cubinator

I would love to have realistic sound available. It is so interesting to NOT be able to hear your rocket in space.

I want to have full control of the ship in IVA mode, with telemetry displays and functional, useful buttons and controls. The best experience for me, of course, would be to pilot it in VR.

It's kind of a fancy box. So yeah, fairly cube-shaped.

For a bug farm.

Well, of course there's no guarantee we'll win a prize, but we still made a pretty thorough report and sent it in. That's something to be proud of.

Exactly. Want to compete? You have to compete with Starship.

Geez, this was a little nerve-racking. I hope everything stays nominal.

Tomorrow I am going to send a 7000 word design proposal to NASA. I'm very proud of completing it!

Painfully. Not recommended.

The Alpha Centauri system is close enough that you can use parallax. Take a good picture of the star through a telescope, then wait six months and take another picture. Then you will have a baseline of roughly 2 AU as the Earth moved around the Sun. If you can measure the angle difference across the sky of 0.78 arcseconds, you will see how it has moved and be able to deduce its distance. It's about 1/3 of the size of Neptune in the sky.

I think I found it on Steam and downloaded the demo. That was back when the demo had the launch tower and the full version didn't.

They explained a clear set of rules in the first movie and then immediately broke them. I never had high expectations in this regard after that (although the movie itself is quite fun)

Just don't tell him that it's pure poison.

Usually people think mainly of yellowjackets when thinking about wasps. But there are over 20000 described species and probably one for every other species of insect. If you learn to identify them, you'll find that a lot of the random bugs you see outside are actually wasps of various types. They tend to be pretty harmless.

This is nowhere near the most baffling role of wasps in an ecosystem.

Hubble was grabbed with the robot arm and moved out of the bay with that.

I think a star system without any planets would not be completely empty. I would still expect some asteroids and comets orbiting it, and of course it would influence the interstellar material and planets. That would be interesting, to visit a star which has no planets but a network of asteroids which can be landed on.

Very carefully.

I'm expecting some roaches in the mail today. My mom isn't exactly thrilled about what I'm about to cook in her kitchen but it must be done. For science.

I think general relativity works with rotating reference frames. I know that special relativity is a simple case within general relativity.

Zuma satellite, which had a custom payload adapter that failed to separate it from Falcon 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuma_(satellite)

Today is not my birthday.

Pretty sure this is a myth. Millennium-old glass pieces have not spilled.

I didn't see it that way. Maybe it's just because I know live video is not the top priority of spacecraft telemetry and I've watched several of these launches. But the discussion around capsule separation seems to be more about specific points of failure for each vehicle.