Thing about not growing any algae in the 2-week lunar night is, it might cut down on your oxygen production. Thus, the idea for the nuclear isotope powered LEDs for use during that half a month where you don't get any natural sunlight. Dunno bout you, tovarisch, but two weeks is a loooong time for me to hold my breath.
Another thing, the ISS doesn't have a 1/6th gravity, it's in microgravity. Asking them to do experiments in 1/6th gravity is not gonna happen unless somebody packs a couple centrifuges onto a resupply mission. This been done yet?
This thread, just like every other space-related thread, breaks down into two types of posters, the 'Just One Earthers' and the 'Buck Rogerses'. The differences between the two can reasonably be approximated as such:
JOEs: "We can't do that yet." "Oh, then we'll never be able to do it. Let's give up and not bother, and spend the money we'd save on something important, like $CAUSE_OF_THE_MINUTE."
BRs: "We can't do that yet." "Oh? OK, let's figure out how to get there from here. Harry, fire up the computers. Jimmy, start about 30 gallons of coffee. Let's have some FUN!"
There's always been a high emphasis on morale considerations in the American space programme, and food has always been one of the things that they pay attention to for morale purposes.
Manditory clip on the 'credits' portion of the movie: "No robots were harmed in the making of this movie. We tried real hard to get the lawyers, but they ran too fast for us. We bad..."
I'm pretty sure he's more of the 'Why waste money on space when we can use it to buy votes?' school. Dealing with a 100% oxygen atmosphere is an engineering problem. Getting the oxygen where there is none is a resource/supply problem. If it's confirmed that Ceres has ice, that means there's oxygen, and a lot of problems dealing with supply ships are reduced. If the ice on Ceres is 'dirty' or if there are carbonaceous lodes on Ceres, then we can probably support a habitat there with a few years' work. Even if it takes robots to reduce the raw asteroid down. Recycling the organic materials also becomes an engineering problem.
I repeat my last. Sign me up for a colonist slot! Especially if I can take all my media files with me. Hey, gotta have something to do on my offshift. Might as well use the time to corrupt female colonists...
Or crack the ice down to hydrogen and oxygen, you know, that stuff we breathe? With plenty of solar energy, it shouldn't be a problem. Where there is water, there can be life, even if it lives in a habitat. Bonus if the ice is 'dirty', contaminated with various hydrocarbons. They'd make great feedstocks and precursors for your plants and animals.
Two media 'leaders' propped up by their corporado masters. Both have had their share of scandals over the years, but both keep comin back just like zombies. The problem with a legitimate Republican 'pissing them off' is, do so, and they'll campaign for your Tea Party alternative with an axe to grind and zero incentive to learn compromise in order to form a better government. If what you need to get done isn't on their agenda, or if you're on the wrong side of the aisle, yer fucked.
Yeah, by a couple of right-wing whackjobs that don't deserve the label 'Republican'. Jesus Christ, if they gotta try crucifying him for eating a fucking hamburger he paid for out of his own fucking pocket, the far-gone Right has serious fucking problems. Course, go after their guy and criticize every fucking move he makes and you're un-American.
FWIW, I don't put ketsup on my hamburgers either. Ketsup belongs on french fries goddammit, just like GAWD ordained in the fucking Bible.
Maybe it's because some idiot keeps shooting farts out of his "very own asshole."
Ya know, what we might wanna do is hammer a pipe up said idiot's 'very own asshole' and hook it up to the gas mains. At least methane is a renewable resource, and as much as that idiot farts, I'm willing to bet we'd solve the energy crisis in about 45 minutes.
More like Trailer Park Boys. Julian, Ricky and Bubbles will fence all that "honey oil" to DVS in Moncton, who in turn will run it down the Eastern Seaboard to Baltimore.
In exchange for American cigarettes, of course. Too bad Patrick Swayze died, no clue who got the Swayze Express...
And in Canada, how do you think we keep the oil production flowing from some remote backwoods location in the wilds of the country, even in the dead of winter?
Hudson Bay Company Rum, aka 'The Gasoline That Won The North'.
What guarantee do we have that it will be made from pure Canadians? Or is this another scam like Girl Scout cookies, not a single gram of Girl Scout used in them?
Put some rats and turtles in TSA equipment for a cycle or two. Dump all into a sewer and wait a few years for our superpowered creations to save us all.
Except the Teenaged Mutant Ninja turtles are a force for good. And making sure we're not buried in pizza.
Can't say that about the TSA, except you'll still find empty pizza boxes around...
It's "all" oil-laden (anything you'll encounter in typical conditions) and we already know that you get the most production by just letting nature colonize your ponds. Then you don't have to dick with Ph or anything, just pump the water in.
So, feed the algae on sewage, let it 'harvest' the lipids and oils needed for biodiesel, then harvest & process the algae? Should be good for a couple mil in development studies...
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And their energy budget is down 25% until they get the module mounted and online. What they gonna cut the power to?
Thing about not growing any algae in the 2-week lunar night is, it might cut down on your oxygen production. Thus, the idea for the nuclear isotope powered LEDs for use during that half a month where you don't get any natural sunlight. Dunno bout you, tovarisch, but two weeks is a loooong time for me to hold my breath.
Another thing, the ISS doesn't have a 1/6th gravity, it's in microgravity. Asking them to do experiments in 1/6th gravity is not gonna happen unless somebody packs a couple centrifuges onto a resupply mission. This been done yet?
This thread, just like every other space-related thread, breaks down into two types of posters, the 'Just One Earthers' and the 'Buck Rogerses'. The differences between the two can reasonably be approximated as such:
JOEs: "We can't do that yet." "Oh, then we'll never be able to do it. Let's give up and not bother, and spend the money we'd save on something important, like $CAUSE_OF_THE_MINUTE."
BRs: "We can't do that yet." "Oh? OK, let's figure out how to get there from here. Harry, fire up the computers. Jimmy, start about 30 gallons of coffee. Let's have some FUN!"
Guess who I stand with.
There's always been a high emphasis on morale considerations in the American space programme, and food has always been one of the things that they pay attention to for morale purposes.
Can you explain Tang then?
Manditory clip on the 'credits' portion of the movie: "No robots were harmed in the making of this movie. We tried real hard to get the lawyers, but they ran too fast for us. We bad..."
I'm pretty sure he's more of the 'Why waste money on space when we can use it to buy votes?' school. Dealing with a 100% oxygen atmosphere is an engineering problem. Getting the oxygen where there is none is a resource/supply problem. If it's confirmed that Ceres has ice, that means there's oxygen, and a lot of problems dealing with supply ships are reduced. If the ice on Ceres is 'dirty' or if there are carbonaceous lodes on Ceres, then we can probably support a habitat there with a few years' work. Even if it takes robots to reduce the raw asteroid down. Recycling the organic materials also becomes an engineering problem.
I repeat my last. Sign me up for a colonist slot! Especially if I can take all my media files with me. Hey, gotta have something to do on my offshift. Might as well use the time to corrupt female colonists...
We only 'need' an 80% nitrogen mix at 1000 millibars of pressure. Drop the pressure down to 200 millibars, we'll do quite nicely on straight oxygen.
Or crack the ice down to hydrogen and oxygen, you know, that stuff we breathe? With plenty of solar energy, it shouldn't be a problem. Where there is water, there can be life, even if it lives in a habitat. Bonus if the ice is 'dirty', contaminated with various hydrocarbons. They'd make great feedstocks and precursors for your plants and animals.
Hell, sign me up!!!
Naw. We just gotta find us some space yeast and let the Universe make us space beer!!!
Two media 'leaders' propped up by their corporado masters. Both have had their share of scandals over the years, but both keep comin back just like zombies. The problem with a legitimate Republican 'pissing them off' is, do so, and they'll campaign for your Tea Party alternative with an axe to grind and zero incentive to learn compromise in order to form a better government. If what you need to get done isn't on their agenda, or if you're on the wrong side of the aisle, yer fucked.
Probably lack of time to do it right. It'd kinda suck to be in the middle of something finicky and get called away for a state emergency or something.
At least he fills his spare time with something reasonably harmless like making some homebrew. It could be worse.
... if the president spent his money collecting stamps or collecting guitars I doubt you would you beat him up over it.
Are you kidding? This President has been condemned as "elitist" for his choice of condiments.
Yeah, by a couple of right-wing whackjobs that don't deserve the label 'Republican'. Jesus Christ, if they gotta try crucifying him for eating a fucking hamburger he paid for out of his own fucking pocket, the far-gone Right has serious fucking problems. Course, go after their guy and criticize every fucking move he makes and you're un-American.
FWIW, I don't put ketsup on my hamburgers either. Ketsup belongs on french fries goddammit, just like GAWD ordained in the fucking Bible.
Man! It stinks in here
Maybe it's because some idiot keeps shooting farts out of his "very own asshole."
Ya know, what we might wanna do is hammer a pipe up said idiot's 'very own asshole' and hook it up to the gas mains. At least methane is a renewable resource, and as much as that idiot farts, I'm willing to bet we'd solve the energy crisis in about 45 minutes.
Maple sugar??? Hell, it'd be cheaper to buy heroin. Maple sugar is expensive. And this is for the cheap Vermont maple sugar.
More like Trailer Park Boys. Julian, Ricky and Bubbles will fence all that "honey oil" to DVS in Moncton, who in turn will run it down the Eastern Seaboard to Baltimore.
In exchange for American cigarettes, of course. Too bad Patrick Swayze died, no clue who got the Swayze Express...
And in Canada, how do you think we keep the oil production flowing from some remote backwoods location in the wilds of the country, even in the dead of winter?
Hudson Bay Company Rum, aka 'The Gasoline That Won The North'.
What guarantee do we have that it will be made from pure Canadians? Or is this another scam like Girl Scout cookies, not a single gram of Girl Scout used in them?
You sure you're not an abandoned Murrican kid who got adopted out??
Put some rats and turtles in TSA equipment for a cycle or two. Dump all into a sewer and wait a few years for our superpowered creations to save us all.
Except the Teenaged Mutant Ninja turtles are a force for good. And making sure we're not buried in pizza.
Can't say that about the TSA, except you'll still find empty pizza boxes around...
Do you know how hard it is to find a piper with that level of skill these days?
About like finding an honest politician.
Prior art
Putting polititians in the front lines?
Works for me. Hell, it's money better spent, in my opinion.
Rats, lawyers, what's the difference?
FTFY. And the answer is, one's a flea-bitten disease carrying pest that bites where it's not wanted, the other is a rodent.
Strange, he didn't mention he's from Arkansas...
... to find it we find the guys who swiped millions of pounds of pancake mix?
It's "all" oil-laden (anything you'll encounter in typical conditions) and we already know that you get the most production by just letting nature colonize your ponds. Then you don't have to dick with Ph or anything, just pump the water in.
So, feed the algae on sewage, let it 'harvest' the lipids and oils needed for biodiesel, then harvest & process the algae? Should be good for a couple mil in development studies...