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kim holder
kim holder
01:27
@JerardPuckett the alpha list? what's that? (sez the mod.) there's nothing in the synonym list or the tag list except ion-thruster
 
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Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
02:35
I listed the tags in alphabetical order.
Sorry, that's how I should have put it before.
By clicking on 'name.'
Then go to page 9.
kim holder
kim holder
03:05
@JerardPuckett huh, look at that. A new wrinkle. When i searched for everything with 'ion' they didn't come up...
they should indeed by synonyms
kim holder
kim holder
03:19
let's see... how is this done...
@JerardPuckett ok, those are all now synonyms for ion-thruster. and i even got a badge for it, cuz i'd never done it before :P
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
03:44
Fabulous.
Yes, search for 'ion' and you get words with 'nion' & 'tion.'
 
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XKCD
XKCD
13:45
Later, walking out of jail after posting $10,000 bail: "Wait, this isn't the street the county jail is on."
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
14:06
The rocket is fueling:-)
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
SpaceX livestream starting now, at least opening star screen.
Nice that they credit the artist.
kim holder
kim holder
Eutelsat/ABS Mission Hosted Webcast
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Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
It's like the old Windows screensaver, only with a more detailed backdrop.
kim holder
kim holder
Eutelsat/ABS Mission Technical Webcast
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the music plays much louder on the hosted stream :)
@JerardPuckett i relate it more to star trek :]
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
13K people watching a blank screen on Youtube...
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
14:10
Definitely meant to be a FTL journey.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
And then once the video starts, it only goes up 2K.
kim holder
kim holder
cape canaveral is the lightening capital of the US?
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Yeah, I caught the same thing...
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Q: Is Cape Canaveral really the lightning capital of the US?

PearsonArtPhotoToday's webcast featured an interesting quote, that Cape Canaveral is the lightning capital of the US. Is that really the case? If not, how does it compare in lightning strikes to other areas in the US?

launch-site cape-canaveral
kim holder
kim holder
oh, you beat me :D
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
:-)
Half of the reason to watch the webcast is they always have some interesting questions to ask here.
I think I applied to work with the payload from Raytheon they were just talking about.
kim holder
kim holder
14:21
Our q per day average has been over 5 for 2 months now. i think we are at a new plateau. nice to see.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info/lightningmaps/US_FD_Lightning.pdf
SpaceX grows crops?
kim holder
kim holder
@PearsonArtPhoto hm, looks like the capital is actually on that bay on the west coast of florida
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
user image
Yeah, but it's pretty close it seems.
kim holder
kim holder
ah yes, you got it in your answer
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
I notice they didn't show the one leaning on the droneship.
kim holder
kim holder
14:29
liftoff
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
SpaceX is much better at launching on time these days...
The number of launch attempts is going way down.
I love the mist coming off the rocket as it moves faster.
50K people on the YouTube stream...
kim holder
kim holder
it sounds like they have sound from the rocket...
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
The video is choppy... Not the stream, however.
kim holder
kim holder
MECO
stage heading back
wow, that was a great shot
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
It's interesting how long it takes to separate the fairing...
Suspense...
I saw an upright rocket, but still...
LOL.
kim holder
kim holder
14:38
yeah, it seemed good, flames on one of the legs looked in the right spot
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Did we land, or get experimental data?
60K viewers now...
On to Elon's twitter feed...
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Looks like a landing
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Yeah, but that happened for the Vandenburg landing attempt as well.
I say at least 90% the landing was successful, but...
Won't be surprised if F9 fell over after hard landing and knocked out comms.
Tweeted by DJSnM on June 15, 2016 at 2:41 PM
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
14:53
Looking at the little footage we have, it seems like it had a hard time staying upright, it was wobbling for a few seconds at landing.
The last second of video with the stage had it appearing steady, however...
They have to know, the helicopters must have reported to someone what the status was...
What was the bright light there?
So, the rocket seems to have been lost. Sigh.
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Ok, Elon, you made me log into Twitter, dammit.
Twitter: Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 24s25 seconds ago
Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship
My favorite acronym.
kim holder
kim holder
it will be interesting to see the footage. looked like it was close.
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 12s12 seconds ago
Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max.
i.e., it fell over (?)
Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 14s15 seconds ago
RUD = Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly :)
there should be a tag for that ;)
kim holder
kim holder
15:08
hmmm...
but it would then need to be made a synonym for launch-failure
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Well, sometimes [launch-failure] could mean did not reach proper orbit.
kim holder
kim holder
true
by the way, the secret sauce is you have to put [tag:tagname] to get it to display all nice
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 1m1 minute ago
Upgrades underway to enable rocket to compensate for a thrust shortfall on one of the three landing engines. Probably get there end of year.
rud
cool
And once I get one more point, I could write the wiki myself.
kim holder
kim holder
@JerardPuckett there :)
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Thank you
kim holder
kim holder
15:20
oh hey yeah - it exists, i forgot, it was the source of my questions about the origin of the term
space.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/961
Coined by Elon? sorry, no...
But it hasn't been used much. and i never fixed the entry.
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
I was about to say . . .
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
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A: Who coined the phrase 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly'?

PearsonArtPhotoSo far as I can tell, it was first a saying used by military personnel as the phrase "Rapid Unintentional Disassembly", for a phrase when a gun broke apart if you misused it. This was used by a book for Navy Personel in 1970, so I suspect it was in use for a while before then. This seems to have ...

kim holder
kim holder
yeah, that, exactly
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 3m3 minutes ago
Landing video will be posted when we gain access to cameras on the droneship later today. Maybe hardest impact to date. Droneship still ok.
no more time today, later all
kim holder
kim holder
@JerardPuckett cheers, Jerard
called2voyage
called2voyage
15:37
So, I just tumbled down the rabbit hole of John E. Brandenburg...
Sad to see a brilliant scientist drop into pseudoscience
He can still make a convincing sounding argument
kim holder
kim holder
@called2voyage yes, i got into that too.
there is enough that seems sound i'd like to hear a solid refutal of it, because i don't know enough to see the holes.
called2voyage
called2voyage
He has a point about the irregular nuclear results, and I hope it gets more serious research.
Even if his assumptions are wrong, I'd like to know the explanation for the observations.
kim holder
kim holder
the nuclear stuff is what really turned my head
might be the basis of a good question, if there is enough known to at least put it in context. which i take it there is?
called2voyage
called2voyage
It's like the whole Tabby's star controversy
kim holder
kim holder
ah, but Tabby's star is much more intriguing, no? i heard from someone just recently that the current hypotheses all have gaping holes.
called2voyage
called2voyage
15:42
Enough unknowns that the stupendous cannot be ruled out
@kimholder agreed, just similar, not the same
What's interesting to me is that Brandenburg claims he did present his findings to the Pentagon.
I'm curious if that's true
We'll probably never have the answer to that
kim holder
kim holder
rationalwiki.org/wiki/John_Brandenburg
i believe when i looked into it the explanation for the xenon isotopes was the level of cosmic radiation on Mars... but it was a fairly cursory search i did
that the isotopes were deposited by meteorites with a lot of deep space radiation exposure?
called2voyage
called2voyage
Yeah, there are plausible natural explanations, but I think the confidence stands to be improved.
kim holder
kim holder
16:16
washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/10/…
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
I saw that a few days ago.
1 in 2018, 2 in 2020, and likely increasing from there. Could become very interesting...
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kim holder
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> Essentially what we’re saying is we’re establishing a cargo route to Mars,” he said. “It’s a regular cargo route. You can count on it. It’s going to happen every 26 months. Like a train leaving the station. And if scientists around the world know that they can count on that, and it’s going to be inexpensive, relatively speaking compared to anything in the past, then they will plan accordingly and come up with a lot of great experiments.
cool :)
> Musk declined to provide too many details, saying he would unveil the system at a conference in September. But he was clearly excited about the prospect and could barely contain himself.

“This is going to be mind blowing,” he said. “Mind blowing. It’s going to be really great.”
heheheh
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
That's Elon for you.
called2voyage
called2voyage
Fantastic, when can I book my flight. ;)
Wait, why is there no return ticket?
Seriously, though, someday we'll see the Elon Musk Interplanetary Spaceport on Mars, I bet.
Maybe a B̶i̶g̶e̶l̶o̶w̶ Moonwards spaceport on the moon?
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
16:31
Planetary Post - HUGE Space Telescope
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I've seen almost everything in that video, although it was about 2 years ago...
kim holder
kim holder
@called2voyage 8] i'm working on it...
@PearsonArtPhoto i'd love to be able to do that. i have thought about putting that cam feed on in the background during the day.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
I did it the day before they did the Orion test, NASA has a social media day.
I used this site to get me in to it.
kim holder
kim holder
@PearsonArtPhoto HAH... wow, what an incredibly useful bit of information, Pearson :)
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
At long last, it looks like I'll get my 49th repcap here. Just 1 more to go, and I can finally become Epic.
I know of people who have used SE to get them in to conventions for free as "Media"
I should really try that.
kim holder
kim holder
oh... yeah.... hmmmm
kim holder
kim holder
17:37
so... if we had a blog.... i'd say we get enough hits to be considered 'press'...
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Yeah, the blog part is what helps a fair bit.
kim holder
kim holder
i could work on a blog... though i have really been trying to get some stuff done on moonwards, i'd have time to do that once that's progressed a little more
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
We'll get a blog when this site graduates.
I'm content to wait for now.
kim holder
kim holder
ah, yes. that wrinkle.
called2voyage
called2voyage
@PearsonArtPhoto I commented on the lightning question
I think we should migrate to Earth Science
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
17:48
Perhaps.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
18:19
Done.
called2voyage
called2voyage
Don't forget to explain which webcast
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Fair enough.
called2voyage
called2voyage
Looks good, thanks!
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Besides, I hit the repcap today, might as well get a bit more reputation somewhere else:-)
called2voyage
called2voyage
That's the spirit! ;)
 
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b_jonas
b_jonas
21:36
Nice! They announced that LIGO detected another gravitational wave event.
3
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
22:06
Just saw that.
theadvocate.com/news/16115468-86/…
And possibly a third, but not confirmed.

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