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  1. Kryten
    So the statements of the new york times are physical laws now?
  2. Kryten
    That's like claiming we'll be able to build perpetual motion motion machines in the future. Causality is just as foundational to physics as conservation of energy.
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    Who do think I'm going to trust, you or Einstein?
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    Israel manages to do a space program on half Poland's GDP, admittedly one that involves putting up a spy satellite on a barely-modified IRBM design every few years.
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    As for Cosmonauts, when soyuz T-10-a blew up on the pad (LAS saved the capsule), the first thing the crew did was turn off the voice recorder because they were swearing so much.
  6. Kryten
    There's not going to be such thing as a 'SpaceX mission' as distinct from a NASA mission (or USAF or NRO or whatever); they build rockets for money, they aren't some kind of private space program.
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    Titan IIIE for Voyager and Atlas V 551 for New Horizons. The Voyagers got less initial boost, but gained more from gravity assists.
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    It won't, it's only faster because it's still a lot closer in than they are.
  9. Kryten
    That's just a symptom. PowerPoint rockets are a lot cheaper than real ones...
  10. Kryten
    Video has now emerged of the cygnus mass simulator re-entering, pretty spectacular;
  11. Kryten
    Anti-osmium would require huge amounts of energy to produce; as you noted, anything heavier than iron loses energy through fusion.
  12. Kryten
    Could be oxides of nitrogen, it's certainly hot enough at the leading edge to produce them.
  13. Kryten
    They were talking about it reaching zero within a couple of days at most.
  14. Kryten
    That's nothing.
  15. Kryten
    It's not. That's Lake mead, it's been consistently shrinking since just before the start of that sequence.
  16. Kryten
    A reaper then. Why does it matter how low or slow it is? Considering the roles people are suggesting, it just needs to stay out of range of small arms fire.
  17. Kryten
    So why does it need stealth or supercruise, or even a pilot? You can just do that with a predator.
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    I know HTV once re-entered with a recoverable capsule inside to record the breakup; if you can find the footage of that, it should be a lot more impressive than the 'stretched pixel' ones. EDIT: It was HTV-3.
  19. Kryten
    Can't link it myself right now, but Google 'reentry Hayabusa'.
  20. Kryten
    How heavy do you imagine the fusion-powered stage to be?
  21. Kryten
    Kryten is British. I know what the sources say from third parties, can't understand a word myself.
  22. Kryten
    (at about 0.37) it's on a sort of lift that'll lower it down. Looks like it too high for a conventional ramp to be compact enough. The 'descent stage' IS the main lander, the rover is just another bit of payload.
  23. Kryten
    Probably has a lot to do with the landing site selection. They aren't taking any chances, so it's effectively flat; no slopes greater than 7°.
  24. Kryten
    Apparently the purge ate the existing thread/s. The entire spacecraft is now undergoing vacuum and thermal-cycling testing, some nice photos of which have been released;
  25. Kryten
    Because what we need to be focusing on in the current economic climate is is definitely warships. Or any economic climate, frankly.
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