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Edit - okay, googling is a mess. Most people just post "Shuttle Engine" or "Shuttle Rocket" and don't distinguish... and I don't know enough about what I'm seeing to differentiate. If someone stumbles across (or already knows) where to see the differences between Columbia's engines and later models, I'd love to see it! (I find text descriptions, but not many good pictures) The space shuttle main engine transitioned from its first manned orbital flight configuration to a phase II configuration in 1983. The phase II engine logged 231 engine flights and included improvements to the controller to increase memory, main injector improvements, turbine blade improvements within the turbopumps and additional nozzle insulation. The engine transitioned to Block I configuration in 1995 with significant changes including a two-duct powerhead, an alternate high-pressure oxidizer turbopump featuring ceramic ball bearings, a single tube heat exchanger and improved hot gas sensors.

Speaking of Soviet Rockets... Space Shuttle Carrying 747 Was Secretly Modified To Defend Itself From Heat-Seeking Missiles (Updated) (thedrive.com)

Interesting; I did not know that. So - they'd have a pipe feeding a something, then another something to measure its work and wires to report on the findings? Hmm. Is that a normal part of rocket design -- or something SX did b/c R1 is effectively a prototype (a working prototype, but still a development article)? No - it adds, thanks. Did not know that about Columbia. Now I have a point of reference to try to google different Shuttle engines and see what I can learn. Thanks!

The benefit is keeping people in or training new ones into the sector. The cost has always been about not letting the capability whither; and we are actually seeing the problems of inherent knowledge evaporation. The folks that could and did build the rockets in the old days are gone and the new ones are having to figure out (again) how all of that works. Not everything is in the manuals.

How in the world do they go from 1 to 2 with such a change in plumbing/wiring? If we assume all of that was necessary for 1 to work, it just doesn't look like everything is there on 2. (Here's where I express my ignorance of rocket parts) - the streamlined thingy at the top of 2 looks like something that could be on 1, but under that giant manifold thing sitting at the top of 1. IF that manifold thing was necessary - doesn't it come with a lot of plumbing, and might all that be added back to a working 2?

Meaning we build swords and plowshares. Sword industry has never been dependent upon plow industry. Making plows is just a profitable sideline for some sword manufacturers

I doubt it. Instead it will be slowly added to the mix as our energy needs are voracious. Eventually, once they are common and if they prove cheaper than fossil fuel power generation we might see all that phased out. But to expect broad displacement or rapid change is wishful thinking (outside harsh govt regulation - which I don't see happening)

I see what you did there...

Never tried that - sounds fantastic! Another something I've never made. In Cali I had a couple of roommates one from Mexico, another who's grandmother was from there - the first's Mom and the second's grandma would show up a couple of times a year and make days worth of food. They each had their own take on pico/salsa. Still remember the smell... Fantastic. And the taste? You could live on the stuff!

Alright... well... you guys got me hooked. ( @Akagi, I blame you) I'm now running a Compulsory Consumerist State (up from Corporate Police State) nation on its way to becoming a benevolent dictatorship - just because its rare and looks hard to get to. My (starting) Inoffensive Centrist Democracy, which is a hotbed of libertines if you ask me. Finally a Corporate Bordello. So I have plans (obviously) for the dictatorship, am gonna let the Democracy morph as it will, and am trying to keep the Corporate Bordello where it is - because, well why not.

Let me refer you back to Nate's June 2020 "Hi Everybody" post and this one: December 2019 was Chaos month. The game had 'been in the works' for two years. It was only that previous September that we'd all seen the announce trailer, demonstrating much of the creative direction: (From PAX 2019) Yes, while it was largely cinematic CGI, rather than gameplay footage - it showed the promise of what we've all been excited about. This was (I'm guessing) shortly after the favorable reception from the September PAX reveal. So even then, they needed 6 months more to add content. Then came the shakeup. We can probably assume an almost complete halt in development, and then more delay with building and onboarding the new team. Despite this, here was some expectation even in the early days after the kerfluffle dust settled that Fall 2021 would be the release. Mind you, that was ambitious, and in the early days of the Covid pandemic. However... given that... If "Fall 2021" was the initial target, there's good potential that the project only slipped by 6 months or a year (Fall 2022). So - your guy's getting picked up in March of 2020 looks like a regular step in the production scheme... and a lucky one for him; hiring went on a hiatus for the next several months. His snagging a job in March? Very Kerbal. (Hope the music is AwesomeSauce!)

That is pretty Bad...

Grumble. My inner 7 yo is mad at Star Wars for lacking in awesomeness.

Can we talk about low production values and 'squeeze everyone into a single shot' directorial choices, yet? With all the experience in HW these days re making a war movie... You would think that an epic fight scene would look epic, rather than cribbed together by a first year film student with high ambitions and limited budget. Actually - scratch that: the budget was entirely spent on terrific set design and CGI at the cost of good actors, bad staging and not enough cameras. My 14 yo left the room and my 11 yo cracked jokes about the whole thing - talk about no suspension of disbelief. (OTOH - my wife said that it's all nonsense anyway and they should have had Ewoks) 8o

I allowed polygamy and now my people marry cats. Shrug - moving toward anarchy, I guess Now I wish I could start over and do something truly absurd. Like a hyper religious technocracy.

Okay - you fleshed that out since I posted last night: your country is psychotic! (and frankly, your Black Market should be huge) I'm apparently a libertine at heart. ... I'm also a bit charmed by the absurdity of it all.

From the wiki: but then 6,000-Year-Old Submerged Prehistoric Settlement Reveals Black Sea Level Was 5 Meters Lower 5,000 Years Ago - Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond ... I'm guessing the problem is *not* finding the expected neolithic sites at deeper depths. (Of course, oceanographers tell us we know more about what's in outer space than we do about our own seafloors

Well - that's better than the guy quoted in my (link) post above: he said 'decades'... the singular must be better than the plural, n'est cie pas? Rejoice! Huzzah! All our problems are solved!

Huh. Having had some weird conversations with geologists in the past (about aliens, faked global warming and government cover-ups, all present in the rock record) - I'm a bit suspicious of Twitter enthusiasm stuff Apparently not hokum: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mediterranean-nearly-dried-up-cataclysmic-flood-revived-it https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-megaflood-powered-mile-high-waterfall-refilled-the-mediterranean-video/ Cool stuff!

So... Ten years?

Stylin hats.

Wow. I usually feel the pull of the unknown. "Just a little bit" I say... (What's the saying about drunkards and fools?)

Yeah - this won't be fun if we all post "Microwaved Burritos" Just whenever you put out a little effort... share.

BTW - this thread was entirely inspired by @StrandedonEarth's post about making Jerkey. His fault.

I've kinda gotten into cooking. Enough so that I've bought a good Carbon Steel skillet (properly seasoned) and some good knives. I don't generally follow recipes, but here's what I made: A mustard base glaze (with garlic, ground pepper, a dash of Cholula and some chili balsamic) for pork tenderloin, which marinated for several hours waiting for its turn on the pellet grill. Smoked it for 40 minutes, then finished at 400. Couscous and shaved zucchini sauteed in olive oil with a bit of mozzarella sprinkled on top. Kids ate it - so it must have been alright. Any other home-chefs out there?