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I notice you omitted an earlier, extremely prominently failed , Apollo mission. Apollo 1 is highly analogous to the current testing of Starship. New spacecraft, highly ambitious, coming together for the first time. Its conflagration was pr
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Say you want to build something new, something that is beyond the bounds of what anyone has ever built before. In this case, a rocket that has more thrust than any built before. The basic mechanics say that it is feasible, so you start to w
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Ah yes, because the Apollo program is famous for never having any problems with unscheduled fires or explosions. Completely safe, it was. Sarcasm aside, NASA has blown up plenty of rockets. It's not a problem to blow up a rocket if i
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The official analysis is that propellant leaks lead to fires around the engines, damaging their connections to the flight control system.
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Are you replacing the whole tire after every flat? In my experience, that's almost never necessary. One of my two bicycles is a secondhand Schwinn Loop, a cheap folding bike with 20" tires and an extremely rearward weight distribu
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Modifier keys were the first thing I tried (because that's how I learned to do it in GIMP and Inkscape when I was in high school). When that didn't work, right-clicking on the crop box was the next thing I thought to try. It'
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The tricky bit is that you have to get your youtube cookie in order for yt-dlp to get your own liked videos. I expect it to be a lot more LoC to authenticate and get the cookie than to do everything else (which is a one-liner in yt-dlp), so
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> For example in Krita you can't resize a crop rectangle with the mouse that holds its aspect ratio I've never used Krita, but I was skeptical that it can't do this, so I just now installed it and gave it a try. It does ha
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They have a basic diagram on this page: https://www.blender.org/about/ 4 sources of income: one-off donations and recurring donations (from individuals and businesses), subsidies and co-development funds from businesse
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Emulation and compatibility layers seems to cover this just fine.
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Here's an article with a photograph showing the Dacia Spring next to a person. Definitely more of a Pontiac Vibe than an SUV. https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/dacia-spring-pres...
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> Things get a little better when you look at combined household incomes, with 34.4% of U.S. households making more than $100k each year. That number is more reasonable; given that they're assuming 5-year loans, and the average car
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> We’ve removed the four-pole composite video and analogue audio jack from the board. Composite video, now generated by RP1, is still available from a pair of 0.1”-spaced pads on the bottom edge of the board. https://www.raspb
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All of the battery retailers around where I live (southern Indiana, USA) stopped paying for old lead-acid batteries years ago. Only the local scrap metal yard still pays for them, and they only pay $5 per battery. People only bring in their
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by avhon1 3y ago
How might that be? SpaceX doesn't have to manufacture whole new rockets for every Falcon Heavy launch, but even if they did, as far back as 2016 they could build 16 new cores (5 Falcon Heavy's worth) per year. https://s
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by avhon1 3y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/649377main_PL_111-267.pdf The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 directed NASA to develop a new rocket called the Space Launch System. It set performance requirements for the rocket (use just two s
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For periods of up to half a day or so, you could store that energy in the temperature of the building.
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Not with any existing earth-bound or low-earth-orbit telescope. The largest landers were the Apollo landers, which are over 4 meters across. Photographs of the landing sites have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large T
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Probably a similar amount, actually. It's not like the Soviet lunar landers were manually landed; the 3-second speed-of-light delay to Earth meant that only the rovers were operated that way.
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It's not really a mystery why Russia's mission crashed. Their space program has been struggling to maintain quality across the board. Further, their Soviet legacy was not particularly successful at soft-landing on the moon (7 succ
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Chandrayaan-3 is aiming to land later this week at a spot only 32° east, so technically visible through a telescope. https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Chandraya... Also, every lander that's ever landed
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> Russian space agency were the first to land and operate remote rovers off world Roscosmos (the Russian Space Agency) didn't do any of those. Those were all accomplished by the Soviet Space Program, which had major centers across t
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I remember my first time trying to install Debian, being a total noob to the whole thing. I thought parts of the installer were broken, because I couldn't toggle TUI checkboxes. Every time I tried, the installer would instead jump to t
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by avhon1 3y ago
Distance is almost completely irrelevant for comparing launch vehicles. Also, Falcon 9 has delivered multiple payloads to lunar orbit. Examples are ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1, SpaceIL's Beresheet, and South Korea's Danuri.
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USB-PD is not exclusive to the USB-C connector. USB-PD rev. 1 was finalized in 2012, whereas USB-C 1.0 was finalized in 2014.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "used to be", the llama.cpp github repository was committed to just 4 hours ago. This project cites llama.cpp as inspiration, but seems much-simplified. It only supports llama-2, only supports
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by avhon1 3y ago
I have a manual-transmission sports coupe (1988 Ford Thunderbird) and the parking brake is useless for hill starts. It's a ratcheting pedal to the left of the clutch pedal. Releasing the parking brake requires leaning forward and pulli
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Not while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were down on the surface of the moon. Michael Collins remained in orbit around the moon. Once every forty-odd minutes (the duration of his lunar orbit), he was separated by the entire diameter of the
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Men Going Their Own Way? The internet ideology of people that have been redpilled to realize that society has been made toxic for men (by feminist women who use sex as a way to control men), and that men should reject rampant gynocentrism a
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Looking through the features and issues, it looks like this is a 2D CAD program, like AutoCAD or LibreCAD, instead of a 3D parametric CAD program.

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