JoeSchmuckatelli

Cool. Closest we've been able to figure this out. My grandmother was a great admirer of Chinese sculpture, Japanese painting and Indonesian woodworking.

Not sure how it would apply to Lego (foreign to US company) but generally speaking, images of Government stuff are 'free use'. NASA might contract with some company to 'get stuff right' - but if some artist wants to sell pictures of a Lunar Lander in Venice, Italy, the US isn't going to claim copyright violation. OTOH - private companies generally own the images of their products, absent some fair use rule.

Took some pics - its a beautiful, and quite old piece. My grandmother's. She lived in SEA for @ 50 years. https://imgur.com/a/DhBgVWP

Question - is there a Chinese myth about some woman who pours out water / river from a jug? Saw a cool sculpture - think it's Chinese - but don't know what it signifies. Could be wind, but I think it's water.

Licensed and contracted products for both party's profit. Star Wars is a Toy Franchise. SpaceX should look into licensing... although for them, the 'profit stream' is likely chump change. That said: good will is everything.

Lego doesn't move fast enough. They're very conservative.

Moar efficient than Xenon (and on)? Promising new electric iodine thruster passes key test in orbit (msn.com) Iodine: it's not just for putting in your water any more. Yum!

I think he 'gets it'. Notice the smiley.

Aeronautics and Space

Commercial supersonic by 2035? Putting supersonic flights back in the air - CBS News

Looks like you would have to spray paint it, then

You need to build an Integration Tower just to display it! ... After looking at the site - they've done a lot to make it look 'silver' / metallic... But I'm pretty sure it's just white and gray

What mechanical characteristic?

From the paper cited by the above article: 'a survey of the recent literature shows that our knowledge primarily hinges on subpolar Atlantic records, while, due to the paucity of Arctic records, polar dynamics still remain elusive' 'Controversy still remains on the relative impact of natural versus anthropogenic forcing on the North Atlantic system' 'Our results combined with existing reconstructions demonstrate a rapid and early Atlantification of the eastern Fram Strait at the onset of the 20th century' 'These findings highlight a potentially important model-data discrepancy that begs for improved historical and preindustrial simulations with better constraints on the freshwater budget of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. Resolving these modeling issues will be crucial to improve the accuracy of projected Atlantification in response to future Arctic warming.' https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2946

That's what I'm wondering - if throttle response is important would they make changes... But if @cubinator is correct, cost more than anything dictates abandoning more expensive options

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/arctic-ocean-early-warming-climate/index.html Atlantification of the Arctic started decades earlier than thought... Putting climate models at risk. "it's not clear how much of a role, if any, human-caused climate change played in the early Arctic warming, and more research is needed" "The study notes that changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) — a system of currents that moderates temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere — could have played a role in the Arctic warming. Notably, the AMOC weakened after a period of cooling ended in the mid-1800s in the North Atlantic region, which researchers suggest could have led to rapid Atlantification along the east Fram Strait"

Why was the Pirs burn up magenta?

Speaking of which - do we know if SX's future plans are for Vac Raptors (on F9 launches) or some upgraded Merlin / something else? I know they're pushing forward with SS - will F9 stay in the stable for small /LEO sats or be totally replaced by the SS system (which doesn't seem to be the most efficient*)? *what would I know - I'm the resident knuckle-dagger...

Grin!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ota.fas.org/reports/7906.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwikq8z14bP0AhWOk4kEHRy6C2MQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0izhTfE-JiTQAS1v_Szq5J (if this links it should be interesting) 1979 PDF of a Congressional report on the effects of Nuclear War

Was Dart SX's first paid extra-orbital mission? (I know about the Tesla/Starman flying in a Solar orbit... but have they flown other NASA missions outside of Earth orbit?

Only Level 24 and above Death Knights. Most others are bacon Except this one. He's a space pilot, so he could visit the ISS https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3xW6D Edit - sorry, you specified boars...

LA in 1984 was replete with 'Smog Days'. Was so bad back then Battlestar Galactica joked that the 'alien' humans wondered if it was a force field or protection dome. <wink>

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/india/air-pollution-delhi-residents-intl-hnk-dst/index.html Images like this helped LA /California residents demand change. But it took decades. Smog so bad people thought it was an attack during WWII. During the 50s and 60s the science developed, linking car exhaust to smog, along with the obvious brown exhaust from industry. Despite activism, first Clean Air Act came in '70. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketplace.org/2014/07/14/la-smog-battle-against-air-pollution/amp

Let's not change horses until we get a fuel depot up there. After that major milestone is a reality - then you can put forth the better ideas