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He was a genius, but sadly he believed in things too much, esp. with the whole earth-generated electricity and all. Had the celestial bodies been that charged up, the universe would've been largely governed by electromagnetic attractions...

For solids it's often the only way out.

I mean, reverse intelligence is a thing - the US largely focused on terrorist and rouge state actors from 90s onwards after the collapse of the USSR. Showing the world that they shouldn't mess with them because of their technology is a thing - this is the cyber domain, after all.

Yeah, and the idea would've been that the operational intelligence version were the test articles for the fighters. If these planes were as invincible at the time as they said then announcing it (even pseudo-announcing it, as what was happening in practice) wouldn't have made intercepting it any easier (unlike the U-2 which then they had to lie about after it was shot down). And while it was only 2 years under wraps once flying, it's probably under wraps for much longer when it comes to development - which is when the enemies would want to start unwrap it so they can make one themselves or figure how to defeat it long before operation begins. Which is why honestly I'd think that if the footage really was of a new secret stealth aircraft in operational (or even testing) phase, then showing the world that their own existing radar can lock onto the aircraft for prolonged amounts of time would simply discredit the stealthiness of the aircraft itself, esp. given the footage was dated back all the way to 2004. So honestly the only thing Pentagon was showcasing is the IR/radar capabilities of the US ever since 2004, that's all. (betting they're even more sophisticated these days.) Now, it doesn't necessarily say that there isn't some odd test planes out there, however...

A-12 and SR-71 ? They're not bombers but it's larger than F-117.

That's pretty cool on it's own, honestly now I wonder why they released as such, given that most stealth aircrafts are said to have the "cross-section of a bird"...

In a gasseous state there's a lot more surface of the molecule for reaction to happen, or something along those lines I suppose.

Great... a century and a half of disease control gone with a new influenza... XD

Exactly the same on NASA side though. Maybe it was actually something they use together or something. Which stage ?

7 seats to the ISS every 6 months... International partners astronauts finally coming more often again !

Yeah, honestly this is my problem as well, I mean if it's a russian roulette just on getting it it's fine, but this is like a two-tier russian roulette. Does case severity variance signals that there're actually a lot of types and strains of the virus or not ? Would a lot of variants means that innate immune response might not be enough to stop the other variants ? Why haven't one strain overruled the others ? Or is the winning strain highly mutable ? Does it mean it'll be the new influenza ? Etc etc. I mean, the only other alternative is you having to catch it in the first place to even hope to be immune at all...

Right, a launch in the morning for me when I don't have any class in the morning, at last... I didn't pay attention to the weather, but it seems like it's clear, so hopefully single-shot ?

This came up on the news, so I presume it is... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54948005 In any case, does sound to me slightly on the coronavirus infection. Coughs and sneezes are barely a thing at the start really, even from when it started; fever, anosmia and aching/fatigue are more prevalent. I hope the astronaut don't catch it through some distant route (which should be unlikely given both clean rooms and the person haven't met directly either), but honestly if the vaccines aren't really coming either (the first 'successful' vaccine had a similar problem with the briefly-declared-problematic vaccine from a different major country) then maybe we should accept that you gotta live with it on the ISS as well. I mean problems obviously will happen but it's a bit less comforting than an unflawed one (and the way how things have been worded almost made me thought it was flawless spotless).

Like, steam vs liquid water or what ? I could see it being easier for steam, but I can't see it being easier if it's still in liquid form.

Given Boeing's Starliner, it's at least two 'private' firms. Though it's somewhat likely, if the USOS do prove to last really long, that we will start to see new companies and new countries aboard the space station. I could see India on-board, maybe Japan as they're looking into having a manned version of HTV (for the latter all still on paper, their problem is more on the manpower rather than technical capabilities). Given Artemis and other lunar programmes however it's likely that countries would rather join the moon outpost. Honestly the problem is with the station itself - it's pushing 20 years now, even your house staying still on the ground are only designed for 50 years while not having to constantly fight vacuum and temperature gradient every 90 minutes and bombarded with micrometeoroids. I could see it last maybe another 20 if they managed to somehow carry out retrofit of the whole thing - would require something along the lines of the now-retired Space Shuttle... ROS isn't going very well IMO due to leaks etc, yet USOS can't do orbital boosts by itself. SAW might prove to be the most reliable thing out there structurally (as it's just a truss structure in zero-G), although not so much for the hydraulic parts.

A simpler use-case might simply be something to do with the percentage of gasses that are beyond escape velocity given the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution at a given atmospheric height, density and temperature. ______________ Anyway, for my own question : I didn't know that FAA certifies space launches in the US. I thought that sure they must have something to do with NOTAMS and stuff, but seems like it's a lot more involved than I thought...

Especially given 2011. The country where it happened seems to still be on the path to abandoning nuclear completely either, given they've ruled that it really was an oversight. Fusion should be slightly less problematic - the by-products are not as long-lived and it's less energetic as well - but the heat is a terrible problem if something ever fails. I question anything that needs to spew nuclear explosions behind it, of either kind. Most hydrogen supplies are still from hydrocarbon since it's a lot less energy-intensive. I question if the fact will change with availability of "free" electricity. (and you bet the existing hydrocarbon producers will peddle it.)

Sole reason why you'd go to a movie theatre is because you're spending time with other people, of course. Other than that these days you can watch films from elsewhere - and it's more often that what I want to watch are so old it's no longer in theatres. Popcorn might be a point - caramels being rather difficult without a machine - but honestly it's overpriced anyway, I can make lots of popcorn at home if I want to.

Ever since I got a new fibre optic line at home this has been a problem particularly when first starting to search on Google from incognito mode. Think other than that they just looked at their own cookies (plus I am logged in to their site using my account on the browser). Not on this forum though - but idk, maybe because I never opened it in incognito mode and logged into it.

I'll be honest, since the background is now not entirely white, it actually looks ok... at least in daylight. Expecting it to look kinda bad with blue light filter (but then everything would be). In any case, there's still DarkReader...

Wait, we're finally having a proper random thread ? For one person ? Since 7 months ago ?

Minmus - very far outside Kerbin SOI, very low gravity, has a nice inclination to it. Jool is a close second contender, but then you're stuck to doing mostly Joolian missions. Somewhere close to Kerbin (assuming w/o mods like EPL) is best IMO.

Take it away, lads !

Would communicable diseases still exist or not ? Pandemics broke the immortality dreams in the face IMO... Though if it's possible I'd like to invest in stuff please.