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Technically speaking, isn't it optimal to serve maté tea in a French press pot?

Neighbour's. Sometime saw them sitting behind the windowsill As always, unpopular with cats. Hope another neighbour will get dogs. German shepherd and Labrador would be best

Jealous on this weather

Fact is, the ancient Chinese wasn't 'that clean': Ming rule the empire for 276 years and had at least 168 years with pandemic. Deng Tuo, the historian expert found that, in entire Ming Dynasty there's 1011 time of disasters. There's including 196 times of flood, 174 times of droughts, 165 times Earthquake, 112 times hail, 97 times storm, 94 times locust plague, 93 times starvation, 64 times plague, and 16 times of snow. Ju Mingku, the author of Disasters and Ming Politics said that, in average each year there's 6.77 times of flood, 5.38 earthquake, 3.42 droughts, 1.61 hail, 1.17 locust, 0.99 storm and 0.32 snow. Which means, just counting these disasters by nature, would die HELL of people. When the dead body and any other waste couldn't clean up quickly, here we go, 168 years of pandemic in total. Then when there's not enough people to plant the food, starvation is coming. Then the next vicious cycle begins. Another fact is, in the county annals of the Ming Dynasty in many places in China, there are NUMBERS of cannibalism. So, if your Chinese buddy hellowing you is not "nihao" but "have you eat?", is for reasons: we know what's starving feels like. The European epidemics of smallpox and bubonic plague did not bypass the Chinese, to give just two examples of prince who contracted and died of smallpox: the three-year-old second son of Emperor Chenghua and the thirteen-year-old second son of Emperor Jiajing. So, I think, if those guys get the world map a hundred years earlier between 1405~1433 for no reason, and they really want to "Hello America" make them at least 59 years earlier than Columbus, the thing happened next on those native American - by plague that those Chinese crew may bring, wouldn't better than what the reality history in this world. If you want the native American can get proper antibodies before European arrived, I think you should give the map to Yuan's Khan not the Ming's Emperor. After all, there's someone point to the high probability that the plague in Europe in the 13th century began during the Mongol siege wars.

Research team from Nanjing University denied previously Dias room-temperature superconductor: Absence of near-ambient superconductivity in LuH2±xNy Without paywall: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.08759.pdf

Do some "deep dive" on social media and I find that in some rural village, when the villagers build their own houses, some of them also using bamboo. I guess no one would have bothered if no one had reported it. Or even they also don't know it's been banned. However, one of the disadvantages of metal scaffolding is that there is a certain chance that the tubes and connectors will be stolen and sold as scrap. I still remember one day after school when I was kid, "Dad, why are those two guys running with such long steel pipes?"

New batches of raw data, 62.9GB in total was released

Hong Kong is somewhere still using bamboo scaffolding. Mainland China, just across the river from it, banned the use of bamboo scaffolding in 2000 and replaced it with metal. Have to say, I do hope that they will phase out bamboo scaffolding as soon as possible. Because bamboo + fall protection nets + flammable liquids = torch. Some of them is God damn big torch

The second pic he put was from an article named Reflections on the Development and Management of a New Generation of Manned Launch Vehicle for High Quality Development (《面向高质量发展的新一代载人运载火箭研制管理思考》). And seems that CNSA is planning four modes of it:

CMS has issued an announcement about commercial resupplies services: Announcement on the Call for Proposals for the Overall Low-cost Cargo Transport System for Space Stations (《关于征集空间站低成本货物运输系统总体方案的公告》) The announcement said that the organization and company would need to demonstrate an overall solution for the integration of low-cost cargo transport system. Which including cargo transport vehicle, launch vehicle and launch support. The Chinese version CRS's main technical specifications requirements are: The orbit inclination is 41°~42° and the rendezvous and docking orbit altitude range is 340km~420km. Cargo transport spacecraft sealed capsule cargo uplift capacity ≮ 1.8t, sealed capsule cargo loading space ≮ 7m3. Capable of completing rendezvous and docking with the space station and dwelling in orbit for 3 months. The process of launch site tests to be able to launch ≯ 30 days. The cost of transporting goods >/ 120 million CNY per tonne Capable of controlled re-entry for destruction or return after evacuation from the station and can take 2t of waste. The load ratio (the ratio of the mass of the cargo carried to the mass of the freighter hull itself) of the TZ is 48%. Assume that the company can do that in similar level, 50% of the load ratio. That needs at least send 4t to the LEO. Currently, those commercial companies still don't have proven experience to do so: Tianlong-2 from Space Pionner and PR-1 from CAS Space are 2t to 200km LEO. Zhuque-2 can send 4t but it's not successfully launched yet. For a while I couldn't really find anyone who could be particularly competitive here.

I think he did. Because I also did that many times before, but they never call me. By the way, what staff said was, they got two types of battery: 75kwh which can go 550km, and 100kwh can go around 650km. Thing is, if you buy a 75 one and one day you want to drive somewhere further, you can just order in advance. And then, you just need to go to the station and swap it. Around 80 rmb per day for the battery if I remember his word correctly. If you done, finish the order on the app. Then your 75kwh battery is back. I like the old car too. The small air intake of the 2004 BMW 530 is my favourite. But look at it now... However, in China the car that you drive was produce earlier than 1995~ 2000, you will get a "yellow label", which means it's not that "convenient" to drive in most of cities because the engine emissions would exceed the standard that the gov made. Generally speaking, the normal Chinese family has a car replacement cycle of around 10 to 15 years. Actually the "most damaging" part of their services for my parents was that the staff said that every new owner who picked up the car would be given two hours of one for one instruction - all the function until you knew them clearly. "If you don't know how to use them in the future and that makes you call us for help, the one who was instructing you will be fined by the company."

The 201 launch site's flame trench and launch tower in WSLS

NIO ET7 is my dream car. The batteries in my dad's hybrid BMW 530LI are getting more and more useless: previously it can drive 50 to 60km at most, but four years later now, it can only go around 30. So, I've always rubbishing his BMW: what a trash brand you drive, try NIO! Because he never tries to drive China's domestic new brand electric car before, so he always doesn't believe me. Two days ago, He searched ET7 on NIO's website. Then NIO made a phone call: would you like to try our car? Dad: ehh, I don't have spare time to go to your store. NIO: it's ok, we can let our staff drive it to front of your house. At first, he wants to let me drive. I said that's my dream car I know what's feeling like, try it yourself. And he did it. After listening all NIO's fancy service, every nice design in the car, watching the battery swap which can get 6 times free every month, and driving on the freeway in our city so happily, he started to rubbish BMW with me. TOLD YOU!

New Tiangong TV about crew went into the TZ-6 to unbox the parcels. However, the fruits and snacks were not the first parcel they open, but a cylindrical box a few cm2, less than 20cm high, and containing 6ml of stem cell solution - that is, the stem cell experimental unit. The cell is extremely fragile, so it has been taken out from the lab in T-6 hours and put it into TZ's cabin in around T-5 hours: thanks to the two ways hatch fridge design. And needs the crew take it out and put it into the fridge in Biotechnology Rack in WT Module after they finished the necessary tests and processes immediately. Meanwhile, TZ-6 also brings 714kg of experiment payloads, units, samples, consumables, spare parts, and shared support equipment, 98 in total.

Hainan gov's official website: the following work of launch site No.1 is the construction of rotating platforms, launch pad, diversion device and other 35 sets of equipment production and installation. Currently, 75 sets of pressure vessels from refuelling and air supply systems, 406 sets of refuelling valves, 11,000m of refuelling pipelines, 53 gas distribution stations, 2200 pieces of gas supply valves and 75,000m of gas supply pipelines are in production. The construction plan has been evaluated, and the installation has been submitted for approval. The first batch of 140 external refuelling pipelines has been delivered and begun the installation.

LANDSPCE's official weibo: after travelling through dozens of provices and cities, covering more than 3700km in nine days total, Zhuque-2 Y2 rocket has arrived at LANDSPCE rocket launch site at JSLC on 12 May 2023.

Bad habit left by the old tv when I was a kid: when signal is bad and making rustling sound, slam it.

Can't help but slam twice on the computer screen... nearly

The topping out ceremony of the launch tower of the commercial launch site No.1 at Wenchang Launch Centre was held. "The launch tower has been topped out 20 days earlier, while 1# lightning tower was also topped out and 4# lightning tower is ongoing the lifting work on the eighth floor. The launch site No.2 has completed the digging of flame trench. Now is ongoing the concrete pouring." ... "The launch site was planned completed construction at end of this year - which means there's 7 months left. And Hainan is currently entering the rainy and typhoon season, which has significant impact on the construction schedule. There are also issues such as the optimisation and adjustment of the technical area, the launch of the second phase of the project and the acquisition of land for the project, all of which are constraining the completion of the project on schedule. The construction team will comprehensively push forward the construction progress of the refuelling and gas supply, the main road of the launch area, the substation, and the intelligent launch site system. The construction team will scientifically construct the project to ensure the quality, progress, and safety of the construction." ... "The current construction progress is in line with the expected plan and is expected to ensure the first flight in the second quarter of 2024 on schedule."

Yin Rui(尹锐), deputy director of astronauts system, said in the interview of CCTV last night that, in these 71kg fresh fruit taken by TZ-6, including 4 different kinds of apples (around 50kg in total), 2 kinds of oranges, tangerine, and pears. In addition, a variety of juices (sugar cane, coconut, etc.) are prepared for easy and ready consumption. Make a correction: the international co-operate experiment project between Tsinghua and University of Tokyo, "Flame Instabilities Affected by Vortices and Acoustic Waves", was not "already in the station" previously, but taken by TZ-6 this time. It also bring a cube sat in12U called Dalina-1 Lianli made and developed by Dalian University of Technology. But most surprising me is a word from the live said by Chen Jie (陈杰), director of the integrated panning bureau of CMS last night: "Under the latest mission plan, the CSS will operate for more than ten years in the long term. One to two cargo resupply missions and two manned missions will be carried out each year to enable the rotation of astronauts in orbit. Meanwhile, we'll also train international astronauts to participate in our joint flights."

CCTV today use this again at beginning of the live of Tianzhou-6 launch.

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