StrandedonEarth

Yup, 99% of the calls that came in on our landline were spam, so we finally killed it. Yes, 99%, that's not an exaggeration. Ok, maybe more like 95%

*beach ornament

Here's a link to the blog, for those who shun xitter (I deleted my account, I'm not supporting that crud in any way, shape or form. It's frustrating enough that that's where SpX updates appear) Reverse-engineering an electromechanical Central Air Data Computer (righto.com)

Mars atmosphere is 95% CO2 and 3% N2: very little available nitrogen.

And Venera…

They must be confident that the permit is coming Soontm

Especially since inclination changes are fairly cheap at apogee, although argument of perigee would be similar…

Wow, I had no idea the video for that song was melded with Happy Days. A little digging to find out it was included on the Win95 CD-ROM!?! I had no idea this song was that old, but I didn't listen to much (modern) radio back then. Thanks for the enlightenment!

Don't want to make it too easy for them now... I wonder how the re-entry will work, if it can handle a direct re-entry or if they'll aerobrake the apogee down to a more reasonable level with multiple passes...

I see what you did there... It makes sense, since a comet is merely an asteroid still loaded with volatiles that get baked out into a fuzzy tail when it is close enough to the Sun. It also helps being in a highly elliptical orbit that keeps it frozen most of the time. But of course you know all that.

Well, there’s a high probability of both environmental poisoning (lead/mercury being the obvious ones, but there can be more subtle ones) and nutritional deficiencies, especially micronutrients leading to reduced “smarts.” I’m currently reading “Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill” by Dr Udo, which focuses on the lack of essential fatty acids in modern industrial diets, and how the trend of frying foods in oils generates unhealthy-to-the point-of-toxic trans fats. Modern cooking oils are highly processed to give them a near infinite shelf life, which strips them of healthy oils, especially EFAs which are degraded/spoiled by heat, air, and light. So yeah, they strip out all the healthy stuff and sell it back to us as supplements. Capitalism gone wild, as usual.

Hoooo-wie! Tonight’s chili had enough beans to fuel a Starship!

Well, that didn’t last long. It was occasionally working for me up until last night, but nothing but white screen this morning…

I'm going to guess by the deafening silence that the answer is no...

It took me a bit to figure it out, but, using the imgur app on iPhone, I tap the pic so it just shows the pic and a few icons underneath, tap the right pointing arrow at bottom right, then scroll down to copy link. Then over to the forum and paste. It works for me, just did it earlier today in the RIP thread…

Weird. It still works on movie for me, just one minute ago

RIP https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7103456

Really weird. At least on PC the Edge browser has never let me down once , but other browsers are also 500

Hmm, I’m getting that too, but it works 3/4 of the time , occasional white screen…

Built in the 2020's using 1980s (70s, really) technology? Um yeah, outdated. Not including Orion, I suppose the tankage alloy is newer, and the engine controllers, but that's it.

*jaw drop * Holey Kraken, S&Sf is working for me again on mobile! It wasn’t yesterday… How about you, @JoeSchmuckatelli, is the kraken smiling on you today? I wonder how long it will last this time… E: Whatever the issue is, it’s not completely fixed, because KSP1 Discussion still gives me a white screen on mobile…

And to get back in he had to jump with RCS blasting, RCS was too weak otherwise…. So, MMUs for emergency ingress?

Well, the internet back then was not capable of streaming much. I think debut launches of a new vehicle would get a sound bite on the news, as well as any major deep-space missions. But regular rockets were definitely overshadowed by the Space Shuttle, and even that was soon reduced to sound bites when it launched and landed, if that. The first D4H launched in 2004, the second in 2007. I wasn't watching much TV in '04 (partially successful), and I don't recall much more than a sound bite in 2007. But most of my space news back then came from Space.com and its forum, and it was scorching on those launches. I do recall, back before the Space.com forums were closed, that the resident Shuttle program engineer there (Shuttle_guy) had his mind blown when one of the first F9 launches (2010) was recycled and launched ~90 minutes later (IIRC, may have been a few hours) after a hot abort (sensor reading outside conservative parameters; adjusted parameters and launched). A hot abort on a Shuttle launch would have been at least a 24hr recycle. But I digress....

My son showed me this, so now I have Star Wars music stuck in my head...

Well, when they’re flying 100 times a year on boosters that have seen 10+ launches regularly, it does become pretty routine. Wake me when Starship is on its final countdown…