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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever:' 3 Climate records broken in 2024.Ken, First of all, I think we agree that it is not wise to think that "everything will be OK". My main point is that we are not...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blue Origin is expected to launch its 1st New Glenn rocket next week, but when?.The article says that the mission will last about 6 hours. That sounds like the test payload is intended to make about 4 orbits. So...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Blue Origin is expected to launch its 1st New Glenn rocket next week, but when?.🤞 Will we get a chance to watch it live on Space.com?
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed).I learned a new word today: intumescent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intumescent has a decent explanation, but that picture of a...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Space debris crashes into Kenyan village, believed to be leftover rocket hardware.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/massive-mysterious-metal-ring-crashes-into-kenyan-village/vi-AA1wQVJl This video shows a lot more...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed).I am not surprised that NASA and its contractors went with what they considered "tried and proven" technologies for the Artemis Program...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Was 2024 the year we finally started to understand dark energy?."Changing dark energy" is just one more leap down the rabbit hole of adding unexplained forces and materials to make the theory...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Space debris crashes into Kenyan village, believed to be leftover rocket hardware.Looks like it might be a staging joint. If it is a rocket component, I would expect somebody to recognize it as their own pretty soon...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever:' 3 Climate records broken in 2024.Ken, I think you have the big picture roughly correct. But, most of the rates for CO2 ins and outs are estimates based on some...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever:' 3 Climate records broken in 2024.But HobartStinsonian's post was about accounting for CO2 changing the climate with greenhouse effects, and he merely mentioned that the...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed).George2, I think all of those things are part of the "payload" so far as Mars trajectory insertion numbers are considered. I think...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever:' 3 Climate records broken in 2024.COLGeek, Is that the link you intended? It addresses NO2, SO2, CO, and PM pollutants, but not CO2. It is more related to human health...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed).Googllng a bit more, the Falcon 9 is rated for only 4,020 kg to Mars, which should be a roughly equivalent delta-V to an Orion reentry...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed).Maybe we are talking past each other. For a proper test of the heat shield, the capsule needs to be at its maximum mass for reentry...
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UUnclear Engineer replied to the thread Just a fraction of the hydrogen hidden beneath Earth's surface could power Earth for 200 years, scientists find [clone].I am getting suspicious that the "editors" of Space.com are now some sort of AI algorithm instead of real people with common sense...
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