StrandedonEarth

Monkey Space Program. Measurement units are in bananas, smoots, and grey whales.

Our kid just bought a 2002 CRV (with our help) to get him around. I replaced the leaky oil pressure switch but it wouldn’t stop leaking. At first I didn't tighten it much, and when it kep leaking I tightened it more and more, until the leak got much worse. Uh-oh. I took it out and took a close look by lowering my phone down behind the engine while recording video. This is what I saw... . I dunno if the previous owner over tightened or if I did trying to get it to stop leaking. I'm going to try to JBWeld it to kingdom come tomorrow, after blasting it with brake cleaner...

Considering that the Inuit have a dozen or so base words for snow and ice, which can be affixed to form 50 or so, including general words that include snow... https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuktitut-words-for-snow-and-ice

Well, depends how many Superdracos, at what throttle setting. A low throttle for the majority of the burn, with a final full-blast kick at the end (when it's in the re-entry corridor) to break it up, since that is the general idea...

A trunkful of SuperDracos and hydrazine, I’d wager…

Yeah, bingo. Didn’t catch that thx

Gotta keep doing something new or even SSSH flights will be in danger of becoming routine. Amazing that they’ve already launched four times and the fifth won’t be too far in the future…

I like it. With non-essential systems shut down there would be plenty of power for ion drives. I wonder how much dV they could get by carefully venting life support gasses in the proper direction. Not much, I’m sure, but something. Or it could be used for RCS if there’s enough vents. E: And then I read Steve’s post, hmm. Bear in mind , I’m not thinking to raise ot to use it, just until the tech arrives that can recycle that mass on orbit. Or more likely it becomes a museum, since by the time we could recycle it we probably wouldn’t need to. Well, hello I enjoy the smell of rubber in my hair. How high does it need to be so that orbital decay becomes negligible? Hmm, and how much would it cost, with what return when? Yeah, probably a technically do-able but pointless exercise… EDIT 2: Omg, lol. I’m going to leave that non-sequitur in there, because that struck me as hilarious. I guess the last iPhone update included a “tap to insert dictation here” feature that I accidentally tapped while I talked to the cat who was sniffing my hair. I didn’t notice it until after I posted the edit

Yeah, well it seems on my end that them having to figure out the bad gateway that everyone (including myself) was getting, finally fixed the issue a few of us were having. Everything is working for me again (after refreshing the white screen for a few minutes, on PC too (all browsers), all subforums including KSP1 which never worked during those rare times S&SF were working. Did they finally reboot the server? Found an update to apply? I dunno, but the forums are finally fully operational for me. It's like the warp core is back online. Full ahead, Mr. Sulu, maximum warp! Give it a few days, and the dilithium crystals will burn out again...

Yeah, I’m sure it’s still a lot cheaper than any other bids they had. Still seems a bit high, but WDIK. I don’t even know how much props it would take to do a controlled, targeted reentry. One thing for sure, they better mount a few starlink transceivers and a zillion cameras on it for the grand finale… Meanwhile, another FH launch goes off and I barely noticed, if I hadn’t read this thread. Even that beast is getting routinely common

(Doc Brown voice) $843 million! The pork must flow…

Oh. My. Gawd! The bad gateway mayhem lately was reminding me of the issues some ppl have been having with the S&SF subforum. While it worked occasionally, I would still get the same issue with KSP1 Discussion even as S&SF was working, so I knew the problem wasn’t actually fixed. But now, after trying a few times to get to the forum main page and getting the white screen, and then the page finally loads, I find that all the subs are working, S&SF AND the KSP1 Discussion sub. Dare I hope that this old, intermittent problem that only affected some people has finally been fixed? I’m still on my phone and have yet to try a PC… @JoeSchmuckatelli, are things working on your end?

It’s the challenge of getting air (only 20% oxygen, remember) into the engine at hypersonic speeds, still flowing smoothly and without melting things. At least a rocket can get above the soup, to where things won’t melt from Mach heating.

They really need to move to more spacecraft-agnostic launch/landing suits, so in an emergency they can just grab their suit (if needed) and get in the nearest capsule. Because seriously, what if an emergency forces the ISS to be evacuated, and one capsule is not accessible or is damaged. Then what?

Somehow ironic that a professional lifeguard and surfer, who has appeared in "The Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, gets killed by a shark... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shark-attack-tamayo-perry-legendary-surfer-killed-oahu-hawaii/

Such a hit-and-miss question. Answer: "It depends." Smart answer: "Never leave your kid alone with any dog." Any dog can have an instinct triggered that makes them snap; it's just that pit bulls are so powerful they can do more damage quite quickly.

I lost our LEGOnaut and two other “volunteers” to a rocket-eating tree. Still haven’t found a proper-sized place to launch model rockets around here. Probably the best bet is to ask a farmer during fallow season…

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/donald-sutherland-veteran-actor-known-for-roles-in-m-a-s-h-klute-and-the-hunger-games-dead-at-88-1.6934568

It was my understanding that aerospace connectors were standardized after the Apollo 13 accident, where they had to use space tape to make CSM and LM life support components work together. Or that could have been wishful thinking in some fiction I read. But it would make sense to have umbilical connectors as standardized as possible in case of an emergency. It would be awfully shortsighted to have someone die of hypoxia because the only available oxygen hose wouldn’t connect to their suit because of mismatched connectors…

Similarly, once we had photographic film that also happened to be sensitive to x-rays, the discovery of the radioactive rabbit hole was inevitable

The problem is the imprecision of the wording. If they said “full mission duration “ or “full planned test duration”, it would save these arguments.

Agrivoltaics is where it’s at. Many crops benefit from partial shade, and evaporation from the soil is reduced.

Videos that end too soon. Need extended clips from both angles!

And in training (which was conducted in enormous neutral buoyancy tanks to simulate spacewalking) they discovered which parts of the procedures and tools needed to be changed. Especially in the early days. The most common request from early spacewalkers was "More hand and footholds!"

That was …. Crazy! Was watching the labpadre stream while working. Favourite quote from the chat stream: “Hear me baby? Hold together!”