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Armisael16
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Armisael16
11y ago
I would assume that schools are paid by students/year and that someone other than the school gets to decide who goes there (in the real-world examples I've seen this is usually the parents and a lottery system to work out who pick
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The SP3's continuous kickstand makes it a lot easier to use it in your lap. I upgraded from an SP1 to an SP3 (it hit a tile floor corner first), and while I know exactly what you're talking about, I don't think it's an i
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The hardest part of any Mars flight is simply getting from Earth's surface to LEO. That step literally costs more delta-v than the rest of the mission combined, and nuclear rockets really aren't up to that challenge - NTRs don
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Eh - I'd say that it's pretty even. It takes about twice as much delta-v to get into low martian orbit as low lunar orbit, which is still less than half what it takes to get into low earth orbit. Earth has a lot of gravity and a l
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It's easy to make steel that's stronger than titanium; the challenge is making steel with a higher specific strength than titanium, since titanium is so much less dense. Steel is still the clear winner by volume, which is what unq
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There are many degrees other than math and CS, y'know. Physical sciences (and engineering, to some degree) are probably more important when doing the kind of research the article's talking about, and a BS in those fields in by no
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I think that kind of analysis is what you use to fill books.