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PSA: C# Aurora has been released! If you've been waiting for the last several years for it to drop, the wait is (almost) over. Steve says that there are a few bugs that need fixing, with a hotfix coming tomorrow, but if you're itchy, the 1.00 is out and available at http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10635.0 Be warned that this first hotfix will break the game, so you may want to wait just a little bit more. More fixes to come in the following days. It's getting late here, so no space domination for me today, but tomorrow most likely. Since Steve is a top bloke, the game is free, just don't expect AAA graphics. The game is a spreadsheet.
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That's quite a big "only". Also, that mass for antiproton storage system seems way to optimistic.
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Back to Factorio, I installed Diggy scenario*, which pretty much forced me to rethink the whole MOAR idea of Factorio. I decided to go in blind, just default settings, not checking the map preview. I ended up on map that had endless copper, but iron only in trace amounts. By the time I got to Oil, I managed to find just 18k of iron. Usually that's the amount I have before I finish my first smelting array. I ended up having to stop the research to make ammo and steel iron chests to store all the excess coal and copper (ores are usually mixed up, can't mine just what you want). Thankfully I just found a nice 200k iron vein, so I can push towards the robots, and do some military science. *You're underground and explore map by digging through the rocks, which cover 100% of the map. There are no classic ore patches, instead ore is spread out much more. You don't know where is ore until you stumble upon it and as you dig through the rocks. The thing is, occasionally biters jump out of the mined rocks and want to eat you. Also you need to place wall supports every few blocks to prevent cave-ins, so all your blueprints are useless since you need to work around those supports.
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Most enviromentally friendly Propellant choices
Shpaget replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Why would hydrogen pollute the soil? It will quickly evaporate and unless it burns, rise to the higher altitudes and eventually leave the atmosphere altogether. It would freeze whatever it splashes on, but that's not really pollution. -
I'd say that's a good way to do some serious damage to the lungs. Pulmonary barotrauma is of concern and possible complication even with dedicated medical devices that have precision pressure regulation system. Lungs don't feel pain, so if you overpressure them, by the time the patient notices something wrong, the damage has already been done. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545226/
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I'm not against manned exploration of Mars, far from it. I'd volunteer to be on the first ship to go there. I'm not even going to insist on coming back. I just don't see much sense in establishing a 1000+ population colony there. Not yet. Not while there is room and stuff to do in LEO, on and around the Moon and in the asteroid belt.
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I too never understood the fantasies of Mars based business. No point on Earth is as barren and desolate as the richest and lushest place on Mars, so comparing colonization and expansion on Earth to that on Mars is not sensible. On Earth, you can go in any direction and be fairly certain to find something of worth. Even when traversing the vastness of the Pacific ocean with weeks of no land in sight you are provided with a pleasant, hospitable and bountiful environment compared to the literally endless dessert of Mars where only variation in landscape is dust or sand. Not even the air on Mars is any good. Other than scientific data, nothing on Mars is of interest, as long as tickets prices are out of reach for practically everybody. There are so many space related stuff humanity should do before concentrating on Mars that we have decades, if not centuries of development before we should establish a sizable colony on the Ol' Dusty.
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FTFY
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Oh yeah, there are many lessons to be learned from all of this.
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Unfortunately, tooling up for injection molding is fairly slow process. It can be sped up if you're willing to sacrifice surface finish and the item is simple, but complex features require multipart molds that take a while to manufacture. Fortunately this is the case where those compromises can be taken, so yeah, that should be done, but I don't thing there are many toy manufacturers outside of China.
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It's not every day we see the barge video. Also, old gridfins clanking into position, and then glowing hot... good old times.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/business/boeing-bailout-government-stake/index.html That was published March 27. Things could have changed, bu I haven't seen anything to indicate that.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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What's the alternative for those that can't breathe on their own? The only thing that I can think of is iron lungs, but those are all but extinct, not to mention not practical when doctors need access to the patient.
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Magnetically increased Thrust For Lightcraft?
Shpaget replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
What configuration are you thinking about? Magnets aren't magic, you know? -
A Combined Approach Better Than SSTO's?
Shpaget replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Comparing space elevator to an orbital ring is like comparing this: to this: They both are used for transporting goods, but one is slightly bigger. Orbital ring is placed in low earth orbit, not geostationary. -
Sooner or later they would emerge from their isolation from the Universe, and then casually, whimsically decide that "It has to go." Something to do with cricket...
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
Shpaget replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
That would depend on available power, maximum charge rate of capacitor bank, projectile loading rate and, of course, doctrine. Perhaps the system can fire continuously at max rate on both guns, using only one capacitor bank, but two are installed for redundancy. Efficiency is a hazy metric when it comes to military. -
They posted an update. Unfortunately, the half an hour video contains only one new piece of information - they changed the name.
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For what kind of fire are they supposed to provide escape route? They don't look nearly fast enough to escape the fires we usually see when rockets start burning at the wrong end. Is this more of a feel good system than one that's actually supposed to help?
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So, when are we going to able to read some of your work?
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Hmm, 1,5 cm^3, or 1,14 cm edge. That's entirely reasonably small cube. Don't give it to your kids, though. It might be a choking hazard.
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Elon dipping his toes into xkcd territory.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-toll/frances-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-nearly-5400-as-nursing-homes-included-idUSKBN21K31I Yesterday, France included 884 deaths that were previously not counted as they happened in nursing homes. France counted only deaths that occurred in hospitals, meaning their numbers are under reported. This shows the importance of international standardization of the method of keeping track of the pandemic. Honestly, it baffles me that there are such inconsistencies when we have multiple international organisations that are supposed to make guidelines for this sort of thing.
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If the legs are hydraulic, you open the fluid valves to all the legs so when the first leg touches the ground, the hydraulic fluid is pushed into all other legs. Next leg touches and more fluid is redistributed. That goes on until all the legs are touching the ground at which point hydraulic fluid has nowhere to go, the pressure rises, and triggers the closing of the connection between the legs, which are now locked in place. Mechanically very simple solution that uses only existing hardware (except the interconnecting valve).