StrandedonEarth

Nah, I’m just keeping to my usual routine: once it starts to get annoying I mow it back down to about 1/4 inch. Usually when the ‘stache hits soup-strainer status, which takes about a month.

Glad to hear it! My brother’s cat twice went missing for a week. Once she was in a neighbour’s shed, the other time in the seldom-opened garage next door. That guy did not want to open his garage, thinking we made it up to have a look inside. Both times I heard her meowing away while walking the dog down the alley. I realize you don’t have many neighbours, but.... Cats and curiosity... I think there could be a meme there, an image of a cat that got run over by the Curiosity rover...

Yeehaw!

It might be easiest to move an asteroid into the L1 point and spin it into a sunshade.

Looks like Elon has been Ambien-tweeting again...

The situation in BC and some other places...

This was a tough but fun puzzle to do. Stick that on a cube and solve it! And there I go again...

I didn’t think immersing in dampened g-forces, merely increased how well the body tolerated gees. But you have to be breathing liquid as well, or the lungs would get crushed. And then there’s the weight penalty....

I wonder just how big of a cold-roll press they plan on building...

I'm surprised this example of "speaking moistly" hasn't surfaced yet. This is the sort of thing that masks would prevent....

They say that COVID is a killer Party over Oops, out of time. So tonight I'm gonna party Like it's COVID-99

I'm intrigued. Hopefully it will intrigue my wife.

And as they're learning here, don't work in multiple nursing homes.

Elon tweeted a while back that they can emergency-start a raptor in less than half a second, IIRC. I want to say the quoted time was under a tenth, but I’m probably wrong

Oh dear Kod please MAKE IT STOP!!!!

What, me worry? F

BC appears to be doing okay. The number of new confirmed cases per day is roughly flat, but that means nothin here with the limited testing going on. More telling is that hospitalizations and ICU numbers are also flat or falling slightly, apparently as people die (also roughly flat) but the beds are not refilled by new critical cases. So things are looking up! It’s getting worse at a slower rate.

Woke up with this is in my head...

Wait..... you want to use the power of the expanding He to add pressure to the props.... There is only so much power available in the pressurized He, no matter which way you use it, and running it through a turbopump will lose some to friction etc. Sounds similar to a perpetual motion machine, trying to get free power.... I don't think thermodynamics will allow you to get any gain out of this. But the only ways to be sure is to either crunch numbers or build test hardware. OTOH, the whole point of pressure-fed is to KISS. Are there even any RP-1 pressure-fed engines? Modern pressure-feds are usually hypergolic, AFAIK...

Make a gamma-ray laser?

Freshly created for a Gameplay Question thread...

Yeah, well....

Florida Men arrested after partying on beach in defiance of physical distancing order...

A few days ago, I was putting on a pair of safety glasses and managed to jab myself just below my eye (not the one that had cataract surgery 6 weeks ago) with the tip of an arm. The lower lid is no puffy and still hurts a little. Oh, the irony!

Of course there's no apparent business case, at this point in time.. There's nothing there worth the expense of getting it back up the hill to orbit, never mind all the way to Terra Firma. But having read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, I believe the chief export from Mars will be intellectual property, in the form of tech development. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all, and the challenges of surviving on Mars will inspire solutions that we can't even imagine on Earth, and we can't trial-and-error any solutions unless we're there. Granted, solutions there may not apply on Earth or anywhere else in the Solar System, but some might. Beyond that, I'm sure artists would be inspired in new directions, with some very still lack-of-life landscape paintings. Perhaps the next musical sensation will be a 'lith'n'roll supergroup extolling the harsh beauty of the barren landscape