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These are exciting finalists! That being said, I have some doubts about the viability of the drone. Flight on Titan is easy! With the high density of the atmosphere and low gravity, you don't need much to stay aloft, but a multirotor system is not very energy efficient. I'd give it wings for...

What could go wrong?

After years of talk, Falcon Heavy is finally getting ready: Elon Musk on Twitter: "Falcon Heavy at the Cape https://t.co/hizfDVsU7X"

Train wrecks always look horrible. Hence the phrase "train wreck".

Unfortunately there's no fiberoptic cable where I live :( We have an ADSL line, with a 40 / 5 Mbps speed, fastest offered over ADSL. The "modem" is the device that hooks into the phone line or the fiberoptic line. The name just stuck from the dial-up days. Yea, US has TERRIBLE internet, both...

Derp :| How much does it cost to rent the modem / router from your ISP? The equipment is included in the price in Slovenia and to my knowledge, you can't even replace the modem with your own. I also cannot imagine it being financially viable to actually buy your own modem and have it pay off...

That's the sensible explanation, but let's have some fun. So let's define three points on a sphere. Let A be the south pole. Let B and C be two points on the globe that don't lie on A, don't lie on each other and don't line on the same great circle line. So that gives us a wedge of territory...

Or maybe we can just make a society where women are not penalized for having kids. :facepalm:

I'm still waiting for a woman to show up on Orbiter Forum :P (Ok, so there have been a few...)

Observation pretty much boils down to an interaction with something. Anything.

Yea, I can see how that's a problem for a German :lol:

Talk is cheap, hardware is not.

:lol::lol::lol: I'm going to hell! :lol:

I have a few stupid questions: 1.) Given how complicated the piping for this engine is, why not just have to engines, a ramjet and a turbine that are fed from the same intake, where you can choose to divert the intake air into one or the other? Seems like a simpler design... 2.) Why would you...

Haven't they had multiple such failures on the test stand over time? The company's been improving performance of its Merlin engines for years now. Their engines have been fairly reliable in flight as only one Falcon 9 has so far suffered one single anomaly. My guess is they just pushed this...

THAT'S IT! CNN WAS RIGHT! IT'S MUELLER TIME! Paul Manafort has been ordered to surrender to federal authorities! ---------- Post added at 14:33 ---------- Previous post was at 14:29 ---------- Seems another guy got taken in. Rick Gates. I have not heard this name. Researching now...

Winter time is star-time. During winter, the sun is highest in the sky at noon, during summer it's at 1 pm. I like DST for two reasons: - The sun rises at 3.30 am in the morning otherwise. With DST, it rises at 4.30 - In the hot months, waking up at 7 am is hell already when the sun's been out...

We now live in a time comparable to the moment when Galileo Galilei first turned his telescope to the moons of Jupiter and saw the universe in a way never before seen by human eyes. He helped lay the foundation for the prosperity we enjoy today. What will we leave for our descendants?

For small, regional planes the turnaround times are fast, but the jumbos typically fly an average of once per day. The first electric planes are starting to take off. This is an electric you'll soon be able to buy: Pipistrel Alpha Electro http://www.pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-electro/overview...

Ok, so that's the instant dismissal of the idea, but turns out things are more complicated. Yes, planes would only receive a few percent of energy needed for the trip during the trip, assuming daylight. But if the panels and engines are light enough, airlines will adopt them because they'd...