JanSolo

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by JanSolo 11y ago
Not really a huge surprise given that the debris was confirmed as a 777 flaperon a few days ago. However, It does mean that the Inmarsat positional analysis about the final location of the plane is likely correct. This should give a bit of
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Hi Gavan... Fellow gamedev here; I like your tech; it looks neat! As soon as I saw it, I had a great idea for a game. It's pretty simple too... Imagine a sort of hybrid of Angry Birds and Defender of the Crown ( https://youtu
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Presumably the chainring losses are roughly similar for every rider which is why no-one complains about them. Around 6% seems plausible when you remember that for cars crank horsepower is usually 15% higher than wheel horsepower. Transmissi
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by JanSolo 11y ago
The valuation seems high to me. I've been told that valuations should be around 3.5x revenue; at $615m, that should mean that DSC has sold $175m of razors last year. I would be astounded if that were the case.
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Perhaps if he had made even a token effort to not permit illegal sales on SilkRoad he'd be hailed as the new Jeff Bezos. Instead, he'll be denounced as a drug peddling fraudster. A shame; I thought his ideas had merit.
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by JanSolo 11y ago
On the surface the sentence seems a bit steep doesn't it? I expect it's because he attempted to have at least two people killed. I don't think either case succeeded but there was clearly intent to murder.
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by JanSolo 11y ago
The trunks mass moves the COG rearwards and when combined with the fins, it provides passive stability that keeps the nose pointing in the direction of travel. Notice that when the trunk detaches, the craft immediately starts pitching over.
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by JanSolo 11y ago
From the video, it looked good. Great takeoff, boost, coast and landing. Really well done! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhW2h08zhY Couple of points of interest: There were a couple of puffs of smoke from the engines tha
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by JanSolo 11y ago
> but making an entire orbital launcher using hypergolic propellants is a massive pain. I think Russia might disagree with you. Wikipedia describes the Proton launcher as "one of the most successful heavy boosters in the history of
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by JanSolo 11y ago
One of the main reasons it's hard to restart a rocket in space is simply because there's no gravity to feed the propellant to the outlet of the tank. While the rocket is running, the acceleration caused by the motor causes the pro
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Finally something concrete from these guys! They've been working for over 10 years on this and shown almost nothing. The capsule looks nice; big curved windows and no RCS thrusters tell us that this is not an orbital capsule. The 1st S
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Their website says that they employ solid landing rockets just before touchdown, similar to the Soyuz. The 'big whumph' is probably just dust kicked up by these rockets.
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by JanSolo 12y ago
I think it's very hard to make that determination. In spaceflight, all accidents are likely to be fatal. Also, I have no problem with a profit-motive; killing your passengers is very bad for business.
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by JanSolo 12y ago
You are right. Hybrid engines are not looking like the safe & reliable middle-ground between solid & liquid engines that they were made out to be.
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by JanSolo 12y ago
Agreed. Don't forget that this is not the first fatality associated with this engine. In 2007, 3 people were killed in an explosion during a static test at Mohave Air & Space port.
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by JanSolo 12y ago
Yes, looking at the twitter feed, multiple sources state that it blew up. This means that either the tank (which takes up the whole rear half of the vehicle) failed catastrophically (unlikely; CF-wrapped tanks tend to develop hairline crack
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by JanSolo 12y ago
This is very bad. Not just for the family and friends of the poor guy who died, but for commercial manned spaceflight in general. SpaceshipTwo is considered the 'simplest' and 'safest' of all the upcoming manned commerci
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by JanSolo 12y ago
You're right... NASA probably would value stability and reliability over cost-effectiveness every time. But then again... I think they're hurting for money; SLS is proving much more expensive than planned. And they have a lot of p
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by JanSolo 12y ago
If I were NASA, I'd pick SpaceX and Sierra Nevada and here's why: Boeing CST100 is the most conventional of all the 3 designs. It's probably the 'safest' bet but also the most expensive to operate. This is because i
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by JanSolo 12y ago
Agreed. I can only assume that MS are going to insist on a sequel with all of the 'NextGen' trappings we've come to expect from them. Minecraft2: MasterChief Edition. With Kinect! And day1 DLC! And product placement... (Use t
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by JanSolo 12y ago
Some thoughts: Games sites, (especially game dev sites) suffer from a horrendous signal to noise ratio. We tend to have a very large, well-meaning but uninformed audience who enjoy participating in discussions but do not offer much experien
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by JanSolo 13y ago
What? No! Of course they shouldn't. There's such a small overlap of core competencies that it makes it very hard for Apple to tell if they're getting a good deal or not. That should be enough of a reason for them to think tw
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by JanSolo 13y ago
Orbital has the US rights to build new copies of the original NK-33. Presumably they'd set up some kind of production line once they have enough customers to exhaust their russian-sourced supply.
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by JanSolo 14y ago
I was expecting to see headlines saying 'RIP Muscaley American Suparhero PAUL STEEVE'... This is the closest thing I've found. I guess SomethingAwful was never as mainstream as they thought. For those who have no idea what the hell this is
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by JanSolo 15y ago
I think you're right to be angry; it certainly sounds like you did not have a positive experience at Codies and it certainly appears like they messed up the redundancy process for the Guildford studio. However, I don't agree that you're ent
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by JanSolo 15y ago
Ha! Are you from the old Sega Racing Studio in Solihull? Me too!