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AOSP is Linux. Google Mobile Services isn't. There are devices that had to be released without the latter. Probably the closest position is macOS, which is made on top of XNU, and they actually have an open-source version of it. But the "definitely from Apple" portions aren't open-source or in-keeping with the open-source part.

Wait... I thought it was straight to Apollo 8 style mission ?

Well given that we're comparing what used to be a bunch of mostly engineers/technical person and a 46 years old large company with PR at front then yes it's pretty obvious. Like, how many devices comes with Windows pre-installed and how much is with Linux pre-installed ? etc etc. That being said there's definitely some ways for it to turn. There's Canonical (strictly software) and System76 (both software and hardware). With the whole right-to-repair stuff being increasingly made well-known, there's a chance that at least the latter would get some wind (an interesting in-depth interview, if you want to know how a personal computer hardware producing company works).

Linux is at the very least much lighter just humming in the background. If I close all apps and stuff I use on Windows I get like 4 GB of RAM use/pre-allocation, whereas on Linux (Kubuntu at that, a fairly well-adorned distro) that's the RAM usage I get on idle running a Win10 VM for office (winapps), without that it's only 2 - 3 GB. These are out of 8 GB of RAM total. If you have an older/less-capable hardware, and don't want to throw them away just yet, then Linux is a choice one can take, there are much lighter distros out there (I've tried LXQt and put it on an old laptop that only had 2 GB of RAM and somehow have Win8 64-bit on it; there's LXDE - basically the older LXQt, also Xubuntu and Debian w/ XFCE if you want even more stability). That being said OSes doesn't really help for the simple fact that the Web these days are. very. very. heavy. and we do everything on it.

Nah the military is way much more direct. If you weren't you wouldn't really win as much really (and if you wonder why certain parts of the world kept losing until they adopted western standards). I mean, the toilet could be empty when they wanted to go in...

Well, you're an outcast now... XD Anyway, yeah. Just saying since while I'm not from such a society, at least part of the society that I live in does that - except if they really find it so disagreeable they'd bite you from the back instead. It still doesn't mean that mean, 'insensitive' (as in doesn't even care even if they actually know it) people doesn't exist - they just blend in in a very different way than you think.

Say you wanted to enter a toilet in a public area. The toilet has a sign that shows it's the opposite gender's toilet. People look at you, they can start to feel that something's wrong with your action, you immediately read it and hesitated and then came back out again. Much like that, but imagine it to every single instance in your life.

If anything, if you have a society that can read each other's mind and it not turn into a complete quagmire in mere seconds people would tend to 'fall in line' more often. That is until they're tired of it. Social media is basically human invention that equals "telepathy". You can turn all your emotions into it but no one can't see what the heck actually went about.

Have you not seen some cultures around where they only use the slightest hints of being offended ? (correspondingly they can suddenly 'explode' as well)

"What if I can make it so that I wouldn't offend anyone ?" XD But yeah. Will say that there's a good reason we use non-human parties in our stories... even if they end up representing a human trait.

If you were to say so I'd say that given the fact that culture and language barriers are real on Earth, any kind of aliens aren't necessary in any story... You just haven't seen or heard enough of the world yet.

I think that nearly all human interplanetary mission (including the Moon and the asteroids here as well) isn't that economical if we're excluding surface extraction. If surface extraction are possible (or at least pursued), then this means a self-sustaining outpost where time is the only extra resource needed to keep beyond what was initially sunk in really. I know that's only break-even - only in the best scenario that (given that we mostly won't be able to get all the resources like we do on Earth) - but given the large effort needed that's a business case of it's own if there's enough interest. While F9 and FH, along with Dragon, was merely a "solving business case" situation and is a very good stepping stone, SS and SH, if it works beyond what HLS wants, is a business scope expansion endeavor. Benefits of it's gigantic nature in other operating areas (LEO-MEO-HEO, Moon) is only second to what they're pursuing. I guess the next question after HLS and Artemis (with the support of SS and SH) is whether we're greenlighting surface extraction on the Moon or other bodies, and how we will achieve that. Without it we're just getting ISS but at further distances away.

idk though, I prefer CAD to a pencil and straightedge any day. EDIT : Also, maybe a musician can help you a bit...

Yeah, it depends on who wants to be put on top of a giant roman candle really. But given the extra complexity I imagine similar timescales just with more achievements along the way. Anyway, not precisely the Starship-Superheavy thread (even though they're going to be used as HLS they're not going to be used as crew launchers in this particular contract).

Didn't expect community to be above technical support and mods here... Has the forum grown large enough to be a thing of it's own ?

I've only ever seen Kobelco, Sumitomo, Zoomlion, and Kato (not yet on the list). One of the trucks I have seen had a Tadano crane attached to it. Beyond this I've seen Sany drilling rig, it works OK I guess as the rebar cage fits inside well. No particular preference, as long as it works... or probably since I haven't seen one in use long enough. I actually wonder about stuff like tower cranes though, and also the more fixed ones like in ports or industry etc. The more interesting part IMO is the fact that large cranes usually utilize smaller cranes in assembling them...

I think you can start making a thread in Science and Spaceflight. We have engineers and scientist from various fields here...

Well, it took 10 years after the first orbital launch to man-rate F9+Dragon. Don't think it'd take any shorter on SS+SH.

Calibration maybe ?

Well, they need a replacement for ISS, that's the problem. I think the rest isn't ready to do much on the surface yet (and to be completely honest I don't see surface ops as being that interesting, unless we're ready to clear out surface extraction or something). ISS itself is going to be an interesting lookout for how lunar commercialization would be like though... in any case I do expect some form of First Space Lord Musk.

Still think that to support surface ops you need one lander like they proposed. Swap the pressurized module for a platform, you can tie whatever on it and deliver it to the surface and back. Well everyone else is now the one having it on them. Now that he has proven to be able to do what everyone was able to do in the past, while the rest is having more and more problems to justify their pace, makes the rest is the one that's running on Elon Time...

The refuelers could be barely more than the current belly-flop-test flight articles, honestly, with maybe a lot more propellant load. Dispose of it after you're done. Would probably require much more man-rated developments I think... But that could be the case if Gateway is delayed or something. EOR ops is deffo possible with Starship. Problem is that NRHO is still going to be utilized at some point to make sure the other nations can join in the game too.

The Dutch plan for world domination.

Price is determined by how much money went into procuring/producing and distributing said product. A while ago gas price on different islands in this country varies by like 10% on a 'further' island. So it really depends on your scenario. Say that fuel is automagically transported everywhere. Then you don't include transportation price in your system at all, it only goes to maintaining the facility itself, as well as the fuel production itself (both consumables and non-consumables). Say if fuel has to be transported with a cost. Then most likely the further out you are from their source the more expensive they are. But it doesn't stop only with distance... There's time as well, in times of scarcity it'll be more expensive, in times of plenty (or low demand/desirability) then it'll be cheap. As for expensive vs. cheap fuel... Well you have three aspect : 1. What material is in it 2. How was it produced 3. How desirable is it The first two is obvious - the price for oil, peat, coal and wood is different because they're different things and they're produced differently - but the last one isn't that obvious. Take for example octane and cetane rating. It doesn't have anything to do with the materials inside of it, but almost always you're going to see that fuels with higher octane rating is sold more expensively. Does it actually take more money to produce ? Not necessarily. Is it actually better to use ? Not necessarily. I will say that purity is still in point 1 however, so paying for 70% ethanol and 100% ethanol is going to be different since you're buying different things inside.

Aren't they only on some weird inclinations though ? Although at least with being closer phasing is much less of a problem. Recyclable != Reusable. By mass they're very close (most of rockets are just fuel and tanks), but we haven't yet to see LSS, ingress/egress, automated unmanned docking (well ISS docking is autonomous but they do have humans on board and on the loop to control, not completely on it's own) etc. Though I wouldn't be too surprised if they reuse something like a Dragon capsule on the very top of the rocket (no bellyflop so I presume no need for header tanks) tipped with an IDA/IDSS, then some way down to the payload area. I still wonder how they're going to transfer fuel if it's skirt-to-skirt situation... it's very good for fitting and stability though (9 m docking ring is massive in any case). I think that the 2.6bn figure is just for stuff that are relevant to HLS. Heatshield, Earth re-entry, launch human rating etc. isn't included in that I suppose. Superheavy might not even be in that figure, given that they seem to include a case for a rapid launch of Starships to refuel one of them that'd go and be used as a lander (otherwise I don't think launching 2 rockets in succession is *that* impressive, Gemini did that half a century ago).