@peterrhague Ok, perhaps, although I think the case is not yet decided
But wouldn’t death and/or serious effects to say 1% of the population be a huge scandal?
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Yuri
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I don’t believe either COVID or the vaccines to it have done significant long term damage to the majority of the population. I am aware this pisses off a huge number of people here, but I just don’t see strong evidence for either case.
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The electricity bill for a normal winter at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is $18,000,000.
Today, the generators use jet fuel.
Time to go nuclear?
Christian Keil@pronounced_kyle
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@peterrhague Hand rule of thumb:
When someone claims something is impossible, that doesn't obviously violate physics, they will be proved wrong eventually, often sooner than anyone thinks.
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It’s hard to know where to start explaining how wrong this is.
Why do people pile assumption on top of assumption before attempting to question any of it?
Fred Krueger@dotkrueger
We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us. We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever. 1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there. 2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy. 3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it. 4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break. 5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.
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@SchmittNYC Not directly an answer, but I can tell you this:
WA charged me 1% of the value of my house when I sold it. Theft
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@RossDynamicsLab the camera is on the end of the solar panel. The solar panel is long and thin. So it can flex a bit like a fishing pole would. Thanks what is happening
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What caused the Orion spacecraft to wobble?
AstroAventura@AstroAventura
Impresionante time-lapse de la maniobra de inyección trans-lunar de Artemis II, que ha puesto oficialmente a la expedición rumbo a la Luna
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SCOOP: CIA used secret tool called 'Ghost Murmur' to find airman in Iran, sources tell me
Ghost Murmur pairs long-range quantum magnetometry sensors with AI to find human heartbeats
nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-…
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@dpoddolphinpro @NASA Please tell me you aren't going to write a book about this.
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TOILET UPDATE: Artemis II Flight Director Rick Henfling says that @NASA no longer believes the frozen vent theory is causing the waste dump problems.
Orion Integrity's vent was pointed at the sun for ~2 hours a few days ago, which would have melted any blockage, but there is still something restricting the vent.
The current hypothesis is that a chemical reaction with the waste water, used to prevent it developing biofilms, could be generating debris, clogging a filter.
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I knew she was smart. I had no idea she was that versatile. That's awesome.
Ben Sigman@bensig
@fluffypony multi-mempalace
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@peterrhague Clever.
Really tho, ISS has had 20 years, presumably with a working toilet. Orion should have a working toilet .. if it doesn't, it's a huge red flag against the contractor performance.
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This video should also help you understand why zero gravity toilets are a tricky engineering problem
Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital
Have you ever seen honey in space? This might be the coolest video we've seen all week. Nothing will ever be the same.
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@BellikOzan Huge error. One of many
The SLS "program" is filled with obvious holes in the requirements.
No sat relays
No surface space suits
No lander
Not enough props to get to LLO
No enough test flights to prove out the toilet, the heater, the rendevzous and docking HW
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Could have been done for ~0.1% program budget to date
☆𝕃𝕦𝕟𝕒𝕣🌙𝕃𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣☆@Lunar_Luster
Random thought cause I'm not a scientist but why couldn't they have sent a satellite that orbits higher above the moon that's not blocked by the moon and still has contact with Earth so they wouldn't lose signal when they're behind the moon? 🤔
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@freddo411 From what I'm hearing, the exterior outlet for the waste-water tanks keeps freezing and plugging. Last time, the rolled the spacecraft to put that part in the sun. On the flyby, they can't do that. It needs a heater (or a bigger heater}.
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Quite disappointing I"m sure.
However, the important question is this:
Does the ISS have a fully functioning toilet? Yes/No?
If NO, then our astronauts haven't had a working toilet for 20 years.
If YES, then it is a huge error to not have a working one on Artemis
Ryan Caton@dpoddolphinpro
TOILET UPDATE: Orion's toilet is NO-GO for use. Houston has requested all Artemis II crew members to use their Collapsible Contingency Urinals (CCUs) in the meantime.
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Did Orion on Artemis I and II have a docking port, or it was sealed shut with no port?
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What is Kepa training for?
Arsenal Buzz@ArsenalBuzzCom
📸| David Raya and Kepa in training this morning! 🧤#UCL
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I think I may need to hire a security detail.
I am now almost universally hated.
Leftists hate me because I refuse to subscribe to their anti-science academic dogma and narrow-mindedness on climate change hysteria and left-wing activism, and the right hates me because I don't advance their anti-science conspiracy theories about weather or the shape of the Earth.
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@JK_Lundblad It is almost like SpaceX always existed to fly often.
And ULA never existed to do more than the DOD contracts (with extremely minor exceptions)
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Good point here but ULA wasn't completely wrong. SpaceX did run into that demand wall and, at one point, nearly went bankrupt.
Hence, they created their own launch demand via Starlink.
Not many appreciate how they pulled this off. Tesla hopes to do the same with FSD.
Space Koala@SpaceKoala
They thought reuse was crazy because they assumed the market for launches was inelastic, so the money spent on reuse wouldn't save costs long term because keeping the factory open and the line running wouldn't get any cheaper.
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