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nyrath

@nyrath@spacey.space

Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.

In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-05-13/pentagon-satellite-launcher-worry-pace-13844516.html

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The Lunacy of Artemis

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

RJB_Mallacore, to scifi
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New starship work in progress.

For a long time I have been a fan of the Corvette design from the game Independence War (I-War) box art. I finally decided to do a ship inspired by that design.

Enjoy.

#3dmodels #starship #scifi #scifiart #lightwave3d

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@RJB_Mallacore

Great starship!

As a matter of historical interest (which has zero bearing on your design) the I-War ship has a circular profile because the outer edge is a circular particle accelerator feeding the particle beam weapon.

Feel free to totally ignore my compulsive pedantry

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@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

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Ion-drive malfuntion

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

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@SkipHuffman

I have no idea, the information is frustratingly scanty. They just said the solar power went out, and by remotely fiddling somehow got 90% of the power back.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Glitch_on_BepiColombo_work_ongoing_to_restore_spacecraft_to_full_thrust

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https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/366/7671518?login=false

thisnorthernboy, to scifi
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Could do with a name for this. Scrap/salvage ship. Ex asteroid mining vessel. Plying its trade between Ceres and Mars.

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@thisnorthernboy

"Salvage-One"

Aka "the Vulture"

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

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@InkySchwartz

Do you want SkyNet?
Because this is how you get SkyNet

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@Dandelion

The entire world is going to die of the dreaded disease "Increasing Shareholder Value"...

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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."

https://www.adastragames.com/products/architect-of-worlds

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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

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@swope

Back in the late 1960s, I saw Spacewar in a TV show called The Twenty First Century with Walter Cronkite.

As a wee lad I plotted so I could travel to MIT, sneak inside, and play that astonishing game!

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

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

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What the US Navy Taught Me About Starfleet

A presentation by my acquaintance Christopher Weuve

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-atajUIuvwo

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@nyrath, dibs on pointing up in the night sky at the orbiting laser armed DE-STAR and shouting: That's no moon!
https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/solar-system/asteroid-mining/projects/laser-ablation-for-asteroids-mining

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@Hcobb

DE-STAR

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time...

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/10/05/de-star-and-breakthrough-starshot-a-short-history/

iamgerardthomas, to battletech
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Blue doodle of thing hiding. A little bit ... but the pilot's got an open cockpit and that's going to end well, right?!

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@iamgerardthomas

The phrase "Cut off the head to kill the body" springs to mind...

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And they told us to tell you hello

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

futuremania, to scifi German
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"Magic Moon" - Der 14. Captain-Future-Roman gehört zu denjenigen Erzählungen, die bislang nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt worden sind - dafür aber wurde er als Animé-Episode verfilmt (Titel: "Die Rolle seines Lebens")...

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@futuremania

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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

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My personal favorite is dioxygen diflouride

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

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@Sevoris @michael_w_busch @klausman

The entire space exploration and development world is impatiently waiting for somebody to invent faster-than-light communication

ianRobinson, to books
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Finished rereading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.

Enjoyed it. And lots of it I didn’t remember. So it was like reading it anew. I rated it 5⭐️ before. Would do again.

Now on to the other three books in the Wayfarer Series which I own but haven’t read.

https://books.apple.com/gb/book-series/wayfarers/id1101607635

#Books #BeckyChambers #SciFi #SpaceOpera

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@ianRobinson

One of those nice, cozy, "found-family" working class starship crew type scifi novel.

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Full length Wicked trailer just dropped and I'm shook.

Wow, you can hear how much Ariana Grande loves Kristin Chenowith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COmYeLsz4c

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@isaackuo

My wife and I are eager to see this movie.

We've only seen one (1) musical on Broadway, and this was it. A package bus-dinner-Broadway deal.

All because my wife was flipping channels and happened upon Idina Menzel performing "Defying Gravity" in a music award show.

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