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Hagel Resigns as US Defense Secretary(reuters.com)
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The possibility of constructing floating cities on Venus(science20.com)
8 points by 32faction 12y ago|0 comments
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by 32faction 12y ago
I think this is a quote from Mark Cuban, but "You can read all the literature on basketball, but you'll never get any good if you don't shoot any hoops"
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by 32faction 12y ago
71% of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans so it would only make sense to make launch and land platforms on the oceans. Not only for the space but for the safety; if a launch needs to be aborted, or has a catastrophic failure (see
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by 32faction 12y ago
We used the Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD by Wertz, Everett, and Puschell for my senior capstone project. It's pretty comprehensive about all things involved about space missions. You would specifically want to look into its
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by 32faction 12y ago
> Can it stay on the surface without the harpoons? technically yes. Philae has harpoons along with foot screws to secure it to the comet, but if harpoons are super glue, foot screws are tape.
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by 32faction 12y ago
land =/= secure. those harpoons are what is supposed to anchor Philae to the comet. the problem is the reaction thruster, the thruster that counteracts the force generated by the harpoon shot, (to satisfy Newton's 3rd law) is faul
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by 32faction 12y ago
SPOILERS BELOW SPOILERS BELOW SPOILERS BELOW Some people asked me what the 5th dimension entailed and how Cooper was able to talk to himself in the tesseract. I'll explain the dimensionality below: The zeroth dimension is a point . The
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by 32faction 12y ago
The erratic flame plume tells me there's probably something wrong with the internal pressure regulation.
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by 32faction 12y ago
it's all about your delta V. Delta V is basically the currency of space travel.
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by 32faction 12y ago
Adding onto this: for those who have failed and started again, did the failure affect your fundraising campaign once you did get traction on a startup?
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by 32faction 12y ago
I have a feeling Alfred Hitchcock would've had a field day with this one...
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by 32faction 12y ago
i don't see an email
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by 32faction 12y ago
there's definitely a need to reduce and mitigate orbital debris, but the monetization is polarized to NASA, ESA, SpaceX, and possibly Bigelow Aerospace when they get their structures operational and I think YC will want something that&
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by 32faction 12y ago
Hey yea definitely! Is there a email/FB or other contact point I can communicate with you on? "ADRAAS" haha I love it. I prefer to call it ODRAAS though (orbital debris removal as a service) to distinguish the 'orbital-n
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by 32faction 12y ago
hey i did my senior undergraduate thesis on orbital debris removal and mitigation. specifically on mitigating the effects of the Kessler Syndrome. ..and it's a lot harder than just shooting another satellite up to bring the old one dow
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by 32faction 12y ago
Aerospace Engineering major here. People may be quick to dismiss space travel, and overall innovations and advancements in space technology due to its high cost and (seemingly) dangerous tests that companies do to test new technologies. Tak
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by 32faction 12y ago
That's interesting, so it's like "passive" email or a notice board in a small town; instead of being interrupted by an email notification, you can see what needs to be done by checking out the board.
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by 32faction 12y ago
I think it's a bit too minimal. I don't know what the bars at the left or right are for. Do I click on units, petrol, or drugs, and then use the bar at the top to move the units over? Will this show in the left and right bars? Als
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by 32faction 12y ago
I thought you meant the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Thinking back though, I think both need debugging..