exotic chemical mixtures? its gasoline and liquid oxygen. you strike me as the sort of person who dosent know what hes talking about, so hes just spouting bullshit.
when it costs a billion dollars per launch, it had better bloody well be pristine. a bad design still in pristine condition is still a bad design. the original concept of the space shuttle was to make space access inexpensive and safer. it has failed on both those fronts. it has frozen advancement in space launch for 30 years. hell, more than 30 years. the saturn V could do it cheaper, per kg, and safer too. with engine out capability, a real crew escape system, etc. etc. the shuttle is a dead end, and i for one want to make sure the door hits it in the ass on the way out. and as for those people out of a job, well damn, they could all still be employed by private space if nasa ups its commitment to private space, to the extent that they need the same manpower. only this time, a whole lot more tonnage will be getting to orbit.
you fail to recognise the very important fact that solar sails do not use reaction mass, so theres no fuel tank to run empty, so a solar sail will have thrust, and control over its own trajectory, for as long as the sun shines. and that, my good sir, is a very long time.
the thing about the internet filter is, imho, its to appease the family first senator in the senate (far right wing party) and win over conservative marginal south australia seats. im betting that as soon as the election is over, theyll drop the idea faster than a hotcake.
what a pile of divine manifest destiny bullshit. we dont 'belong' anywhere, theres no 'reason', beyond the practical, as to why we are stuck here. and dont give me that hippy drum circle 'working out our issues' claptrap. and we are most definitely not thousands of years away from workable space travel. you are guilty of having no ambition, no vision, for human exploration of space. you are, quite boring.
for a horizontal landing on a runway, you need wings, heatshields for those wings, landing gear, control surfaces, and servos for them. it adds up to a lot of weight to haul up and down to and from orbit every time, just so you can play pilot. the space shuttle orbiter is 68 freakin tonnes empty, and 78 tonnes with the engines installed, and a extra 24 tonnes for actual payload. compared to what gets into orbit, thats a pretty pathetic fraction thats payload.
heres hoping they can recover the first stage this time. i mean, if they cant have a reusable first stage, the only new thing spacex would be doing to reduce costs is assembly line manufacturing of rocket engines, and the ability to have a engine fail on the first stage and still complete the mission. while those are neccessary and excellent steps to take, my bet is being able to fish 9 barely used rocket engines and avionics system out of the sea, hose it down, pop another upper stage on it, and launch it a week later, will be the largest factor in reducing costs. the shuttle fucked it up, it was only reusable in the way a drag racer is reusable, with a complete overhaul between uses. but the merlin engines on the falcon 9 have been shown to be infinitely more reusable and reliable.
yeah, and how bout that time that some of the large, intricate and controllable reentry system of the columbia got knocked off, and THE ENTIRE FUCKING CREW OF 7 DIED ON REENTRY.
hurrrr. "exploding on the launch pad" nice one. cause no other launch system had early reliability issues before they had enough launches to work the bugs out. and no, the shuttle dosent count, cause they threw billions at it for a reliable first launch. and do you seriously think that boeing and lockheed and ATK *dont* play the lobbying game? and as for constellation being designed by commercial entities, that is with cost plus contracts, which give the government a large amount of control over the actual design, as opposed to the falcon 1 and falcon 9 being developed entirely on private capital. a hell of a lot less capital than it took to get ares to the "worlds most expensive suborbital demonstration" stage a few months ago, i might add.
as for manned spaceflight, your right, the us government is mostly the only customer for that sort of thing. but damn, when your farming that out to the *russians*, i think its probably only fair that a US commercial launch company be given a oppurtunity to provide those services. cause spacex has gone from "exploding on the launch pad" to "successful inaugrial falcon 9 launch" in less time than ares went from "handing out contracts" to "stick a boilerplate 2nd stage on top of a surplus space shuttle SRB"
they really should put some large solar panel surfaces on the middle part, have some large wing areas sticking out from the middle, not really for lift, but to gather more sun. im kinda suprised they didnt make the wings longer from back to front, for more solar panel area.
to be fair to microsoft, ive not seen many electronic devices where you didnt have to put a battery in in a certain way. indeed, the fact that this is probably trivially implementable, yet had yet to be implemented, means i think microsoft is more deserving of this patent, cause others are less deserving, as they didnt bother to implement it.
electric engines have a larger torque range and more even torque over that range than ICEs so its top 10mph would most probably be better than your top 10mph.
what the hell does any of what you said have to do with accelerating fast? you can put that stuff just as easily on a slowly accelerating car. you just intentionally misinterpreted what he said so you could rip on him. your a asshole.
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MIT have been spouting this virus based litihium battery bs for years. ill believe it when i can buy it in the shop.
you do realise that what you have to say is not important enough to warrant double spacing every damn line of your comment.
exotic chemical mixtures? its gasoline and liquid oxygen. you strike me as the sort of person who dosent know what hes talking about, so hes just spouting bullshit.
when it costs a billion dollars per launch, it had better bloody well be pristine. a bad design still in pristine condition is still a bad design. the original concept of the space shuttle was to make space access inexpensive and safer. it has failed on both those fronts. it has frozen advancement in space launch for 30 years. hell, more than 30 years. the saturn V could do it cheaper, per kg, and safer too. with engine out capability, a real crew escape system, etc. etc. the shuttle is a dead end, and i for one want to make sure the door hits it in the ass on the way out. and as for those people out of a job, well damn, they could all still be employed by private space if nasa ups its commitment to private space, to the extent that they need the same manpower. only this time, a whole lot more tonnage will be getting to orbit.
you fail to recognise the very important fact that solar sails do not use reaction mass, so theres no fuel tank to run empty, so a solar sail will have thrust, and control over its own trajectory, for as long as the sun shines. and that, my good sir, is a very long time.
the thing about the internet filter is, imho, its to appease the family first senator in the senate (far right wing party) and win over conservative marginal south australia seats. im betting that as soon as the election is over, theyll drop the idea faster than a hotcake.
what a pile of divine manifest destiny bullshit. we dont 'belong' anywhere, theres no 'reason', beyond the practical, as to why we are stuck here. and dont give me that hippy drum circle 'working out our issues' claptrap. and we are most definitely not thousands of years away from workable space travel. you are guilty of having no ambition, no vision, for human exploration of space. you are, quite boring.
most launch systems have plenty of failures early on, before the bugs are ironed out.
gee. if only one could create a jailbroken app that seals the hole after youve jailbroken your phone. problem solved!
for a horizontal landing on a runway, you need wings, heatshields for those wings, landing gear, control surfaces, and servos for them. it adds up to a lot of weight to haul up and down to and from orbit every time, just so you can play pilot. the space shuttle orbiter is 68 freakin tonnes empty, and 78 tonnes with the engines installed, and a extra 24 tonnes for actual payload. compared to what gets into orbit, thats a pretty pathetic fraction thats payload.
heres hoping they can recover the first stage this time. i mean, if they cant have a reusable first stage, the only new thing spacex would be doing to reduce costs is assembly line manufacturing of rocket engines, and the ability to have a engine fail on the first stage and still complete the mission. while those are neccessary and excellent steps to take, my bet is being able to fish 9 barely used rocket engines and avionics system out of the sea, hose it down, pop another upper stage on it, and launch it a week later, will be the largest factor in reducing costs. the shuttle fucked it up, it was only reusable in the way a drag racer is reusable, with a complete overhaul between uses. but the merlin engines on the falcon 9 have been shown to be infinitely more reusable and reliable.
yeah, and how bout that time that some of the large, intricate and controllable reentry system of the columbia got knocked off, and THE ENTIRE FUCKING CREW OF 7 DIED ON REENTRY.
hurrrr. "exploding on the launch pad" nice one. cause no other launch system had early reliability issues before they had enough launches to work the bugs out. and no, the shuttle dosent count, cause they threw billions at it for a reliable first launch. and do you seriously think that boeing and lockheed and ATK *dont* play the lobbying game? and as for constellation being designed by commercial entities, that is with cost plus contracts, which give the government a large amount of control over the actual design, as opposed to the falcon 1 and falcon 9 being developed entirely on private capital. a hell of a lot less capital than it took to get ares to the "worlds most expensive suborbital demonstration" stage a few months ago, i might add. as for manned spaceflight, your right, the us government is mostly the only customer for that sort of thing. but damn, when your farming that out to the *russians*, i think its probably only fair that a US commercial launch company be given a oppurtunity to provide those services. cause spacex has gone from "exploding on the launch pad" to "successful inaugrial falcon 9 launch" in less time than ares went from "handing out contracts" to "stick a boilerplate 2nd stage on top of a surplus space shuttle SRB"
call me when they grow some carbon nanotubes from bacteria.
they really should put some large solar panel surfaces on the middle part, have some large wing areas sticking out from the middle, not really for lift, but to gather more sun. im kinda suprised they didnt make the wings longer from back to front, for more solar panel area.
anyone who uses the word 'axiom' in anything other than mathematics is a tool.
to be fair to microsoft, ive not seen many electronic devices where you didnt have to put a battery in in a certain way. indeed, the fact that this is probably trivially implementable, yet had yet to be implemented, means i think microsoft is more deserving of this patent, cause others are less deserving, as they didnt bother to implement it.
well, its not like they need a steering wheel and airbags in there. there gonna spend all of what, 30mins to a hour in there before they dock?
im pretty sure who comes in first is pretty damn non-subjective.
motorbike racing is just a competiton about who can corner the hardest and still stay on their bike. booooring.
oops my bad. i mean tesla roadster.
i believe the tesla volt has a battery cooling system that comes on automatically.
electric engines have a larger torque range and more even torque over that range than ICEs so its top 10mph would most probably be better than your top 10mph.
what the hell does any of what you said have to do with accelerating fast? you can put that stuff just as easily on a slowly accelerating car. you just intentionally misinterpreted what he said so you could rip on him. your a asshole.
id say recycling will always be desirable with car size lithium batteries. much like with aluminium cans.