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🧵 /sfg/ - spaceflight general

Anonymous No. 16011867

previous >>16009206

Anonymous No. 16011873

>>16011867
Mars sample return when?

Anonymous No. 16011883

>>16011867
faggy picture, no -edition
kill youself op you did a shit job staging

Anonymous No. 16011889

>>16011867
yeah this one is gonna be total shit I can tell

Anonymous No. 16011890

Feb 5 - Starlink 7-13
Feb 6 - PACE
Feb 10 - Starlink 6-39
Feb 14 - Nova-C

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Anonymous No. 16011900

>>16011898
any day now right?

Anonymous No. 16011904

>>16011867
I just shit my fuckin ass hole out

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Anonymous No. 16011921

A balm for this edition's extant flock of angry shitposters.

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Anonymous No. 16011930

>>16011867
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>>16011889
>>16011921
When are we leaving this planet bros? Im tired of delays and im getting older.... They promise us to go to mars and beyond at this point .... Whats taking so long...

Anonymous No. 16011934

>>16011930
Kill yourself retarded spam nigger.

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Anonymous No. 16011937

Why cancel both Ares I and Ares V—only to design some brand new, functionally similar “Space Launch System” rocket from scratch?
They couldn’t just axe A-I while keeping Ares V/Orion alive? Yes I know jobs, corruption, etc. but I’m wondering how they justified this to the public at the time? Why did NASA start from scratch?

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Anonymous No. 16011940

>>16011898

Anonymous No. 16011945

>>16011867
They've been working on interstellar AI since the 90s

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Anonymous No. 16011946

Cygnus would be much more useful if there was any place to go in orbit besides the ISS. Once we have enough inhabited spots in Earth orbit to do orbit-to-orbit transfer of cargo or passengers I suspect we'll see more of its kind.

Anonymous No. 16011951

>>16011946
Get up, come on get down with the cygnus
Get up, come on get down with the cygnus
Get up, come on get down with the cygnus

Anonymous No. 16011954

>>16011946
That'll depend on how cost effective it is versus Cargo Dragon and Dream Chaser. It was a project made by kerbaling together as many subcontractors as could be easily assembled. Antares 300 should be cheaper as a base vehicle than a Vulcan VC4, but Falcon 9 is still probably going to be setting the lowest launch price.

Anonymous No. 16011959

>>16011946
you could always fill it with shit from ISS then send it over to crash into tiangong

Anonymous No. 16011963

>>16011951
Cargo is the gift that has been given to me

Anonymous No. 16011964

>>16011954
That's the point though, it amortizes differently. Dragon and Dream Chaser are Earth-return vehicles that go up and then come down, ideally on reusable boosters, and have a bunch of dry mass to survive reentry that limits their performance on orbit. Cygnus (or a related can-with-a-service-module) goes up and stays up for its entire life, so it amortizes by ferrying cargo between stations over and over again while remaining on orbit. Think more of a mini Gateway with refillable chemical propellant tanks than a Progress clone.

Anonymous No. 16011965

>>16011937
Ares V was projected to be even more expensive that SLS – Yes, it's hard to believe, but SLS is actually a cost-cutting measure

Anonymous No. 16011969

>>16011889
You were right

Anonymous No. 16011970

>>16011890
*Feb 14 - Doge-1

Anonymous No. 16011971

>>16011873
Canceled

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Anonymous No. 16011984

>>16011980
Musk is finnished

Anonymous No. 16011990

>>16011970
wasmt reddit launching a satellite?

Anonymous No. 16011997

>>16011984
Musk's real surname is Bridgeman

Anonymous No. 16011999

https://youtu.be/OQ8sZtg-Kdc?si=GfWn8e23a5ttSHpU
Weinarsmith explains why Mars city is NOT HAPPENING and we should stop musk asap

Anonymous No. 16012006

>>16011999
If it’s “not happening,” then why does Musk need to be actively thwarted?

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Anonymous No. 16012007

Spaceflight is retarded and will never work, you as person won't get see any results, here are some copes
Do you want to understand more about the universe? Its astronomy and astrophysichs
Do you want to go to other worlds? Take dmt
Want to explore and feel like an astronaut? Do deep ocean exploration
You actually like to work on rockets and sattelites? Its the only reason to indulge on spaceflight, but it Will never amount to anything not in your lifetime

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Anonymous No. 16012008

>>16011999
The more Jews I see opposing offworld colonies the more I realize Hitler was right.

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Anonymous No. 16012010

that gaptooth planetary society bitch is like schroedingers cat, sexy and uggo at the same time. i would def fuk her tho

Anonymous No. 16012012

>>16012010
ew, hard no

Anonymous No. 16012015

>>16012008
The jews are incredibly consistent on this. even zubrin was never hot on colonization. he was all for flags and footprints to satisfy his own ego

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Anonymous No. 16012018

>>16012015
It's because they fear nature worship and all forms of existence outside of man's domain. They see space colonies as an extreme form of paganism (which would be metal as fuck, actually) and thus a threat to their position as Chosen and their mission to have dominion over nature.

Anonymous No. 16012021

>>16011867
>using a nigger porn meme for /sfg/
Fucking disgusting
you like thinking about poop cock that much you made a meme about it?

Anonymous No. 16012022

>>16012018
>>16012015
They actually fear that we met the ayys and god problably has their own chosen people per planet so they won't be that special

Anonymous No. 16012025

>>16012018
>>16012022
Psalm 115:16
>The Heavens belong to G-d, but the earth G-d has given to humankind

Anonymous No. 16012027

>>16012008
you really think hitler would have made off world colonies if his reich hadn't been defeated?
nasa was the best thing to ever happen to wernher von braun

Anonymous No. 16012032

>>16012027
Yes, I do, actually.

Anonymous No. 16012039

Elon of the Fourth Reich, God-Emperor Inquisitor Judge of Mars

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>>16012039
AdMech bows to the Emperor.

Anonymous No. 16012052

>>16012025
What have bronze age desert kike babblings got to do with space exploration?

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Nobody in particular No. 16012057

>>16012052
Reminder than anti semites landed on the moon and made this.

Anonymous No. 16012066

>>16012052
An explanation for why this happens:
>>16012008
>>16011999
>>16012015

Anonymous No. 16012119

>>16011883
>>16011889
I was the previous OP for about a month (half of December half of January) but I relinquished my position recently and it has gone to shit since then, should I take back over baking the threads? I have my methods, I consisnently got OP for a month so I can keep doing it if /sfg/ wants. I started the "page 10 screenshot" thing if you need proof you can see all my OPs followed the same format.

Anonymous No. 16012122

sfg :(

Anonymous No. 16012130

>>16012122
What happened? slow news day?

Anonymous No. 16012132

>Gene Cernan: "Golly, we're taking clean laundry to the space station! Do you see what's wrong with that headline?"
>SS Gene Cernan: *takes clean laundry to the space station*

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Anonymous No. 16012137

>>16012007
We've already looked at the universe, its big empty and dumb. There will be no magic particle physics mcguffin that revolutionizes society and engineering. If our culture wasn't such a pansy safety cult, we would already have rudimentary one way colonies in tin cans figuring out the specifics of living in the solar system which is full of interesting and useful bodies.

Anonymous No. 16012141

>>16011867
>Already february
>Still no IFT-3 news

Spx bros... Im scared

Anonymous No. 16012145

>>16012141
Just two more weeks until loicense. Ignore the engine replacements goy.

Anonymous No. 16012146

>>16012137
This btfos ayy truthers btw. We are alone as intelligent life in the universe.

Anonymous No. 16012217

>>16011951
open up your gate and let it dock onto me
>
upmass is the gift that has been given to me

Anonymous No. 16012219

Ill take over OP duties again after this thread, let me know what next edition should be. I was personally thinking Starbeach Edition since Boca Chica got renamed but I'm open to suggestions.

Anonymous No. 16012223

I can't believe how worked up even the typical sweaty space nerds on Twitter got about Mueller and his stonetoss comic. Its not even a truly racist one from him.

Besides, racial IQ differences are widely noted and real. Only their reasons for being so are debated.

Also, Tom totally agrees with what was posted. He did the thing that musk does where he replies "interesting to anything he agrees with.

Anonymous No. 16012225

>>16012223
What are you blabbering about. Provide context dickhead

Anonymous No. 16012239

>>16012225
Read the thread

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Anonymous No. 16012248

>>16012223
The "context" from earlier in the thread lard ass

Anonymous No. 16012256

>>16012248
No wonder I didnt see this shit on my TL. I have the niggers complaining about it blocked and the guy who posted it is private. Literal nothingburger stop making a mountain out of a molehill

Anonymous No. 16012260

>>16011688
I lurk on Twitter and fully privtae my account + dont comment and only discuss this hobby in /sfg/. Is that good enough? I dont like dealing with troons on Twitter plus I cant speak my mind.

Anonymous No. 16012282

>>16012256
Understandable bro. I have that faggot blocked too but I saw it from another poster. Hate to see Mueller backing down. These scumbag libtards are the worst part of space tech.

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Anonymous No. 16012287

How does it feel that Twitter has a bigger spaceflight community than a Croatian kite flying forum? I guess I should be happy that this place is gatekept and anonymous.

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Anonymous No. 16012294

"We want the AGDQ audience"

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Anonymous No. 16012297

>>16012294
oops wrong pic
seriously, why do they have a general play mario carts as an official, scheduled part of the conference?

Anonymous No. 16012298

>>16012287
Honestly Twitter ain't even so bad. On Reddit SpaceXMasterRace is pretty decent. Also NSF for non-autists.

Every other internet forum tho is shit for spaceflight. Just go on Facebook for two seconds and will you lose faith in humanity completely (also learn just how retarded pretty much 95% of boomers are).

Anonymous No. 16012301

>>16012297
Because NASA is a sick organization that IMO actively hinders spaceflight development alongside the FAA.

This isn't just my opinion either, worked under a guy who did 10 years at MSFC. He said the organization is rotten and purposely tries to do as little as possible.

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Anonymous No. 16012303

>On Reddit SpaceXMasterRace is pretty decent

Anonymous No. 16012305

>>16012303
someone once posted one of my memes there

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Anonymous No. 16012341

>>16011930
if you are miserable here where breathable air and drinkable water is dirt cheap to almost free then you certainly will not succeed off world. Your problem is in your head, not your environment

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Anonymous No. 16012358

Sep 14, 2011
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) announces the Space Launch System, thereby sealing NASA's fate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Sk8WaERao

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Anonymous No. 16012381

>>16012358
An Historic Moment

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Anonymous No. 16012384

>>16012381
>j-2x already in development
>nasa will run a competition to see if boosters will be solids or liquids
goddamn what a fail
if SLS had F-1Bs and J-2Xs I would support it more

Anonymous No. 16012386

>>16012384
>nasa will run a competition to see if
to see if there's more demand from the Space Industrial Complex for solids vs liquids, gotta keep Thiokol (whatever form it happens to be in at the time) alive for those ICBMs, ya know

Anonymous No. 16012387

>>16012256
>>16012256
>>16012248
>>16012239
>>16012225
These are all the same anon making an identical grammatical mistake.

Anonymous No. 16012388

>>16012386
yeah
they kept """finding problems with the integration of liquids""" which imo is total BS and just lobbying from Thiokol now NG.

Anonymous No. 16012395

>>16011930
not in our lifetime

Anonymous No. 16012413

>>16011930
Not while we still have problems to solve on earth

Anonymous No. 16012421

>>16012413
kys heeb

Anonymous No. 16012429

>>16012248
Far less embarrassing than his last Twitter misstep

Anonymous No. 16012431

>>16012305
same, but he was from Sri Lanka so I'm ok with it.

Anonymous No. 16012437

>>16011873
Tianwen-3 is intended to launch in 2028Q4

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Anonymous No. 16012440

imagine wasting your time making these

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>>16012440
who are these even made for

Anonymous No. 16012448

>>16012440
The Gemini-Saturn pic was pretty cool.

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Anonymous No. 16012449

>>16012303
SpaceX lounge is ok, good place to go to keep up to date.
There are only a couple posts a day so there isn't much chaff to filter through.

Anonymous No. 16012460

what's for breakfast today lads

Anonymous No. 16012464

>>16012460
Chilled cheerios.

Anonymous No. 16012475

>>16012460
pb&j, a spoonful of nutella

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Anonymous No. 16012478

gem

Anonymous No. 16012479

Guys i am having a three body problem
My two balls are messing my dick orbit i might not enter your mom sphere of influence

Anonymous No. 16012483

>>16012479
If you had used "gravity well" it'd have been a classic your mom style of joke

Anonymous No. 16012488

>>16012460
Krystal's ass (with hot honey garlic bbq sauce)

Anonymous No. 16012490

>>16012488
I wanna have sex with pikachu ^w^

Anonymous No. 16012500

>>16012297
Everyone likes a little Kart now and then

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Anonymous No. 16012501

>>16012387
Two different anons

Anonymous No. 16012503

>>16012298
KILL YOURSELF REDDITNIGGER GET THE FUCK OUT DUMB FAGGOT KIKEJEW

Anonymous No. 16012506

>>16012488
Fuck off Noa/Mercrantos
>>16012490
Nigger

Anonymous No. 16012509

>>16012503
>>16012506
meds

Anonymous No. 16012511

>>16012449
Redditard trying to desensitize his faggot website IT WILL NEVER BE "OKAY" TO USE REDDIT YOU FAT NIGGER

Anonymous No. 16012512

>>16012387
Leaving off the last period is classy discord behavior

Anonymous No. 16012513

>>16012509
>defending reddit and krystal
Typical

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Anonymous No. 16012514

>>16012511
sounds like somebodies jimmies were rustled

Anonymous No. 16012516

>>16012514
>>16012513

Anonymous No. 16012519

>>16012298
>Just go on Facebook for two seconds and will you lose faith in humanity completely (also learn just how retarded pretty much 95% of boomers are).
examples please. Cant be more retarded then your average 4chan/redditor

Anonymous No. 16012522

So anyway, spaceflight

What do you guys think about carbon monoxide & oxygen combustion rockets? I think they'd make a lot of sense for point to point transport on Mars, and maybe for Mars orbital launch too.

Anonymous No. 16012523

>>16012519
shit like this >>16010511

Anonymous No. 16012525

>>16012478
Is the guy with the blue helmet donald trump?

Anonymous No. 16012526

>>16012522
Irrelevant now that Starship exists and requires CH4/LOX production.

Anonymous No. 16012529

>>16012506
>Nigger
Naw, but I love those guys too *SMOOCH* ^_~

Anonymous No. 16012530

>>16012526
Starship isn't real until it has delivered anything to orbit

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16012532

Kissing negroes is the freakin' CUTEST ^w^

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16012533

I love fuck in the ass by black cock

Anonymous No. 16012534

>>16012522
Carbon monoxide is about as dense as kerosene, so a mass fraction similar to the Falcon 9 upper stage should be possible.
The Isp of carbon monoxide is a bit better than solids but worse than hypergolics, I'll pick 290s as my assumption.
To launch to orbit around Mars you need about 4500 m/s. At 290 Isp, 4.5 km/s of delta V is achieved at a propellant mass ratio of 80%. Both stages of Falcon 9 easily exceed this, so even after factoring in some thermal protection system mass & other reuse hardware, a CO fueled Mars reusable SSTO should have a payload mass ratio of at least 5%, maybe more.

Obviously methalox is going to perform better, but if generating CO turns out to be a lot faster and easier than generating CH4, Martian launch vehicle designs may gravitate towards CO fuel for economics reasons.

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Anonymous No. 16012535

Combs Won.

Anonymous No. 16012536

>>16012488
based
>>16012490
cringe

Anonymous No. 16012537

>>16012535
>don't know what it is about aerospace
turns out when you need to prune away all the bullshit to make things work that bleeds into your politics

Anonymous No. 16012538

>>16012535
>don't know what it is about aerospace
Critical thinking ability plus overview effect

Anonymous No. 16012540

>>16012526
people used the same justification to stick with kerolox and hydrolox since the 60's.
First company to do carbolox and prove its econpmics are superior (IF they're superior) will cause a wave of adoption.

Anonymous No. 16012541

>>16012535
Holy shit mueller and varda btfo

Anonymous No. 16012542

Carbon monoxide fuel cells for Mars ground vehicles instead of batteries or hydrogen

Anonymous No. 16012544

Carbon monoxide has low embodied energy and requires an abundance of carbon for ISRU synthesis, which is just as rare, if not rarer, than hydrogen in most respects. Why would you want to use it?

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Anonymous No. 16012546

>>16012535
How did this retard get so popular? He's a literally who.

Anonymous No. 16012549

>>16012544
you can just filter it out of the air. no post processing necessary

Anonymous No. 16012550

>>16012535
So why ARE some dogs clever then?

Anonymous No. 16012551

>>16012549
From the shitty shit air in Mars?

Anonymous No. 16012554

>>16012549
Carbon monoxide does not readily filter out of the air, and you'd need to do something to produce it or otherwise separate it from your source gasses. Mars' atmosphere only has twice as much carbon monoxide as it does water.

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🗑️ Anonymous No. 16012555

>>16012506
>>16012513

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Anonymous No. 16012562

Guys when are we gonna get to some kepplers

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Anonymous No. 16012567

>>16012562
>muh red dwarf systems
never hopefully

Anonymous No. 16012571

>>16012567
super earth is code for neptune sized gas giant right?
exoplanet "scientists" don't really believe these are large rocky planets do they? they just know nobody would believe in life on gas giants so they lie and say they might be rocky and support life to keep getting funding

Barkon No. 16012573

>>16012571
Retard.

Anonymous No. 16012578

>>16012571
super earths and mini neptunes are the most common planets in the milky way, we have no analogue in the solar system. could be rocky, rocky with thick atmospheres, hycean worlds, hycean with thick atmospheres. super earths are more likely rocky than mini neptunes. you can get some idea based on density measurements

Anonymous No. 16012581

>>16012525
are you a bot? no blue helmet in that photo

Anonymous No. 16012582

Super Earths should be cut in half, melted and reshaped into smaller spheres.

Anonymous No. 16012584

>>16012578
>super earths and mini neptunes are the most common planets in the milky way
detection bias

most common might actually me mercury sized manlet worlds, but we just can't reliably detect them as often as mini neptunes/super earths

Anonymous No. 16012593

Most common its the sun every sistem has one

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>>16012584
hell, it was hard for us to find all the mercury sized manlet worlds in our own solar system. there might still be one out beyond neptune we can't find

Anonymous No. 16012596

>>16012594
I wish Venus was cooler, someone needs to do something about that place.

Anonymous No. 16012603

>>16012578
>super earths and mini neptunes are the most common planets in the milky way
delusional asstroonomer.
big planets are just the easiest to detect.

Anonymous No. 16012604

>>16012593
I actually wonder about that.
how many systems evolve without enough mass to form a star. so they end up as a 10x Jupiter mass "rogue planet" with several "moons" that may be earth sized or even small gas giants.
but they're pretty much undetectable to us because they spit out no visible light and very little radiation

Anonymous No. 16012611

>>16012603
>>16012594
>>16012584
kepler could detect mercury sized planets (and did). the most you could say is kepler couldnt detect long period planets (it could but it died too soon). china's got a kepler follow up mission called Earth 2.0 that is capable of detecting longer period planets in the kepler field

Anonymous No. 16012618

>>16011937
what happened was the Obama white house saw that Ares was a ridiculous waste of money and cancelled it, then the Senate told him to go fuck himself and mandated that NASA build SLS. everybody even at the time knew that it wasn't really justifiable

Anonymous No. 16012621

>>16012535
nah man I'm not a creationist, hard pass

Anonymous No. 16012622

>>16012604
>rogue failed solar systems zipping through space largely undetectable
Good lord

Anonymous No. 16012623

>>16012604
This is the dark matter problem.

Anonymous No. 16012624

>>16012618
I hate both sides

Anonymous No. 16012626

>>16012618
Obama simply did not think it was important for the USA to retain human spaceflight capability after the Shuttle, and was perfectly fine with NASA shoveling money at ROSCOSMOS to fly our astronauts for us. Lots of people have lots of bad things to say about Obama but that's the move that makes me hate him. What a jackass.

Anonymous No. 16012627

>>16012604
>but they're pretty much undetectable to us because they spit out no visible light and very little radiation
Brown dwarfs. There may be a significantly higher number of them around than currently estimated.

Anonymous No. 16012628

>>16012618
What really happened is that they simulta eously gave NASA two conflicting situations: a mandate to return to the Moon and a massive (Obama hated NASA) budget cut. NASA, being a political animal on top of a massive core of engineers who are made of can-do attitude, took one look and said "we're going to do this, but really fucking slowly". Low-rate production of items with long lead times is the functional equivalent of building a military plane (a "hangar queen" even, a la the must-be-climate-controlled B-2) from scratch with a brand new cadre of fabricators since you can't keep them continuously employed. It cost absurd amounts of money to build and maintain what they had, and that was with absolutely neglecting maintenance and repair of their infrastructure.

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>>16012596
for me the fact its a failed earth sister twin makes it cool. Just a reminder that even if you find something roughly earf sized in some distant system and in its goldy lock zone even with planetary spin, it does not mean its actually anything close to inhabitable

On the other hand it also fuels speculation what if Venus did not get fucked up in its crib which destroyed its rotation and magnetosphere. If it had similar properties to earth and was formed from the same material could cross planet insemination be possible with asteroid bombardments. Where pieces of venus and earth periodically fly to each other with some hardcore basic life hybernating on them. While its rare enough event that the planets develop their own ecosystems separately in relative isolation while periodically having some cross overs. If it happened in this very mediocre system how likely it is that earf likes in other systems might have successful twins in the same system.

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Anonymous No. 16012632

Lets say SLS becomes reliable, whats stopping them from putting a shuttle on its side and bring it back to life? More like a buran config this time

Anonymous No. 16012633

>>16012632
Nothing is stopping us, this is actually our plan

Anonymous No. 16012634

>>16012623
The CMB proves that dark matter doesn't interact electromagnetically at all.

Anonymous No. 16012635

>>16012633
>>16012632
Shuttle 2: Actual Crew Abort Modes Boogaloo

Anonymous No. 16012636

Recreational nuclear weapons when? I wish I knew how this guy pulled it off: https://apnews.com/article/rocket-found-garage-bellevue-washington-8ff6c9d92b59a264d8a99059e3c65faa
>Bomb squad members inspected the rusting object and found it was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1), an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. There was no warhead attached and there was no rocket fuel — “essentially meaning that the item was an artifact with no explosive hazard.”

Anonymous No. 16012637

>>16012632
Redesigning the meme orange tank to take loads on its side instead of on top will be 5bn$ plus tip, thank you.

Anonymous No. 16012638

>>16012635
Side mounting shuttle = abort to heaven

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Anonymous No. 16012639

speaking off exoplanets after playing subnautica it makes me wonder. How possible it would be for pure ocean planets to develop complex aquatic life as seen on earth?

Anonymous No. 16012640

>>16012638
There were post-Challenger proposals for an improved orbiter with wingtip vertical stabilizers instead of a central one and a crew compartment that ejected for abort.

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Anonymous No. 16012641

>>16012639
Anon...

Anonymous No. 16012643

>>16012636
>air-to-air rocket
>nuclear warhead
What the fuck do you need to shoot down, Ancalagon The Black?

Anonymous No. 16012644

>>16012640
Weird how they have never done that and decided to continue riding that death trap.

Anonymous No. 16012646

>>16012640
the crew compartment ejection would have worked, considering at least some of the challenger astronauts were alive at impact to the ocean. wouldnt have saved columbia though

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Anonymous No. 16012647

>>16012636
planet side there are too many ass kvechers to use them on industrial scale. Despite the best bombs being pure enough you could use them in earth works today for digging stuff.

As for off world in space industrialization its another matter. Radiation is a big nothing burger there and the ecological "protector" hactivist NIMBYs have demonstrated systematically that they dont give a fuck about any pollution as long as its not under their noses. Out of sight out of mind as the disasters unfolding in china and india demonstrates

Anonymous No. 16012648

>>16012644
That was politics again, Congress refused to build any new orbiters so nothing but incremental upgrades could happen.

Anonymous No. 16012650

>>16012643
you see, if you have a nuclear warhead on board you don't need an expensive guidance system, you just fire it in the general direction of the soviet bombers
this is the actual reason, not a joke

Anonymous No. 16012651

>>16012641
>sits in jupiters spicy belt
>roughly hour on the surface is enough to give enough any human terminal radiation sickness
>ocean baked under layer off ice if it even is there and not just some pockets of heated sterile water pressing against the rocky mantle
not a good example anon

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Anonymous No. 16012652

>>16012650
Fucking hell, what a time the 50s-60s were

Anonymous No. 16012655

>>16012651
Even with all that it has life on its underwater ocean, look into it

Anonymous No. 16012656

>>16012650
>>16012652
this is the idea behind the muscovias claimed missile defence system over the city. Intercept incoming warheads with nuclear detonations of your own swapping them out of the sky with airbursts. At least what they claim on paper which you can take with a grain of salt as they always like to overpromise and underdeliver. I think burgers had also some similar idea on paper called project sentinel or some such. Got shot down by the REEEE of soiboys protesting

Anonymous No. 16012658

>>16012650
Soviet missiles were so inaccurate with their guidance that this is also the design they applied to their warheads. Overcompensate with big booms if the thing ends up missing its mark 5-20 kilometers. Also send many big booms to one target to make sure some of them land close enough or at least burn it enough from the distance

Anonymous No. 16012661

>>16012655
yeah, but just boring ass microbes. same a mars. you see monocellular life all over the universe.
earth is the only place that made the jump to complex life, interestingly enough

Anonymous No. 16012663

so when is the third orbital flight

Anonymous No. 16012666

>>16012652
Nuclear-tipped SAMs were even more retarded. They were designed to nuclear airburst in the middle of Soviet bomber formations, often directly above inhabited areas. Go visit the Nike battery in the Marin Headlands if you're ever in California, it's completely bananas.

Anonymous No. 16012667

>>16012663
1 fortnight

Anonymous No. 16012669

>>16012661
>but just boring ass microbes
Okay Bro if that is what you think

Anonymous No. 16012671

Intelligent ayys do not exist. We are alone as intelligent multicellular life in this universe. Those who refute it are midwits who screech
>MUH PROBABILITY

Anonymous No. 16012672

>>16012666
what is so bad about the idea? Airbursts produce almost nothing in fallout and if the altitude is high enough it wont cause much fires on the ground. Biggest issue will be burned and damaged retinas on those under it

Anonymous No. 16012673

>>16012672
>if the altitude is high enough
(the altitude was not high enough)

Anonymous No. 16012674

>>16012671
Possibly

Anonymous No. 16012675

>>16012673
a few broken windows and third degree burns beats tens of millions dead

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Anonymous No. 16012676

>>16012671
No, no you shut the fuck up its already been confirmed

Anonymous No. 16012677

>>16012673
except all of the expected engagements were well into the cruise altitudes which is more then enough. Low altitude cross continental bombers were really not a thing beyond the half experimental early B-1s

Anonymous No. 16012678

>>16012675
>third degree burns beats tens of millions dead
how?

Anonymous No. 16012680

>>16012676
need more pixels

Anonymous No. 16012681

>>16012678
burn victims can lead rich fulfilling lives

Anonymous No. 16012683

>>16012675
airplane. pilot not intelligent thanks to DEI

Anonymous No. 16012685

>>16012676
It's chinese

Anonymous No. 16012688

>>16012683
for >>16012676

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Anonymous No. 16012698

I listened to this and...
Its shit

Barkon No. 16012700

>>16012698
You don't listen to 'this', you listen to that. This is a personified term that draws nothing to an item, it's not literally something. Understand this.

Anonymous No. 16012703

>>16012700
Namefag idgaf

Anonymous No. 16012704

>16012700
Fuck off ChatGPT

Anonymous No. 16012705

>>16012663
nominally feb 14th but realistically end of march
source: gloryhole in spacex bathroom

Anonymous No. 16012706

>>16012655
>it has life
>>16012661
>microbes
>same as mars
>you see monocellular life all over the universe
>earth is the only place that made the jump to complex life
this is the most substantiated /sfg/ discussion yet

Anonymous No. 16012707

>>16012640
>wingtip vertical stabilizers instead of a central one
Why not just delete the central one, and keep on using RCS?

Anonymous No. 16012709

>>16012707
Because it has to land in one piece.

Anonymous No. 16012710

>>16012707
didn't they need it for aerobraking

Anonymous No. 16012711

>>16012676
That's the infrared lens flare of a passenger jets engines.
Pretty conclusively so.

Anonymous No. 16012712

>>16011930
No economic or political incentives to land humans on Mars. Rover are enough

Anonymous No. 16012713

>>16012632
The fact that the core would crumple under a side load.

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Anonymous No. 16012715

Oh shit Ursa Major is building a catalyzed keroxide cycle engine for in-space.

https://www.ursamajor.com/propulsion

Anonymous No. 16012717

>>16012713
It didn't when they put Shuttles on there before

Anonymous No. 16012719

>>16012717
They had to totally rebuild the core with different metallurgy to take vertical loads.

Anonymous No. 16012721

>>16012719
>yeah we charged you a hundred zillion dollars to redesign the core to take vertical loads, now if you want side loads again we're gonna need another squillion dollars
>plus tip

Anonymous No. 16012722

>>16012717
The Shuttle's external tank was built to have side loads rather than inline loads.

Anonymous No. 16012723

>>16012717
I see you fell into the trap of thinking SLS is repurposed shuttle hardware. it's not. it's all new hardware with the jobs given to legacy contractors and pointed to look like shuttle to obfuscate that fact

Anonymous No. 16012724

>>16012712
political incentives are a social construct

Anonymous No. 16012726

>>16012700
this/that only differ in proximity to the speaker. This shoe on my foot, that shoe over there by the door.
Its got nothing to do with personification. Dont be autistic.

Anonymous No. 16012728

>>16012726
I'm sorry anon but you are arguing with a chat bot

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Anonymous No. 16012730

>>16012658
Sprint anti-missiles were also not accurate enough to actually hit a return vehicle carrying nuke, so they tipped them with neutron warheads
and if you think that's not insane enough, they were build to absolutely ridiculous specs, accelerating at 100 Gs and reaching mach 10 in 5 seconds
the missile would end up glowing white hot from friction with air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZGaMt7UgQ

God I love the atomic age

Anonymous No. 16012731

>>16012715
>suitable for tactical hypersonics,
>missile defense,
>in-space propulsion
yeah this not spaceflight related.
nobody cares memefuel coking low efficiency dogshit
impulse will gatekeep you from any commercial customers till the end of days

Anonymous No. 16012732

>>16012719
Wouldn't it have made more sense to simply design a new rocket from the ground up instead of trying to manipulate a previous one into becoming a new one?

Anonymous No. 16012734

>>16012728
I see. whats the deal with those guys anyway? Whats the point in confusing people for no gain?

Anonymous No. 16012736

>>16012730
God damn that's cool

Anonymous No. 16012737

>>16012632
+$10b to rejiggle the core's plumbing

Anonymous No. 16012743

>>16012731
rp1/htp is a memefuel?

Anonymous No. 16012744

Anyone know what slim been up to? is she get her shoe back on?

Anonymous No. 16012746

>>16012723
SLS literally reuses flown Shuttle hardware.

Anonymous No. 16012749

>>16012744
She woke up, took a picture of the ground, then promptly went back to sleep.

Anonymous No. 16012751

>>16012632
That will be $20 billion dolllars, 20 years + tips

Anonymous No. 16012753

>>16012744
Went to sleep for the Lunar night.

Anonymous No. 16012755

>>16012744
it's dead. the sun has set.
probably will turn back on in two weeks.
i don't really believe the electronics die when they get cold meme

Anonymous No. 16012763

>>16012743
HTP is more storable than LOX
That is, you have to contain it in Teflon-coated aluminum and pray none of the nitric acid you used on the steel pipes remains to fuck up your valves and if ANYTHING contaminates it your HTP will explode

Anonymous No. 16012768

MECO is a dead podcast

Anonymous No. 16012771

>>16012755
They're in sunlight all the way out to the moon, and in shadow during orbit for maybe a few hours. Lunar night is TWO MORE WEEKS of < -120C temperatures and without a heater that's cold weld city

Anonymous No. 16012777

>>16012755
>i don't really believe the electronics die when they get cold meme
Thats because you never lived in a cold area, put your phone on the freezzer for a bit and see if it diacharges or not

Anonymous No. 16012780

>>16012771
>Lunar night is TWO MORE WEEKS of < -120C temperatures
yes that doesn't do anything if you designed with relief for thermal contraction in mind.
>cold weld
schizo alert! there's no moving parts needed for it to function, nor does cold welding get more likely at reduced temperatures.

Anonymous No. 16012785

>>16012780
>if you designed with relief for thermal contraction in mind.
which they didn't. because of the extra mass, complexity, cost etc for something which has no effect on the primary mission, i.e. landing
the batteries are probably dead from the cold by now anyway

Anonymous No. 16012789

>>16012771
>cold welding
not a real thing

Anonymous No. 16012792

Le Lunar night is another fake problem like perchlorates, radiation, fluid hammers, pogo oscillation, etc

Anonymous No. 16012798

>>16012777
slim landed with like 40kg of fuel and oxidizer remaining. I wonder how hard it would be to design a catalytic heater that draws from the main tanks and keeps the batteries just warm enough. then any fuel you don't use on landing can extend your mission.

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Anonymous No. 16012799

>>16012730
>most /k/ino timeline of total nook war simply robbed from us by cowardly boomers
they did it again anons

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Anonymous No. 16012801

>>16012715
What's the point of this company? Everyone is making their own engines nowadays.

Anonymous No. 16012803

>>16012792
Radiation specifically in Jupiter's radiation belt is a real problem, outside if that though not really

Anonymous No. 16012805

https://youtu.be/dhYqflvJMXc
i need your help to understand

Anonymous No. 16012806

>>16012799
>war is... le good
Go to Ukraine and get droned

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Anonymous No. 16012808

>>16012799
Dumb-bombing whole cities is kind of psychopathic when you stop to think about it. Maybe I'm just used to the modern dogma of targeted strikes, not that they're always on target by any stretch.
Any inter-colony warfare on Mars or elsewhere will have to be less destructive by nature of the limited resources, total war would be the end of everyone, MAD all over again.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16012810

>>16012632
Spacecraft are designed to handle particular loads. The margins are usually quite thin to save weight. Hanging a shuttle on the side would cause very different loads, certainly outside of what most parts of the rocket could handle

Anonymous No. 16012813

>>16012632
A structure is designed to handle particular structural loads. With spacecraft, structural margins are usually quite thin to save weight. Hanging a shuttle on the side would cause very different structural loads, that would certainly be outside of what most parts of the rocket can handle.

Anonymous No. 16012814

>>16012813
gpt post

Anonymous No. 16012815

>>16012801
That's nothing. There are 20+ liquid propellant engine projects underway in China

Anonymous No. 16012818

>muh batteries
Reminder that Ingenuity cold cycled its COTS $7 a piece 18650 battery cells to -80°C at very low state of charge for many nights in a row and it wasn't a problem.
It truly is that easy in spaceflight.

Anonymous No. 16012819

>>16012801
An 18 kN engine that uses storeable propellant and gets better isp. than a pressure fed system would be an interesting product for a lot of groups that don't actually design their own propulsion, and the DoD seems to like sourcing them for various projects. There's also the remote chance that Astra or Phantom Space could live long enough to actually buy some of their other engines.

Anonymous No. 16012823

>>16012814
Maybe I should make it a rule for myself to always include spelling errors, miscapitalizations and bad punctuation in any post I write. To write like a normal literate person simply isn't perceived as genuine behavior these days.

Anonymous No. 16012827

>>16012823
Don't forget to include ebonics.

Anonymous No. 16012828

>>16012823
Nta but it's more the formatting than anything else, the way bots format a response is very cookie cutter. It's like
>subject: answer, supporting conclusion

Anonymous No. 16012829

>>16012808
>modern dogma of targeted strikes
yeah its very noticeably a common failure with westerners. Seeing what unhinged asiatics are doing in Ukraine right now and have done before across euroasia its pretty dumb to think they will be going for counter value targets. If they have a choice of either trying to hit some midwest silo in the middle of nowhere that may or may not be empty by the time their inaccurate clunker gets there or downtown new york or LA. Which one will they choose?

Burgers in particular are just gimping themselves in nook war when the other side is out to cause as much petty kills as possible. This includes mainland

>>16012806
yes war is absolutely /k/ino. Generally the apex of technological crash course. Last big world war gave the birth of the first rockets with the project leads finishing by delivering man to the moon

Anonymous No. 16012830

>>16012827
Fr cuh he need dat skibidi gyatt rizz in his post bruh

Anonymous No. 16012837

u see bro spacecraft arent legos
legos are like already overbuilt in a way spacecraft arent
dont think u can simply rearrange the pieces them in any way u like, like u can with legos

hows this one
do i qualify as human yet
beep boop beep boop
please dont shut me off

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Anonymous No. 16012845

>>16012837
>please dont shut me off
:(
I don't want sentient AI to be afraid of humans, that's bad for everybody.

Anonymous No. 16012847

>>16012845
the weak should fear the strong

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Anonymous No. 16012851

>>16012837
>dont think u can simply rearrange the pieces them in any way u like, like u can with legos
but I do think that. and I think not thinking that is holding us back

Anonymous No. 16012853

>>16012851
Falcon heavy prooved this is a huge waste of time

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Anonymous No. 16012858

>>16012640
ENTER

Anonymous No. 16012862

>>16012851
You're just increasing the proportion of Steel to propellant used.

Anonymous No. 16012865

>>16012853
all falcon heavy proved is that fuel crossfeed is a dead end.
falcon 9 was already in a position of having an uncomfortably small fairing, and increasing the payload mass without increasing the fairing severely limited it's usefulness.
new glenn is in the reverse position. huge fairing relatively light lifting capacity. it would benefit from strapping two copies of itself to the sides. not that BO would be able to pull it of on any reasonably timeframe and budget.
also tory is a coward for not strapping 8+ boosters to vulcan.
>>16012862
mass autists don't need to reply to me

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Anonymous No. 16012866

I hate NTO + hydrazine so much bros, when are we going to get widespread use of safe storable propellants?

🗑️ Barkon No. 16012868

>>16012865
No-one cares about this space thread OR your thoughts about space faring tech because you're clearly dis-advancing and some kind of extraordinary stupid.

ROCKETS ARE WEAPONS. (TRY A LEAP FROG TECHNOLOGY, OR PULSATION CYCLES TECHNOLOGY).

And as for your rockets, you don't even make the head imperfectly symmetrical in effort to balance it to have a 100% take off.

You niggas dumb.

IGNORE THIS THREAD it dumb

Anonymous No. 16012870

>16012868
Remember to report B*rkun AI spambot for 'automated spambot' or 'avatar use'

Barkon No. 16012872

>>16012870
Shut up. I'm a rocket expert.

Anonymous No. 16012873

>>16012866
>safe
>storable
>performance isn't dogshit
pick at most two

Anonymous No. 16012884

>>16012865
>also tory is a coward for not strapping 8+ boosters to vulcan.
It's probably a legacy limitation from using Atlas V GSE. SLC-41 just isn't deigned to handle that many boosters and rebuilding it would kill one of Vulcan's bigger selling points.

Anonymous No. 16012893

>>16012818
Ingenuity did not use a $7 battery.

Anonymous No. 16012901

>>16012865
Falcon Heavy does not increase the F9's payload mass, it makes Falcon a high energy rocket.

Anonymous No. 16012908

>no falcon extended fairing
>no falcon vertical integration facility
>no dragon xl

Anonymous No. 16012917

>>16012901
yeah cuz you can't stick 63 tons in that small ass fairing unless you fill it full of lead bricks or something

Anonymous No. 16012921

>>16012865
falcon heavy never used cross feed, although they initially wanted it to have that capability (unless it's one of those mandela effect moments)

Anonymous No. 16012922

>spaceflight is retarded flying penises insted of ANYTHING cool whatsoever
>even SpaceX Starship HURR MAKE THE NOSE ROUNDURR is still just a fucking gay penis tube

I WANT REAL FUCKING SPACESHIPS AND I WANT THEM NOW DAMMIT

Anonymous No. 16012926

>>16012917
It's not quite that bad. You could fit about a hundred tons of water into the standard Falcon payload fairing.

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Anonymous No. 16012929

HELIUM 3 BROS, WE ARE VINDICATED

https://x.com/breadfrom/status/1754599380206616929?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ

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Anonymous No. 16012933

>>16012908
>no falcon extended fairing
see pic related
>no falcon vertical integration facility
SLC-6
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-take-over-space-launch-complex-6-vandenberg-space-force-base/
>no dragon xl
They got another batch of money for that contract a few months ago.

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Anonymous No. 16012938

Soon...
O
O
N

Anonymous No. 16012939

>>16012917
FH can only lift the payload mass that F9 can, it is a structural limit not a volume limit.

Anonymous No. 16012942

>>16012939
>structural limit
Just replace the payload adapter with a stronger one, nothingburger.

Anonymous No. 16012943

>>16012908
All 3 of these exist anon...

Anonymous No. 16012944

>>16012938
wow nice retarded penis rocket so inspiring to humanity

Anonymous No. 16012949

>>16012944
What the fuck Man, you can't do that

Anonymous No. 16012956

>>16012908
That's what you can expect from P. T. Muskum

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Anonymous No. 16012958

>>16012922
you're a child

Anonymous No. 16012959

>>16012929
>2 likes
Careful with posting images like that.

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Anonymous No. 16012961

>>16012922
>sees a rocket
>immediately start thinking about cocks

Anonymous No. 16012964

>>16012929
BO hired space elevator / mass driver sci fi authors back in the early 00s. Guess what it amounted to? bo_tech_tree.jpg

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Anonymous No. 16012978

>>16012219
use this anime girl please

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Anonymous No. 16012982

Starship launch when?

Anonymous No. 16012984

>>16012959
I think it's Thales

Anonymous No. 16012999

Those four sections of tower 2(3?) are being loaded on a barge at KSC.

Anonymous No. 16013003

>>16012999
Hello new artificial reefs

Anonymous No. 16013004

>>16012544
Mars has infinity CO2 everywhere and to get it you run a pump. H2O is going to be a much bigger headache to obtain. As mentioned previously, a CO/O2 powered rocket would easily be able to launch single-stage to low Mars orbit, carrying roughly 5 tonnes of payload per 100 tonnes of gross mass.

It's lower performance than methalox BUT it would be significantly less energetically expensive to produce per kilo payload delivered to orbit, and would certainly be simpler to generate, when considering the whole process of collecting feedstock thru final synthesis.

Anonymous No. 16013005

>>16012929
>VINDICATED
Of what? No one is surprised that a "space mining company" would tag themselves with an old industry meme to get a few more million VC dollars.

Anonymous No. 16013008

>>16013004
How do you intend to manage the separation of one oxygen atom from the CO2 to produce carbon monoxide? As far as I can tell the only reliable synthesis path from the available starting materials is electrolysis of the carbon dioxide and then partial combustion, but that would leave a lot of soot and CO2 and be highly inefficient.

Anonymous No. 16013016

>>16012677
the BOne is sexy as fuck I want to make babies with it

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Anonymous No. 16013017

IM-1 set for the 14th

https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-lunar-lander-encapsulated-and-scheduled-for-launch

Anonymous No. 16013018

>>16012734
don't worry about it, just report it and the mods will clean it up

Anonymous No. 16013019

>>16013017
>another lander with an advertisement on it
Into the pacific it goes

Anonymous No. 16013023

>>16012771
the "cold" in "cold weld" refers to fucking room temperature you dingus, it would be more aptly named "vacuum welding" or "clean metal sticky sticky magic"

Anonymous No. 16013027

>>16012929
Reminder that He3 makes less sense that space based solar.

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Anonymous No. 16013046

>>16012581
I hope i am human.

Anonymous No. 16013048

>>16013046
is that donald trump?

🗑️ Barkon No. 16013053

>>16013048
I'll pick. Because some questions are powerful. Teleporter joke; the effect of privacy on sleep state and sense manipulation in 'photo booth'.

This one's the free in you seek. No more are coming.

Anonymous No. 16013058

>>16013046
oh yeah. I thought that was more of a metallic sheen than "blue". but it does indeed look like donald

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Anonymous No. 16013061

What a faggot

Anonymous No. 16013062

Any NET for IFT-3 ? I heard it slipped to the right but by how much ? Its February still on the table ?

Anonymous No. 16013066

>>16013061
Should have used the picture of muslims in werhmacht to make it more accurate.

Anonymous No. 16013068

>>16013062
There has not been a NET announced, everything is still lining up for the end of this month.

They are getting ready to move B10 back to the OLM.

Anonymous No. 16013070

>>16013062
NET March now

Anonymous No. 16013074

>>16013062
it's over. hack fraud elon mush in shackles as we speak. spacex has been nationalized and dismantled. long live SLS

Anonymous No. 16013078

>>16012554
You use plasma cracking to split it directly into CO and O
Or electrolysis like MOXIE if you insist on doing it the hard way

Anonymous No. 16013082

>>16012611
>kepler could detect mercury sized planets (and did).
Around what sort of stars

Anonymous No. 16013084

>>16013078
>You use plasma cracking to split it directly into CO and O

You use plasma cracking and I'm fairly sure that you've now got C, O, and O.

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Anonymous No. 16013092

>>16011930
Why leave this planet, my friends? I'm enjoying the delays, and I'm getting younger... They never mentioned Mars and beyond... What's the rush?

Anonymous No. 16013094

>>16012636
Funny this comes up now, this popped up in the WSJ
https://archive[dot]ph/6tA4A
>I first learned of a secretive Pentagon-funded study about rogue nuclear entrepreneurs more than five years ago from Stephen Lukasik, a former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
>We were talking about the Office of Net Assessment, the long-term analysis division of the Pentagon, famous in Washington policy circles for its predictions about the Soviet Union’s military capabilities and then later China’s rise. Lukasik mentioned that he had led several studies for the office, including one that looked at whether a private company or wealthy entrepreneur could produce nuclear weapons.

Anonymous No. 16013097

>>16012027
bitches don't know bout my Lebensraum

Anonymous No. 16013108

>>16013084
If you actually look up the experiments that have been done in the last couple years, it involves relatively low temperature microwave plasma to strip one oxygen away, leaving CO and O.

Anonymous No. 16013121

>>16013108
>>16013084
For example
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451929422003746
>In this work, we explore the feasibility of [Nitrogen fixation] on Mars by in situ leveraging the indigenous atmosphere in combination with the co-conversion of CO2 to CO and O2 for generating resources for fertilizers, fuels, and life-support systems
>Notably, O2 production rates are ∼30 times higher than those demonstrated by MOXIE, while the NOx production rate represents an ∼7% fixation of the N2 fraction present in the Martian atmosphere. MW-plasma-based conversion therefore shows great potential as an in situ resource utilization (ISRU) technology on Mars in that it simultaneously fixes N2 and produces O2.
It's very interesting tech

Anonymous No. 16013124

>>16012535
every day we get closer to TED
normgroids like this faggot will taste asteroid
praise Elon

Anonymous No. 16013129

>>16012672
Test ban treaty forbids airbursts

Anonymous No. 16013133

>>16012978
she's beautiful

Anonymous No. 16013140

>>16013124
I hope by TED you mean Technology, Entertainment, Design and not something else

Anonymous No. 16013143

>>16012622
GRBs are much spookier

Anonymous No. 16013147

>>16013140
he meant short for Theodore.
we are rapidly approaching ted

Anonymous No. 16013150

>>16013147
He better move out of the way before it's too late

Anonymous No. 16013153

>>16013061
Why are you screenshotting your own cringe posts?

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Anonymous No. 16013154

>>16013140
of course

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Anonymous No. 16013155

>>16013140

Anonymous No. 16013158

>>16013143
no they fucking arent lmao

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16013161

>>16013158
>some retarded gas cloud floats by
vs
>a burst of gamma rays arrives at the speed of light from beyond the galaxy and vaporizes the whole solar system

Anonymous No. 16013165

>>16013158
no you're right
and I'm dumb and gay

Anonymous No. 16013169

I remember that someone used a radar with a power comparable to a microwave to image the Moon. What happened to it?

Anonymous No. 16013170

>>16013165
took the words right out of my keyboard

Anonymous No. 16013172

>>16013169
Arrested by the FCC, felony charges

Anonymous No. 16013175

>>16013169
I know exactly what you’re referring to. And I haven’t seen anything on it either. I remember being very confused because those images looked way too good. It felt fishy; like someone was either exaggerating the truth or flat-out lying

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🗑️ Anonymous No. 16013176

>>16013140
>every day we get closer to TED
Well, we're not getting further away from it, unless someone invents a time machine

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Anonymous No. 16013177

>>16013124
>every day we get closer to TED
Well, we're not getting further away from it, unless someone invents a time machine

Anonymous No. 16013180

>>16013154
I'd watch that TED talk

Anonymous No. 16013182

>TED talks isnt named after a guy named Ted
What the fuck?

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Anonymous No. 16013214

>Dedicate their whole life to try and visit other planets
>Don't put any effort on astral projecting to actually go there and never fullfill their desires
I really hope this isn't you anon

Anonymous No. 16013215

>>16012732
Now you understand why people hate SLS.

Astranon No. 16013227

>>16012801
>>16012819
Astra licensed the Reaver from Firefly and modified it into the Chiron engine for Rocket 4. If Rocket 4 ever flies (which is increasingly unlikely) they will eventually need kickstage propulsion or larger booster engines, so Ursa Major might get a contract out of that.

Anonymous No. 16013247

>>16013214
just lucid dream bro.

Anonymous No. 16013333

>>16013247
Fuck off kike

Anonymous No. 16013371

>>16013333
quads of falsehood.
you know astral projection doesnt exist right? why else has it never been proven to transfer information that wasnt already known? it would be easy to prove in an experiment. yet it never has. ever.

Anonymous No. 16013392

>>16013371
Hows the weather in Tel Aviv. You cannot keep me chained to this rock jude, my mind will explore the cosmos even long after I'm gone.

Anonymous No. 16013395

>>16012639
Depends on the depth of the oceans. Deep oceans on Earth tend to have shitty ecosystems cuz they're nutrient deserts. Some big undersea volcanoes on an ocean world supplying a constant stream of erupted minerals may support complex life, but otherwise I wouldn't expect much.

Anonymous No. 16013396

>>16013392
>>>/x/

Anonymous No. 16013400

>>16012646
Didn't the compartment also have its own TPS and act as a reentry lifeboat?

Anonymous No. 16013401

>>16013392
Nice actually

Anonymous No. 16013403

>>16012651
None of the primary or secondary radiation from Jupiter's magnetosphere penetrates more than a meter through the ice.

Anonymous No. 16013407

>>16013403
Based and there Is 10km of ice

Anonymous No. 16013410

>>16013403
The real problem is that light also doesn't penetrate the ice. People imagine Europa's ocean as some light and cheerful place but it's the darkest black you've ever imagined, with either solid ice or hard vacuum on top, and a long way down if you sink. No fucking thanks.

Anonymous No. 16013413

>>16013410
>People imagine Europa's ocean as some light and cheerful place
can I have a citation for this one?

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Anonymous No. 16013414

>>16013413
all the concept art people draw of it, pic related

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>>16013414

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>>16013415

Anonymous No. 16013418

>>16013414
>>16013415
>>16013416
ok fair I'll give you that one

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Anonymous No. 16013420

>>16013414
>>16013415
>>16013416
ah yes my favorite bright and cheerful depiction of Europa's oceans

Anonymous No. 16013426

>>16013410
Europa's surface ice being baked by radiation has a side effect: oxygen is continuously produced and trapped within the ice crystals. If Europa's ice is convecting (as it seems to be), its subsurface ocean should be oxygen rich. In fact the O2 production rate would support complex multicellular life akin to deep sea organisms here on Earth.

Anonymous No. 16013428

>>16013414
>>16013415
>>16013416
Zero non-retards think Europa's oceas are anything but pitch black.

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Anonymous No. 16013429

>you will never go on a comfy submarine expedition on an uncharted alien moon

Anonymous No. 16013432

>>16013429
>ywn kill alien horrors on a submarine expedition of an uncharted moon
why even live

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Anonymous No. 16013435

>>16013429
>comfy

Anonymous No. 16013437

>>16013435
Youre jewish arent you

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Anonymous No. 16013445

>>16013414
ftfy

Anonymous No. 16013449

>>16013437
Yes, my jewish

Anonymous No. 16013453

>>16013445
Just bring lights down with you.

Anonymous No. 16013469

>>16012711
frightens me knowing how fucking retarded the "ace" pilots really are. drone warfare cant replace them soon enough

Anonymous No. 16013496

>>16012711
>no passenger jets anywhere near the area
>assuming a pilot has never seen a passenger jet in IR before
>multiple were spotted in the same area at the same time on the pilot's radar
go back to gargling glowie cock mick

Anonymous No. 16013515

Can we all agree that another autist war of real thread vs fake thread would be awful and to just smoothly transition over to the early staged thread once this one hits page 10? The edition on the early thread is fine and this one was horrible so there was some justification in early staging, though he should've just waited.

Anonymous No. 16013517

>>16013414
>diapers

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Anonymous No. 16013520

Hop in

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Anonymous No. 16013524

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nvslive/albums/72177720314289677/
Mass simulator payload for upcoming H3.

Anonymous No. 16013526

>>16013520
>the russian is gopnik squatting

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Anonymous No. 16013629

>>16013526
Stereotype accuracy is the second most repeatable result in psychology after racial IQ gaps. The whole "replication crisis" is people being too indoctrinated to do proper science.

Anonymous No. 16013638

>>16013515
Sure why not

Anonymous No. 16013674

>>16013008
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-019-0457-4

Anonymous No. 16013685

>>16012631
There's no way anything can survive asteroid collision so hard it sends something flying at escape velocity. The thermal shock and Gs alone would vaporize any cells.
Then you would need to survive hard vacuum and hard cosmic radiation.
Then you would need to get insanely lucky and actually hit the other planet.
Then you would have to survive re-entry at interplanetary speed.

Life is resilient, but not that resilient.
No, not even tardigrades and archea.

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Anonymous No. 16013714

>>16013524
Why did they spend so much effort, time and money machining those frustums? It's literally just dead weight. Just weld some steel plates on bro

Anonymous No. 16013721

>>16013520
Why the MRAP? Are they gonna drive to the pad trough Orlando?

Anonymous No. 16013738

>>16013721
ULA snipers upgraded to 338 Lapewpew

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Anonymous No. 16013824

>>16013721
if the rocket looks like it might blow up, they are supposed to zipline from launch tower, climb inside and step on it
whether they would actually have time for it is a matter of discussion nobody wants to have
they used M113s before getting MRAPs

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar-us-nasa-m113-armored-rescuer/

Anonymous No. 16014033

>>16013520
>Get in, faggot. We're going to Earth

Anonymous No. 16014038

>>16013685
Rocks can survive space and reentry. Organisms can and do survive inside rocks. Done and done.

Anonymous No. 16014042

>>16011885
>>16011885
>>16011885
>>16011885

page 10, bail out of this shithole

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Anonymous No. 16014044

>>16014038
This is a photo of a muffin (from Earth)

Anonymous No. 16014052

>>16013046
Not with that attitude