I’m not really into the idea of moving everything to a baby Google, even if they’re currently good about privacy. They just added an AI tool to email and a crypto wallet, which could be either awful or great signs depending on your perspective.
I’m not really into the idea of moving everything to a baby Google, even if they’re currently good about privacy. They just added an AI tool to email and a crypto wallet, which could be either awful or great signs depending on your perspective.
So does Valve?
I was kind of hoping for Impulse Space, but they’re probably too unproven.
One of Starship’s engines on the lowest setting would tear the station apart. Regardless of whether they make this based on Starship instead of something more reasonably sized like a Dragon or Falcon 2nd stage, it’ll still need either a new engine design or a big cluster of Dracos. It’ll be something custom.
Regarding their Artemis work- the payments are milestone based, so they get money as they pass milestones. Engine relights and ship to ship prop transfer are some of the next ones.
Regarding their other customers- the Starship manifest includes another moon cruise, several satellite launches, and a lot of Starlinks.
Serious answer- SpaceX is building the deorbit vehicle then turning it over to NASA, who will have full control over it.
There’s no way Russia builds a new station. The timeline for them getting Nauka to orbit basically proves that it’s impossible. They’ve been trying to buddy up with China to visit theirs, though.
I’m just waiting for the moisture farmers to get landspeeders
The docking adapters look pretty much the same (interlocking petals, not male/female) and can be active, passive, or both, but Dragon’s is only active. Active has to dock to passive, so two Dragons couldn’t dock.
SpaceX developed a new one that can be active or passive for Starship, which will have to dock with Orion and the Lunar Gateway.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-spacex-test-starship-lunar-lander-docking-system/
Maybe? Soyuz is too cramped, but Dragon might be able to fit extra people. A few years ago a NASA astronaut flew up on a leaky Soyuz, so they looked at using Dragon as a lifeboat:
https://www.space.com/nasa-spacex-dragon-rescue-spacecraft-soyuz-leak
Dragon was drawn up to fit 7 people, with 3 seats on the bottom and 4 on top. They ended up changing the seat angles for reentry, so now they only have 4.
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Starliner is still their emergency ride home in case a real alarm goes off, but they want to study the leak issue as much as possible before they separate their service module, which burns up during reentry.
Front Range Rail would be pretty great
Wirecutter and RTINGS both do a lot of testing and reviews, including for headphones.
The mass application boom is so annoying. Seeing a sankey diagram of someone who applied to hundreds of jobs always bothers me.
You would carry a gas can
I set my phone to auto download playlists and podcasts on WiFi, so it isn’t really a problem. I think there was one month when I had to buy extra data so far, and that still ends up being cheaper than being on a plan with more data.
Getting paid for on-call hours would be cool. If only.
I got mine a little over 4 years ago and am still on the original toner. It gives low toner warnings but just keeps on printing.
Have you heard of Dragonfly? It’s a thousand pound, nuclear powered drone that’ll fly around Titan. Ingenuity has been a great first step (hop?) with these rotorcraft, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what else comes next.
I’ve wanted to do a pinhole camera like this for years, but I’ve never had the right window or view for it. This one turned out really well! I can’t wait for longer days, starting Friday.
Tab groups?
There are private/paywalled Discord servers and forums out there, too, so this could replace some of those. I think the Reddit format is better than a lot of alternatives, so I don’t actually hate this idea.