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I'm terrified of this with Mars Sample Return. If it holds the course, which other programs will get killed off for budget reasons?

Bring back Red Dragon!

People do that stuff in casual, too, which just blows my mind.

I turned off "all non tactical chats" or whatever the setting is called, and that helped a lot.

The tank was identified as the remains of an ISRO PSLV rocket's 3rd stage. It's the kevlar casing for HTPB solid propellant, which looks like pretty safe stuff.

It has been identified as (what's left of) the 3rd stage of an Indian PSLV rocket:

https://mastodon.social/@wikkit/110724722817039021

A crewed mission won't happen because of cost and physics reasons, but it would be cool to see a Falcon Heavy launch a stripped down Dragon with two crew and a kick stage for a GEO servicing mission.

I think you're right that a dedicated Falcon launch would be needed for getting something like a Northrop's MEV out there, but if the spacecraft was "only" a smallsat with a few commercial arms on board, that might fit on a SpaceX rideshare for a lot less money.

Hmm my 4-year-old $100 Brother printer is due for its first toner swap. Generic ones are $20 but Brother owns are like $75. I'm gonna have to see if this applies to mine.

I'm really excited to see if Vast can pull this off, and have their standalone mini station beat the Commercial LEO Destinations stations to market. I really like their minimum viable product approach with this, and I'm hoping it attracts tourism missions to help fund their ambitious roadmap.

For a geostationary orbit, which is where the center of mass of a space elevator would be:

h = ³√ G * m * T² / ( 4 * π² ) - r

• h: orbit height (m)
• G: gravitational constant
• m: mass of celestial body (kg)
• T: period of rotation (s)
• r: radius of celestial body (m)

So, if the mass goes way up, the height of the orbit will, too, unless something crazy happens like the planet spinning super fast.

What? It could absolutely be worse. Look at the policies in Florida/Texas/Idaho against education, trans people, voting rights, labor rights, etc. I'm glad we at least got who we got. We could have done way worse.

I think you're overestimating the power of a "Democratic Majority" anchored by Manchin and Sinema.

Oh, hey, I have a cucumber and no plans for it. I have all those ingredients. Now that a cuke has a destiny. Thanks for the recipe.

("Thanks for the recipe" sung to the tune of "Thinks fr the Mmrs")

For clarity's sake, I think it's worth pointing out that you're talking about the City of London, the 1 square mile with a population of under 10,000.

Tbf, there are a ton of comments that I think are genuine, not projection, about the API changes and blackouts, along the lines of "who cares" and "neckbeards!". And those are the people who haven't moderated a subreddit, weren't there when old. was the default, and that I'm fine with leaving behind- the commenters who might as well be spambots.