lajoswinkler

Such planet can't even form, so no.

It's not what it used to be. Days of Soviet union are long gone. Even their universities are crumbling under stupidity and corruption.

Considering the fact that building a nuclear weapon was, I wouldn't be surprised such missiles were on the table for a short while.

And how is that different from what I've said?

I don't think you understand what a mockumentary is. Why is it so hard to admit the possibility of reaching 100 km, like V2 was capable of? It's not a wild claim at all. It's possible and plausible. Less plausible is the claim that Yugoslavia sold anything to USA, but still not impossible, although I highly doubt it was something extremely expensive. Yes, Željava had deep, long tunnels (it's a truly enormous complex) but it wasn't exactly suited for anything other than supersonic jet planes.

It is water, if one is talking about chemical composition.

I suppose you place the rock on the water and it hops around like a frog?

You're mixing two processes here. The engine bell serves a purpose to enhance, boost the efficiency. This is how rockets work. If your explanation was valid, no nozzle would mean no thrust, and there are plenty of cases where nozzle is absent and pure reaction force develops. No, it already has a momentum (and a big one) and it's just gliding against water.

Rockets don't work like that. They throw a lot of mass at very high speeds which causes a reaction force that pushes the rocket in the opposite direction. It does not rely on electromagnetic interactions between particles.

I didn't say it was manned. Unmanned, sounding rockets capable of reaching space at a suborbital trajectory, that's it. Something similar to Poland's Meteor rockets only more powerful. It's totally plausible.

No, never. Even with low gravity, you couldn't do it because you have mass that you need to push away from a surface, and you can't push against water. You could walk on it, very slowly (and I mean VERY) in very low gravity if you'd rely on surface tension.

I agree, it's absurd, but I wouldn't call it a mockumentary. I watched the interview with Virc, he said it was a documentary exploring a hypothesis, building evidence around it. Not very scientific, but hey, it's entertainment. However I think it's very plausible Yugoslavia made an attempt at building at least suborbital rockets. Were those successful or not is a matter of question. I doubt we did anything more advanced than space sounding rockets that could go over 100 km height. I live fairly close to Objekat-505, but never went there to actually visit it. I should. LOL

NASA's Juno spacecraft will land on Jupiter by July 4, 2016.

Komentari?

It's not fake, it's an actual documentary for Tribeca Film Festival. http://variety.com/2016/film/news/tribeca-film-festival-2016-slate-competition-viewpoints-1201719788/

Couple of years ago, this teaser (original has been set to private) went viral. I thought it was someone's joke. Few days ago, this trailer was uploaded. Seems we're actually going to see this in cinemas. What do you think, which parts could be true? I really, really, really don't think Yugoslavia was "the third player", but I wouldn't be surprised if building rockets more advanced than sounding ones was attempted. Yugoslavia, as probably the most prosperous socialist nation, was spending a decent amount of money on absurdly large security systems, most of which aren't even known by most people who live in its ex-states. In any case, I'm looking forward to see this movie.

Heat. And I don't mean waste heat, I mean wasting precious heat that bleeds out when it shouldn't.

Unless you really know what's going on here, you shouldn't be saying something definitively occurs. This is not and can not be a chemical reaction. Sodium chloride will not react with water. Any notion that it decomposes into sodium is absurd. Also, even if it's extremely hot, it would push the hydrogen+oxygen<->water balance towards left, but that would not cause anything and it would be same as if you used just about anything inert and very hot. It's a physical reaction. Salt solidifies on the surface, then shatters. Water breaks in. Again, layer solidifies, shatters. It creates a lot of surface area and water flash boils. Because this is all in a large breakable tub of water, it's easy for the detonation to shatter it into pieces.

Present SOIs are minimal possible SOIs, the ones that would exist when the body is in periapsis. That means SOI can only grow.

My thoughts exactly. It annoys me even when SF is tainted with these things, let alone real life.

It could be amplified by RCS, but I still think there is a certain degree of internal vibrations of the station that get visibly magnified on small flappy objects.

No difference. Mechanical and structural engineering hundred years ago and today - same things. Same basic principles.

"I'm feeling lucky" does not take you to the search results list. Fail. P.S.: I hate MLG crap. It was funny for ten minutes, that's it.

This is a pretty mesmerizing video so I wanted to share it with you.

If you're gonna park in enormously high orbits where the variation applies and where seldom anyone ever parks anything, yes, an alarm would be a good thing. It could be used for spontaneous generation of missions. This suggestion is not about creating nondeterministic systems. I repeat - stuff is on rails and the effect appears far away from bodies' surfaces. Present day SOI radiuses are calculated for their periapses, so SOIs would only oscillate between present value and some larger one. Not fluctuate, but oscillate. Predictable, periodic function.