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Post by AnDromedary on May 30, 2020 19:57:04 GMT
Almost there: Good luck Doug and Bob! You already look like straight out of Mass Effect in there. No go today. Saturday next. Alright! Now it worked!
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Post by The Hype Himself on May 30, 2020 21:23:59 GMT
AMERICA IS BACK IN SPACE! FUCK YEAH!
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on May 31, 2020 0:31:18 GMT
Really smooth. Stage one even landed successfully on the drone ship for once. I watched Elon Musk, and suddenly thought I noted something. - How come people don't realize that Elon is an Alien? Seeing him beside the other guys, I wondered if he was really, like, closer? And there was some optical illusion? I mean, - his head is like twice as big. And his face is strange. It's got to be a rubber mask and then, inside, there's a reptile that can swallow small dogs. ...Or maybe he comes from the future? 🤔
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Post by nanotm on May 31, 2020 12:39:45 GMT
Tokyo's massive draining system. not sure whats more scary that they know exactly why they need it and then built a fraction of what they needed from the start as a test (at that price) and now there arguing over the best way to build the rest of it and not spend as much.... I mean everythign has a price, they fucked the environment so hard it has to be done and now there quibbling over taking a long term (for the people for the greater good for the next few hundred years) or short term (my little voting block, so I can get re-elected) approach (the short term version ends up being at most half as good and costing 5 times more) the fact they know exactly what caused the problem (loss of land to housing and tarmac, silting in the rivers, removing the overflow area and building levvies that aren't strong enough and wont hold enough) and the two options they have to fix it (the underground sluice system coupled with a man made jumbo sized canal, or subterranean water tank thats a few gazillion gallons in size, which sort of combines both options but leaves you will a full reservoir of water) and yet they are still arguing over its implementation smacks of crass stupidity
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Post by fraudulent regack on May 31, 2020 17:09:42 GMT
Woot, docking successful!
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jun 6, 2020 22:48:51 GMT
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jun 16, 2020 20:49:38 GMT
This is not a sensation or any new knowledge -like. Scott Manly's videos are generally okay and cool, but the reason I post it is that it's so educational, and that this question was once up here in some troll action. ...And it's pretty cool that we now have such a wide base for the triangulation.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jun 22, 2020 13:21:33 GMT
So now we know...
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Post by Lavochkin on Jul 3, 2020 19:17:07 GMT
Building the World's thinnest skyscraper
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Post by nanotm on Jul 4, 2020 13:30:56 GMT
Building the World's thinnest skyscraper that thing is going to either catch fire at the ground floor level and kill everyone above the 5th floor due to access limitations or its going to fall over and kill a lot more people in the aftermath there will be a lessons learned summit and then agreement to make them only 400 meter tall from now on.... can just see it coming....
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jul 5, 2020 21:31:45 GMT
Well, that's what I have said for decades.
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Post by Lavochkin on Jul 21, 2020 2:36:17 GMT
Vid on the engineering hurdles for building a space elevator.
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Post by AnDromedary on Jul 21, 2020 16:31:40 GMT
Building the World's thinnest skyscraper Central Park is my running track (yea, cliche, I know ) so I see that thing almost every day but still, every time it comes into view I cannot believe how it remains standing. The engineering that went into it is pretty mind blowing. But while I can only marvel at the fantastic feats of engineering, I also do think it's good there is at least one sentence in this video as to how grotesque die social differences are in this city.
I actually think it's very likely that nanotm will be proven right eventually (hopefully not to that extreme) but it's a pretty incredible feat that they could make it stand in the first place.
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Post by AnDromedary on Aug 2, 2020 21:26:19 GMT
AMERICA IS BACK IN SPACE! FUCK YEAH! And Bob and Doug are back.
I liked the final message from the comm operator just before their egress: "Welcome back to planet Earth and thank you for flying SpaceX."
Welcome to the age of commercial manned space flight.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 5, 2020 19:03:36 GMT
AMERICA IS BACK IN SPACE! FUCK YEAH! And Bob and Doug are back.
I liked the final message from the comm operator just before their egress: "Welcome back to planet Earth and thank you for flying SpaceX."
Welcome to the age of commercial manned space flight.
I still don't know how I feel about that, as a whole. On one hand, it's technically true. They did fly a commercially operated space flight. On the other, SpaceX is a contractor, and the astronauts weren't merely passengers but active test pilots, and SpaceX is a contractor at any rate. They're not launching on their own just yet. I'd be kind of worried if they did, independent of NASA.
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Post by AnDromedary on Aug 5, 2020 19:24:39 GMT
And Bob and Doug are back.
I liked the final message from the comm operator just before their egress: "Welcome back to planet Earth and thank you for flying SpaceX."
Welcome to the age of commercial manned space flight.
I still don't know how I feel about that, as a whole. On one hand, it's technically true. They did fly a commercially operated space flight. On the other, SpaceX is a contractor, and the astronauts weren't merely passengers but active test pilots, and SpaceX is a contractor at any rate. They're not launching on their own just yet. I'd be kind of worried if they did, independent of NASA. Well yea, I guess technically, they are not quite there yet. But if you watch the post splash down interviews, they seem very confident that they will be soon (and why shouldn't they be).
And I think even now, there is quite a bit of difference between SpaceX and former NASA contractors. Before, NASA contractors would mainly deliver parts, bits and peices but most of the final assembly, most of the engineering and certainly all of the testing, etc. was done by NASA. Now, we have a situation where the knowladge base for the spacecraft from the theoretical concepts to engineering to assembly and testing all lies with a company. Sure, they still collaborate with NASA on most things and NASA certainly does their own tests and proofs and all the launch logistics and such are through NASA (and that's how it will remain for the foreseeable future I think).
But the point is, it's proof of concept that a company can do this realistically and economically. And as far as I can see, that is a very good thing for the future of human space flight. Governments are great for proofing and concepting phases but in order for new ideas to really come off the ground, you need to get people involved who have the incentive to make it profitable and to keep up the incentive to do it. From other examples, like telecommunication, electrical power or atmospheric flight, we know that this is when innovation and progress really takes off exponentially. I am someone who is regularly involved in requesting government funding for scientific research (mostly form the NIH) and I say, while in governments, every idea needs to go through so many committees and red tape to get funded, in the private sector, anyone who thinks they have a good (profitable) idea and the capital to try it out can give it a try (or at least try to give it a try, depending on safety regulations). A lot of them will fail but a) you also learn from those failures and b ) the swarm intelligence is usually still more efficient than any governments careful approaches. That's why to me the fact that spaceflight can be commercialized is a great sign that points to it becoming way more innovative and daring soon and hopefully somewhat "normal" at some point.
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Post by Lavochkin on Aug 15, 2020 20:23:02 GMT
How Everest isn't necessarily the tallest or highest mountain there is.
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Post by Beerfish on Aug 31, 2020 14:37:48 GMT
This is cool, it is an interactive map that shows you where a location you type in (your home town for instance) was millions of years ago. interactive map
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Post by Lavochkin on Oct 4, 2020 15:07:43 GMT
Isaac Arthur talks about three mysterious subjects of cosmology in his "dark" trilogy, dark matter, dark energy and dark flow. Dark matter is the unknown property that makes up the bulk of the unaccounted for matter in the universe, dark energy is the unknown property affecting the accelerated expansion of the universe, and dark flow is the final unknown property that's behind why things are moving slower than they "ought" to from the "great attractor".
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Post by Lavochkin on Oct 16, 2020 6:33:56 GMT
The next best thing to nuclear powered aircraft.
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Post by Lavochkin on Oct 17, 2020 3:23:47 GMT
Isaac Arthur talks about the future of Fission power.
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