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  1. Kryten
    I keep getting an error message when I turn on my computer, saying it 'detected power surges at the previous startup'. I'm to replace it soon anyway, but which component is likely to be causing this? The power supply?
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    A budget would be sensible. Do you have any parts (power supply, case) you could already use, or is this from scratch?
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    First thought up to account for problems with the procession of Mercury, but GR explained it better. Unfortunately the model from GR matches the real orbit well enough it's extremely unlikely Vulcan exists, at least as an object large enough to call a planet.
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    There are actually three stages; two solids of the same diameter and a LH2/LOX stage that forms the bulge at the end.
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    Isn't that what Wargames was?
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    Yeah, that's completely wrong. It's just a normal expendable rocket that happens to be launched from a plane and have a lifting body as the payload.
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    A civilian power reactor yes, but you won't get something with the power density required for space use. Producing natural uranium in the first place isn't too easy either.
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    We already knew angry birds and minecraft films were under development, this this just the next logical step. I strongly suspect none of them will actually see release.
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    Only MOM has a high enough apoapsis to take full-planet pictures with a camera that still has good enough ground resolution at apoapsis for useful science. The only other images you'll find are from Hubble and Mars Express' VMC (a wide-angle low-res engineering camera).
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    Hydrazine is too unstable to be a major threat; it'll break down in moist air, and heavy rain will pretty effectively decontaminate a site.
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    On fregat. The freeze prevented one set of thrusters from firing, preventing in from properly orientating itself and causing it to the the insertion bun in the wrong direction. A bunch more fregats (1 in 4) in the Lavochkin factory were found to have the same error.
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    We now have a cause for the galileo failure. Somebody installed some plumbing incorrectly, a hydrazine pipe got too close to a helium pipe, the hydrazine froze, and the rest is history.
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    The latter logically includes the former, unless there are some flying or floating international airports I don't know about. It's intended to have contingency water-landing capability, and has done self-righting tests.
  14. Kryten
    'Kryten is allowed to draw blueprints.'
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    The black funnelly thing on Topaz is a radiator, the actual reactor is just the bit at the very top. SNAP-10A used the same basic design.
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    Windows 10?!?

    Kryten replied to 42undead2's topic in The Lounge

    With this and the xbox one, I'm starting to think somebody high up in microsoft has lost the ability to count.
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    Chinese can too, don't forget. The recent surfeit of missions is a result of having nowhere to go rather than the american issue of no way to get there.
  18. Kryten
    Roger Bacon. Invented science, 'nuff said.
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    I don't see any reason a newborn baby wouldn't survive being put into space just fine, although it probably wouldn't exactly be a pleasant experience for anyone involved.
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    Uranium is pretty radioactive, as anybody who's had the classic demonstration with a bit of pitchblende (uranium ore) and a Geiger counter in school can testify. It's not face-meltingly dangerous, sure, but it's not something you'd want to handle without gloves or breath the dust of. What you aren't going to get without a reaction having happened are neutron and hard gamma radiation; highly damaging, though to shield against, and neutron irradiation can cause materials to themselves become radioactive.
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    'Mission suitability' and 'price' are not 'being able to build a working spacecraft'. I know which one I'd prioritise.
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    I don't see why this specific case would cause more trouble than that Pi=4 guy thread. If everybody agrees that something is stupid, it can't really be called controversial.
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    航天员 are Chinese nationals only. Foreigners are 宇航员, which means exactly the same thing but is pronounced differently. To confuse matters a bit further, the official press agency (Xinhua) does use 'Taikonaut' in English-language articles.
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    Claiming Boeing are higher risk than SNC is nonsense. Boeing have a full pressure vessel, working engines, and a completed set of parachute landing tests. SNC haven't got an engine, their one attempt at a glide test ended so badly they pretend it never happened, and their pressure vessel is, so far, a single open piece of carbon composite. I don't see any areas in which they have retired any risk.
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    Again, there is no H2SO4, only SO2. The the former is the result of dissolving the latter in water.
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