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  1. cubinator
    I read this and immediately thought it was about parasitoid wasps.
  2. cubinator
    I honestly wonder if they really need to use different tiles for the cone. Maybe for the very tip, sure, but the tiles are small enough that the curvature would be small at the scale of individual tiles, and I think you could keep using the same hexagonal tiles most of the way to the top.
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    Definitely. That's a pretty small habitat though - for a little tradeoff in buoyancy, you could fill the balloon with breathing air, which floats in Venus' atmosphere, and live inside the balloon.
  4. cubinator
    Send the lander up to 40-60 km with a balloon, then send it to orbit with a rocket. Don't even bother with any kind of engine below the clouds.
  5. cubinator
    I've estimated the average odds around 2e-7. Possibly a better shot than the lottery.
  6. cubinator
    I still think they should split one package 30/30 and launch two Falcon 9s at the same time.
  7. cubinator
    Third engine was also way out in the "out of the way" position.
  8. cubinator
    Patrolling for hidden ULA snipers.
  9. cubinator
    There's always got to be a range violation...
  10. cubinator
    The buttons they put on arcade machines work really well for this. Lots of people are into building retro-style arcades and so many components of that sort are readily available online. You might be looking for something a little smaller, but those buttons are pretty durable.
  11. cubinator
    Yes, it's a multi-day mission with a "customized flight path", whatever that means besides the usual aerospace stuff, and a $10 donation gets you 100 entries, which is 100 times more than 1, but a lot less than the probable total amount.
  12. cubinator
    My back-of-the-napkin guesswork suggests somewhere around the 2e-7 mark for your chance of being selected upon entry as an average person. That's 0.00002%. Might be as good as 0.0002%, for the optimist?
  13. cubinator
    If you put your mouse on either side of the booster and scroll, you'll see that it's the same on both sides.
  14. cubinator
    Eleven points, that's not bad
  15. cubinator
    Should I unsubscribe from this thread?
  16. cubinator
    Actually the current vessel is the center of space. But nobody ever makes a crater when crashing into the Mun!
  17. cubinator
    Do you think we'll see any iridescent color on the steel after the spaceship reenters the atmosphere as the plasma sort of 'anodizes' the metal or as dust interacts with it? What will reused Starships look like?
  18. cubinator
    Can't wait for the aerial shots of this.
  19. cubinator
    There's a boat.
  20. cubinator
    The frost on the nose has gone away, though.
  21. cubinator
    Meanwhile, just on the other side of the fence, dozens of HD cameras are pointed right at you, live-streaming to ten thousand people.
  22. cubinator
    Hollow Knight
  23. cubinator
    I think the vibration we saw was mostly on the camera.
  24. cubinator
    Jesus, that span is almost a quarter mile.
  25. cubinator
    Half the marching band at my school are engineers. I had done plenty of ensemble music in high school, so I chose to go solo with my music and join some other types of groups instead.
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