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SuperFastJellyfish

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  1. Here's a few semi recent pics of me. Upper peninsula of Michigan 2018: Solar eclipse in southern Illinois 2017: Solar eclipse in southern Illinois again:
  2. I haven't ventured outside of the Science & Spaceflight(Science Labs) corner of the forums much the past few years, but these are the versions of KSP I have on my PC:
  3. ULA Vulcan Centaur development summary from a few days ago:
  4. As much as I'd love it to happen, bureaucracy just doesn't work that fast.
  5. Here's a good paper on gravity gradient stabilization to add to Terwin's explanation: https://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/views/pdfs/V03_N5_1964/V3_N5_1964_Fischell.pdf
  6. Here's the milspec for RP-1 if that helps anyone: http://everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL-SPECS-MIL-DTL/download.php?spec=MIL-DTL-25576E.016072.PDF I don't have time to sift through it at the moment though.
  7. The ISS is visible for me near Chicago at: Date: Fri Mar 8, 4:21 AM central Visible: 2 min Max Height: 14° Appears: 14° above N Disappears: 10° above NNE Dragon splashes at 7:45am central. Edit: Since ISS is so low, I won't see dragon.
  8. Cool! I'm in the south suburbs of Chicago. I'll be watching for it. Edit: It looks too far south for me after looking at the path a little closer.
  9. Here's the video that picture is from(NASA Johnson's Youtube page instead of the Daily mail...to save from having to click to that site). Pretty wicked.
  10. Awesome launch. I had a roomful of non-space-nerds cheering. Go SpaceX!
  11. Mission success. All 6 OneWeb sats deployed.
  12. Two Oneweb sats deployed. Four to go.
  13. RIP Opportunity...maybe? This might be a part of its plan. Step 1: Go dark Step 2: Take over Mars Step 3: KILL ALL HUMANS Randall Munroe called it! https://xkcd.com/1504/
  14. Faster process to make Pu-238: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-found-a-new-way-to-create-a-radioactive-power-source-for-space-exploration/ Edit: DoE link - https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/oak-ridge-national-laboratory-automates-key-process-plutonium-238-production
  15. https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-have-some-terrible-news-about-the-seedling-that-sprouted-on-the-moon/
  16. Is this the beginning stage of China's version of terraforming? (not my drawing)
  17. Strange. Maybe they were doing maintenance. It's marked VGR1 for me:
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