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  1. cubinator
    Yeah, you'd probably be better off using your fuel tanks as radiation shielding.
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    I think the main advantage of starch is that it could be grown in-situ, so you wouldn't need to carry your heat shield/radiation shield during launch, allowing for either a bigger payload or smaller rocket.
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    I realize that, I just noticed that starch doesn't absorb microwave energy very well, and I wondered if that applied to other types of radiation as well. The paper I linked seems to indicate it does a reasonable job protecting against both. Starch also has a lot of hydrogen, which I hear offers very good protection against ionizing radiation, thus explaining how it can be shielding to both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
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    This'll take care of 'em! Huh. Well, Xevious was pretty popular, and a lot of games followed it's model. Waiter, my soup is not responding! Should I wait, or should I close it and try to run it again?
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    Fit on mobile that word does not. Cheating is size 72 font. Italics and underline you will not need if you use the Force.
  6. cubinator
    Granted, it is in an antimatter mug. I wish to know whether or not the universe is a fractal.
  7. cubinator
    Speak not like Yoda you do. A cheater you are.
  8. cubinator
    I'll fix it eventually...Maybe tomorrow or when I get the second one ready. 8/10 interesting
  9. cubinator
    Kill it with Andor Genesis! Waiter, there's an electron in my soup!
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    I'll press it, and leave a post-it note on it saying to launch it into the sun before then. Pretty easy, and I probably won't be around anyways and there'll be humans living on and around the other planets by then too. This button is rainbow-colored, and it is connected to a toaster.
  11. cubinator
    Does that look like a cake to you?
  12. cubinator
    Granted, you sleep through the first manned Mars landing. I wish for the thing I am currently thinking about to go just the way I want it to.
  13. cubinator
    404 QUESTION NOT FOUND How does a carrot drive to work if it doesn't have a nose?
  14. cubinator
    Jar Jar was my favorite character in Star Wars. The Phantom Menace was the best movie in the series. A New Hope is a ripoff of The Force Awakens. plz no kill
  15. cubinator
    9/10 I guess that's pretty far.
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    "Would you, could you, on a barge? Would you, could you, with a [something related that rhymes with barge??]" Maybe we need something metaphorical, like in the Butter Battle Book. If we were to continue with this, it would also warrant another thread.
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    @DBowman The paper did say the starch also had a plasticizer in it, and those two together made for a really robust shield that can be grown in space. Starch alone, I presume, would not work as well but still be somewhat effective. And I'm not worried about microwaves in long space missions, I just mentioned it because that's how I got the idea to look it up.
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    *assembling new booster, parts arriving* "Manufacturer: Found in a dumpster behind Port Canaveral" I...really want to come up with a whole parody...But I just can't seem to make Dr Seuss rhymes with rocketry terms...
  20. cubinator
    If you're already in orbit, you could get by with a large Kerbodyne tank and a single Ant engine if you wanted to, it'd just take a lot of really long burns. Launching and landing is a different story, though.
  21. cubinator
    I think it's reflective, considering the NASA report says it's a great thermal insulator too.
  22. cubinator
    That'll need more than a few rolls of duct tape to fly again...Maybe they could at least take it to the recycling facility?
  23. cubinator
    The other day I was reheating some food in the microwave for dinner, and I noticed (yet again) that my beans were still not very warm. I started thinking about how they don't absorb the heat energy from the microwaves as much as other food does, and they have a lot of starch, and then I wondered: Could starch be a good material for radiation shielding? Today I googled it, and the second result was from NASA! Here it is: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120006695.pdf So a starch-based material would be a very potent radiation shield, and it could be grown in space! I thought it was pretty interesting. What else do you know on the topic?
  24. cubinator
    1/10 actual place on Earth.
  25. cubinator
    Quick, get it out of there and dry it out! It might still be good! Waiter, that's no soup! It's a moon!
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