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  1. Scotius
    I won't believe it, until I can buy a set of knives made out of hydrogen
  2. Scotius
    You can always say: "Aliens did it." I've read a sci-fi novel, where sufficiently advanced descendants of humanity reorganized the spiral structure of our Galaxy. If you can do that, compressing a planetary system should be trivial.
  3. Scotius
    Aerospikes, huh? Ambitious for a small indie company. We'll see how far they will take it.
  4. Scotius
    Looks kinda like Hulk to me. Too much contact with gamma radiation source?
  5. Scotius
    I took a bit of a look, but frankly - that stream was a bit boring to watch. Of course boring = good, because nothing bad happened.
  6. Scotius
    It's almost as if spaceships are becoming almost as safe and predictable as airliners. We're not there yet, but Starship might take it even further.
  7. Scotius
    Looks like someone forgot to put couple of OX-STAT panels on the satellite. Too bad, emergency supply of electricity wouldn't be amiss now.
  8. Scotius
    David Brin used something similar in his Uplift series. Giant, hollow towers rising from the equator. Transport inside was provided by enormous balloons lifting cargo and passengers to the top, where they were transferred to spaceships. All in all, it was a variation of space elevator.
  9. Scotius
    So, still not a clean attempt so far - but hopefully nothing major will pop out.
  10. Scotius
    Very nice landing. Transmission is clearly improved - practically no lag or dropped frames. Whatever SpaceX did with their transmitters, it's working well.
  11. Scotius
    Stream start.
  12. Scotius
    13 launches of one booster. How much money were not drowned in the Atlantic? I'm still amazed other launch companies aren't scrambling to switch their fleets to reuseable rockets. Though, well... they are not drowning their own money, so...
  13. Scotius
    Nice idea, but... - It would add even more time and expenses to development process. - Comes with very high probability of losing very big, very expensive rockets early on in the process of working bugs out of the system. - It wouldn't be SLS anymore. Not really.
  14. Scotius
    Uh-oh indeed. Apparently upper stage failed just short of achieving orbital speed. RIP payload .
  15. Scotius
    Still on hold. Doesn't bode well. And recycled. Better luck next time.
  16. Scotius
    Looks like soon we'll see new spaceplane flying. It will break total domination of capsules everyone's using. Diversity is good.
  17. Scotius
    Anything that is readily available, and offers a decent Isp. Ammonia, nitrogen, methane, water. Titan is one big ball of hydrocarbons for example.
  18. Scotius
    Maybe packaged in nitrogen and chilled?
  19. Scotius
    Four launches! What are they lifting? Falcon Heavy is either for heavy payloads, or payloads going far away.
  20. Scotius
    Booming boosters! That's a big pile of shiny, brand new engines. BO should take notes...
  21. Scotius
    And thus the Dream ends. Farewell, Big Bird.
  22. Scotius
    And liftoff. Atlas V as always reliable.
  23. Scotius
    Welp, stream's starting. Hour of truth arrived.
  24. Scotius
    Indonesia, eh? Straight on the equator. Plenty of open water westward. That's a plus. Unfortunately, there are internal issues that should make any high - profile investor wary. That's a minus.
  25. Scotius
    Maybe it will be biotech. Maybe it will be fusion power. Maybe it will be Artificial Intelligence. Or maybe it will be something entirely new and unexpected, like it happened many times before.
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