Gargamel

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I also intended to be lord emperor of the planet. Doesn’t mean it would be a good thing.

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I’m not sure if you meant to quote me or not, but if you did, you missed my point completely. Earlier designer says I want to do this. Shortly after somebody comes along and says no, this is very very bad. So it’s not done. Just because something was an idea at one point does not make it a good idea.

As predicted by the visionaries (no seriously, report it instead of just commenting), overlapping threads have been merged.

Everything I’ve read said orbital construction. It was never intended to be used in atmosphere, let alone it being a violation of international law. Just because somebody somewhere said “you know, it might work…” doesn’t mean somebody more intelligent didn’t come along later and said it won’t, and showed them why. But yet, their initial guess is still out there on the books, but that doesn’t make it true.

As this thread has yet again devolved into Orion SSTO’s, it has been merged with the master thread.

No Maybe if a tribble was the impactor. Ploop sploosh. Ewwwwwww

At this concert tonight: https://blog.siriusxm.com/dmb-concert-series/

And none of that applies to anything Germaine about our topic here, with is SETI losing data to ancient hardware failures.

What?

This wasn’t crypto mining, BOINC and SETI@home would run on just about anything, and was primarily designed as a screen saver. Let’s not get off topic as the article isn’t referring to these types of hardwares, its referring to obsolete massive storage devices. I had 15+ years into SETI, and I’m disappointed to see this. But I’m also not too worried, as long as the data lost is either processed non-candidates, or unprocessed data. The loss of processed candidate data would be a concern. Anything else is just fluff or can be reacquainted through a new survey. Which should be done anyways, with new search parameters.

For a certain *ahem* program I’m using, I found a zero day bug. Got a thanks from the support lead.

Just ignore it. Happy iPhone users don’t use iTunes.

No. There is no realistic size for an Orion SSTO. Size isn’t the main issue though. Mass is. This is like comparing apples and iguanas. Ones is designed to stay in orbit, permanently. The other uses air pressure to create lift and carry that heavy load. Somewhat An SSTO is any craft that reaches orbit in a single stage. Single Stage To Orbit. It can be a rocket, a plane, or any vessel that doesn’t dump stages. You could literally take an apple to the summit of Olympus Mons and throw it hard enough to enter orbit. That apple is now an SSTO. If we want to talk spaceplanes (which may or not be SSTO), then we can do that. We can keep taking about SSTO’s too if you’d like, but I think part of the issue is getting the nomenclature right. There is nothing stopping stopping you from making an SSTO that rendezvous with an asteroid, mines it, and returns the ore to a planet or another craft, aside from it being highly inefficient. All those tanks that used to carry fuel are now dead weight, and that hurts your fuel efficiency, forcing you to carry less ore on the way back. Is that a realistic proposition? Absolutely not, as it is highly inefficient and unnecessarily complicated. It is far better to have specialized components of a mission that do one thing, and do it very well. So yes, the theoretical best use for an SSTO is some sort of passenger or cargo transport that meets up with an orbital platform of some sort, and then returns for a quick turnaround. However, SpaceX has shown that it might be easier to get the best of both worlds. They have a booster platform that can get a sizable payload to space, and then return to launch site for a very quick turn around, which allows the upper stage to be that specialized vessel that is required for the specific task. Apologies if this sounded a bit heavy handed.

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As long as you’re comfortable with a rocket the size of a large skyscraper. We need to carry the fuel to land and takeoff again to make this anywhere a viable ssto. And if we want to be picky, calling it a ssto means we’re not dropping any boosters, so we have to lift all that dead weight, and now that’s a rocket the size of a few skyscrapers. And we can’t say we’ll just refuel in orbit. That completely defeats the purpose, as you can detach and land a shuttle from the main craft. Designing a ssto Orion craft is like putting wheels on a super tanker to deliver oil directly to Iowa.

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If you read his autobiography, and tutorial on writing, On Writing, He discusses this a bit. He mainly writes for his own entertainment, as in he's never sure where the story is really going to go, and he writes to be the first reader of it. So an idea will get into his mind, and he puts it on paper. The story itself may not be that great, but he's such a great story teller (one of the best ever IMO), that even bad stories are readable. And there was a lot of stuff that would never get published by a regular person, but his editors would ask him if he had anything laying around they could read, and he'd send stuff over. So yeah, there's a lot of mediocre drivel that got published, but I like to judge him by his good stuff.

This is his magnum opus. The opening line of the first book may, arguably, be the greatest single opening line in history, including the one you're thinking of. A good number (majority?) of his novels actually fall into the umbrella universe this series creates. The first book is sometimes a hard read, as it's kind of an absurdist fever dream. That is to say, when he first wrote it back in the 70's, he was quite chemically enhanced, and the rewrite pass he did in the 90's to tie up the loose ends did help, but it's still a fever dream. Power through the weirdness of the first book, and the second, while equally weird, is far less absurdist. Which is saying a lot, because maybe a couple hours in to the 5th (?) book this read (listen) through, I said aloud "Ok, now _this_ is where this story gets weird." And that wasn't referring to I saw that recently when I picked up my "North Central Positronics" t-shirt. But this series does have the greatest cliffhanger ending of a book of all time. And I do prefer the original ending to the series over the fan requested added ending he wrote, although Seriously, don't read that spoiler if you haven't read the story.

It's an excellent series. I just finished the Dark Tower series for the 4th time, this time on Audiobook. ~160 hours. Such an amazing story.

Been a while since I’ve heard that reference.

But if put a chicken into the wicrowave which is put into the fridge, it will be a Kryo Fried Chicken If we use a small songbird instead we can have Cryo Wren. Sorry sorry, back on topic. @Spacescifi, if you’re imagining using sound to move water, take a look at how much the water in your examples (that I imagine you’re thinking of) is moving. It’s a measurable distance. Imagine every water molecule in your body moving 2 cm to the left and back. Fairly quickly you’d be a pink goo. A pink quivering goo, but goo none the less.

IIRC, and please somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but water molecules resonate at the microwave frequency, hence why microwave ovens heat things that contain water. So you’re basically cooking a human on very low power. Doesn’t make it wrong, just odd to think about. Might need some fava beans and a nice Chianti ready for the person when they wake.