wrong. constellation had a space shuttle solid rocket first stage, a lot of plans for launchers that were more to keep the pork flowing for ex space shuttle contractors than something that would really be the best way to get to orbit, and nine billion dollars already spent. meanwhile spacex spent a tiny fraction of that amount of money on progressive testing of actual hardware like the falcon 1, and then used that experience to build the falcon 9. which nailed its first flight. you can have plans out the wazoo, but that dosent mean anything, especially in space launch.
nitpick much? you dont need thrusters to correct the orientation, you just turn one corner of the sail away from the sun and bleed the gyroscope speed off on the resulting imbalance of solar sail pressure. and solar panels provide power. no fuel there either. and i think its pretty clear he was talking about it in the context of after its been launched into orbit. i.e. the 'spacecraft' part. which also precludes the atmospheric drag. especially when your talking about interplanetary space.
you gotta give respect to the moon landing on a sound stage people. there like the original trolls. they got a astronaut to hit one of them ffs. thats some quality trolling.
the interesting thing is the moon is close enough for near real time control of the robots. your looking at a 2-3 second delay between the command and the visual feedback, but id say thats enough for a remote control type situation. give them a way to melt rocks on the moon, and a way to do some robot cnc tool actions, and i bet you can make damn near anything.
gee. no wings you have to haul to orbit? oh the tragic loss. and commercial launchers match is capabilities today. you are waxing lyrical about a albatross around our necks. ill be happy to see the back of the shuttle
maybe if you applied even the slightest modicum of thought to it, you would realise that air resistance will probably slow it down to terminal velocity on the 70000 ft drop into the ocean.
maybe if you engineer it to the bleeding edge specifications that the space shuttle main engines were built to, but the thing is, you dont need to build them like that, you can build them to be reusable, and still get large amounts of payload into space.
the hell its a phobia. there horrid skittering insects, usually dirty, maybe poisionous, and getting as far away from them as possible or squashing them is a entirely sane way to deal with them. theres no time to distinguish between cockroaches and other more dangerous types before stomping your foot down.
no one cares. either are the proper usage. and even if it wasnt, the only people who care would be people who like correcting other people on piffiling self-percieved grammatical errors, and no one wants to interact with those sorts of people. those sorts of people are brittle and boring and unchanging, unlike the english language.
what you need is a forge, a metal shop, a greenhouse, living quarters, a large solar concentrator array, a sizeable asteroid with ice in it, and you could probably bloody well live on the thing.
they did this internet filter to placate steven conroy, who holds the balance of power in the senate. and delaying it until after the next election means in all likelyhood he will lose that, and then the government can safely tell him to fuck off, and drop the legislation.
national consumer agency? oh please. thats a toothless organisation for distracting idiots from taking proper legal action. i would assume. most agencies of that type are. class action those motherfuckers into honesty.
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wrong. constellation had a space shuttle solid rocket first stage, a lot of plans for launchers that were more to keep the pork flowing for ex space shuttle contractors than something that would really be the best way to get to orbit, and nine billion dollars already spent. meanwhile spacex spent a tiny fraction of that amount of money on progressive testing of actual hardware like the falcon 1, and then used that experience to build the falcon 9. which nailed its first flight. you can have plans out the wazoo, but that dosent mean anything, especially in space launch.
with the successful launch of the falcon 9 recently, its a nail in the coffin of these really quite bad launch vehicles.
nitpick much? you dont need thrusters to correct the orientation, you just turn one corner of the sail away from the sun and bleed the gyroscope speed off on the resulting imbalance of solar sail pressure. and solar panels provide power. no fuel there either. and i think its pretty clear he was talking about it in the context of after its been launched into orbit. i.e. the 'spacecraft' part. which also precludes the atmospheric drag. especially when your talking about interplanetary space.
another point, launching from hight altitude allows the use of high expansion vacuum nozzles on all stages, which leads to higher efficiency
you gotta give respect to the moon landing on a sound stage people. there like the original trolls. they got a astronaut to hit one of them ffs. thats some quality trolling.
the vacuum engines chamber walls are designed to glow red. it was not running hotter than intended.
you should write a letter to the editor about it. cause the rest of us dont fucking care. we really, really, dont.
because that horrific abomination that is the space shuttle has been eating up NASA's budget for the past 30 years.
the interesting thing is the moon is close enough for near real time control of the robots. your looking at a 2-3 second delay between the command and the visual feedback, but id say thats enough for a remote control type situation. give them a way to melt rocks on the moon, and a way to do some robot cnc tool actions, and i bet you can make damn near anything.
you act as though people wont get sick if we dont spend that money on healthcare.
gee. no wings you have to haul to orbit? oh the tragic loss. and commercial launchers match is capabilities today. you are waxing lyrical about a albatross around our necks. ill be happy to see the back of the shuttle
maybe if you applied even the slightest modicum of thought to it, you would realise that air resistance will probably slow it down to terminal velocity on the 70000 ft drop into the ocean.
or a chinese submarine, just waiting in the splash zone to pick up a piece of cutting edge US aerospace hardware.
yeah! just like concor-um. nevermind.
maybe if you engineer it to the bleeding edge specifications that the space shuttle main engines were built to, but the thing is, you dont need to build them like that, you can build them to be reusable, and still get large amounts of payload into space.
the hell its a phobia. there horrid skittering insects, usually dirty, maybe poisionous, and getting as far away from them as possible or squashing them is a entirely sane way to deal with them. theres no time to distinguish between cockroaches and other more dangerous types before stomping your foot down.
no one cares. either are the proper usage. and even if it wasnt, the only people who care would be people who like correcting other people on piffiling self-percieved grammatical errors, and no one wants to interact with those sorts of people. those sorts of people are brittle and boring and unchanging, unlike the english language.
solar power you fucking idiot. put more than a few seconds of thought into the concept before posting your ill concieved trollop next time.
whats the point of having fuel down here? then we have to expend fuel to carry it back up to orbit again. duh.
what you need is a forge, a metal shop, a greenhouse, living quarters, a large solar concentrator array, a sizeable asteroid with ice in it, and you could probably bloody well live on the thing.
to have a environmental disaster, there has to be a environment to have a disaster in.
thats EXcalibur to you, mister.
yeah dude. you totally get it. why, i was walking down the internet the other day, and someone totally shot me in the face. idiot.
they did this internet filter to placate steven conroy, who holds the balance of power in the senate. and delaying it until after the next election means in all likelyhood he will lose that, and then the government can safely tell him to fuck off, and drop the legislation.
national consumer agency? oh please. thats a toothless organisation for distracting idiots from taking proper legal action. i would assume. most agencies of that type are. class action those motherfuckers into honesty.