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I guess only because it's too obvious... Would like to add palm oil, our main export. EDIT : I very clearly had it listed earliest though (Coal). It is only in the US though. Here it's a different dark story still. Probably a lot more other places with similar if not worse dark story. Depending on who you're doing it to and who's seeing it I suppose.

looks at stock speculation and cryptocurrency, completely the offspring of the "financial" sector There's still Phillip Morris and then there's whoever is making plastic. (the latter is apparently strong enough they've actually made you unable to watch it as is.) You mean... it wasn't the oompa-loompas ? (or was that actually a clever commentary on the real situation...)

You need hydrogen and oxygen. Water is dihydrogen monoxide - two hydrogens, one oxygen. Read again. Emphasis mine but is otherwise completely your own writing in your own post.

Excerpt of the first paragraph of Wikipedia's page about ISRU : Taking water from asteroids is ISRU.

You know that we only refuel nuclear reactors after years and years in use already, right ? Meanwhile we spent a stage full of chemical propellants just a few minutes after leaving the ground (sometimes enough to make sure they can land back and be reused but after that that's about it). Try to read again what exactly I was asking.

Nah I was trying to tie @SpaceFace545's suggestion. There's not a point in landing such a massive stage passively when the tech to land them propulsively autonomously is here.

And the maintenance, 30 years from now and in the intervening years ? COTS isn't about "oh it's available". COTS means "alright everyone else is using this widespread for other stuff too, we'll just use it for ours". Which wouldn't be strong enough to lift Neutron because no helos that fits the bill would even be remotely COTS IMO. Maybe a nation that wants to awe the world would, but not private companies that works based on their financial position (and honestly I'm not seeing Peter Beck throwing out 'side' incomes to Rocket Lab, they really are taking people's money and trying to turn a profit on it).

If you need something to make you feel guilty today :

Where do you get the oxygen again ? Also, if you still have the LH2 to burn with LOX, why not just feed it into the NTR ?

Given that they otherwise really put in Commercial-Off-The-Shelf into play (like actually using gaming headsets and putting in GoPros) I think having to build a specialized helicopter just for recovery would be too far a step for them.

We hit them back hard when they tried to scare us though. (granted by confusing them through dividing ourselves into two, but still.) Still think that it's not really their way to raise up publicity of the strongest person ever to live. Have always thought that for a leader if you're never noticed by anyone but you notice everyone then you're doing it right, and I thought that's what they held as well (until they enclosed themselves and the west came up with more advanced technologies... but seriously I think they're now the ones at the tip of things again).

Yeah I get it. Putting in actual safeguarding that might fail is not the same as not even trying at all in the first place. Tumbling is definitely sign that it wasn't even designed into the stage itself for it to be able to do anything after engine shutoff. I was referring to if it's possible to design a last-effort option that means however large your stage is it'll never end up with some roofs pierced with a pipe or a surprise tank in your lawn. Yeah, honestly one thing that I was concerned when following the events was the amount of reference to a certain 'media network' with certain naming and certain meanings. (not the place to discuss them here really.) There were videos claimed from Latin America but since that was then somehow re-posted as claiming from Europe it's definitely not it. You should see Roscosmos' prediction as well as the prediction made by the last TLE from 18-SPCS/CSpOC (which is later than their last public prediction). Honestly I'm wondering about the SBIRS that the major space nations have when they called it actually re-entering, wouldn't surprise me if all three have it. I'm kinda wondering actually about this attitude... AFAIK for the most part of our interaction (and by that I mean like, from the silk road age) they're not really interested too much in showing that they're ahead by a lot and the last properly nationalistic stuff ended when the 'founder of the party' died. If this attitude were to change it is kinda concerning since we have a lot of relations regardless of the actual political situation.

Nah. It was practically the whole neighborhood (Rukun Tetangga/RT). It wasn't something one person (or the head of the unit) came up in an impulse, it was well talked for a long time before, then people start putting in their ideas and contribution. Making sure there are spaces for people's cars and vehicles etc. as well. When the work was carried out it was done in under a week. Same thing with when we repaired the whole front access road, four of the Rukun Warga/RW simply pooled money and did it. The local subdistrict (kelurahan) had some share I think, as well as two of the politicians in the neighborhood. The other option is having your house flooded and the road flooded and you can't go anywhere much, at least once a year. Everyone has had to raise their own house in the intervening time.

You see?! It works! CTBTO infrasound sensors already routinely detects meteor re-entry and impacts. Basically the stage was a man-made one here. To be fair I guess that comparing between uncontrolled re-entry and leaving your stage around forever and opening up chances to have close encounters with other 'dead' bodies is ever so sliightly better - but it's not significantly better. Even controlled re-entry procedures using the stage's own engines can fail, and at that point you're left to rely on the nature to provide you the brakes you need. Maybe we need something like range safety that'd explode when re-entry is passively detected, to minimize the reach of debris onto the ground... Would they be continuously operated ? Does it have any effect on sensors on-board ? It is interesting development however for LEO stations, not really useful elsewhere (yet)...

They're really only used (relatively, compared to all the rockets they launch) sparingly though in that configuration. Initially they wanted more configurations of the LM-5 design so it would cover a lot more payload cases but apart from the 4-boostered design it has been relieved to rockets with smaller cores. Apart from the three planned, in absence of launch failures of the planned missions I don't see the manifest growing. (there really isn't a lot of reason to put a 25 tonnes object in LEO apart from stations...) Chances that they'd correct the design and add a controlled re-entry method (like some retrorockets) isn't high. Looks at South China Sea and SE Asia Anyway, some clues on how they might been re-entered precisely, infrasound data from CTBTO sensor : Honestly the debris might not even reach close to the Maldives as I'll say that if you can start to detect soundwaves then it must've hit parts of the atmosphere that are dense enough to transmit it to the surface. (Also CTBTO sensors are all over the world so if they had made anything else it's most likely going to be noted as well.) Some speculations : And this is that video from Oman everyone is talking about. (deffo not from this account, but it has made it there - they're a group of astronomers mostly known for their work on new moon visibility - so I think it's OK to post.)

I honestly never get this part. You don't pay for your roads upfront anyway, instead opting for long-term payments basically, and it's not like people don't need roads so they could go without one. Same should go to electricity, phone lines, internet cables perhaps in the future... That being said when we redo the road in front of our house to raise it we did it through the whole length of the neighborhood (~40 houses for 175 m of road), everyone paying equal shares. Doesn't end up costing a lot, we get it raised and it's holding well for the past 10 years.

Given OP OK-ed my dV calculation I suppose this is the idea.

Hey, you don't get light shows for free elsewhere... XD Speaking for calling things out and getting it right, I guess this guy got it. If any of you is interested in finding trails or similar from various imagery services...

Just for recap : China officially placed the re-entry/landing point before Maldives. 18-SPCS/CSpOC putting their re-entry position at Arabian Peninsula (+- 15 mins) : Plot of the 18-SPCS/CSpOC prediction and the Chinese location report : EUSST keeping their predicted mid-window but with the uncertainty +- 25 minutes (so very easily over Arabian Sea and Maldives as well) :

Will have to wait from the guys with radars and automated tracking telescopes I guess... Retweeted by Space-Track.org's twitter account : EDIT : Only fair to include the ones who launched the thing, even if it's pretty close to the end.

EDIT : There are a lot of passes, but honestly the parts of the world it's passing over isn't on the best position I suppose.

18-SPCS/CSpOC last update : Mid-window location is roughly in the Greek Islands (north of Kriti Island). Arabian Peninsula or Indian Ocean then, comparing all the mid-windows. EDIT : Graphics up. So, comparing all the last predictions : SatFlare : 18-SPCS/CSpOC : Roscosmos : EUSST : Aerospace Corp : EDIT 2 : Perigee and apogee data from 18-SPCS/CSpOC, and the re-entry windows : EDIT 3 : Even if you aren't in the right spot... It has passed as close as it can get to where I live. The clouds and the houses didn't help, probably a bit too far as well. Fingers crossed, go get some jackpot Given they're planning for 2 more station modules and 1 orbiting telescope that'll use the rocket configuration then we have 3 more times for chances to get the jackpot !

Aerospace Corp. predictions shifting earlier : Seems like Australia is in... Orbit dropping fast (18-SPCS/CSpOC data) : Spotted yesterday (Friday) over Missouri : EDIT : SatFlare's latest prediction (screenshot as they don't update the image link) : A hair earlier than 18-SPCS/CSpOC... might be in the Indian Ocean or Europe or Arabian Peninsula still... EDIT 2 : Still last update from 18-SPCS/CSpOC expected : EDIT 3 : Unexpected update from Roscosmos, locking it in the Central America - West Indies - Atlantic Ocean - Iberia - Arabia - Indian Ocean - Australia segment (times in MSK, UTC +3) :

Looks over Korean and Japanese FPS pro players which have non-human avatars 1. It had happened in the past and 2. It's not too long before it gets ingrained. Mind you that OP's question was related to "could something unethical happen" and the answer is yes, both in history and in the future...

So you're saying that you can accelerate at 5 gees for 48 hrs straight ? That's just plain old dV then... So 49.033 m/s2 multiplied by 172,800 seconds : 8,472,945.6 m/s dV budget, or 0.02826 c (2.826% of the speed of light).