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[i2amroy]

Superluminal Communications

This one sounds way too much like the idea of using a commoner railgun from D&D to instantly transmit messages for my liking.

[Il Palazzo]

Superluminal Communications

This one sounds way too much like the idea of using a commoner railgun from D&D to instantly transmit messages for my liking.

That article is a load of crackpot bollocks, as is Santili - its main "scienctific" source. Santili Foundation has got as much to do with science as homeopathy does with medicine.
The article even goes full-on conspiracy theory with this statement about the recent-ish superluminal neutrinos affair:

An experimental collaboration at CERN headed bu the Italian scientist A. Ereditato measured in 2012 neutrinos traveling undergrounds from the Geneva Laboratory in Switzerland to the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy at superluminal speeds (see the report http://www.santilli-foundation.org/docs/OPERA-experiment.pdf). However, these results were opposed by supporters of Einstein theories currently controlling CERN who changed the data elaborations without redoing the experiments and published a claim that neutrinos were moving at subluminal speeds

[Loud Whispers]

Damn shame that is. At least we still have legoscopes.

[Darvi]

That may be so, LW, but what are toy blocks have anything to do with science?

[10ebbor10]

Legos are cheap =>
Legoscope is cheap
=> More science for less money.

[Another]

NASA Hails Private Cygnus Spacecraft's 'Picture Perfect' 1st Launch to Station

Except for a software glitch that led to a week delay before the docking with ISS - yes, perfect.

[10ebbor10]

Besides It's hardly a private project. Okay, they made the rocket themselves, but the capsule and it's instruments are provided by one of ESA's primary suppliers*.

Also, it doesn't even have automated docking. They have to bring it in using the Canadarm.

*Which technically is a private organization, but so is Arianeespace, which should technically claim all these records. ((But doesn't, because the cooperation with the ESA is considered to close))

[Lagslayer]

Real pilots bring it in manual.

[Virex]

NASA Hails Private Cygnus Spacecraft's 'Picture Perfect' 1st Launch to Station

Except for a software glitch that led to a week delay before the docking with ISS - yes, perfect.

It didn't crash. Therefor it went perfectly. Remember that despite decades of research, rocketry still consists of putting something on top of an exploding bomb and praying it goes the right way.

[Sheb]

I'm fairly sure they used the Canadarm for the Dragon capsule as well.

[10ebbor10]

They use the Canadarm for all capsules. The ATV is the only vehicle that's considered capable enough to allow automated docking procedures.

I think the Soyuz can do automatic docking too, but they don't let it do that anymore after one crashed into Mir.

Also: I was trying to look for something interesting. Thanks google for their snapshots, and the wayback machine too.

[Scoops Novel]

Some of you may be familiar with this comic (look at the notes). What can we see in space with the naked eye? Where would we go for the best view?

[wierd]

Wear gold foil glasses. Look at black hole accretion disc at about 45deg inclination.

Wear a lead suit. (or, use a really big telescope from very far away.)

[Sheb]

Why do they close the website? Seriously, can't the website more or less run itself without oversight?

[wierd]

Bandwidth isnt free. Note the nearly total lack of images.