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nyrath, 8 hours ago to random

APR: 3D Printed Aerospace/Nuclear subjects

https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=5399

nyrath, 2 days ago to random

This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of.

This search engine isn't particularly well equipped to answering queries posed like questions, instead try to imagine some text that might appear in the website you are looking for, and search for that.

Where this search engine really shines is finding small, old and obscure websites about some given topic

https://search.marginalia.nu/

nyrath, 3 days ago to random

Adam Savage Goes Hands-On with Pip-Boy Prop from Fallout TV Show!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=a9kQs6lUt0E

nyrath, 3 days ago to random

The Lunacy of Artemis

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

nyrath, 4 days ago to random

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/

nyrath, 4 days ago to random

@StefanEJones

A blast from the past. Did you ever see that 1979 TV show "Salvage-1" ?

https://web.archive.org/web/20040915102728/http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9782/salestes.html

nyrath, 4 days ago to random

Ion-drive malfuntion

https://mashable.com/article/mercury-mission-bepicolombo-thrust-problem

nyrath, 5 days ago (edited 16 hours ago) to random

New book on worldbuilding.

Author says: "Architect of Worlds is what happens when the guy who wrote three different solar system/planetary generation systems for GURPS is told he doesn't have a word count and spends 7 years tracking every paper on exoplanet systems he can find."

[ I have a copy and am impressed by the detail. More importantly author includes citations of original scientific papers ]

Dead Tree edition: https://www.adastragames.com/products/architect-of-worlds
PDF edition: https://www.adastragames.com/products/architect-of-worlds-pdf

nyrath, 5 days ago to random

From https://x.com/beanhowitzer at the hell-site.

Little thing says it likes Space War.
Audience thinks it means cheesy fake-ass space-opera space-war crap.
What time really means is hard-science-fiction scientifically-accurate space war.

https://x.com/beanhowitzer/status/1791616943230697624

nyrath, 5 days ago to random

Spaceplanes: why we need them, why they have failed, and how they can succeed

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4791/1

nyrath, 6 days ago to random

And they told us to tell you hello

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/manamplifier.php#curiosity

nyrath, 8 days ago to random

Derek Lowe's "Things I Will Not Work With", a series about insanely dangerous chemical compounds.

In this episode, The Higher States of Bromine.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

nyrath, 10 days ago to random

Well, my smartphone just screamed at me. It informed me that at 5:00 EST the army Corp of engineers will be using explosive cutting charges to slice up the part of the collapsed Francis Key Bridge which is currently draped over the cargo ship.

They said anybody within 2,000 feet should either wear hearing protection or hide inside a house.

I will comply...

nyrath, 10 days ago to random

https://subspacechatter.substack.com/p/dont-take-whats-happening-to-star

nyrath, 11 days ago to random

Well this is embarrassing.

I've never been a fan of Doctor Who, since is only marginally science fiction. But I just watched the first two episodes of Series 14, and I rather enjoyed them.

[1] I personally like scifi that if it cannot be scientifically accurate, is at least internally self consistent. E.g. the history of baby station.

[2] I am fond of movies and shows where the characters are nonplussed by absurd things that go shambling by. E.g. the goblin ship.

nyrath, 12 days ago to random

https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/how-we-do-it/systems/exobiology-extant-life-surveyor-eels/

nyrath, 12 days ago to random

When I was a little boy, living in Caribou Maine, my family was helping some friends one night. As we walked home in the snow, the entire night sky lit up like being inside a psychedelic neon cathedral. And I mean entire, horizon to horizon. Incredibly bright too.

Decades later I researched this and discovered it was an aurora courtesy of a massive solar flare shaped like a seahorse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1972_solar_storms

nyrath, 13 days ago to random

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-contractor-warns-boeing-valves

nyrath, 14 days ago to random

Because of Burnside's Zeroth Law of space combat:

Science fiction fans relate more to human beings than to silicon chips.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#gottahavecrew

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nyrath, 16 days ago to random

PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF A HYPERVELOCITY NUCLEAR INTERCEPTOR SYSTEM (HNIS) FOR OPTIMAL DISRUPTION OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS

nuking incoming rogue asteroids

(pdf file)
https://www.adrc.iastate.edu/files/2012/06/AAS-12-225.pdf

nyrath, 18 days ago to random

https://www.tumblr.com/sabotpetal/748045998640791552/f-117-nighthawk-in-production

nyrath, 18 days ago to random

https://astrobiology.com/2023/06/specular-reflections-from-artificial-surfaces-as-technosignature.html

nyrath, 19 days ago to random

https://hushkit.net/2021/10/23/10-extremely-sexy-spaceplanes/

nyrath, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to random

Scifi writers should know that an army marches on their stomach. Also amateurs talk about tactics while experts talk about logistics.

You gotta feed your armies and starfleets fuel, ammo, rations for the military humans or everything comes to a screeching halt.

But I had no idea the number of different types of naval logistic ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Sealift_Command#Fleet_Oiler_Program_N031

nyrath, 20 days ago to random

More about space military logistics here:

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astromilitary.php#logistics