cubinator

No, I think SLS's sad state of affairs is it's own problem.

I'm building a 'simple' rocket engine with my classmates. It's fueled by liquid kerosene and gaseous oxygen. We have two valves in sequence on both lines, for controlling the startup of the engine. They are actuated by pressurized nitrogen gas, and the fuel tank is also pressurized by nitrogen. The pressure pushes fuel and oxygen into the combustion chamber through an injector plate. We have two more small valves at the fuel tank so that we can safely vent its pressure when needed. At various points along the plumbing are pressure sensors, and around the engine are temperature and force sensors, all connected to computers on the test stand and in the control room. It's a fair amount of work to get all that integrated and tested to get the equipment working properly and the proper procedure developed before we will be able to ignite the engine for the first time. Using a more energetic oxidizer like liquid oxygen will require the ability to fill the rocket tanks remotely, different materials, and more valves to make sure we can purge the lines safely.

I think that would happen on its own (at least the plane would change) due to precession caused by Earth's obliquity.

But if left in microgravity, he'll grow to 6'8"! We simply cannot allow that to happen.

I think it's under the impression that Jeff can sue Starship out of existence before it launches.

no.

Is that the biggest robot ever?

scholar.google.com is great for searching scientific papers.

We are the stars. We decide.

Probably most of them, actually. Dinosaurs were around a long time.

It looks like a giant 3D printer part. It probably isn't, but I wonder if they would ever want to build such a thing.

I think putting the flaps as far forward as possible makes perfect sense. A longer lever arm means a larger moment to transition our Martian explorers to "pointy end up" at just the right time.

Because they've found a way to make the flaps better at their job, namely flipping the ship.

Hopefully the warp core doesn't breach.

I sleep on my side... If you upped the gees just a little bit, it might feel more like a weighted blanket. There were some experiments back in the day where some people lived in high-G centrifuges for many days at a time. Presumably they found some way to sleep.

Not with that alone, but a good knowledge of math and science are a good base, and good grades in school.

The thing is, though, it's supposed to land on Mars basically the same way it lands on Earth, with all the "up" cargo going "down" at Mars anyway. So I think they want to have the capability to land at least as much as is needed to sustain a crew there.

Collective - the super-organism of the colony. And ants are just one example, termites, bees, all the eusocial insects are potential places to think about this.

Today in entomology we discussed whether ant colonies have a consciousness.

Last week I stayed in the empty classroom to study after it was done and ended up sitting in on a class I'm not in for fun.

Fish don't swim at hypersonic speed, though. It might be a different challenge.

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It's because that's as far as Orion is capable of going, and it allows for visits to the poles of the Moon.

I suppose so. But by the time that's relevant maybe most people will just be getting sick of the noise, all novelty lost.

Standby tickets to Mars sounds way, WAY worse than on airlines.