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Getting close! almost 8 years later and I see the faint glow of the light at the end of the tunnel! Rocket engine is finally stable! I havent had a catastrophic failure for over a year now. However there have been several premature shut-downs. Luckily I have been able to track them down and...

I want to say thank you to everyone here. Over these past few years its been a great journey and one that continues. My endeavor to understand has hit 3 milestones and without you guys I would have never been able to wrap my head around some of the concepts that many of you may laugh at thinking...

So Elon Musk Makes a statement about using Nukes on the poles to change the ice into atmosphere on Mars. I know... Links... http://www.iflscience.com/space/elon-musk-says-we-could-terraform-mars-dropping-thermonuclear-bombs-it So I by my logic I am an idiot. In a nutshell: I stated the reason...

I love each and everyone one you, and I mean that. I spent a lot of time here reading and lurking. Everytime I post something searching for gold I end up with Diamonds. You all are so awesome! Thank you for the ideas! I have several raspberry pi's (B models) in my possession and have been...

I want to build a few different desktop or shelf size, cool looking Physics demonstrations. I am posting this to farm ideas... Cloud Chamber - I have a Peltier cooler. But i would need to find a suitable energetic sample to make it work well I suppose. I am not sure if its a good idea or not...

After re-reading my post.. I seemed very negative, especially towards the end. No, not at all. I have been salivating over this movie for a very long time. This was 'my movie. I need to see it again clearly. I intend to do it soon. Part of the problem was seeing it on an 80inch lcd tv complete...

I admit, I am very, very late to the party... I just watched it for the first time about 2 or 3 nights ago and since then I have been thinking a lot about it. It was a great sci-fi movie if you did not remain grounded in reality while watching it. It hits some spots like 2001/2010 did.. On human...

MOON was awesome! I bought it on some type of medie.. I think dvd. I liked interstellar, but the science fact ruined it. I kept screaming BS in my head while watching it and ruined it story wise. However the space scenes were amazing!

I just want to say, I put fake in the title to denote that this was complete ... Fake. I avoid conspiracy land because its mainly people wanting to believe in bs. I also try not to wander very far into physics land either because of some invisible line than can be crossed into conspiracy land...

Thanks Loru. I should have thought about the Star types. It was a latenight brainfart... the whole post was.. I try so hard to remember as much as possible. As soon as I step away from space I instantly start forgetting important terms. I know some here think I was trolling, but those questions...

I came across this little story while listening to a recording of a female cosmonaut who sounds very distressed. The cosmonaut is a story of its own and one I suspect we will never know the truth. But the idea was some cats over in Italy back in the mid 50's constructed a extraordinary HAM radio...

Ha! I assure you, I am no student in school. As for question 2, yeah I would like to know.. As for the rest it was to drum up opinions. I like hearing peoples thoughts, a lot. Seeing how the understand things and think and feel about them.

Its been a little while since I raided the forums here so I figured I might make a stop by. :) I just finished reading an article by space dot com on ghost galaxies. Approximately 4bn years ago a few galaxies were ripped apart and some of the stars are apparently wondering around the area...

I gave into temptation and constructed one. I turned a few different nozzle types and played around with it for a few hours. What is shown in the video does not produce much thrust. It is a cool toy, and I cannot help but play with it when bored. I actually got a response from a designer of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2hOH23-zU I have the parts in my lab to construct one of these. Although I would have to turn a nozzle on my lathe, but I think I can make it. Does anyone know much about these engines? The skeptic that resides in my brain says thrust to weight is a big...

hahaha! I knew it! I did actually search too! :) I missed it because I must have not used the correct search terms. Then again, it was like 4 in the morning, Bill Nye talks about it in a vid and im like a kid on Xmas morning.

Impact Earth! Cool program/game Straight from Purdue university! Basically, you create an asteroid, launch it at earth and see the level of damage it would cause. This web app is Kinda fun and a useful teaching tool to those interested. :) All the thanks goes to Bill Nye for pointing it out...

NERVA - The Tech Behind It.. The simplistic nature of this propulsion just seems downright sexy. Launch via conventional chemical rocket, ignite nuclear to leave earths gravity at a predetermined distance. If I understood this correctly, its running liquid hydrogen through a reactor and...

OH GOSH, I didn't even think of that. The amount of damage it has sustained over the decades from impacts. Thermal cycling/radiation damage and of course it is probably safe to assume there is no atmosphere inside the craft.. Yet another thing to think about. Then again, some of these could be...

I remember the Stage and "white iron oxide paint" identifying it. There is another forum out there that discusses the question of snoopy and location. from my understanding nobody really knows. To many variables, solar wind, leaking gasses all apparently would greatly affect orbit. Its the...