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The Biggest Rocket Launches and Space Missions We're Looking Forward To in 2018 (theverge.com)
Loren Grush, writing for The Verge: Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions to space. NASA is launching a new lander to Mars, as well as a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than ever before. And two of NASA's vehicles already in space will finally arrive at their intended targets: one will rendezvous with a nearby asteroid, while another will pass by a distant space rock billions of miles from Earth. But it's not just NASA that has a busy year ahead; the commercial space industry has a number of significant test flights planned, and the launch of one of the world's most anticipated rockets, the Falcon Heavy, is slated for early 2018. And if all goes well, people may finally ride to space on private vehicles. Here's the complete list.
Yea! How else would you orbit a disk! Gravity is a lie! Except when an apple falls down.
Is a wheel in orbit, so we can spin it and test fractional-g on mammals.
Even a big baton with mice at one and and a counterweight on the other. Something.
Gravity is a lie. It's just an effect caused by the Earth constantly accelerating through space. The apple doesn't fall because of gravity; the Earth rushes up to meet it. Simple. The idea that objects "orbit" each other is about as real as gravity.
Is this creimer’s newest sockpuppet? Going off the rails today aren’t you, Chris?
THIS is the launch I look forward to the most: That one guy who wants to prove the Earth is flat.
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So when are we going to Mars? Apparently all it takes is a big rocket and some space factories and some asteroid dust to protect us from the radiation in transit.
Second time today
Everybody scatters
And hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered
Only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher
I'd make somebody pay
creimer and his sockpuppets are having quite the circle jerk today.
Are you talking to Roy Moore?
Tho I'm sure the slashdot audience will find a way to insert Nazis/Trump/Hillary/SJWs/musk-hate ish blathering into the discussion of a nerdy thing ...
I'm looking forward to NASA launching a space probe to Alpha Centurai in 2069. Now I have something to look forward to in my 100th year of life.
The earth in your claim is rushing "up". I'm standing on the Earth. I'm holding an apple. The earth, me, the apple, and the air are all moving up with velocity v. I throw the Apple "up" by imparting a force, and thereby an acceleration, to the Apple with the chemical energy of the muscles of my arms transformed to kinetic energy. The Apple now has velocity v + v2 (where v2 is the velocity of the Apple when I let it go relative to myself/the earth). The Apple is now traveling faster than the Earth, away from the Earth. How does the Earth "catch up" with the Apple in your scenario?
Oh, I know? You're a child molester who eats the shit out of your mommy's asshole while diddling children. That's how it works!
That guy is a plant working for Big Space trying to make the Flat Earth Society look silly. Every Flat Earther knows that Big Space would never allow us to launch one of our rockets and expose their lies. We'd love to launch a "satellite" over the edge, but Big Space's missile defense at the rim is too good.
SpaceX is putting up a new building for doing the the BFR's first stage. In addition, they have bought the equipment for building the BFR. Construction starts in the second half of 2018.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
"See! The earth is a huge ball!"
"Now wait just a minute, all I see is a huge circle."
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
So why is the winter Sun weak and yellower than the summer sun at the same altitude in the sky?
...because you are a shit-eating child molester. Prove you aren't. TRUTH!
If the Earth is constantly accelerating, where is the force imparting that acceleration coming from? Where is the energy for that "perpetual" force?
Oh, I know? It comes from all the shit you eat while diddling children. TRUTH!
Their list left off Stratolaunch Systems, which has built the world's largest airplane (400 ft wingspan) out of parts from two used 747's, plus a new carbon fiber body. It is intended to carry rockets up to 500,000 lb under the wing so they can get about twice the payload compared to the same rocket from the ground. The carrier plane has already started taxi tests in the Mohave desert, and is expected to reach first flight in 2018. Launching rockets may come later in the year or next year.
Airplanes are highly reusable and relatively cheap per flight by rocket standards. If the first rocket stage is also recovered (which it won't be for the earliest rockets), it should be an economical launch system. The company is funded by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, who has more than enough money to see this through.
Lightning is caused by the separation of charge due to uprising air currents/moisture stripping electrons off of molecules of water and such until a huge charge builds up in the atmosphere. The charge does not immediately discharge with either the ground or itself because air is a reasonably good insulator. Then, along comes a cosmic particle that ionizes a path through the air and BAM! the charge discharges across the newly created non-insulating path either between oppositely charged areas of the sky or the sky and the ground!
Waves are caused by the wind blowing across miles and miles of water gradually pulling it via friction into an upwelling until the force of the downward pull on the water's surface exceed the friction of the air at which point the water surface "snaps back" to the relaxed state releasing the potential energy and creating a wave.
Oh, and all of this is possible because you are a child molester whose mother licks his asshole while you gargle your own cum! TRUTH!
Where are the EU or China launches?
I remember earlier in 2017 that Mr. Musk was hoping to launch a Dragon capsule, with astronauts around on a Falcon Heavy and have it fly around the moon on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8.
Is there updates/plans/announcements about this?
That would definitely be an inspiring and depressing (it took 50 years to repeat Apollo 8) mission.
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That would require double the constant of input energy, not zero it. To accelerate two objects away from each other at a constant acceleration requires opposite forces to be constantly applied to each in opposing directions. So, now you need to account for twice as much "perpetual" energy input? What's your answer? You can do the experiment yourself regarding opposing accelerations with real objects. You can measure these things. If you stopped diddling children while gargling your own cum while your mom eats shit out of your ass you'd have the time to verify these facts yourself.
EPIC FAIL! You lose!
The Earth is moving, aside from almost immeasurable friction due to "dust" in space, at a constant velocity along a straight space-time trajectory. Because the presence of mass "bends" space, that straight space-time trajectory follows a curve around the sun (in a strictly space trajectory) (actually around the center of mass of the earth-sun-planetary system, which, for the earth-sun is inside the radius of the sun itself). This "orbiting" around the sun is nearly indistinguishable from an accelerating frame of reference due to the equivalence principle. So, there is nothing to explain about what is accelerating the Earth (in my story) because it isn't accelerating. Only in you fantasy is the earth accelerating while you diddle children, gargle your own cum, and have your ass eaten out by your mother. TRUTH!
...is your mother's tongue in your ass while you gargle your own cum and diddle children.
I remember reading a great article in Aviation Week years ago about Orbital ATK flying Pegasus missions from their converted L-1011.
The cost reduction of using an aircraft as the first stage wasn't very significant and there was actually less flexibility in terms of launches than if you were taking off from the ground. The only significant savings was in infrastructure - you can launch from a runway, not a complex.
The lack of cost reduction is due to the fact that an (converted) airliner provides less than 5% of the energy and altitude normally provided by a traditional first stage - the economics change more in favour of a launch aircraft when you get above Mach 5 and 200k feet but there are no aircraft with this capability.
I was surprised by the flexibility issue. "Minor" course corrections require a lot higher percentage of fuel after dropping the rocket than if the rocket was in the early stages of launch. This means that the launch window (which involves time, position of the carrier aircraft, it's speed, attitude and direction) is much more critical. If you miss any of the window parameters, then you have to plan another flight - when you're starting from the ground, dealing with the launch window trends towards a single variable problem.
Another thing that I was surprised at was that the acoustic vibration (noise) of the released rocket was also a significant issue - in the article, it stated that everybody on board wore ear protection during launch and after each launch the airframe has to be inspected for stress damage.
I should point out that Orbital ATK is still flying the Pegasus from their L-1011 (according to their website, they've done 43 launches) so clearly the issues listed above don't completely make an air launch approach impractical.
It would be interesting to see how Stratolaunch deals with these issues - I suspect that if they have eliminated them then the solutions will be proprietary and if they haven't, then they don't want to talk about it as it will discourage investors and customers.
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...is the case that shows that you diddle children while your mom eats cum-shit out of your ass while you gargle your own splooge. Inadvertent use of the incorrect homophone doesn't change those facts! TRUTH!
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...child molester.
You claim the Earth is accelerating upward at a constant 9.8 m/s^2, correct? OK, then, how come I measure the acceleration due to gravity as different values at different altitudes and positions on Earth? How can the Earth be under a constant upward acceleration and allow for different measurable accelerations at different altitudes?
This proves you are a child molesting, cum gargling mother fucker whose mother dines upon the undigested cum-shit that you try to keep bound up for her in your anus.
Words like SCUBA, RADAR, and LASER are acronyms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym).
Homophone is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, once again, through your ignorance, you demonstrate you are a cum gargling pedophile whose mother dines on your shit.
So, you admit that space-time is bent by the presence of mass? So you admit General Relativity? Explain how General Relativity fits with your idea of a disc-like earth under constant acceleration?
You can't, because you are a child molesting, self-cum swilling, shit feeding to mother, jack-off. TRUTH!
This proves once again you are a child molesting, cum swilling jack-ass whose mother eats the shit out of your asshole. TRUTH!
Well no shit. That's the difference between magnets and antimatter. Pay attention.
You tried to justify earth and anti-earth flying apart by what happens with magnets. Now you're saying it isn't like magnets. Which is it?
CHILD MOLESTER! CHILD MOLESTER! SHIT EATING FAG! LET YOUR MOTHER EAT YOUR SHIT, JUST HOW YOU LIKE IT! YOU'RE A MOTHER FUCKER! DIDDLING CHILDREN! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH!
After all BFG is "Big Friendly Giant", right?
...by once again contradicting yourself. You claimed they were acronyms a moment ago? Can't keep the fact straight can you? Just like the fact that you are a child molester whose mother eats the shit out of your asshole while you gargle your own cum. Right? Admit it! Actually you've already admitted it! TRUTH!
Are you seriously suggesting i have an eloquent argument with this jack-off? The point of the over-the-top accusation is to get him to request that I prove it. Then I can re-tort, "Oh, you want proof for assertions. Please provide your proof that the Earth is a disc under constant acceleration orthogonal to its surface".
Amazingly, he has de-facto accepted the accusation that he is a child molester by not challenging the assertion, not even once. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that he knows the accusation is true. That means, he is, in fact a Child Molester, and it is entirely appropriate to address him as such.
Both repel each other
Matter and Anti-Mater don't repel each other. In fact, they attract to each other and annihilate one another turning to pure energy. So, why again is Earth and Anti-Earth repelling from each other? Oops! You fucked up again with your facts.
If you'd stop diddling children, get your mother's tongue out of your ass, and spit your own cum out so you could take a breath, you'd be able to think logically and maintain a consistent argument.
See, here's the thing. The guy is making assertions he knows to be false. He is using bullshit arguments that sound kind of "truthy"! It is the kind of "truthy" bullshit that religious people, politicians, so-called businessmen, and other shills spout all of the time. Arguing with someone like this over something so stupid, who is, I must admit, quite adept at keeping up his bullshit line and refraining from being bated into debating his child molestation, is quite fun and entertaining because I have to actually spend time thinking about his bullshit arguments and coming up with factual arguments to counter them. I'm not a working scientist or engineer. I have to actually consider what he is saying, why it is wrong, and think about the counter that shows how what he is saying is incorrect. This is interesting to me because my life at this point is so fucking uninteresting.
I'd rather be doing something useful, but, I don't even know what "useful" even means anymore. I thought I knew once, but, now I'm skeptical.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind if we had all-out civil war and we could start dividing into factions and killing each other. That's just about as useful as anything else that is going on at this point. The state of political discourse in this country is in the shitter. I served my country as a young man, and I now regret it. It isn't a country worthy of having been served.
Half the population should have a bullet put in the back of their skull and dumped in a ditch. That's how much I admire my "fellow citizens" at this point. The complete and utter BULLSHIT that is constantly on the so-called News (especially Fox News) disgusts me! The owners and every person working at such organizations should be shot!
Trump is a serial rapist voted in by the half the country. They can all die for all I care.
So, I'll just amuse myself arguing with this shit-bag, who at least knows he is making shit-bag arguments (for fun), and is simply trying to get people to try to make a legitimate argument. I admire this guy more than 1/2 the population of the USA, USA, USA, USA!
Exactly. And they all have different meanings. Just like "their", "their", and "they're" except pronounced differently.
No, they aren't. LASER, RADAR, and SCUBA are all pronounced exactly the same, unlike, "their", "their", and "they're". But, "there" is pronounced the same as SCUBA.
Once again, you demonstrate your complete ignorance and affinity for molesting children! Please just stop! WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN FOR PASTA'S SAKE?
I had the last and final word. That makes me right and you wrong. Oh, and you're still a child molester!
Cool . . . How much longer will it take to reach Light Speed ?
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
Fatcashews isn't creimer; he's just some dude who gets off on picking on the fat retard.
We got near light speed about a year after creation of Earth & anti-Earth. Since then, we've been at constant acceleration and constant velocity right at the edge of the speed of light. That's why our attempts at space exploration have resulted in time rifts that have been covered up by the real leaders of the planet..
I get off on having a clean creimer-free environment.
When's your giant book of shitty haiku dropping, Chris?
I'm not creimer; I know how to use a semi-colon correctly (it separates two independent clauses). Creimer is annoying but you're an obsessive internet bully who posts just as much. Fuck off and leave Slashdot.
Don't like it, Chris? Complain to the management. Bitching about it in the comments changes nothing.