StrandedonEarth

Thinking that I might as well go for a break got this classic stuck in my head…

A legend from the glory days when men smoked cigarettes on the bench between shifts and helmets were frowned upon…

That's a bold claim; I hear the Wifi on Betelgeuse Prime is pretty smokin'...

The biggest hurdle is the energy required. When energy finally becomes too cheap to meter, then it will make sense. Until then, it costs to much compared to newly extracted resources. Or until there are no untouched resources left to extract…

Negative attention is better than no attention. Every five-year-old knows this…

Yes, I have a Polish friend whose name starts with a W, but it’s also pronounced as a V

I would think it's a very bad idea unless they know exatly the conditions. Last time I tried aerobraking at Jool, there was a very narrow band of 10km between not getting captured and melting. But F9 is not an option IRL. That's something else that needs to be modded into the Matrix...

How long until you roll snakeyes? Hmm, good question. That’s why we’re all…

Took me a minute to figure out which Clark you were referring to, but then the right neurons connected and I got AB flashbacks….

Red 5 standing by…. @Ultimate Steve?

Yeah, someone needs to mod the Matrix to include a “Warp to…” button…

Jerry Doucette, a rock'n'roller from Delta, BC, passed away April 18 from cancer at age 70.

May he rock'n'roll in peace...

By getting the giggles out of our systems now, of course… Sigh…

Discovered the roof of our little travel trailer was toast, and after a large repair estimate, made a difficult decision to sell it for parts. I was tired of that money pit anyways, the hardest part was convincing the wife.

[sarcasm detector overridden] Lots. That’s why I said it would be controversial. I’m surprised a Bond supervillain hasn’t tried it yet…

Once the infrastructure is set up, magnetic launchers will be dirt cheap, and why brake into LEO? Direct entry will be cheaper. Now for the controversial part: simply slam the slugs of metal into the deserts and pick up the pieces. The dust clouds raised will counter the greenhouse effect that causes global warming. But it also turns until a cheap, non-nuclear weapon of mass destruction, fired from some very high ground (although even higher ground is available outside Earth’s SOI…)

Well, an elephant would just push the tree down. Although I admit trimming the branches / roots and construction would be another matter.

Yeah, I saw the edits. It claimed to be a continuous drone flight, but it never claimed one take or no edits. Going through the presses? I got some SW:AotC vibes there, but I don’t think it was CGI, Obviously management knew it was flying though and may have slowed down or paused some ops briefly, as well as telling staff to ignore the drone flying through. Definitely some cool flying there.

The science of modern vehicle manufacture (had to phrase it to fit this thread somehow....)

Accelerating SMART was also mentioned by Mr. Bruno somewhere in response to the Kuiper contract, along with the second production line. Again, I can't seem to find it, and I'm pretty sure they were both mentioned in the same article or tweet. Tory tweets so much (a good thing!) it's like finding a golden needle in a haystack...

I read somewhere (but can't find it now) that ULA will be adding another Vulcan production line with the Amazon order. AJR will also be expanding their factory to meet demand (not specifically another line, but probably). Some details, but not the second production line I was searching for... (probably posted elsewhere in this forum) https://spacenews.com/amazon-launch-contracts-drive-changes-to-launch-vehicle-production/ And why does it cost so much? This video may be old, but it shows how much highly-skilled labor is, or was, involved... All those tubes were painstaking hand-brazed. Hopefully between advanced robotics and additive manufacturing a lot of those high-priced man-hours can be eliminated...

Looks like that landing is a bit of a leaner... It's awesome that these landings are now routine and mundane...

IIRC the plan for modern RTGs is to use Stirling cycle engines, which I’m unsure about because it involves moving parts which I just don’t see lasting forever. But IRPV may help the efficiency of conventional RTGS, and I don’t think they need to be white hot…

"Hey wolves, here I am!" Aside from that, maybe luminescent antlers? But that assumes they have antlers... You can get little ultrasonic whistles that attch to the bumpers that are supposed to warn wildlife, but I don't know how effective they are...