Blue who?

Out there looking like dynanite

Ah, so after the ISS deorbit vehicle dunks it in the South Pacific, we can patch the hole and put it on the ISS reorbit vehicle. Right?

Someone ought to tell him.

Going to mars is immensely complex and high risk. Who knew?

Temperatures in Starship’s engines can reach up to 3,000 degrees Celsius, requiring batteries that can withstand intense heat without losing performance.

I’m no rocket scientist but I’d put the batteries somewhere other than in the engines.

Still, they presumably have to operate in vacuum so thermals will be a challenge. The vibration at launch must also be pretty gnarly.

I remember doing this with dbus but I can’t find that set-up anymore. This stackoverflow answer looks a bit more elegant: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/128007/37570

A little script could run your command when matching the jack/headphone events from acpi_listen.

For thin clients?

I think that’s a pretty wild take given the state of NASA right now. The only way I could see anything like that happening would be the GPS model, where the DoD build out StarShield for military purposes, then realise it’d be a net good for civilians to have ubiquitus global internet services. Even then, that would compete with existing non-SpaceX services which is antithetical to NASAs principles and would be considered ‘socialism’ by half of America.

Asteroid mining is really in the hands of governments. While space is basically a free-for-all on an international level, each nation can levy whatever conditions and taxes they like on their own enterprise. If companies tried to ‘flag’ themselves with low-tax nations, then I think other nations could levy tariffs and prevent access to technology to make that unattractive. Either way, a significant portion should end up in government budgets.

I’d rather private equity invest in more forward looking technology than LLMs or finance. There just needs to be a balance where it’s still attractive for them to invest, but as much of the value as reasonable gets distributed in lifting up the quality of life here on earth.

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It depends on whether it was a larvae or not.

Where are those numbers from? I don’t doubt them but it seems a bit weird that even the lowest outlier of these big aerospace companies is still above average for the industry. I guess this is just saying that smaller companies have even more difficulty hiring/retaining female workforce.

Looks like the first TRS-80 Pocket Computer: http://www.trs-80.org/pocket-computer-1/

Edit: Unless this is a joke about it being made by Sharp, not Tandy?

Tory Bruno confirms “Observation on SRB#1”.

Yeah, NSF are pulling in other angles and it definitely blows chunks and yaws slightly. Centaur burn went long - I wonder if that impacts the second burn.

Meanwhile ULA: “Everything performing nominally”

Actually rewatching it, it looks like might have been a nozzle failure on one of the GEMs. There’s a big flare before clouds obscure the rocket - much bigger than the ice. After this, one side looks to have a bigger exhaust plume than the other, and burns out slightly sooner.

Yeah, NSF are speculating about it.

In space now. Chilling second stage.

Launch looked a bit chunky but I guess that’s just the solids.

If it doesn’t have reticulated splines; I’m out.

You know the person who had the greatest positive impact on the environment on this planet? Genghis Khan, because he massacred forty million people.