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Taepodong wasn’t an ICBM, or at worst it was a dual use demonstrator, but not an actual weapon.

Update 2!- The “emergency blasting system” is the self destruct. So they accidentally sent a self destruct command during the flight of the third stage, or the self destruct system malfunctioned.

Update- https://x.com/joshjonsmith/status/1694462577735307504?s=46&t=Jd73T2beq0JLNtwTy1uR5A It wasn’t the same problem as last time, the first and second stages worked fine. There was a problem with the “emergency blasting system” of the third stage. Investigation is underway and they are going to make a third launch attempt in October.

I visited the Tokyo Skytree yesterday. After accidentally eating some kind of seed I am allergic to in a sandwich, I wound up taking a dump at 350 meters altitude! I wrote a poem about it, but I don’t how often I can say poop on the forum so I won’t post it.

I’m pretty sure it’s just a different pose, unless you are referring to size rather than position, in which case… no.

Launch failed! https://x.com/armscontrolwonk/status/1694480129752170689?s=46&t=Jd73T2beq0JLNtwTy1uR5A I wonder if it would be easier to use a modified ICBM instead of a dedicated space launch vehicle. Sputnik (modified R-7) and Explorer 1 (modified Jupiter MRBM) succeeded on their first tries, whereas the first Long March attempt and Vanguard failed. Maybe not though?

Does innovation in science and engineering work better when development is divided up, or when everyone works together on one thing? I’ve been thinking about this not only for the purposes of writing stories where humanity unites prior to the Space Age, but also in relation to the string of failed lunar landers we’ve seen in recent years. I.e. Would we see a lower number of failures if we combined every space program into one location and entity, or does having multiple agencies doing the same thing, but not cooperating, increase innovation? I wonder if the international fusion project gives an indication of what a united, international space program would be like.

It’s been too long since I’ve watched spongebob.

DPRK has notified the Japan Coast Guard they will be attempting to launch a satellite between August 24th and August 31st. I can’t post the news link because of politics Considering their success in developing ICBMs, SRBMs, and MLRS, it will be interesting to see if they can replicate that level of development in space efforts.

https://x.com/slim_jaxa/status/1693415421972730055?s=46&t=Jd73T2beq0JLNtwTy1uR5A Slightly old tweet. It is now 4 days until the lift off of SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon). SLIM will ride share with XRISM, an X-ray telescope. They are launching on an H-2A, not an H3.

What a bad start to the China-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project, which Luna-25 was considered part of in the promotional and exhibition materials displayed in previous events. I could see the ILRS ending up about as “international” as Tiangong- experiments from various countries are flown there, but every piece of hardware is otherwise Chinese. Do we even know if Luna-26 is going to be a thing now that this has happened? Or if it was even concrete at all?

I’m heading to Japan for the first time since the pandemic in three hours I’ll be visiting JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center (provided no typhoon delays our sight seeing plans) so I’ll post pictures over in the JAXA thread in the Science & Spaceflight section.

If they make a Ubik movie they should hire her to do all the old and broken stuff.

Somovsk, Lazarevsk Oblast, Luna ASSR [Snip]

Not to nitpick at language, but “pointing at it in another dimension” would imply it is in that dimension. But yeah, what I was saying is that the “other world” is not another dimension in itself, it is still 2D. But to get to that world, we would need to… move through? I don’t know exactly… another dimension (3D). But sci-fi movies constantly call “other worlds” dimensions, which (if I’m understanding correctly) they are not.

So it goes- 1. Our world (2D) 2. “Interuniversal plane” (3D) 3. Other world (2D) ? If this is the case, the other world does not constitute “another dimension”.

Where does the “parallel universe = other dimension” idea come from? Wouldn’t it be “to get to a parallel universe you have to go through another dimension”, assuming these parallel universes are identical and therefore technically are in the 3rd dimension (I’m not sure if I worded that properly). Also, as much as the second Spiderverse movie was good, does anybody else think the multiverse is an over used concept in movies nowadays?

True. Maybe it’s evidence of an ancient zombie outbreak /s

Yeah. Thanks for the info on hurricanes, my main focus in learning about prehistory has largely related to fauna so I wasn’t aware of that. I’m out of reactions today, shame I can’t like such an informative post! Anyways, as far as discussing various things in a negative manner goes… Fellow sertraline user here. The local grocer pharmacy changed their hours, and I did not realize this, so I went out there to pick it up only to walk up to the place literally right as they closed the doors at 8:00 PM (like the pharmacy came into my sight seconds after the door closed). So I went a day without a dose, because this also happened to be the one time I forgot to get it the previous weekend during grocery shopping *facepalm*

Maybe years of belief in the spirits of the dead by ancestors makes us think dead person = ghost coming to get you. Or, could it be about germs? I can’t remember at what point people realized corpses could still spread disease.

What makes their confidence “excessive” besides that fact that you don’t like what they are saying? FleshJeb and Delay have gone over how the use of mOdELs is valid. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right.amp The paper mentioned in the NASA article if you want to see the direct source https://eps.harvard.edu/files/eps/files/hausfather_2020_evaluating_historical_gmst_projections.pdf They’ve been pretty accurate so far. I don’t think climate change in the past and now are comparable in terms of having similar effects. I.e., warming from 10 degrees Celsius to 16 degrees C is not going to necessarily have the same effect as warming from 16 degrees C to 18-19 degrees C. This is a dumb analogy, and if I am wrong someone please correct me, but I’d imagine it is loosely similar to how heating water from 20 degrees C to 80 degrees C will be different than going from 80 degrees C to 110 degrees C. By the same comparison, I can’t turn around your analogy and say disaster is “inevitable” based on what happened in the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, because the conditions were different then.

It comes from when Orion itself was all American as part of the Constellation program. I don’t know how detailed the design got.

Perhaps this had to do with competing against Neanderthals and the like.

Thank you! This is bordering on a conspiracy theory. It’s like saying the whole of astronomy, physics, and cosmology is false because these people get payed to research and therefore would just make up stuff as they go along in order to make money. Black holes can’t exist, the scientists just want money!!!11!!1!! So unless someone disproves Mendelian genetics, it is a fraud? What your saying is climate science is automatically fishy because climate scientists reject theories that say there is no warming, right? So by extension, people who refused to accept Lysenkoism when it questioned Mendelian genetics are in on some conspiracy to control genetic science. This happens every time someone brings up climate science, because for some reason faked Moon landing conspiracies are banned but other categories of science denialism are allowed…

Nuclear war only affects Europe or South Korea + Japan and two other countries (of the big three nuclear powers) at most. South America, Africa, and Australia probably have plentiful reserves of fossil fuels. Not to mention the Middle East… Nuclear war will never be “humanity ending”, unless humanity only exists in Eurasia and North America… which it doesn’t.