SunlitZelkova

They didn’t know this suspect existed at that time.

As the article says, “items that "tend to show evidence of motive and/or identity of the perpetrator such as photographs and undeveloped film, insurance policies, and letters, address and telephone records, diaries, and other documents, whether such items are written, typed or stored on computer discs".” Here in Oregon we had a 1970s murder solved the other day. It’s not that odd for them to investigate such an old case.

I’m not saying new things can’t be good, I’m just saying being new doesn’t automatically make it good, and new things can be bad.

It is probably intended to sink lower in the water when cruising, as are cargo ships. It just looks this way because it is in port.

Nuclear weapons are new and yet they are not fine.

I’m out of reactions for today So much exciting news! Assuming that Ars Technica article is correct and Artemis 3 is pushed back to 2028, taikonauts may very well end up as the first Asians to land on the Moon, assuming NASA decides to have the first Artemis crew be either all American or America + ESA (I just don’t see Japan getting there ahead of an ESA astronaut, when ESA may have a lot of clout in the program given their role in building Orion). In addition, the Chinese landing may occur in 2029, so just one year after Artemis 3. There has been a lot of jockeying for lunar resources, so let’s hope tensions don’t flare up in space or on Earth in the meantime.

Maybe she can write a book about rockets and call it the Yi Jing (易經).

As @JoeSchmuckatelli would say- you win the internet for today sir!

I think things didn’t have to do with cost so much as experience. MSR was never going to be approved until enough rovers had traversed Mars. So the opportunity for MSR earlier wasn’t lost because of poor funding decisions in the present, it was lost in the 1970s and 1980s when Mars rover proposals were shot down amid the nadir of NASA robotic spaceflight. http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-russians-are-roving-1970-jpl-plan.html?m=1 If this had been approved we would have seen Mars sample return in the 2000s, not end up possibly coming in second to China (not that who’s first necessarily matters that much).

@JoeSchmuckatelli thank you!

My technical Japanese is poor so I don’t know what concept they were referring to.

I thought it was originally related to a LEO space station.

When I was in the 6th grade, my science teacher told us energy goes into space when things die, and I recall reading somewhere that one of Tsiolkovsky’s religious ideas was that space travel was a necessary development to retrieve people’s energy, revive them, and become immortal. But I can’t find a reference to this or Tsiolkovsky’s idea anywhere. Is it true or not? Also, is there any book or website compiling Tsiolkovsky’s religious ideas or Russian cosmism in general? I’d like to incorporate elements of it into the world/multiverse I am creating.

Reusable rocket concept from ISAS. Unclear whether it is an SSTO or not.

I have a dumb question for those who have more knowledge of computers than me. I just got an SSD because I didn't have enough space to play World of Warships, but didn't even realize that SSDs provide some performance benefits. So I'm wondering, would it be beneficial to move all of my games on to the SSD? I have the following games in addition to WoWS: 1. War Thunder 2. Kerbal Space Program 3. Command: Modern Operations 4. Minecraft 5. Men of War: Assault Squad 2 (from Steam) 6. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic (from Steam) 7. Sprocket (from Steam) 8. Hearts of Iron IV (from Steam) How would I go about moving them? Just move the file in (C:) to the SSD? Or would it be better to uninstall the games and reinstall them on the SSD? And just one more Q: are there any issues associated with removing an SSD while the games are on it? It just feels weird having the short cut still on my laptop but the game files gone if I were to do so, and I don't want anything weird to happen.

I have made the momentous decision to major in anthropology

Seattle might be the landing zone, but to avoid damage from dust being sent through the vacuum at high speeds when the landers settle down, the colony is in Portland (Oregon). Russian is the third most common language here after Spanish.

I'm excited to see your take on the Pacific Northwest. In particular, Portland has gone pretty downhill since say, 2011. Time seems like nothing to me so it feels like a hypothetical cities tier list from 2011 should be valid, but unfortunately it isn't!

The question is though, will the age of interstellar be like work, where you have to see people you don't like, or like a day off, where you can ignore or leave people you don't like? Indeed. Not to be too grim, but another mindset that might overtake an authoritarian regime that has existed for a thousand years is one akin to germaphobia. Can't have those inferior peoples of other worlds stinking up existence, need to eliminate them for hygiene purposes. A couple of the worlds are ones where communism become the dominant ideology of the world. It's going to be wild writing how they interact with the ones where the capitalists won.

This creates some questions about human behavior. Insofar as humans are social animals, would we rather interact with each other in a negative manner than go out separate ways for gain? I.e. does a human’s social nature make him seek out the rival tribe, even if it means war, rather than go to the mountains in peace? Perhaps we just might not be able to help ourselves. Empty star systems are boring, take the occupied ones instead.

I would say it was technical- carbon fiber isn’t the best for submarines- but it was brought about by human error. The sub did just fine on previous times but it seems they kept using the same hull over and over again, and it degraded and went kablooey.

Mine too! I like The Polar Express, The Wind Rises, and the Indiana Jones movies (all five!).

But not for controlling the actual sub itself. Although I will say the game controller is by no means the fatal design flaw of the thing.

I am creating my own series of worlds, combined in a multiverse. I originally did not plan to have each world meet, but am considering it now. My multiverse is religious in nature rather than scientific. A number of the worlds are controlled by fascist regimes. But would it make sense for a war to break out between universes? In other words, is a space war logical when interstellar travel is possible? Why would anyone fight if they could just go some place else and get resources? Does it make sense to fight over planets? One reason I could say yes is because by the time a method of traveling to other universes has been discovered in my world, interstellar travel is limited to slow generation ships. So in effect, people are limited to the solar system as there is no viable means of transporting resources from other star systems quickly. Eventually the solar system will become overpopulated and begin running out of resources, so the only way out would be to exterminate the populace of other solar systems and colonize them. On the other hand, there is nothing stopping these worlds from working together to try and conquer the field of FTL travel or something. Quite a few of them are worlds that united after a century long Space Race and thus already have a tradition of cooperation. Thoughts? I’m interested in what more seasoned veterans of science fiction reading will have to say.

The more it gets pushed back the more interesting it becomes. If it takes until 2027 for Artemis III to launch due to SLS delays, it will have taken the same amount of time from Apollo’s announcement to their landing (Artemis began in 2019).