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Ah, that's simply the manufacturer. https://www.apogeerockets.com/

"As if millions of voices cried out in terror, and were suddey silenced." I think the Bat-Circle projected onto the Moon is the better choice.

What would be the best way to get a message to 99.99% of all humans?

The people on the street are most talkative between 12:00 and 1:00........AM. I'm trying to have a healthy sleep cycle here! And my windows are a little too thin for this.

Right now I've cut back on mods because I'm on my laptop which becomes Kerbal Space Powerpoint if I try to install all the mods I like. I'm only using utility mods like DPAI, KER, and Trajectories, and the only visual enhancement is Distant Object Enhancement.

Somehow that sounds a lot less believable for SLS than for the rocket that only has to be built one tenth of the times it flies.

One of them costs $2 billion per launch.

I wonder if the RVac will "wiggle" as much as MVac does. Is the nozzle as thin?

The forum lost the date for those threads, so it appended the date '0' for them. Computers use a common calendar where date '0' is midnight on January 1, 1970.

I get the full package when I have them. I'm glad it's infrequent, at least.

You know, I bet a lot of people would say that trying to solve Rubik's cubes would be a terrible activity for a migraine, but I've found that speedsolving actually reduces the duration of my numbness, vision problems, and headache by 80-90%. Instead of being out of commission for a whole rotation of Earth, I merely have a committment to napping for about four hours.

No, just pay more than they should.

Modern history is just stale politics.

Same. Replays ftw! Only second landing for this booster? It's still fresh!

What if it is, though? We may never know for sure.

Why haven't we really spliced genes from bioluminescent algae, jellyfish, fungi, etc. into foods yet? We seem to have no trouble inventing new forms of corn and apples, and do it for scientific markers in all kinds of tissue, yet I have yet to see a naturally glowing fruit to eat. This is something that is obviously extremely important to develop. I see that there are some glowing food additives, but not really foods themselves.

We're back to wearing bees. Bees cool their hives by flapping their wings together. So you just wear a beehive jacket full of bees. If you wear your flower shirt underneath, it will produce honey on the go.

The best you could probably do is have a material so rigid that its speed of sound is equal to the speed of light, or close to it. Then it would only take 1 year for the compression to reach the other side. Otherwise, you need to ignore relativity and the speed of light and such if you want the speed of sound to be infinite. The action of compression is reactionary: Each atom has to move a little bit to create a force on the next, so each atom's inertia limits how fast the wave can go. Of course, both ends could be moving simultaneously if you kept wiggling the bar for the whole year, and it could have resonances just like any other bar, tube, or piece of twine with a wave traveling through it. Your first push wouldn't reach the other end for some time, though.

Definitely. I live for the day we all have options as extravagant as these.

You'd want to keep it from sclerotizing in most parts if you wanted any comfort, but otherwise it would make for some badass armor. Perhaps a spacesuit?

You know, you repeat yourself sometimes.

We are here. Here we are. Are here we. Wer here here.

The wave travels through the bar at the speed of sound (a few kilometers per second in steel, for instance) The wave will have to be very long if you want to compress it much, but it won't go faster than sound. There's a similar problem where you have a very long bar like that, but twist it instead. The 'twist' again moves at the speed of sound. Any bar that long will appear to be very flimsy and wiggly, even if you assume it has structural integrity.

I missed it because I was finishing up my move-in to the apartment, but I'm definitely watching the replay after dinner!

Moving into my apartment at college today. Feels weird that walking to classrooms is something that's basically not going to happen for me this semester. But, I have a car to go wherever I need, a stove to cook whatever I want, and a big room reserved for my insect farming science project!