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12:16 AM

This just in from CNN: Space scientists want to pay you almost $19,000 to lie in bed for 2 months

Where do I sign up? I haven't watched TV for ten years so I've got plenty of catching up to do ;-)

Haha. Probably less fun than you would expect. Muscle degredation. Peeing/pooping in bed is not fun. I expect no sitting up either.

7 hours later…

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7:46 AM

Q: Could a steam Engine out perform other electric producing devices in space?

What would be the Specific Impulse of a steam-based propulsion system like this model in space? Are there any types of engine that works this way? Could 2 tanks be designed to rotate slowly in space creating micro gravity in the tanks. The tank facing the sun would boil the water to the other c...

looks much better, I think it can be reopened...

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9:11 AM

Q: Help understanding this unsettling image of Titan, Epimetheus, and Saturn's rings?

The NY Times article Saturn’s Rings Are Sculpted by a Crew of Mini-Moons is really interesting and links to the recent paywalled paper in Science Close Cassini flybys of Saturn’s ring moons Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora, and Epimetheus But I absolutely can't understand one of the photos in the NY...