The Pod Bay

now I wonder if they'll play greensleeves in space elevators too

Oh, and while we always talk of "closing" questions (force of habit, it used to be like that), they aren't really "closed" but merely "put on hold". They are automatically placed in the reopen review queue once they're edited, and they're only closed after a week, if they weren't edited or the edit wasn't really helpful (or the community disagrees with their reopen votes). What I'm saying is, that it's hardly the end of the world and we should probably do that more often than we do.

rather make that a 3 feet long line of double shots, now it turns out that rocket engines don't have to support any weight

I need a break ... and a double shot of a stiff drink

I'm not answering it tho, I had about enough of crap questions hitting the super collider

I blame Brian Cox with his stupid idea that it's simple to drop off something from orbit towards the parent body and you simply throw it towards the focus. He said that since that vector is perpendicular to the velocity vector, it will keep constant and the object will spiral towards the parent body. Right. Only one problem... half the orbit around, that vector is pointing away from the focus!! Blimey.

EST rules the world!

@TildalWave Not at all. This show was much better than any of the stuff put out by BBC or PBS for a long, long time. There we have a choice of quantum woo from Brian Cox or Brian Greene, or even worse nonsense from Michio Kaku. Discovery Channel has discovered reality TV. Cosmos reboot is excellent compared to that (not a good comparison). It is on a par with the original Cosmos. It is excellent scientific TV. That I criticized tiny bits of it means it's good, not bad.

They are jobs programs.

for the rest of us, Dollar isn't a convertible unit here :P

Are any of these cube-sats user programmable? do they provide an API?

most of those end up with me admitting to my stupidity anyway, which isn't anything new

maybe a bit more Jean Michel Jarre-esque

Plants are amazing things! Easy to grow, and they turn light and C02 + water into glucose and oxygen. You could not build a device that efficient, and self reproducing! :)

February 14 - Happy Southern Winter Solstice on the Red Planet! :D

cs.utexas.edu/~jbc/home/chef.html

Bah humbug - my connection isn't good enough for streaming :[

@PearsonArtPhoto BTW I hear that Rosetta has 6 different alarms clocks onboard (because apparently hardware guys that put it together didn't trust each other LOL)

The comments against questions/3457 make one wonder what would be the effect of exposure to vacuum of appendages other than the four limbs, neck, and head

Not surprised that Gravity failed to win best picture. It didn't have a lot of mass behind it.

there are no flags :P

Happy new year to you too! ... in a few hours maybe :p

What does a man here have to do to get a star?

Only time I've ever been through the Lincoln tunnel was in a bus without user adjustable windows.

Is that anything like 'On the wagon'?

Nope, misleading message. On the bus now.

I said RUDE not NUDE. :)

I must just not quite be a rocket scientist....

(Chatty Kitty?)

So can I get me a comment star please? :)

but we had a democracy here in around 600 a.d.

@Hennes aye I've seen that, also check the orbital resonance of Haumea it's quite cool

with some secret ones missing... there's some mSO post for those, just a sec...

@geoffc So... I have to think of a question do I? Hmmmm

aye the latest one about Quest airlock thermal hatch discoloration ... I added "quest-joint-airlock" tag

I already paid q+:

greetings

Btw, @Undo, I have new-found appreciation for your flagging

Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus to all! (take one that applies, but don't be greedy, just one! :P)

This week's TOTW (Dec 22 - 28): training astronaut-training training-facilities

He'll pass me within a week or two.

The more I look at it, Mark Adler is probably our Jon Skeet.

@JohnB everyone here need to get it, so star at least one post from anyone.... so the site gets more hats :)

Mark's? Yep; just going through it. It complements your answer

who needs the winter is coming hat!!

hahaha ^ how convenient :)