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[10ebbor10]

Technically, grasshopper never went about a 1000 meters.

[That Wolf]

So we are going back to the moon.
I guess all your hard word and determination payed off guys!
Thats what happens when you constantly ask and talk about it.

[Eagleon]

The thrust could be due to stuff inside the device being incinerated. In which case it's no better than an ion drive.

Called it, kinda:

Have they ruled out thermal pitting yet on the surface of the larger section? Just heat forming microscopic spalls from overstressed metal crystals that are ejected like rocket fuel? This is probably completely the wrong place to ask, but I saw heat diagrams where the bigger half was getting much hotter on their forums and I'm a little concerned.

I'm off to give myself a trophy or something hue. *forever a layperson*
Edit: I just thought of something - the angle of the cone and its surface area, vs the surface area of the larger flat surface, should influence the vector of any ejected material on each side, and so its impulse in either direction. The thrust profile should match accordingly. Boom. *drops mic*

[LordBaal]

We are going back what? A link? Source? Something?

[Arx]

Japanese probe now in orbit around Venus, after a mishap sent it for a loop around the sun.

[Dutrius]

Soyuz 45 which launched earlier has docked with the ISS.

Something went wrong with the automated docking system, so they had to switch to manual.

[Starver]

Soyuz 45 which launched earlier has docked with the ISS.

Something went wrong with the automated docking system, so they had to switch to manual.

Don't worry, even if the American on board isn't culturally used to driving anything that isn't automatic, there's a Brit on board who will surely know how to drive manual¹...

(Not that anyone here will know who I'm talking about, without looking up who they are, but I met and talked with Gordon Brooks and Clive Smith back in 1990...  almost my closest link to astronaut/cosmonaut candidates, but not quite...)

¹ i.e. 'stick shift' gears... :p

[GiglameshDespair]

Japanese probe now in orbit around Venus, after a mishap sent it for a loop around the sun.

Got there in the end.

[redwallzyl]

anyone interested in becoming an astronaut?
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/16/459691082/nasa-s-looking-for-astronauts-do-you-have-the-right-stuff

man some people in the comments. seriously.

[Graknorke]

anyone interested in becoming an astronaut?
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/16/459691082/nasa-s-looking-for-astronauts-do-you-have-the-right-stuff

man some people in the comments. seriously.

universities should be as selective

To be an astronaut, you need a degree in a scientific field, vision correctable to 20/20, and you've got to stand between 4 feet, 8.5 inches tall and 6 foot 4.

it's almost as if commenters don't even read the articles

And who doesn't want to be an astronaut? Probably the easier question to ask.

[redwallzyl]

a lot of them also seem to be under the impression that astronauts do nothing but float around and take pictures all day.

[origamiscienceguy]

a lot of them also seem to be under the impression that astronauts do nothing but float around and take pictures all day.

well, the floating around part is more or less accurate

[wierd]

For some reason, this suddenly came to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCalLq9iDiw

[jaked122]

a lot of them also seem to be under the impression that astronauts do nothing but float around and take pictures all day.

Are you saying that you'd rather be doing what you're doing now than floating around, performing repairs, science, and using complicated toilets?


It's also not like they aren't paid reasonably well(66k a year), and they have the best vantage point for a nuclear war... Just so long as they don't have family, and nobody decides to nuke them too out of spite.

[origamiscienceguy]

For some reason, this suddenly came to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCalLq9iDiw

Wait... Her ship IMPLODED from the vacuum of space??? Can you even physics??