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Starlink will be the end of all telecommuniation companies, if what Musk has said is true. Musk also probably is for NN, so this is good. However, I'm still duboius on how a phone could recieve enough bandwidth from a satelite.

Patchwork P8 "Why can't we move?" I demanded. "Risk of another malfunction. The Empire won't take kindly to us sending off a beacon. But it doesn't matter." He removed his pinky fingernail. It just popped off. He flipped it over, and it was clear it was not a natural nail. It was covered in circuitry. "Advanced alien hacking tech. While we were on the imperial ship, I got the command codes for the fleet." He inserted it into a slot on his side. "When I press this button, all the ships weapons and the orbital defense lasers will deactivate. That will give the rebellion a few minutes to attack before a ship with command codes jumps in from another system." He pressed the button. Then, the planet below disappeared from view as hundreds of vessels emerged from nowhere. "Whoa! I'm getting total of 50,000 ships, just within our line of site. Probably a million total. Whoever wins, the planet will be destroyed by debris." The window turned black, to protect from the radiation of thousands of bombs going off at once. "The debris!" I reminded. "Right. Let's get out of here." I heard the his of leaking air. The Uniter turned away from the planet, then engaged the alcubierre drive for a second, before turning it off. "We should be at a safe distance." "This light's blinking," said Kumbukani. Ix pressed a button and a radio signal came through. "This is President Aghjolpty of the Rebellion. Its been too long, Ix. We've recieved the data from your ship, the planet is detsroyed, and we are about to jump out. Are you going to join us?" "No. I found something in the data. The Empire is looking for a long lost super weapon called a Nicoll-Dyson Beam. It focuses the light of a star into a beam. Its somehow hidden. If they get it, they can destroy all of the planets. We're going to find it, before they do."

Wait... don't they have thousands of miles of Eastern shoreline? Some at lower latitude than Florida? Why wouldn't they launch from there?

If you are staying on Mars to colonize, you have time to shove some dirt on top of your habitat.

Fusion is not comparable to the Sabatier reaction. The sabatier reaction has been done successfully for 100 years!

especially because he's wearing shades

Patchwork P7 "Admiral, there are no other ships in orbit of 20156. By the way, the local name is Center. Speak Dictionary and Grinli. Somethings making a jamming field. Actually, dozens of crashed starships and tech are. Theres too many signals to send down a drone." "Take a manned ship. You and twenty soldiers, plus specialists of your choosing. Make sure to look out for OOI 17." Organization of Interest 17, the Kingdom of the Lost Machine, was an incredibly secretive galaxy wide cult, that had members of many species. They once had, or almost had(the legends were very foggy) an incredible machine of unknown powers, created from a combination of eighty five parts from highly advanced species. The machine was destroyed, and its parts are now scattered around the galaxy. There are no pictures of the machine, or an knowledge of what the parts are, only that they are powerful in and of themselves, often Clarketech. The Tyol Union, controller of 150,000 systems, had been the first to detect the neutrinos. They had taken the wormhole immediatly. The shuttle's body was boxy, 50 feet long, with a wingspan of 300 feet. Its wings could fold up, allowing it to land on its underbelly's nuclear ramjets. A layer of magnetically contained plasma, an inch above its skin served as a heatshield, as well as a normal one. It fell straight to the atmosphere, then jerked eto a quick halt above a sandbar, on which was a cubical metal house, with gun turrets on all sides. A manned quadcopter was parked beside it. It was sunrise, and a light rain fogged up the front window. Then gunshots hit the hull. "Don't worry Admiral Tuxly," the pilot said, "these turrets won't do anything to our hull." "Deploy laser turrets! Disable the guns!" Twelve hemispheres lowered from the belly of the plane. Then twelve beams of light flashed from a spots in the sand next to the house. "Our weapons are disabled. They hid their lasers." "Why would an O need such petty weapons? Surely one hasn't been captured?" Specialist Morrow asked. "Put us down." The ship deployed 4 stubby legs and landed on the sand. The rear door opened. Despite it being open, there was nothing but blackness, as an opaque wall of plasma protected the soldiers from lasers. The soldiers wore glasses connected to outside cameras, so they could aim their weapons. They took out the turrets. Then, the plasma window was turned off, and the soldiers poured out. Tuxly, Morrow, and the pilot watched from the cockpit. For a second, the computer and lights flickered. "What just happened?" "I don't know, admiral. I've lost radio with all soldiers. Here's the external camera." They were all laying on the sand, motionless. "Must be an underground electric plate. Or an ultracapacitor. I suggest we take of, Admiral. We'll come back for the bodies later." "Agreed. Pilot, ascend to 100 feet and hold. Arm missiles." "Yes sir" The ship took off, and gracefully turned to face the house. "There's a girl running to the ship. No neutrinos from her." "Fire!" A flash of yellow light streaked towards the girl. The it stopped in midair, and fell to the ground, and a laser hit the ship. "A kinetic energy converter, Admiral. This girl has gathered some advanced tech. Wait! I've found the radio channel she's using!" The quadcopter rose to their elevation. "This is Admiral Tuxly. We mean you no harm. We can offer you substantial-" Searcher clapped her hands. Four cannons extended from the ship. "What kind of weapons are those, Morrow?" "Looks like nuclear pumped lasers- ascend now!" Four pulse of purple propingated through the air, and blew the ship apart.

This playlist is good too.

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Hmm... I know this isn't going to happen, but it would be very nice to to have a 50th anniversery moon landing. 50 years after Apollo 11, and we still only have up to 6 people in space. Sigh.

The "writing something in a sci-fi book and then it happens while writing" happened to me once. I wrote something about skydiving into a moving aircraft, and the next day, it happened. I was going to delete that scene because I thought it was unrealistic.

Patchwork P5 The bare husk of a starship, a cone kilometers long, lay strewn acros the desert. There was no sand visible- it had been covered by junk, technology, and crashed ships for millenia. A one man craft, with 4 helicopter blades below it, parked above the wastes. Searcher took out her neutrino detector, the most useful thing she ever scavenged. Very good for finding Clarketech. A signal, very strong! And moving! Perhaps its a robot. Probably someone else with a poweful artifact. She lowered the ship, and then slid down on a rope. The rope would detach if it didn't detect her fingerprints. She was standing on a stable surface, an olds ship's hull. An alley had been carved out by a mining machine long ago. 500 feet, that way. The triple moons shone high overhead, bright enough to read by. The moons and the stars constantly swirled, as hundreds of wormholes orbited above. Center somehow became a nexus for interstellar travel. And with travel, come deletrict shuttles and destroyed warships. Many got stuck here, and few could leave. A man, bearded, uncouncious, with a sparking humanoid robot looming overhead, about to shoot him. A robot of the annoying 13th Guild. She flicked her left hand. Her ship shot out a dart which streaked through the air, hitting the android squre in the back. A shock of electricity knocked it out. She walked over to it. "If the mics still working, know that you've lost to me again. This scavenge is mine." Seacher waved the neutrino sensor over the man. The signal was the same everywhere. Does he have superpowerful clothes? Cyborg skin? He is very dangerous clarketech, but temporarily disabled. She put a tracker/shocker ankle cuff on him, and then called her ship over to haul him to her base. He might have an excellant ransom. Then she remembered something, from her childhood. Her parents had come here to try and stop one of the dystopian kings that controlled patches of the world. They had died trying, and she had had to fare for herself. It wasn't that bad, as coming from a world with twice the gravity, and having obsessive knowledge of engineering, she could fight almost anyone. She had been on Center for 15 years, and she thought in one more, she would have enough to raid one of the kingdoms and escape in a ship. She remembered loving the stories of other worlds she read in encyclopedias, of lost superweapons and powerful aliens. The most powerful were not biological, and emmited netrinos... The saga of patchwork is far, far from over.

Those 4 russian astronauts are all still alive. Radiation Hucksters Strike Again By Dr. Robert Zubrin, Mars Society President, 06.08.17 According to a publicity campaign launched on behalf of a paper authored by University of Nevada Las Vegas Professor Frank Cucinotta, new findings show "collateral damage from cosmic rays increases cancer risks for Mars astronauts." However an examination of the paper itself shows no discussion of experimental methods or results, because no experiments were done and no data was taken. Rather the much-ballyhooed paper is a discussion of a computer model that Prof. Cucinotta has created that claims to have the power to predict radiation-induced cancer occurrences. In short, there’s no real news. Furthermore, to the extent that the model in question has any empirical foundation, it is based on irrelevant prior experiments done in which researchers subjected mice to radiation dose rates millions of times greater than astronauts would receive on their way to Mars. For example in one such illustrative piece of nonsense entitled “What happens to your brain on the way to Mars” published on May 2, 2015 in the open-access journal Science Advances, a group of radiation researchers claimed that their recent work causing memory loss to mice by administering very large doses of galactic cosmic ray (GCR)-like high energy radiation has serious implications for human Mars exploration. According to the authors, similar effects might severely impact astronauts going to Mars, thereby placing the feasibility of such enterprises in serious question. However, in this typical mouse experiment, the victims were given a dose of 30 rads (0.3 Gray) at a rate of 100 rads per minute. On a Mars mission, astronauts would receive a dose of 1 rad per month during the 6 month outbound and return transfers, and about 0.5 rad per month during 18 months on Mars, for a total of 21 Rads. ( 1 Gray = 100 rads = 100 cGray. For GCR 1 Gray =6 Sieverts = 600 rem. Space dose rates can be found in “The Cosmic Ray Radiation Dose in Interplanetary Space – Present Day and Worst-Case Evaluations” R.A. Mewaldt, et al, 2005. The 4-million fold difference in dose rate between such lab studies and spaceflight is of critical importance. It is a well-known finding of both chemical and radiation toxicology that the effects of large doses of toxins delivered suddenly is entirely different from the effect of the same amount of toxin delivered in very small amounts over a long period of time. The difference is that the body’s self-repair systems cannot deal with a sudden dose, that they can easily manage if received over an extended period. For example, if an individual were to drink one shot of vodka per second for 100 seconds, he would die. But if the same person drank one shot of vodka a month for 100 months, he would experience no ill effects at all. This is about the same ratio of dose rates as that which separates the invalid work reported in the “What happens to your brain on the way to Mars” paper (1.6 rad per second) from that which would be experienced by astronauts in space (1 rad per month). It should also be added that mouse studies are not an accurate predictor of cancer occurrence in humans. It is possible to induce tumors in mice by rubbing their stomachs. Such treatment is not known to be a hazard to people. It is true that small amounts of toxins received over a long period can statistically increase a person’s risk of ill effects – at least according to the hyper-conservative Linear-No Threshold (LNT) model of toxicology. However, we already have data that shows that the accumulation of slow rates of cosmic ray radiation received during long duration spaceflight is not a show stopper for human Mars exploration. GCR dose rates in low Earth orbit are about half those in interplanetary space. Thus there are a dozen cosmonauts and astronauts who have already received Mars mission equivalent GCR doses (Padalka, Malenchenko Avdeyev, Polyakov, Solovyov, Krikalyov, Titov, Manarov, Foale, Fincke, Pettit, Walz, Kelly, Whitson) during extended space missions without any radiological casualties. Furthermore, since the International Space Station (ISS) is continually manned, while Mars missions are only in space about 40 percent of their mission time, the total GCR dose (measured in person-rems) that the ISS program crews will receive over the next ten years of planned operations is about the same as would be received by a series of five crews of five people each if they were launched to Mars every other year over the same period. Thus, in fact the ISS program has already accepted the same level of GCR risk for its crews as would be faced by an ongoing human Mars exploration program. Galactic cosmic radiation is not a show stopper for human Mars exploration and should not be used as an excuse for delay. The space program costs many billions of dollars, which are spent at a real cost to meeting human needs elsewhere. That fact imposes a moral obligation on the program to move forward as quickly and efficiently as possible. It is understandable that radiation researchers should want to justify their funding, but they should not spread misinformation to promote themselves at such extraordinary expense to the public.

They do earlier in the presentation. Its for a 500 day surface mission.

They have 500 days.

This is hilarious!

Yes! Project HAVOC! Don't forget to use AirPark so your vessel doesn't delete when you unfocus from it.

I already have a thread for this purpose:

http://www.marssociety.org/mars-society-announces-red-eagle-international-student-engineering-contest-design-mars-lander/

You can just take the hydrogen with you, every kg of h2 can be used to produce several kgs of methane and oxygen. You can also get water from the 100% humidity air.

The cumulative radiation dose of a round trip mission to Mars has been experienced by soem astronauts.

But why aren't they concerned about the equal amount of radiation experienced of the ISS?

It uses the air itself to make fuel. Thats not a risk, and their prepositioning two BFRs in advance anyway. The sabatier reaction has been done for decades.

Beurocracy.