StrandedonEarth

An actual date?

Nice, I assume it means you and your team conducted yourselves well. Similarly: My kid’s hockey team won an achievement award, I think it was for not taking a ton of penalties over the season as well as not having to kick any badly behaving parents out of the stands. One other team even got kicked out of an out-of-town tournament because the parents were drunk and disorderly at at least one game!

Congrats! Uh, what was the impact award for? Hardest hitting?

Vancouver DJ who interviewed Beatles and other rock 'n' roll giants dead at 86 Red Robinson began career in 1954, credited as 1st DJ to play rock 'n' roll on regular basis in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/red-robinson-vancouver-dj-obituary-1.6798921

All hail Shai-Hulud!

Voldemort it is then!

Oh wow, could it be finally time to light this candle? Time to make some more history, one way or another? This will be epic! *looks at the time stamp* Late March 31st, huh? Better not be an April Fool's joke...

A turtular eclipse?

This is not good, but casualties were expected in this unforgiving business. This is just Orbit, right? The SpaceShip 2/3 program is still unaffected? I'd wager that one had to die so the other could live...

Greyhound withTom Hanks was also an excellent watch on Apple TV

It is a pretty sweet pic. It's also quite the wedge of a vertical stabilizer.

Love the Airplane! poster jet, lol. Anyone who says they haven't seen it, surely you can't be serious!

Not dinner, but we decided to get rid of a Costco bag of almonds that been languishing in the cupboard by making almond milk. A LOT of almond milk. It was a Costco bag, after all... E: like over 5 liters of the stuff. I'd make yogurt with it, but as far as Google can tell me, I need a non-dairy starter culture...

*Vogon poetry not included

The amusing thing with the influx of new forum users is getting the occasional “like” for ancient posts, like the one I received for a six-year-old post today…

New launch time of 2305 EDT < 30 minutes away

That’s how you make it snow on Duna Mars

First I’ve heard of it. All of these propellant-less drives rely on theoretical physics neither proven nor disproven. The fact that this system has gotten to the point of in-space testing is promising. It’ll be revolutionary if it works, but I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t work at all. Or if it does work, gets quietly buried in a top secret govt vault…

Front-wheel drive, and front wheel making the noise, I assume? It could also be the CV joint on that side

As the prophet had spoken !

Thrust is generated by throwing reaction mass (which could be anything) out the back. Propellers are immersed in an ocean of reaction mass (water or air). Jet engines suck in a huge amount of air for reaction mass, then burn a little fuel in it to heat it up, which makes it expand and go shooting out the back. Rockets need to carry their own reaction mass, and then throw it out the back. The faster it’s thrown, the more efficient it is. It can be thrown by thermal expansion either by running it through something really hot (NTR) or by using a fuel and an oxidizer as reaction mass and burning them together. Some compounds decompose exothermally, sometimes needing a catalyst. Or it can be thrown electrically in an ion engine or rail gun. Or just use pressurized gas, just like an untied balloon. Bit if you’re carrying liquid air around, it’s not getting the benefits of being an airbreather anymore Fun fact: Car engines run on air. The more air you can pack in, the more fuel you can add to generate power, hence the addition of turbo/superchargers. It’s the expansion of the air/exhaust products that pushes the piston down

If a suitable crater could be found that would contain the ejects, that would be great! Perhaps an oblique impact at the base of a crater wall… Or aim for one of those holes into a lava tube…

It comes from fauxnews and we’re supposed to believe it?

Let’s assume both SS and SH are sitting on their mounts beside the OLM. All three are ready for launch with no major testing left to be done. After the FAA issues a launch license, how soon can they get everything stacked, verified, and launched?