Tommygun
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What was that square thing on a pole behind the rocket?
I can't tell for sure, but they sometimes use things like stainless steel mirrors to film explosions on test ranges.
This allows the camera to be placed in a safer spot that is more likely to survive.
If it is a mirror, it looks like it is set up to view the interior of the solid motor when it first fires.
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I don't think you will find anything that can record under 200 or 300 dollars.
Have you looked at what Ideal Industries has to offer?
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Aerobraking with DRE at 5700 m/s can't be easy.
Do you think tail fins on the back would help keep the ship straighter and more stable during aerobraking?
Even without DRE, I tried aerobraking after a very low orbital sun mission in Kerbin's atmosphere.
I came in at 7900 m/s and my debris field escaped the Kerbin system traveling at 4200 m/s.......
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I'm trying to think of a budget way to view the eclipse. One of my mates is a welder so I may ask him for some welding goggles... that should do, right?
Either that or get a mirror and project it onto the side of my house.
Or 50 times more likely, stay inside as it'll be cloudy.
Welder's goggles need to be rated at 14 or higher for viewing the Sun, so look for the rating, hopefully printed on the glass.
You can always just buy the replacement glass at a wielder's shop for around three dollars to be sure you get the right glass rating and mount it in the middle of a piece of cardboard.
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Wow, four hours of burn. Squads needs to find a way to do long burns in time warp.
That's the reason I've mostly stopped doing ion engines.
I would like to try gravity sling shots sometime, but I need to understand them better before I try.
Well here are those ship pictures of mine:
I think this is from KSP version 0.16?
Drop tanks fall off when empty and lander docks and refuels multiple times on Jool mission to it's moons.
Probe ship to Stella with several probes and communication satellites. Note Nuclear light Bulb engine.
Dumping tanks.
Crew ship with Vesta engine
At Stella. Third ship is a cargo ship with crew lander and colony landers. (No pictures of it yet)
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They only let him use Mk1 capsule and Kron 3 doesn't have small docking ports on it. On the positive side, he needed some practice with tethering.
No harmonic wobbling reported yet. Engines were never on.
May I see your design?
My family rented a beach house for the next four days, so I can't post any pictures of my ships until later.
This place is big, I think the shower is as big as my bedroom.
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This only gives credence to the A.I. concept.
What would happen if the AI gives orders, but an unmotivated public only gives a half hearted attempt at fixing the problem, which leads to further problems.
For some the fear of losing their job or being homeless motives them to work harder.
This fear, of coarse, can be abused by employers, but it is probable one the main motivations people have to go to a job they don't like.
If you have guaranteed employment and housing, how does the AI keep people from goofing off all day at work.
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Given the low voter turn out in the U.S, sometimes I doubt that. I still have hope for democracy though.
Oddly I think this is a side affect of living in a mostly safe stable society.
They start taking it for granted until after it disappears.
I also think this works against ever achieving an utopian society.
If you ever actually get this perfect world, people will grow apathetic to it and will be to unmotivated to do anything when its starts to decay.
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There have been some non-nuclear Pulse detonation engines, although they were all meant to be used within the atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_detonation_engine#First_PDE_powered_flight
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So the government was too cheap to give poor Bill a docking port.
Well it's a good looking ship, do you have any issues with harmonic wobbling?
I notice my ships have an almost identical ship layout to yours, but I've never tried to build them that long.
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With just a superficial look at it, it looks like a modernized/high tech "Socialist Paradise" concept.
Pure socialism doesn't work any better than pure capitalism and I think this would end up with a system of unmotivated and inefficient workers and institutions.
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Here's my attempt of a Q400:
Nice looking, where are the landing gear on it?
I see you have some hidden in the engine nacelles, but how did you hide the noise gear?
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Yes, the photon has experienced no time.
From the viepoint of the photon, (inasmuch as can be said that the a photon can have a viepoint), the universe has zero thickness in the direction of its motion, thanks to relativistic length contraction. So to the photon, its source and destination are in the same place.
That said, the photon doesn't /actually/ bounce off things. It goes from its source, hits an atom, and the atom absorbs its energy. Then, after some finite amount of time, the excited atom emits a photon of the same energy as the one that struck it..
This made me think of a photon from the Big Bang existing in the past, present and future all in the same instant.
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From a psychological standpoint, Asuka would be the obvious choice since Shinji is a definite introvert and Asuka has a lot more outgoing personality. As such, they balance each other out. Rei is introverted too, and as such her being in a relationship with Shinji just wouldn't work.
I'd be more concerned with their kids having six fingers and toes.
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I found this on the ESA website and it was posted prior to Philae's landing.
Could activity on the comet's surface damage or destroy the lander?Survival of the lander depends on a number of factors, such as power supply, temperature, or surface activity on the comet. For example, dust may cover the solar panels, preventing the battery from recharging. In any case, by March 2015, when the comet is closer to the Sun, it is likely that the lander will become too hot to operate.
I haven't been following Philae's status the last few months, so I don't know if ESA still has any real hope of hearing from it again or not.
Would this heat just prevent Philae from operating/reactivating or could it actually damage it?
I'm assuming that if it's getting this hot in March, the comet must be getting more sun light than before and Philae has not reactivated yet, that it's not looking good at all.
Well in the next few weeks at least since March has just started.
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I have a pet named Gimpy, but I'd probably get banned for posting pictures......
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Asuka is too emotionally damaged to be in a stable relationship.
It just will not work. I dated a girl like Asuka in high school and it ended poorly.
It was the funnest three months of my life, but there is no way to make it work.
I'd do it again, but it won't work. Did I mention it was the best three months of my life?
I voted for Rei and then remembered what she was..........oh crap is it too late to add Misato.
You think that scene with Darth Vader was awkward.......
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Useful idea, the only thing I would suggest is changing the blacked out areas to a very light grey to keep it from sucking up too much ink from the print cartridges.
Yes, I'm that cheap.
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It looks like it's coming together nicely.
Are you planning a T-tail to go with the K400?
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Well if gravitons do exsist, maybe they could be used to "lighten" a ship?
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I discovered the internet in the late 90s when I went to work for an early dotcom to pay for my student loans from film school - except I didn't know what the internet was, or what photoshop was, or anything. I BS'd my way into a job and mastered HTML and photoshop in 4 hours. Amazingly enough I won a Yahoo! award for that site, which completely destroyed my career as a filmmaker (since I rationalized that making money fast would let me make my own films) and created a bunch of award winning sites... but then there was that dotcom crash and, yeah, here I am now writing sci-fi novels.
Thanks, internet, for destroying my dreams, you b@st@rd!
But all the best writers suffered from depression.
Now just take up heavy social drinking.
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Isn't car glass special in how it is strenghtened though?
Yes, it's designed to break into small "safer" pieces.
But it shows how a harder object can easily break something softer or more brittle.
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I'm not sure repairing the spine is necessary.
The University of Pittsburgh did an experiment that had a monkey controlling a robotic arm with just it brain connected to a computer.
If you take that a step further and have the computer act as an interface to control muscle.
The brain also regulates a lot of the bodies functions too, so it wouldn't be an easy task.
I don't see why it couldn't be done, but it will take a very long time to work out.
I can understand the "creepiness" of it, but people denounced the first heart transplants too.
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This discussion got me thinking of this:
This shows how you can easily break car glass with a hard piece of ceramic.
Way to spam the winglets, Honda
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