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Shoulda made that left turn at Albuquerque. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (Riddle thread)
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That sounds about right for Sunnyvale, but actually, it wasn't a documentary. It was a satire called "Housos". Pretty funny but raunchy. Certainly NSFW/NSFK
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This one (or one similar) graced my desktop for a few years.
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Info about the ULA new Vulcan stage
StrandedonEarth replied to magnemoe's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Part of the plan is to capture heat to pressurize the tanks. I don't think a turbopump would like the kind of back pressure a decent heat exchanger would give. -
So are any of you blokes from down near Sunnyvale? I've been watching a "documentary" on that place on Netflix....
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A new rule must be posted every day, if not every hour
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I would too...
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House numbers, of course! Only $1? Must be the cheap stick-on ones
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This is a tough one. I like the Saturn V for the sheer power and its historic missions. But I also like the Space Shuttle for the (just over half of the) sheer power and unmatched capabilities.
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Update: I decided to let them live. After shamelessly abusing quickload, I found that the GM was too heavy to aerocapture into orbit. So I decoupled the test probe and burned into orbit, then landed the test probe on Eve. It took one pass to capture and another to land, at which point I discovered that I had also forgot the antenna! No science for me!
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23: Treating MechJeb autopilot users as second-class citizens
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Hmmm, this thread was abandoned, but I think I got it. Aside from the number 1 being spelled out, I think the answer is digits!
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(Google Picture War)
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Need for Seed: A farmer wants to stop growing GM crops and goes looking for other sources of seed. Fat Times at Ridgemont High: Mr. Hand finally allows Jeff Spicoli to order all the pizza he wants into class, as long as he shares with everyone. The entire class becomes too fat to go lusting after each other.
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I've come to think that Gilly is cursed. I recently launched the Eve Science Juggernaut which is a triple-core lab using StationScience parts. It's contractual objectives included completing many station contracts along the way, includig Gilly and Eve, and culminating in running the Creature Comforts experiment in Eve orbit. The launch, amazingly enough, went flawlessly. During checkout in LKO, I realized that I had forgotten the CC experiment. No problem, I was going to follow it with a Gilly Miner anyways, so I stuck the CC can on the GM and launched it as well, as soon as the engineer got back from the Mun. Lempond would use KAS to attach the CC can to the ESJ once they met up in Gilly orbit. Both vessels made their way to Gilly by way of Eve orbit, with the ESJ making it into Gilly orbit with about 50m/s to spare. Otherwise the trip was uneventful. At this point I had some maneuvers to execute with my Jool Probe Package, so I left the guys admiring their close-up views of Gilly while I took care of some Joolian activities. When I came back, Lempond Kerman and his Gilly Miner were gone! The astronaut Complex listed him as KIA! I can only assume he didn't notice that his orbit was a little too low, and he orbited into a mountain. RIP Lempond . And he hadn't even rendezvoused with the ESJ yet! So I launched the GM II, based on the original GM. The CC can was still there, but I tacked on a probe to test the inflatable heat shield on Eve's surface, to help pay for this follow-up mission. Now, after following a high-energy trajectory to Eve, the GM II has just entered Eve's SOI, and I just noticed that during the modifications to attach the probe, somehow the mining drills were removed! *facepalm* I'm tempted to let those dumbS engineers, Jercal and Derzer, sample Eve's upper atmosphere. Without helmets. At 3km/s...