a few galaxies visible as faint blurs.

Last night I saw the Whirlpool galaxy.

Very impressive to survive that unscathed. It's interesting to see the structure flexing during the variable loading.

Today I went to my last class of my degree.

First one is a star, second one is a satellite.

I have heard that the separation was not actually attempted because the vehicle was in such an off-nominal trajectory.

Personal communication They also said as much in the live stream, 48 hour recycle time.

3:04 look at the Earth, they are going to Venus

Me.

He was my bet for Artemis III as well. Seems like he's heavily involved with the NASA-SpaceX partnership, so I'm sure he'll have plenty to do with ground support then.

Yesterday I saw Venus during the day.