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A lung-testing Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2. sorry Rach

This proves that you have been practising hard! It was the instrument that kissed you!

nah just a random clip on internet and I found it. I always worry about would player playing Marimba get their stick stuck in the seam hahaha

The thing that I had always worrying about has finally happened

As "one of the traditions": military salute at the moment of rocket ignition. Surprisingly that Gui Haichao (the one on the right closest to the camera) wasn't in the PLA before but he also did that. It's not that there are rules against saluting if you're not a soldier, it's that there might be a little flaw in the etiquette. But after all, he's an astronaut - one of the finest groups of human beings - so this little flaw doesn't matter. Gui Haichao: The rocket ride is awesome! (坐火箭太爽了！)

T-4.5 hour. There isn’t sunrise yet, but the surprise is that CCTV is already live and invited the CNSA engineer to introduce things about manned space missions … in full Chinese of course.

The crew member press conference, English unavailable.

-Why don't you fear AI? -Because there's already someone braver stepped forward. https://www.sohu.com/a/679815534_158264

All technical preparations for foreign astronaut recruitment have been done and currently under planning. The selection of the fourth batch of astronauts was completed in March this year during the preliminary selection phase. In total, more than 100 candidates have entered the re-election stage. The pilot is from the army, navy, and air force pilots, while the engineers and payload specialists are from the industrial sectors and higher education institutions. More than ten of the candidates from HK and Macau have made in the re-election. The full selection process is expected to be completed by the end of this year. If the candidates from HK and Macau can finally pass the re-election and final selection, they will enter the astronaut research and training centre in the beginning of next year. Then carry on the proper astronaut training process for two and half years. As for "when taikonaut can reach the moon?", the official answer from this conference is before 2030.

Press conference, English available from 15:17: https://tv.cctv.com/2023/05/29/VIDETnStcXB81cWyRrWmzdYv230529.shtml?spm=C55953877151.PjvMkmVd9ZhX.0.0 01, the pilot: Jing Haipeng (景海鹏), Rank of Major General in PLA, Captain of PLA Astronaut Corps, who was carried out Shenzhou-6, 9, and 11 mission. He will also be the only astronaut who visit Tiangong-1, 2, and CSS. 02, the flight engineer: Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱), Rank of Colonel in PLA, PhD, was an associate professor at Space Engineering University. His field of study is mechanics. 03, the payload specialist: Gui Haichao (桂海潮), PhD from Beihang University, Professor and PhD supervisor of Department of Spacecraft Technology, School of Astronautics, Beihang University.

There film handbook said that the carriage is propelled by electromagnetic propulsion and suspended from the rail. "If accelerated at 9G, it would take only half a minute to reach an average speed of 3km/s and approximately no more than four hours to reach the 38,000km space station dock. However, in general, where high acceleration is not required, the carriage can travel at 1km/s and take approximately ten and a half hours to reach the space station dock. There are nine space elevator carriages, and the carriages are covered with ice, which is physically cooled by reactions such as vaporisation and melting, so that a large amount of water vapour is generated when the cabins take off and land. " Back to why rocket, well, magnets is indeed more reasonable for sure, but that's a movie, rocket definitely can bring more sound and light aren't they

I suddenly realised that this modern Tower of Babel can be some kind of space elevator Here's an addition to the space elevator made by some "MC nerds" story based on a movie:

Xinhua: Shenzhou-16 mission has completed the full system drill and airtightness check. At present, the rocket, spacecraft and launch site systems are in good condition and all preparations have been completed before the rocket refuelling. The first press conference of the Shenzhou-16 crew will be broadcast live on CCTV4 at 8:45 (GMT+8) tomorrow.

Starting from tomorrow, it will fly the Shanghai-Chengdu route.

In the last few days I've been trying to learn how to build my own 3D models in order to "technical prepare" for the 3D printer I might buy in the future. Well, my first motor finished under the tutorial:

China is using satellites to police the protection of nature — but will it work? Must be said that there is room for further improvement in the matter of "confidentiality" in some of the departments concerned. But this is a pretty complicated matter in fact. Previously I heard from some factory owners that his peer's factories (I suspect it was him) were then investigated by the officers from environmental authorities after being detected by satellite as not meeting environmental standards. Considering recent domestic news that "a mine pit that was supposed to be backfilled years ago was found by satellite to be getting bigger and bigger", satellites are indeed very useful.

Good news is: Bad news is that the systems on board the Shenzhou have been 'technically frozen' to ensure reliability -making the up and downstream signal bandwidth is limited. So according to the video footage from the rehearsal, the camera in the cabin seems didn't get improve.

Meanwhile, a "spoiler" from the first taikonaut Yang Liwei, the vice chief designer of CMSA also confirm that the SZ-16 crew will have the first taikonaut who didn't have any PLAAF background. "More than that, in the future, there will be lots of payload specialists from different fields living and working in the station", he said.

A Dutchman who remains anonymous disagreed

Lesson I learn: simulate experiments many times on Earth, redundant fuel, backup plan and double check (usually more than 'double') is extremely important for all the space program

Jupiter's Swirls from Juno WOW

Yes, during the tour I wondered what I would do if one day my fridge and microwave told me that it's life matter and it want to be treat equality. I guess the first thing I would do is make a phone call to the consumer advocacy agency and ask what I should do about my consumer rights.

Look how happy he was smiling (sorry Pharaoh)

Chengdu Aircraft Design Institue of AVIC (the place where J-20 was designed from) has applied for a pretty strange patent: "A twin-engine tandem vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (CN219056579U): "The utility model patent belongs to the technical field of aircraft general design, and specifically relates to a twin-engine tandem vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It includes: fuselage, upper air inlet, front engine, manifold, left and right nozzle, abdominal air inlet rear engine and tail nozzle. The upper air inlet is set at the back of the aircraft. The tail of the upper air inlet is connected to the manifold inlet. The manifold is divided into two in a 'trouser leg shape'. The two outlets of the manifold are connected to the left and right nozzles respectively. Front engine is provided at the rear of the cockpit. Abdominal inlet is provided at the jaw of the fuselage and is connected to the rear engine inlet through the abdominal inlet. The rear engine is connected to the tail nozzle at the rear and is provided at the rear of the fuselage. The tail nozzle is provided at the rear of the fuselage and is located between the two drogue tails" "The patent uses two conventional engines in a tandem front-to-back layout, dividing the front part of the engine jet into two paths, and forming a "three-point support" type of lift with the rear vectoring nozzle to achieve vertical or short take-off. The two engines work simultaneously during flight, avoiding the previous situation where one engine was not working and there was ‘dead weight’. The three nozzles can be deflected for manoeuvring as required during flight." It also mentioned that the left, right, and rear nozzles can each be deflected at an angle between 0° and 90° as required to achieve manoeuvres in the air under the flight control system in conjunction with the aircraft rudders. Need to be remind that is the patents doesn't mean particularly serious "I'm going to do this stuff from now on!", but rather "Hey guys, I got an idea". I feel a bit less serious about this to be honest