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by avmich 1y ago
Roughly speaking, the job of a medical doctor is to diagnose the patient - and then, after the diagnosis is made, to apply the healing from the book, corresponding to the diagnosis. The diagnosis is pattern matching (again, roughly). It kin
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The Moon research was significantly advanced with the data collected from the rocks Apollo astronauts brought from the Moon. Your skepticism is widely shared and also widely debunked. I don't think we'll move the state of the deba
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> The US doesn't really have an attractive answer to getting to the moon or for aggressive deep space missions, Starship doesn't look great. Starship is almost an assisted single stage to orbit (ASSTO), the first stage gives ra
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> The amount of time the station spends in orbit isn't relevant, The people on ISS were doing a multitude of scientific programs during that long time. That's important. Just like you wouldn't say that Hubble already seen
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> We didn't learn any of that from the ISS which we didn't already know from Salyut 6 and 7, and Mir. The ISS, aka Mir 2, hasn't taught us anything new. I doubt that. ISS served in space longer than Mir and Salyut-7 combin
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> People begin from the premise that there should be lots of primates living away from earth, and then work backwards from there. No, people begin with interest in all things around them and from that conclude that being closer to them w
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Yes, you add accelerations as vectors. Say, a centrifugal ring flatly lays on the Moon surface and rotates (around the axis of ring symmetry perpendicular to the ring plane) so that the artificial gravity on the centrifuge is about Earth. M
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by avmich 1y ago
The was a long discussion about benefits of human space exploration. A comparison was made between that and basic science: just like the basic science doesn't bring immediate benefits, so do humans in space. However over long periods o
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Yeah, this looks like a cargo culting. Don't need work, need the guy to belong only to them...
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You're so sure you proved yourself right, huh?
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Everybody may have their own criteria of preferences, so the same solution with fail for one and succeed for another.
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Because of course SSTO has benefits over TSTO, simplicity of operation being one example.
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> I only want to see the word 'Gemini' when it relates to Alan Parsons records or to Zodiac signs. Why not the American second manned spaceship? Gemini was a really good step ahead at the time. Back to the question - Firefox wi
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> So stoked for this observatory to go online! Second this, but other areas are of great interest too. Kuiper Belt discoveries and surveys FTW!
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A pretty recent work: https://github.com/sergev/BCause .
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Northrop Grumman Lunar Landet Challenge was before 2010. Works of e.g. Armadillo Aerospace...
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Isn't it a good lubricant because it's easily split into 2D layers?
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People may have different definitions of "normal" here.
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> But how come Penrose’s theorems forbid out such outcomes? It’s all down to a rule called the quantum exclusion principle, which states that no two identical particles known as fermions can occupy the same quantum state (such as angular
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I'm pretty good with textual stories. The presentation format is another matter, there is a difference.
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For a very early beginning take a look here - https://github.com/cpldcpu/MCPU .
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Presentations, including video ones. The ideas feel pretty clear in the head long before you can describe it in a manner which ideally could be a pleasure to watch. What tooling to use, how to work with all that, how to even plan the layout
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Given that all of them but one are white, what the point that would be? Songs are not because Obama is black, but because he was the first black on the role.
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It's important not to start wars first. Good arguments would also help.
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Can you clarify what reality you're talking about? How NASA would do it cheaper?
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But likely, it's hard to find an adequate management.
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The dicks are the management.
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> I'm not sure if we can do better than evolution. Surely we can, see aiplanes and rockets. There could be ideas why evolution didn't work in this case - like, too little time between humans getting power and conquering the pla
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It's a bad idea to avoid comparison with the past, particularly with the World War II, for not a good reason. Comparing this war with WWII, then both sides did a lot of things, yet the conclusion still is that the Hitler deserved to be
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There's technological revolution going on related to space exploration.

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