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Spacefarer's Guide to Getting off this Planet
For all you space nards, Kerbal Space Programmers, astrophotographers, and folks with their heads otherwise in the stars (not the Chris Martin kind of head... full of stars), FYM has entered the Future Era.
__________________Current Standings: Diplomacy: Last Culture: Last Faith: Last Science: First Military: First As you see, we have two options to victory. Either via domination, or to win the space race science victory and get the hell off this planet. In other words, here is a thread to talk about all aspects of space, from low earth orbit and beyond. So, let us begin! NASA had its budget renewed by congress. Lightfoot: NASA Budget Still in Formulation, "Confident" of Administration Support |
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china has a production and gold advantage as of this turn but if we take the space procurements tenet and spam factories and stock exchanges in our secondary cities (and send the production and gold to the main space city with our trade caravans) by the time wu gets the required tech for all the SS parts, we should be ahead enough that they won't have enough turns close the gap.
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Gandhi, always denouncing us like he's some fuckin Saint.
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nasa upgrades their tracking station to level 3:
New NASA radar technique finds lost lunar spacecraft |
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holy shit. this thing is pretty big.
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In fairness, that's probably the real size of the solar system if accounting for the Oort Cloud and everything that actually falls under the sun's sphere of influence.
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if you account for the oort cloud, it's way bigger than the black hole. as far as i can recall the cloud is about 1 ly from the sun, which would be something like 50,000 au.
the size of the sun compared to that 5,000 au black hole and the fact that the sun is still exerting gravitational influence on those oort cloud objects ~10x farther away is also quite the mindfuck when you think about it. then you think about the kind of gravitational force that black hole must have. ![]() edit: Quote:
i'm feeling rather insignificant at the moment. |
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i'll keep that in mind next time i need to shuttle from a moon station down to the surface
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it's cool. just make sure to use one of the disposable white-suit kerbals when you test the thing, please.
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I work as an analytical chemistry lab tech at our local waste water treatment plants. In my field, my field of study is in the environmental sciences and environmental protection technology. At work we ensure that the process is running smoothly and that the final effluents are meeting the regulations. So in order to get hired as permanent, I have to take an exam which will cover topics anywhere from chemistry, to the waste water treatment process and regulations as well as sample collection etc. It's a pretty wide area of knowledge. Most of which I have a fairly good understanding of (especially the lab portion since I work in a lab) but I'll be competing with some smart people and really it's how well I can answer the questions in the exam within the a hour limit. And then how well I do in the interview. I think I'll be ok in the interview, the exam has me a little tense!
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SpaceX is about to make history by relaunching a used Falcon 9 rocket - The Verge
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I'll be in my Italian prison cell where internet is a maybe.
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they landed it again! so exciting, one of my dreams is to live long enough that space tourism is available to the public, and i can see earth from orbit before i die. this is one giant leap in that direction
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GoFundMe to strap Dave to a rocket
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