Search results

This thread is full of ghosts :shifty: Launch was a success, with the payload deployed into the correct orbit and landing was right on the center of the ship. This is the 40th launch of the Falcon 9 (if we include the one that blew up on the ground) and the 12th this year.

What if it causes Autism?

/\ this is what reality looks like in your mind. \/ this is what reality actually looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competition#2010s:_Launch_market_competition_and_pricing_pressure http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/29/technology/business/tesla-model-3/index.html

Two turning, two burning, two choking, two smoking and two more unaccounted for.

The resources that go into data recovery have to come from somewhere. So you have a choice to make: 1.) Either have NASA spend millions trying to recover data that may or may not work and may or may not be significant or... 2.) Have NASA build more large rockets to do new science. There's...

Resetting the clock makes the samples appear younger, not older. If the clock was reset, it was last reset ~65 000 years ago. The fourth paragraph in the news article says: It's almost as if the scientists that spend ~30 years in school and their entire life studying these subjects are...

It's the same in Slovenian. So many times that I turned 64 into 46.

Spaceflight: Minutes of terror an excitement, followed by years of boredom.

Wow, interesting. Ok, so a particle made up of three quarks is called a Baryon. We know a bunch of them already, but protons and neutrons are more commonly known. Each quark has a spin of 1/2, so having three quarks leaves you with two options for the total spin of the particle: 1/2 + 1/2 +...

The rocket did drop maybe 10 to 20 cm in the end and it's sitting a little low, but I don't think the engines impacted the ground and it isn't tilted.

Perfect landing! And video all the way down!

Webcast starting in 30 minutes. The new titanium grid fins should provide more temperature resistance. I really like seeing the glow they create on reentry. Keep an eye for it today if you haven't seen it. Elon Musk on Twitter: "Closeup of the titanium grid fins. Not painted, as they glow red...

I don't think so. Looks close, but the crush core is designed to take the blow so the engines don't take it. You'd have to crush them and the legs to go all the way. Also... it's a rocket. They tend to go boom on impact :P

Elon Musk on Twitter: "Rocket is extra toasty and hit the deck hard (used almost all of the emergency crush core), but otherwise good" Hit the deck hard, which explains why it's tilted - one leg's crush core got used up more than others. I also think it was out of position. Just as the feed...

Elon Musk on Twitter: "Falcon 9 will experience its highest ever reentry force and heat in today's launch. Good chance rocket booster doesn't make it back." Oh-oh! Looks like they might be testing the limits of the stage. ---------- Post added at 19:20 ---------- Previous post was at 18:38...

The portable AC unit we used to have cooled the air from 27°C to 7°C when we first bought it. If you placed your hand on the cool air exhaust, it became uncomfortably cold really quickly. While the 7°C air is near 100% relative humidity, it quickly mixes with the room's warm air. The overall...

One more thing I should add: After a few years of use, you'll see a decrease in performance. The working gas inside the unit slowly leaks out and the unit will need to be serviced.

I can't see from the pictures how it deals with water, but when you leave it on for hours in hot, humid air, it'll produce many liters of water. If the tank overflows, the water might spill. I had that happen to me when I fell asleep next to it running and I woke up with the parquet floor...

In general yes, you can do this. If the planet has no atmosphere, you can always place the station in a low enough circular orbit that even the slightest reduction is velocity would lead the projectile to intersect with the surface. Also be in mind that while you throw your projectile into a...

That's quite a vote of confidence.