The RTG on the rover is "right-sized" to provide the necessary *average* consumption, as anything more would be wasting plutonium. However, since momentary consumption fluctuates, there's a battery buffer to smooth over the load profile.
If the political parties were reversed, all the opinions would be too.
Are you sure about that? There's reasonable evidence that Republicans (or conservatives in general) are more partisan than Democrats on numerous issues. Including Al Franken, for example.
Actually, people saying things like "Stuff like NASA is the closest thing to socialism we can get in the US" are full of shit. Unless they're talking about make-work jobs in federally mandated programs such as SLS with dubious technical and economic merits, of course. That kind of waste is indeed typical for real socialism and well known and despised in places that actually experienced it (*not* the US).
"Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas. It controls the Earth's temperature.” It's true that water vapor is the largest contributor to the Earth's greenhouse effect. On average, it probably accounts for about 60% of the warming effect
Indeed. Is water vapor so complex to understand that you missed the sentence of
water vapor does not control the Earth’s temperature, but is instead controlled by the temperature
in the article cited by you that actually contradicts your own quotation?
Water vapor is subject to short-term feedback loops that CO2 is not. That is why it has different impact. And also why it's not of such interest for changes taking decades.
Two is a weird number to throw around. In any complex system, it's unlikely that there are *only* (and exactly) two processes at work. There's a multitude of them.
3. Radiation a gas molecule emits a photon and it's absorbed by another molecule, in the case of the earth you can include the planet as a heat source)
If you think CO2 is enough to change that balance, then you better believe altering the patterns of motion and conduction are as well.
Technically, just landing a BFS permanently on the lunar surface and calling it a moon base would make it a bigger moon base than some of the projects proposed in the past.
You have to first invent your high-temperature reactors. And build a manufacturing line for them. So far, they're not operating anywhere. And your "already low capacity factor" is actually still rather high in the region even after accounting for the temperature factor.
RPGs, especially the old ones, are not very effective against modern tanks. The number of shots fired may not matter any more than the number of pistol bullets fired at a thick steel plate. It's the simplest explanation.
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The RTG on the rover is "right-sized" to provide the necessary *average* consumption, as anything more would be wasting plutonium. However, since momentary consumption fluctuates, there's a battery buffer to smooth over the load profile.
Nah, there's no way this is going to be controversial. ;)
It's overkill to be using excel for 10,000 rows of data. Why are you using a spreadsheet when you have that much data?
Surely you meant underkill? (Unless I completely missed the meaning of the word "overkill", which is possible.)
Fuel cells *plus* batteries are perhaps the best solution. Or, more generally, (non-battery) AIP plus batteries.
62 miles is too low. And do you really think the space program wouldn't benefit from improved means of transportation?
Good thing the same thing happened to Trump, then. Oh, wait...
If the political parties were reversed, all the opinions would be too.
Are you sure about that? There's reasonable evidence that Republicans (or conservatives in general) are more partisan than Democrats on numerous issues. Including Al Franken, for example.
Actually, people saying things like "Stuff like NASA is the closest thing to socialism we can get in the US" are full of shit. Unless they're talking about make-work jobs in federally mandated programs such as SLS with dubious technical and economic merits, of course. That kind of waste is indeed typical for real socialism and well known and despised in places that actually experienced it (*not* the US).
If I were to, it would certainly cost me *much* less money than an Orion seat.
"Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas. It controls the Earth's temperature.” It's true that water vapor is the largest contributor to the Earth's greenhouse effect. On average, it probably accounts for about 60% of the warming effect
Indeed. Is water vapor so complex to understand that you missed the sentence of
water vapor does not control the Earth’s temperature, but is instead controlled by the temperature
in the article cited by you that actually contradicts your own quotation?
I don't like the idea of space travel becoming a rich man's club. I want a public option.
When was the last time *you* got into space with your public option?
But hurricanes are caused by oceanic heat, aren't they? So land-based wind power is going to be irrelevant for them.
Water vapor is subject to short-term feedback loops that CO2 is not. That is why it has different impact. And also why it's not of such interest for changes taking decades.
Two is a weird number to throw around. In any complex system, it's unlikely that there are *only* (and exactly) two processes at work. There's a multitude of them.
The 0.03% contribution of Earth's internal heat is actually negligible.
So your best argument is that a physical process doesn't exist because it was ineptly named? The power of magical thinking...
3. Radiation a gas molecule emits a photon and it's absorbed by another molecule, in the case of the earth you can include the planet as a heat source)
If you think CO2 is enough to change that balance, then you better believe altering the patterns of motion and conduction are as well.
Or, that person just knows things about spectra.
Wouldn't that only make sense if it departed from LEO?
Which would be?
Imagine being so dense that you ignore all the people contradicting Kavanaugh's statements... Oh, wait, you don't have to imagine.
Technically, just landing a BFS permanently on the lunar surface and calling it a moon base would make it a bigger moon base than some of the projects proposed in the past.
Surely you meant "a simple ARexx script"?
Coincidentally, this came out today.
Photovoltaics are not the cheapest way to get energy from the sun on an industrial scale.
Actually, they already are. And without some serious progress in CSP plant technology, they will most likely stay being the cheapest way.
You have to first invent your high-temperature reactors. And build a manufacturing line for them. So far, they're not operating anywhere. And your "already low capacity factor" is actually still rather high in the region even after accounting for the temperature factor.
RPGs, especially the old ones, are not very effective against modern tanks. The number of shots fired may not matter any more than the number of pistol bullets fired at a thick steel plate. It's the simplest explanation.