SunlitZelkova

Assuming you mean Chinese, Korean, and Japanese… The very old Korean and of course Japanese kanji are more or less Chinese characters. Korean uses a modern writing system but the root is the same. So although pronunciation is different, some words are the same. For example, 火星 and 火星. The left is in Chinese, and the right is in Japanese. Both mean Mars, despite different pronunciation. But on the other hand, grammar structures are totally different as far as I am aware. EDIT- Just to add a little more, it can be very different too for words. I’m sure Chinese has some traditional words dating back thousands of years for “rocket”, but in Japanese we just say ロケット (roketto) which is a word that obviously comes from English.

This is understandable, but I think the prequels and associated media (The Clone Wars) have kind of tried to do this. Literally the reason why Anakin becomes a Sith is that the Jedi inadvertently push him towards it by allowing his mother to stay in slavery despite having the means to free her, hardly a "good guy" action. The Clone Wars also has a number of moments where the Republic commits warcrimes or the Jedi kill people needlessly, and Andor is showing how the Rebellion is pretty cut throat in the way it conducts its operations (selling out their own guys just to keep a source safe, leading to a hundred deaths). I haven't read any Legends novels, but apparently the Republic is pretty awful at times in it, while the Separatists, despite being led by a Sith lord, have valid reasons for leaving the Republic and are noble at times. But I do still understand your position and as a fan of the Separatists, I think they could do more to show this.

It's a little hard to see, but hopefully this works. I already deleted the craft. That's a Swivel engine, and it is fully loaded with fuel. It just has a standard nose cone with a probe core, no crew (I was still controlling the Zeppelin when I took this).

I have tried launching rockets from aircraft and a dirigible (courtesy of HL airships + Heisenburg) but they keep flipping out of control when the engines ignite. First I used a RT-10 as a first stage and then a similarly sized liquid fueled second stage. It flipped out of control before I could activate staging. Then I used a single stage rocket in similar size to a RT-10. It also flipped out of control, causing it to lose altitude before running out of fuel.

I guffawed upon seeing this

Is there a general rule of thumb for how long it takes to slow down a ship with a magnetic sail? Like “if your flight time without stopping would be 50 years, it will take +30% of that to brake”. Just to be clear, I am asking in the context of interstellar travel.

Would it be possible to launch a nuclear fusion rocket propelled interstellar ark using nuclear pulse propulsion from a ground site in the far north? I.e. stage one is an Orion, stage two is a Daedalus. Beyond the already existing issues with developing nuclear fusion and nuclear pulse propulsion, is there anything that would cause an issue? In the story I am writing, a nuclear war occurred nearly a century ago, but climate change is destroying humanity and the Soviets and Americans team up to evacuate a portion of their nations to a nearby star system. Because nuclear weapons and rockets were banned following the war, the project must be carried out in secret in Alaska.

I discovered a couple of proposed skyscraper designs the other day, and it brought me back to the various concepts of... large stuff. Anything from Dyson spheres to enormous aircraft, feel free to share it here. This may somewhat cross over with the Real Life Kerbalisms thread but at the same time it is its own independent theme (size, not craziness), so I thought I would make another thread. Here is the Tokyo Tower of Babel, a proposed 10,000 meter tall skyscraper. In contrast, the Burj Khalifa is 830 meters tall. Also amazing is that this building would be 1200 meters taller than Mount Everest. It would cost 25 trillion dollars to build and take 150 years to construct: literally twice the time elapsed from the Meiji Restoration, which began Japan's modernization, to the present day. The foundation would be 12 kilometers in diameter. At 300 meters height: city and underground infrastructure, power plants, parking, at 1000 meters height: residential areas and shops. At 3,500 meters height: offices, hotels. At 6,000 meters: administrative buildings and leisure facilities. At 9,000 meters, factories and scientific research facilities. At the top: a solar energy collector and a space development center. It is unclear whether this proposal was a stunt by an architectural company or if it was the product of serious urban planning studies. It is known that a planning group studying verticalization of metropolises did exist somewhere in the Japanese government in the 90s, but the bursting of the economic bubble doomed these well before the challenges posed by the necessity of much stronger materials than what is currently available.

Something something 737 MAX something something. Not saying independent review is needed, just that the FAA is not that reliable.

For All Mankind introduced this to me as an ideal soundtrack for spaceflight.

It depends on the kind of train. An American passenger train uses a wye track to do something of a three point turn, while a Japanese Shinkansen can be controlled from either end and thus doesn’t need to be turned around. A freight train will have the engines switch places rather than turning the entire train around. So it decouples and uses a wye track or turn table and then travels along another track to the other end. Wye track- I’m taking a very big chance “graded Y intersection” somehow does not refer to wye track lol.

17 million feels incredibly cheap for such assets. I don’t know why, it’s not like I have been looking at the debt or defence budget recently. EDIT- Maybe because of the recent talk about launch costs in the SpaceX thread? A Falcon 9 is like $20 million I think.

I have not, thank you for this source! —— Alright, now I have another question. Is the minimum viable population for humans known? I have looked around for this but have gotten answers varying between 14 and 14,000. One last thing- would it make sense to build a giant interstellar ark or a fleet of smaller ships? Would there be any pros to building a single ship?

No. But I just looked it up and it sounds very interesting! Yeah, it was a wild guess, but it sounds like factors other than that render it a moot point anyways.

I'm copying this from the Ancient History thread over in the lounge in case anyone wants to chime in here too. How long does it take for a population to gain immunity to a disease? I was originally thinking to have my alternate history where Zheng He goes east and winds up in America in 1407 lead to the Native Americans getting immunized by way of the Chinese being more cleanly than Europeans (I'd assume) and getting just enough exposure to become immune with triggering an epidemic. But I watched some videos the other day proposing it might take centuries or more for that to happen, so I thought I'd ask here. This kind of fits in the Questions thread in the S&S section too. Or is that even possible? Just off the top of my head, it doesn't seem like it would be possible for a population to become immune to a disease without major losses unless they lived alongside that disease from its inception.

How long does it take for a population to gain immunity to a disease? I was originally thinking to have my alternate history where Zheng He goes east and winds up in America in 1407 lead to the Native Americans getting immunized by way of the Chinese being more cleanly than Europeans (I'd assume) and getting just enough exposure to become immune with triggering an epidemic. But I watched some videos the other day proposing it might take centuries or more for that to happen, so I thought I'd ask here. This kind of fits in the Questions thread in the S&S section too. Or is that even possible? Just off the top of my head, it doesn't seem like it would be possible for a population to become immune to a disease without major losses unless they lived alongside that disease from its inception.

Sounds like an anime character name, and in a good way.

But unfortunately, due to the cancellation of the L1, never got to fly on them.

That’s me lol (first name, not last name). I am male but there is no e because it is Japanese.

It’s not a case of the frogs sounding different, it’s the languages sounding different. Dogs sound the same everywhere yet we have different sounds by language (three examples I know: Russian- “gaf gaf”, English- “ruff ruff”, Japanese- “wan wan”

It's hard to tell, but if it has a phase, it's Venus. Does yours have a laser scope you can use to specifically point the telescope at things? If so, you should be able to tell which of the two objects you are looking at. Then use Time and Date's Night Sky website to figure out which is which. It provides a nice, "eye-realistic" view of the sky. You will just need a compass to make sure you are pointing in the right direction and it should be easy to tell what's what because it shows objects based on their brightness.

In Japanese: gero gero

A Rogers Commission type organization could do the job. You referred to oversight being a pain in general, not specifically to this launch. When people are on this in the future, there could be another Challenger disaster. People on the ground could be affected too. The FAA colluding with SpaceX is not a wild possibility. Look at what happened with the 737 MAX between Boeing and the FAA.

What was Ming China's perception of the seas to the east, that is, what did they think was there? I'm creating a world where Zheng He sails east instead of west, "discovers" the Americas. What I want to know is- does any realistic rational exist for him to journey east instead of west? Right now I am assuming that the Ming were aware a place called Europe existed to the west and thus would have tried to sail east to find it.

Interesting implications for the blimp. I saw it pop up on Twitter a couple days ago and chuckled at the reactions to it (treating it as some super weapon or a major threat).