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by areoform 5y ago
Here's an accident of history that most people don't realize. It is likely possible that MOL led to Vostok, which then led to the American commitment to the Space Race and Project Apollo†. Originally, leaders on both sides of the
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by areoform 5y ago
From a certain perspective, the Starship is a more evolved version of certain STS-Apollo variants - https://www.wired.com/2012/04/the-lut-the-shuttle-and-the-sa... , one proposed North American X15B design http:&#
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by areoform 5y ago
This was one of Yuri's original designs, https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/836685279875956746/87... As you can see, it is much closer to the lifting body concept than the other craft. I suspect they conv
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US Air Force: Animals in Space (1953) [video](archive.org)
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Redesigning the Pioneer Plaque(medium.com)
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by areoform 5y ago
Ah good point. I'll update the comment!
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by areoform 5y ago
We have crossed the rubicon. Hayley Arceneaux will become the first individual with a prosthesis to go to space. In the 60 year history of crewed spaceflight, we have never put a human with titanium bones in orbit. Nor, have we sent anyon
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by areoform 5y ago
A few weeks ago a Russian-speaking friend in the aerospace industry (hey Dennis!) surprised me with photos of Yuri Gagarin (and other cosmonauts from Air Force Group 1) engaging with a re-usable lifting body aircraft, https://cdn
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Advertising for Weapons Designers(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
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How to Tell If a Lion Is Happy(atlasobscura.com)
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China eyes ‘ultra-large spacecraft’ spanning miles in $2.3m crewed mission push(scmp.com)
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Late Bronze Age Collapse(en.wikipedia.org)
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Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bill Haast, a Man Charmed by Snakes, Dies at 100(nytimes.com)
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Mithridatism(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Right Man': Remembering Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 Mission(americaspace.com)
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I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic(airspacemag.com)
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by areoform 5y ago
Does anyone know about an API for getting high resolution book covers? Most of the book covers that are publicly out there are terrible.
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Silbervogel – Nazi Germany's Liquid-Propellant Rocket-Powered Sub-Orbital Bomber(en.wikipedia.org)
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Humanity's First Giant Leap(economist.com)
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Project Echo(en.wikipedia.org)
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Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by areoform 5y ago
Small Steps & Giant Leaps! If you're on twitter, contact us here, https://twitter.com/StepsLeaps If you're on discord, use the link on our twitter to join :)
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by areoform 5y ago
I didn’t follow any of the people clubhouse told me to. On my first day on the app, I sought out and found scientists, astronauts, and engineers. I started joining these rooms, then talking in them, and now I host them.
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by areoform 5y ago
Yes, it’s absolutely the same. We host a ton of fascinating discussions all the time from orbital megastructures to cities on Venus and few people join us. Which is okay, we aren’t doing it for the numbers
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by areoform 5y ago
> Rooms are smaller and driven by interests or topics, rather than the people involved And this is a good thing. I recently did a room with an optics engineer from NASA who made the optics for Cassini’s Composite IR Spectrometer. And now
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by areoform 5y ago
Apologies for divining malintent. No, I don't have a name like that. And it shouldn't matter even if I have. If you read my name, you wouldn't think I'd be on a list. But here I am. The law of large numbers.
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by areoform 5y ago
Even if it is, would that matter? Should we disconnect millions of people from the global economy because of their given name? Also, it’s hard not to read your comment and wonder if you hate a large proportion of the human species, > I b
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by areoform 5y ago
Thank you so much for reading my post and writing this comment. What you highlighted is the reason why I wrote it. Most of the discussions are of an abstract harm against an immediate one. They other those involved. My experience isn’t uniq
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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story(areoform.wordpress.com)
961 points by areoform 5y ago|522 comments

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