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Hevach

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- Hevach replied to the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last..
  
  Making the RTGs bigger wouldn't have helped a whole lot unless the whole probe were made bigger and more robust. A lot of instruments...
  
  Mar 6, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread X 37B.
  
  That's the power source, not the output. The output is 300kw, but as you say is not continuous.
  
  Mar 1, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread X 37B.
  
  I find a laser weapon extremely unlikely for two reasons: 1. Power. The Navy's anti-drone laser is 60 kilowatts, which is over 70% of...
  
  Feb 27, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread Question Asteroid impacts?.
  
  This isn't necessarily better. The mass and thermal energy is still released into the atmosphere. Tunguska is an example of an object...
  
  Feb 25, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread X 37B.
  
  Being military and not NASA we can make some educated guesses and weigh what's more likely. Unmanned long term missions where the added...
  
  Feb 24, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread New scientific calculator.
  
  Most square roots are irrational. That does *not* mean all irrational numbers are square roots or can be represented by some function of...
  
  Feb 17, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread New scientific calculator.
  
  You're not the first one to notice this, interestingly: https://oeis.org/A045546 There are more exceptions as you get higher...
  
  Feb 12, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread Weapons of star wars.
  
  Possible? Sure, at the far end of the Kardashev scale a lot of things might be possible. Practical and useful though? I doubt it. The...
  
  Feb 9, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to search for life on alien worlds.
  
  We do have the parts we need to do this, they're just not all together and some aren't quite there yet. But it's close enough to be a...
  
  Feb 6, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread Trump asks Elon Musk to return 2 Starliner astronauts from the ISS for NASA—but they already have a SpaceX ride home.
  
  This is the fault of the mainstream (and even a lot of science and space media who should know better) calling these two trapped and...
  
  Jan 29, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread Beam me to the stars.
  
  This is like saying Earth is no different than Venus so why look at it. Just the closest star to the sun is extraordinarily different...
  
  Jan 25, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread starship fire.
  
  I don't think so. They did reuse one engine from flight 5 on this booster but so far the vehicles themselves are subjected to...
  
  Jan 18, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread David Lynch's 'Dune' at 40: David Lynch's 1984 adaptation is a true spice oddity.
  
  I've always had a soft spot for the 2000 version. It sticks closer to the books than either of the others. The part I like the most is...
  
  Jan 17, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread starship fire.
  
  Anything official will have to wait for an announcement. However there's room for an educated guess. Flight 5 had a very similar fire...
  
  Jan 17, 2025
- Hevach replied to the thread viper moon rover.
  
  No, he's not definitely going to kick off a fire sale. But there's always an expectation that when an advocate gains the power to act...
  
  Jan 16, 2025
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