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Erin Anne
Apr 28, 2023 02:50
@uhoh I am personally very pro-Mastodon, despite many faults that it has. If you want to talk about it at all feel free to fire up a side chat with me, but fedi.tips is a very good start
fyrepenguin
Apr 28, 2023 00:57
@uhoh considering how many Raptors have been made recently? It would at least appear that they can do whatever they want with them
PearsonArtPhoto
Apr 28, 2023 00:48
I think each SLS engine costs about $65 million. Not sure what Raptor cost these days.
Erin Anne
Apr 27, 2023 19:37
I'm not touching it with a ten foot pole
Rory Alsop
Apr 19, 2023 17:11
@TheMatrixEquation-balance nothing miraculous. Just lots of hard work. Never ascribe miracles to that which folks do through hard graft.
called2voyage
Apr 1, 2021 17:30
I've just been promoted to a Project Manager position at work!
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Erin Anne
Apr 7, 2023 22:15
no preview showing for me so sorry if this is redundant for others:
> Starship fully stacked at Starbase. Team is working towards a launch rehearsal next week followed by Starship’s first integrated flight test ~week later pending regulatory approval
Erin Anne
Apr 3, 2023 04:59
@uhoh April Fool's Day post, I think.
Erin Anne
Mar 13, 2023 04:47
@uhoh I kind of see why you went for Mr Bill, but that asteroid is a dead ringer for Beaker
Space Exploration Meta
Dec 16, 2021 05:55
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Q: Graduation of Space Exploration

called2voyageThe Space Exploration Stack Exchange site is scheduled to graduate from Beta to a full site today, December 16th. The moderator team would like to congratulate our entire user base for the contributions that made this graduation possible. The hard work and diligence in asking and answering questi...

discussion featured graduation
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Erin Anne
Feb 19, 2023 02:17
Maybe more helpful: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2212/2212.08139.pdf
"‘Fluidic Shaping’, uses surface tension under neutral (or near neutral) buoyancy conditions to shape a volume of liquid into useful optical components by contacting it with a rigid bounding frame that serves as a spatial constraint. Neutral buoyancy is achieved using an insoluble immersion liquid that has equal density to that of the optical liquid. Both spherical and aspherical lenses, as well as freeform components, can be produced, with the specific topography controlled by the shape of the bounding frame and th…
Erin Anne
Feb 19, 2023 02:15
@uhoh I'm not a part of the Astronomy stack, but here's the (unhelpful) comment I failed to leave: I really wish NASA would cite relevant papers in the press releases. They're secondary sources pretending to be primary ones
SF.
Feb 15, 2023 11:48
Just found an easter egg on Google: Do a search for "Perseverance rover" and in the right infobox about the rover there's an animated pic of Ingenuity. Click on it and it will start flying all over the screen which turns Martian tint with Martian ground on the bottom.
geoffc
Dec 1, 2020 19:49
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” douglas adams
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Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:11
At the weekend we tried to go swim in the loch up the hill from us, but the ice was so thick we couldn't get through it with hammers or axes. Someone opened up a plunge pool the next day with ice saws, but we ended up just swimming in the sea, which at this time of year is 7C, so not as exciting
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:10
@geoffc Yeah, I have a couple of friends from there - they laugh at our snow
geoffc
Dec 22, 2022 15:10
Coldest I remember is 2003 polar vortex, I biked to work, and to my run group every day of it, -20C was the warm part. -30 and -40C were the low points. I ran outdoors 4 days in that.
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:09
This year it got down to -10C at my house, with a couple of inches of snow. That's the coldest in 12 years.
geoffc
Dec 22, 2022 15:09
Only place worse is London, Ontario. Wedged between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Snow from almost all directions.
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:08
Yeah, we always whine about the weather in Britain, but we don't have bad weather compared to anywhere else on the planet. It doesn't get very cold, or hot, or stormy, have big floods or droughts, no tornadoes or hurricanes. It's just middle of the road
geoffc
Dec 22, 2022 15:08
My friend lives in BUffalo, which is sucker punched by lake effect snow. If the wind is from the north, they get dumped on, as cold air crosses Lake Ontario and then dumps it on the land. If the wind is from the west, they get the moist air from Lake Erie. If the wind is from the east, they still get some Lake Ontario snow. They got 6 feet the other week.
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:07
@geoffc lol
geoffc
Dec 22, 2022 15:06
@RoryAlsop Mike Meyers, SNL is a classic one. Won't repeat here. But its crap!
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:06
@geoffc Surely his line was, "If it's not Scottish, it's crap"
geoffc
Dec 22, 2022 15:06
Haha P-t-A is a great one. Big storm coming this weekend to my neighbourhood.
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:04
Currently waiting nervously for my daughter to return home from Wisconsin via Chicago and London. The weather in Wisconsin has meant her flight to Chicago has been cancelled, so all a bit worried for her
Rory Alsop
Dec 22, 2022 15:03
@geoffc I'm central Scotland, so currently GMT or UTC0
geoffc
Dec 22, 2022 15:03
No jokes, must not make Scottish jokes.
geoffc
Dec 20, 2022 15:02
@RoryAlsop There be hats in them there hills... Seems like a coupld of chat hats are available if you want to participate.
geoffc
Dec 20, 2022 13:45
Trying to gete that badge today again. Anyone here to respond?
Rory Alsop
Sep 14, 2018 14:53
@geoffc B.F.S = Banana For Scale... Coincidence?
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geoffc
Dec 9, 2022 00:14
Lucky Bastard: youtube.com/watch?v=slSb72vwaBc
geoffc
Dec 9, 2022 00:14
(1:47 time stamp, but short watch whole thing for the entirety of the joke).
geoffc
Dec 9, 2022 00:10
(I don't think they are doing Apollo 8 into orbit, rather Apollo 13, around, minus the LOX tank explosion).
geoffc
Dec 8, 2022 23:14
And Falcon9 launched 40 OneWeb satellites. Nice argument to counter monopoly claims, when you bail out your competition, who if you simply left them alone, would have failed, since there was no real capacity anywhere else to launch them in the reasonable time window.
DylanSp
May 27, 2020 20:27
tomorrow: Elon Musk announces a weather control company
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geoffc
Jun 30, 2021 14:53
It is a small-sat-palooza!
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geoffc
May 30, 2021 11:30
Raptor production is approaching one every 48 hours
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1398803577380904961?s=19
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DrSheldon
Apr 28, 2021 23:03
RIP Michael Collins.
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geoffc
Mar 30, 2021 17:49
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PearsonArtPhoto
Dec 21, 2020 16:10
The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, Dec 2020
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geoffc
Nov 2, 2020 13:06
@uhoh I have a bee I named.
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Space Exploration Meta
May 20, 2022 20:03
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Q: Why do I lose 1 reputation for downvoting answer?

Starship is go for launchWhy do I lose 1 reputation for downvoting answer? This discourages a lot of people to downvote answers that really should be downvoted.

feature-request reputation voting down-votes votes
Space Exploration Meta
May 20, 2022 20:03
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Q: Is there a way to give someone the edit privelege before they reach 1000 rep?

Starship is go for launchI have noticed that user47149 keeps submitting very large amounts good suggested edits to the queque. However that user has less than 1000 rep. Is there a way to make that user bypass needing edit approval?

discussion support editing users suggested-edits
Space Exploration Meta
May 12, 2022 22:26
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Q: Please do not use code blocks formatting for text that is not code

user47149Formatting dedicated for code blocks should be used exclusively for code and things like compiler options. It is not an alternative version of blockquote formatting; using it as such throws off the operation of accessibility software, like text-to-speech programs used by people with visual impair...

discussion editing formatting etiquette
called2voyage
Aug 20, 2020 12:52
Still getting a high rate of unnecessary or misspelled tags. Edit crew, can we please keep an eye on this when reviewing first posts or editing new posts that come across the front page? It only takes a moment to mouse over the tags and see if they are new (only used on 1 or 2 questions) or not. If they are new, then make sure we will actually use those tags, that they are spelled correctly, and that we don't have an equivalent tag already.
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XKCD
Oct 14, 2016 04:08
"This seems more like a way to attract turkey vultures." "My mom always told me a turkey vulture is just a friend you haven't met yet, usually because you don't smell enough like decaying meat."
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Jerard Puckett
Aug 23, 2016 01:18
I don't want to read political debates here, period.
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TildalWave
Jul 16, 2015 22:36
Happy 2nd birthday Space Exploration!
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PearsonArtPhoto
Jan 1, 2019 05:27
Happy New Horizons flyby day!
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