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Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
00:01
anyone know when the next F9R landing attempt will be? (hopefully in daylight)
in fact, would be nice to have a method for quickly figuring out if any upcoming mission would support a landing -- I know we've had previous discussions about this based on the mission parameters
@Hohmannfan, I was just looking at that question about launchers using external power/thrust systems and wondering why nobody has added anything about air-breathing engines -- you should add that to your answer to strengthen the question and answer (I was going to add it as another answer but am kind of lazy)
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Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
00:33
@BrianLynch great idea, thanks!
TildalWave
TildalWave
00:44
@BrianLynch Thanks for this, cute story!
auch danke für kein verderben :)
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
01:18
I got the moderator tools, and I am kinda not comfortable with it. Is this the time to scream and run?
Oh! There is a page about that at the help centre, never mind
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
@BrianLynch -- Jason-3 launch out of Vandenberg on January 17, barge landing attempt. That's a F9 1.1 not a Full Thrust.
Then on January 23, a Full Thrust launch out of Canaveral, that might be a return to launch site.
List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
This is a list of missions, historic and planned, for the SpaceX Falcon 9 family of launch vehicles. The four versions of the rocket are the Falcon 9 v1.0 (now retired), currently-operational Falcon 9 v1.1, Falcon 9 v1.1 Full Thrust, and the in-development Falcon Heavy. == Notable missions == === Maiden launch === The Falcon 9 maiden launch occurred on June 4, 2010 and was deemed a success, placing the test payload within 1 percent of the intended orbit. The second stage engine performed a short second burn to demonstrate its multiple firing capability. The rocket experienced, "a littl...
Primary payload's about 4 tons, so if they aren't carrying much else, they should be able to do RTLS
Oh, hmm, it's going to GTO, though, so will need more oomph.
TildalWave
TildalWave
01:43
> One year after pioneering this technique on flight 16, Falcon will again launch two Boeing 702SP electric-propulsion satellites in a dual-stack configuration,[74] with the same customers sharing the rocket and mission costs.
the "pioneering" part there is the all-electric propulsion sats, not the dual-stack config as the text suggests... nothing "pioneering" about that
e.g. all Galileo sats are launched in couples
but there were many others launched like that before
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^ (on 15th, Jason-3 Prelaunch News Conference & Mission Science Briefing, on NASA TV nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv, more info: nasa.gov/press-release/…)
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^ (on 17th, Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deploying Jason-3 ocean altimetry sattelite for NASA and NOAA, same links as above, SpaceX will webcast at spacex.com/webcast)
 
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^ (on 20th, Smithsonian Air & Space "Mission to Mars" presentaton w/ John Grant on NASA’s ongoing Mars rover missions, airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/whats-new-aerospace)
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^ (all four, 19th-22nd, University of Southampton's 2nd Stardust Global Virtual Workshop (4 days), ocs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/Stardust-GVWII/Stardust-GVWII, webcast: livestream.com/UniversityofSouthampton/StardustGVW2)
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^ (on 21st, 2nd Stardust GVW's Public Lecture: Orbital Debris and Breaking Cognitive Biases w/ Dr. Darren McKnight, same links as above + ocs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/Stardust-GVWII/index/pages/view/…)
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^ (both, Feb. 1st-2nd, NASA OPAG (Outer Planets Assessment Group) Winter Meeting 2016 (2 days), lpi.usra.edu/planetary_news/2016/01/08/…, Adobe Connect link TBA)
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^ (both, Mar. 2nd-3rd, 31st MEPAG (Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group) Meeting (2 days), mepag.nasa.gov/meetings.cfm?expand=m31, Adobe Connect link TBA but most likely connect.arc.nasa.gov/mepag, times are best guess based on same format previous meeting, also TBA)
 
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Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
08:15
@TildalWave haha I got danke and fur, but admittedly had to google translate that... no problem, I forget the ending anyway :)
@RussellBorogove sweet, just what I was hoping!
 
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Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
15:39
The 2nd 3rd and 4th answer to this question: space.stackexchange.com/questions/3012/…
Do they actually add anything valuable to the site?
TildalWave
TildalWave
15:53
@Hohmannfan they're deleted, you just see deleted posts now
one troll post per year on a lunar landing "how did they do it" question isn't even that bad :)
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
Sorry! I now realized what the red frame was :)
TildalWave
TildalWave
it does look a bit untidy ... I think it would be better if there was just a text link under kept answers, something like "this question has 3 deleted answers, click here to display them all", similar to how you can expand comments if there's more than 5
or at least some user setting, like "hide deleted answers with last activity older than x months"
basically, so recently deleted ones would still display by default to high rep members, in case there was something fishy going on and needs restoring, but if nothing has changed for them in, say, 3 months, then don't display the whole deleted posts but just a link to expand
(unless you came there through search)
I'm thinking on my feet here LOL
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Q: Is it possible to use zinc powder as a NTR propellant?

HohmannfanThe ISP of a propellant is important when mass is the limiting factor, however, that is not exactly the case when launching a rocket. For the first part of the flight, the density of the propellant is also important. Higher density -> more propellant in the same tank -> higher mass ratio -> more...

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@Hohmannfan This is a bit wrong, especially the Higher density -> more propellant in the same tank -> higher mass ratio -> more Δv
not more Δv, but higher thrust (mass flow rate)
you get more Δv with low molar mass propellants
because 1/2mv^2
this is actually the same regardless of the method how exhaust is energized
chemical, ion, magnetothermodynamic, dissociation (NTR),...
TildalWave
TildalWave
16:25
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has vapor pressure for Zinc, compare that to Xenon at the top left
basically, you'd have to invest exponential amount of energy to energize linearly increasing mass of exhaust products
and as per 1/2mv^2, velocity matters more than mass
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
16:43
@TildalWave Am I too unclear in my question? I know low molar mass is best, but "Higher density -> more propellant in the same tank -> higher mass ratio -> more Δv" is actually correct. Consider a 1kg rocket with a 1L propellant tank. I have two propellants, one 1kg/L and 1000m/s, and one 2kg/L 700m/s. The denser actually gives a higher delta-v, despite having a lover exhaust velocity.
TildalWave
TildalWave
@Hohmannfan it's correct assuming same Isp, which it wouldn't be
at some point you also get to T/W < 1 so not the best choice for first stages then (depends where)
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Q: Why do lower molar mass rocket exhaust products give higher specific impulse?

Brinn BelyeaI tried to work this out. My thinking is as follows. If the same amount of energy is given to a low mass particle and a high mass particle, the low mass particle is faster. A particle with a mass of 1 will be twice as fast as a particle with a mass of 4 but the momentum of the particle with a mas...

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Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
@TildalWave But higher density may outweight lower ISP. Density impulse is a COMBINED metric, denisty*ISP!
The first seconds=density impulse, the last seconds=specific impulse. Everything in between is a trade-off, where hydrogen eventually gets the advantage
TildalWave
TildalWave
you're confusing the matters there with that density impulse
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you know it well
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
ISP is the "V_e" part, density is affects the ln(m_0/m_1) part.
TildalWave
TildalWave
you mean because it's easier to store so you have less dead weight?
I very much doubt it because you'll also have to deal with much higher exhaust temperature, and either case it would only be a small improvement.... and density in m_0/m_1 doesn't really matter (density/volume = mass, so you only potentially save a bit the wrapping of that volume)
again, higher exhaust temperature will offset that into a disadvantage
find a similar chart for vapor pressure for hydrogen, you'll see why
IIRC H2 dissociated at 3500K gives Isp of about 1,400 seconds
at 4000K I think it gives 1,700
NTR of heavier metals on its own won't have a very good Isp, I doubt it's much over 500 seconds at 4,000 K
it might be interesting to see what happens in a VASIMR tho
I think there were some attempts to use led for high thrust ion thrusters
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
17:05
NTR on zinc is 130s
TildalWave
TildalWave
oh that's bad
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
But take a look at the edit, density means a lot
TildalWave
TildalWave
at what temperature?
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
3100 K ish
TildalWave
TildalWave
OK so I was generous by about 2x :)
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
17:06
usual 68 to 1 atm expansion, 1.67 heat ratio
500s is more like ammonia
TildalWave
TildalWave
you're using extremely small volume of 10 cubic meters and 10 metric tons tank mass?
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
Just to show the point
Not just tank, engine as well
TildalWave
TildalWave
yeah I know but if you now plug much higher mass fraction into it, it will give H2 advantage over H2O at wet-to-dry mass ratio of only 7
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
But if you increase the size of the tank to 100m³, water is still better :P
...and the delta-v for the water rocket is then actually high enough to get into orbit
TildalWave
TildalWave
at 1000 m^3 (only 70,870 kg of hydrogen) you already get better delta-v for H2
so mass ratio of 7:1
that would be quite an awful mass ratio for any rocket stage wouldn't it?
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
17:20
at 1000m³ they both have a delta-v of about 18 km/s
much more than any existing stage
Updated tank volume to 100m³. But why not use water first, then hydrogen? The best from two worlds.
TildalWave
TildalWave
17:57
you're applying too many things at the same time when trying to understand fundamentals
Use water as what? For NTR? It takes too much energy to dissociate compared to hydrogen and you'll also have flow rate problems but that's already engineering and adding more things to it
water is usually mixed in hydrogen to lower exhaust temperature... there's that nuclear salt water rocket by Zubrin that adds high molar mass products to it for thrust, but that doesn't really increase specific impulse (the opposite)
mind, "salt" there is Uranium or Plutonium LOL
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
"water as what?" propellant! "for NTR?" Yes. BTW, water does only slightly disassociate at 3100 K.
TildalWave
TildalWave
18:14
and how is that an advantage?
you want it to dissociate as much as possible
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A: Nuclear thermal rocket specific impulse calculation uses 1 amu, is that wrong?

Geoffrey LandisSome of the hydrogen will be disassociated. For the reaction mass that is not dissociated, and passes through the engine in the form of diatomic hydrogen, in addition to the three translational degrees of freedom, heat energy is also put into the vibrational and rotational energy of the hydrogen ...

Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
18:31
@TildalWave I did not say it was an advantage, I just stated the fact. Your previous post seemed to imply I had not considered if the propellants disassociated or not.
TildalWave
TildalWave
Yeah OK I'll admit I'm not giving this my full attention and thought we're having a casual chat. I'm doing other things now and this won't change today nor probably for the rest of the week. :P
the answer to your question is yes, it's possible ... I'm just not sure that NTR is the best way of going about it and it won't increase Isp not delta-v for a given specific energy density .... but there might be engineering solutions that I'm not aware of that can energize zinc more efficiently ... NSWR is the closest I can think of and in a sense it's a NTR, or maybe high thrust plasma drives could do that better, dunno
BTW I think that Zubrin's NSWR suffers from some basic flaw there, I get exhaust temperature at nearly 1 billion K LOL
(a bit over 1 million K for the lower Isp version)
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
18:56
@TildalWave Sorry TildalWave, I may have been a little too aggressive, it so easy to not care about what I am writing in a chat. Please bear with me. You are the one that is on-topic, helpful and point out the holes in my arguments. You are doing an enormous job here on the site, and was the person who took the time to learn me how SE really worked. Keep up the good work! (I also ask this question again: Do you really sleep?)
TildalWave
TildalWave
oww no no I didn't mean that there's any apology necessary, I was just explaining that I might be taking this a bit too casual because I can't dedicate much time to it ... and yes, I do sleep LOL not much during week days but I make up for that during weekends ... frankly, I'm not sure I feel completely awake now LOL
BTW why zinc?
ah OK you mention that in the question
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
And not mercury :) I have a lot of unpublished stuff on alternate NTR propellants, but sadly, it is all in Norwegian.
TildalWave
TildalWave
usually, when you mix high molar mass additives to your propellant you're doing that to increase mass flow rate (thrust), but Isp will decrease
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
That too
For a NTR, thrust is inversely proportional with ISP
TildalWave
TildalWave
or you might wanna combine that with some other benefit, such as chemical catalyst ... aluminum nanopowder is most commonly used for that
I don't know much about zinc to be honest... not for such applications at least
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
19:05
All my data is in Norwegian! I can't give you all the NTR analyses I have
TildalWave
TildalWave
and that NSWR still bothers me
I think that Zubrin is there just assuming that adding more massive particles to it will keep same exhaust velocity
or I just don't get it
or ... he's basically thinking of a sustained thermonuclear explosion
that would then explain where I get those ludicrous temperatures from
but I have no idea how to work with that then
(I don't know what design to apply for exhaust temperature of the Sun LOL)
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
My internet connection is dying, bye!
David Freitag
David Freitag
19:29
@TildalWave Aluminum nanopowder? Sounds like a great match for some iron oxide
TildalWave
TildalWave
yeah actually I should say aluminum oxide nanopowder
any half decent rocket scientist like I'm not should know that :P
David Freitag
David Freitag
@TildalWave If you're not a great scientist I don't know who is.
TildalWave
TildalWave
bah I'm just some IT guy ;)
anyway it's tricky to have pure aluminum nanopowder because it either oxidizes or cold welds ... so you'd have to have it suspended in something that prevents oxidation
it would be cool to play with pure aluminum nanolattice tho
that thing probably goes in a real nice flash :))
David Freitag
David Freitag
I think it would be awesome to play with anything that has the word "nano" in the name
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
get a hexbug nano
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David Freitag
David Freitag
19:46
@BrianLynch I put a laser pointer on one and sent my friend's cat into a curious rage
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
nice
Rottweiler playing with Hexbug
►
^my dog playing with one
unending entertainment
David Freitag
David Freitag
@BrianLynch God that's hysterical
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
such a cool little toy too
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
20:00
@BrianLynch So that is a 'nano' bug, is a regular bug about 30,000 km then?
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yes, they are working on that one
er I mean, no my dog is really really small
is there a description of today's space show?
the most I can find is the one-liner in the notification bar here
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
No description on the live365 page either
kim holder
kim holder
and right now i'm getting ambient pop music
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
same here
kim holder
kim holder
cislunarone.com/#1launch
^ that's the website of one of the guests
john strickland does a lot of writing for the space review
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
20:05
nice, was just looking at that
trying to read the paper quickly haha
kim holder
kim holder
it's an overview really
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
lol after what you said earlier now I am second guessing my assumption of what COTS means
and I can't find them listing the acronym anywhere
not even on lunarCOTS.com
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
PEBKAC
kim holder
kim holder
its that same reference, commercial orbital transfer, uh, service i think
it's more a reference to that public private partnership approach
i've talked to him at length and exchanged a couple of emails
this is the thing, he's a medical doctor and doesn't really have the time to focus on this
@Hohmannfan i had to look that up...
@BrianLynch hehehhee that is a lot of fun
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
I'm eager to ask him about teleoperation delay and how that affects trade-off between manual operation and autonomy
since he talks about his experience with teleop surgery
aha so it isn't commercial-off-the-shelf!
lol I guess not so generic music
TildalWave
TildalWave
20:22
The Space Show w/ Dr. D. Plata & J. Strickland on cislunar space development, technology and economics is now podcast live. More info in the newsletter
soz for delay, I was out :P
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
the lack of full justification in the cislunarone.com paper is making me cringe though lol
TildalWave
TildalWave
ah they haven't started yet?
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
no tech difficulties
TildalWave
TildalWave
ah
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
@kimholder How is moonwards progressing?
kim holder
kim holder
20:24
i'm working on updating models with improved designs right now
i have several to do
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
@kimholder what is your opinion of the "first woman on the Moon"
image on the last page of that paper?
kim holder
kim holder
i decided to let that pass...
:P
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
lol
kind of made me face-palm
kim holder
kim holder
he pulls these images from elsewhere
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
oh yea I would assume so
kim holder
kim holder
20:27
but he does have a sort of protective stance about women
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
oh really?
kim holder
kim holder
he plans to send two married couples. but the men go first, and their wives come later
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
of course he also lists "the first couple" and "the first pet" along with "metals & glass produced"
I like that stuff a bit since it makes space exploration feel closer to being part of day-to-day life... but also makes my eyes roll when I just want to hear about the actual science and technology
TildalWave
TildalWave
oww David has put up a new newsletter for the upcoming week ... I'll have to find the description of today's show in my mail then
hmmm just that one line
kim holder
kim holder
he's especially interested in establishing a community. he is attracted to considering the reproductive issues and how to overcome them
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
20:33
really? wow
TildalWave
TildalWave
why is that "first woman on the moon" shown with a helmet off? :OO
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
we don't even do that in Antarctica!
TildalWave
TildalWave
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Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
lol cuz she doesn't want to ruin her hair Tildal
TildalWave
TildalWave
she's big! :)
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
20:33
hahaha
that picture is like something out of an adult anime show
TildalWave
TildalWave
it's awful
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yea I couldn't believe that was in the appendix
TildalWave
TildalWave
OK we're live with the show
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^ (tomorrow, The Space Show w/ Dr. Louis Freedman re his book "Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars", more info: thespaceshow.com/newsletter, podcast: thespaceshow.com/content/listen-live)
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^ (on 12th/13th, The Space Show w/ Jim Muncy, President and founder of PoliSpace, same links as above)
OK I found the description for today's show here thespaceshow.com/newsletter?page=1
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^ (on 15th, The Space Show w/ Steve Wolfe & James Causey re NTP's SpaceCom Space Commerce Conference and Exposition, same links as above)
I'll schedule the John Batchelor show on 13th when more info is available
 
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My Other Head
My Other Head
21:57
@BrianLynch, Lovely beautiful rottie you got there.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
@MyOtherHead thanks! he is pretty adorable, rotties are so awesome :)
holy the population in here reached double digits!
I have to say I am not very impressed by Plata's arguments
TildalWave
TildalWave
in decimal system, it's 4 digits in binary :P
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
lol very true!
TildalWave
TildalWave
or 1 digit if you were born with a polydactylism
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
lol
TildalWave
TildalWave
22:04
I had to google that word :))
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
oh yea me too haha
TildalWave
TildalWave
I wasn't even close with "my" spelling of it
how was Star Wars?
My Other Head
My Other Head
@BrianLynch Never had the pleasure of being an owner, but I was an "uncle" to a late close friend's rottie, whose name escapes me at the moment. The rottie was like his owner. I know I'm missing the Space Show, but I was doing work-work when it started, and І don't like to come into the middle/end of a show.
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
I tried to calculate the ideal velocity for a vertical ascent, and surprisingly ended up with terminal velocity. I spent half an hour writing a question about it offline, was just about to post......And then I found that somebody had asked about that before. LOL
TildalWave
TildalWave
oh dear, sounds like you need sleep :)
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
22:19
@TildalWave But there are a lot more trajectory optimization left!
The terminal velocity thing has some strange implications though, the rocket must actually slow down a bit after a while, if it looses mass faster than the atmospheric density decrease.
TildalWave
TildalWave
one thing to remember about escape velocity is that it's also the impact speed at free fall towards the body with no atmosphere, if that fall started at 0 relative velocity at infinity ... it's just a different way of saying the same thing, but is useful sometimes
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
escape velocity?
@TildalWave Do you need to sleep too?
TildalWave
TildalWave
ah damnit I was reading it wrong didn't I?
yeah LOL
but it would be for a body with no atmosphere :P
I mean, ideal velocity for a vertical ascent
tho granted, for terminal velocity you do need an atmosphere :))
kim holder
kim holder
@BrianLynch oh, good on you - mention those credentials man!
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
lol I hate how he reads that, that's just an automated signature
gonna have to delete them for future questions
kim holder
kim holder
22:26
@BrianLynch i understand it completely, it looks good on the program too :)
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yea maybe he wants to read it so he can tout an educated audience hehe
kim holder
kim holder
exactly....
and it is already building you up for when i use you as a reference :]
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
haha the higher you climb though...
I'm so sick of hearing about cost
at least as a driving requirement
kim holder
kim holder
tell me about it
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
we'll end up with Walmart launch vehicles
if you're going to do it, do it right
and stop wasting money on F-35s
or drug wars
kim holder
kim holder
22:37
that's where you need a ground-swell of popular support
which points the issue straightly at public awareness and education
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yea it's true, the public will scoff at _any_dollar amount for a program they don't like
kim holder
kim holder
@BrianLynch could not agree more on that one...
the short-range visions that the public gets really makes the subject far far duller than it really is
Brian Lynch
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^and then no more whining about space costing too much
TildalWave
TildalWave
people just need to understand that we're not burning the money needed to get to space, we're spending it here on Earth and it stays here
kim holder
kim holder
and for my fav, the drug income of all the mexican cartels together is double to triple NASA's annual budget
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
22:41
@TildalWave very very true
didn't think about it like that
@kimholder wonder if they'll move from submarines to suborbital vehicles
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
are not submarines already suborbital? :P
kim holder
kim holder
rockets are too easy to track, unfortunately
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
ok sure, but then so am I when I get on a trampoline
TildalWave
TildalWave
@Hohmannfan not if they're in orbit :P
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
@TildalWave Dean drive reference?
TildalWave
TildalWave
22:44
neah, didn't think of that
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
Put the Dean machine on a submarine
TildalWave
TildalWave
google images for submarines in space
there's a long Japanese anime tradition in that
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
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TildalWave
TildalWave
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Space Battleship Yamato
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yea I love those art concepts
TildalWave
TildalWave
22:49
OK that's a battleship, but I've seen submarines too
geez that's as old as I am
(the manga versions)
why does YouTube want me to sign in to confirm my age when I wanna play Star Blazers?
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
@TildalWave koliko si star?
TildalWave
TildalWave
is that because it contains certain keywords like manga?
@Hohmannfan too old LOL
you're using Google translate?
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
Nope, Yandex tranlate
TildalWave
TildalWave
yeah it keeps same structure as you typed it in, it's OK but not exactly correct
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
23:43
I am maybe half a year late.... But I am in if a few more of you do it. Bounty January. 3 each?
@PearsonArtPhoto
Jun 24 '15 3:24 PM
Challenge: Let's bring our unanswered questions to 0. I'm personally putting forward some of my reputation to accomplish this, but I can only set 3 bounties at a time. I challenge those with high reputations, including @TildalWave and @geoffc to do the same. Let's see what we can accomplish!
TildalWave
TildalWave
We've done that before and will do it again. I stand by my position tho that I'd rather award bounty to really good answers than offer it with no guarantee that the question will get answers worthy of it.
I've awarded 1,900 rep in bounties so far, not counting some that didn't get any answers or I eventually ended up answering them myself
kim holder
kim holder
and i very much agree
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
^I echo that sentiment
kim holder
kim holder
also T has said before it would be better for the highest rep people to offer bounties rather than those of us below 20 000
TildalWave
TildalWave
I think we're doing just fine when it comes to percentage of answered questions
I'd even dare say we're doing great in that regard
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
23:48
is it possible for a moderator to force an answer to a question?
kim holder
kim holder
many graduated sites have lower stats on that
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
sorry an accepted answer I mean
TildalWave
TildalWave
nope
only OP can accept
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
gotcha
there were one or two I remember seeing where the OP clearly was happy with an answer but just upvoted it because they don't know how the site works
Hohmannfan
Hohmannfan
Or they are just gone...
TildalWave
TildalWave
23:50
oh don't be bothered by that, it's same rules of the game for all of us
we all have a fair share of answers like that
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
oh I mean more because I feel like having the green check mark makes it more useful for visitors
TildalWave
TildalWave
it shouldn't, the hover text on the accept says what it's there for
"The question owner accepted this as the best answer"
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
well I know how SE works but yet I still trust answers more that have the accepted check
kim holder
kim holder
give it time... :]
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
i.e., when I'm trying to solve problems with git or C++
TildalWave
TildalWave
23:52
hahaha exactly... give it time
at one point you're gonna double facepalm at which answer was accepted
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
oh yea I've been doing that already
to be honest I don't come here to get my questions answered lol
kim holder
kim holder
i get the feeling it is easier to be clear and precise about both questions and answers on the SE sites regarding coding.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yes exactly
I rely on those for direct answers with no bs
whereas SEx is just for fun
(sorry I couldn't resist)
kim holder
kim holder
:)))
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
I think I'd like to close my question on whether The Expanse is realistic in terms of trajectories and timelines, and start a new question about the exact same thing but without any reference to The Expanse
but should I just edit the original question instead?

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