lrd.Helmet

I'm excited for not having to mod in clouds, visuals, sounds, engine effects.

Whether it's easier or not doesn't mean the science is bad. Saying the science of interstellar is bad is just wrong, of course in a movie some things get stretched or a bit illogical for sake of telling a story. And you can dislike the story all you want, but the science isn't bad. It has the most accurate rendering of a black hole for crying out loud. There have been done scientific studies using it's simulation. Just because some of you don't like the story, the soundtrack of just want to be contrarian, doesn't mean the science is wrong.

Pluto ain't a planet

I would assume that you yourself are also reflecting the ping from the remote emitter. So you'd be painting yourself as well. pov of "attacking" sub: 1st ping: active emitter 2nd ping: reflection of defending sub 1st ping gives direction of emitter, 2nd ping gives direction of defending sub. I would think that people smarter than me can do some magical math and calculate the location of both objects.

probably not. I don't think your gpu can handle it. 400 series aren't even supported by Nvidia anymore.

That doesn't seem like such a great idea.

A2: Without WW2 there would probably be no European Union, so I'd think there would be less cooperation. However war costs a lot of money and lives, so you would have more to spend on research and development and you'd probably haven't killed off a large group of smart people. I wouldn't know which of these would have more of an impact on progress. However because no ww2 there is no east vs west Europe so probably no need to have the space race, so probably no people on the moon. Satelites and stuff would be developed eventually because there is a specific use for them. I'm not a historian or anything so take my analysis with a grain of salt.

Yes it is. Many years ago I read a Dutch science magazine with a picture of a ballistic missile reentry test. I'll send them a message to see if they still have the article somewhere. If I remember correctly it was 6 or 7 parallel lines coming through the clouds and smacking the ground somewhere. edit: Found it!

According to http://allaboutalgae.com/faq/ Some species of micro-algae can double in size in 24hrs. So I would assume you'd need 1kg of the stuff.

these pictures made me wonder. You can see all those filaments and "clouds" and stuff, but that's just because it's so far away. If you were to be in one you couldn't actually see it right? Is it possible that we ourselves are in something that looks amazing from a distance or are we in just a very ordinary arm of the milky way where nothing really happens?

I might just be stupid, but if you never intend to go to low LEO and thus never exceed the 14t limit then the 30t capability doesn't matter. Apparently the heaviest payload was the Chandra x-ray observatory, at around 22,7t. During STS-93. So I stand corrected.

Yeah, but If you build something with enough dV to get 15t to a 400km orbit, because for whatever reason that's what you need it for. Then you get 30t to 200km. For example, falcon 9 was designed to bring x amount of cargo to LEO, thanks to the design of the rocket the first stage has enough dV to be an SSTO (a useless one, but still). It wasn't designed to be one and it wasn't a design requirement, but it was a consequence of other design decisions. It would be interesting to know what the original performance specification was for the shuttle.

For a trip to the ISS it could bring around 15 t. So I guess they had the capability to bring more to LEO, but they never intended to use it for that.

I think your biggest hurdle would be escaping earths atmosphere. Nowadays we use brute force to get up there and non combusting rocket engines don't provide enough power. Maybe a rail gun to accelerate you spaceship and yeet it into orbit?

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