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[BeerMeDuffMan]

This place is still open for business? I love black licorice i'll eat a big box of good n plenty in a sitting. Btw wth is DEM? How about PKU? I try to follow aling but it's obvious to me that I lack the requisite coolness to really participate.

lol Dark English Mild
Please Keep Up

 

[SupervisingChildren]

lol Dark English Mild
Please Keep Up

PKU duff.

 

[thatjonguy]

PKU duff.

Did someone tell you?

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Back to the rockets. I pretty much became enamored with what's going on inside Elon Musk's brain because of this series of articles:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-man.html

Lots of great stuff on that site.

I believe Musk's goal is to have a man on Mars by 2030, if I remember correctly. They've already landed one rocket on land, that was pretty big history that, unfortunately, most of the world knew nothing about. They've yet to accomplish the sea pad landing, though they had all the telemetry and trajectory and all those other big sciencey physicsy words right last time - just that one of the locks for one of the legs never set. That's one part that I don't quite get the logistics of, but there must be a very good reason for it. Anybody know why it's so important for them to land on the sea pad and not just keep trying to land on a "non-moving" target?

Bit late on response...buttt..

Landing has never been the issue. Traveling to Mars has never been the issue. Space is the issue. Outside Earths magnetic field, astronauts are subjected to deadly amounts of solar radiation and cosmic rays. Mars itself has a tiny atmosphere and almost non-existent magnetic field. So no help there with radiation. It's a deadly adventure just to travel/stay there.

Also, regardless what tv says, there's no way to produce enough breathable air much less create rocket fuel from the Martian atmosphere as it's 1/150th of Earths pressure. Even then, the composition is not condusive for either one.

Huge amount of supplies have to be sent first. But because of the position of the Earth relative to Mars in their orbits around the sun, there's only small windows to perform launches.

Earth is traveling about 67,000mph around the sun. Mars around 53,000mph. So when launching, you have to perfectly time the intersection because there's no way to catch up if a miss occurs. It's more an issue with coming back as the Earth is much faster. It's an amazing feat in science we can even do what we do now with planetary explorers.

Oh, to answer your question..No.

Ok, back to beer...

 

[Zekk]

Need more coffee.

Really hoping to bottle my RIS this weekend and maybe brew a DEM. The RIS has been on oak for 4 weeks now and I don't want it to sit much longer.

 

[1977Brewer]

Did someone tell you?

*checks clipboard*

Not me.

 

[BGBC]

lol Dark English Mild
Please Keep Up

Did someone tell you?

*checks clipboard*

Not me.

Have fun, I'm sure I won't be missed.

 

[TobyG]

britny fox....:rockin:

Then I hope you're only talking about the first album. lol It was good and they put on a good show (I think I saw them open for 3 or 4 bands in the late 80s including Lita Ford). Boyz in Heat felt like it dragged on forever even though it was barely over 30 minutes long.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Anybody know why it's so important for them to land on the sea pad and not just keep trying to land on a "non-moving" target?

To simulate landing on an unknown surface you have not seen/analyzed or they are planning on saving fuel by launching and landing at sea near Earths equator.

 

[1977Brewer]

Have fun, I'm sure I won't be missed.

Come on man.

 

[TheCADJockey]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

To simulate landing on an unknown surface you have not seen/analyzed or they are planning on saving fuel by launching and landing at sea near Earths equator.

There are already companies launching near the equator. I'd go with the first thing you said.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Hey, all I did was a quick one liner joke, in response to someone else's post. Trying to keep it light aaand...crickets. Ya'll are just a bunch of Black licorice haters.
Reported.

 

[joshesmusica]

Bit late on response...buttt..

Landing has never been the issue. Traveling to Mars has never been the issue. Space is the issue. Outside Earths magnetic field, astronauts are subjected to deadly amounts of solar radiation and cosmic rays. Mars itself has a tiny atmosphere and almost non-existent magnetic field. So no help there with radiation. It's a deadly adventure just to travel/stay there.

Also, regardless what tv says, there's no way to produce enough breathable air much less create rocket fuel from the Martian atmosphere as it's 1/150th of Earths pressure. Even then, the composition is not condusive for either one.

Huge amount of supplies have to be sent first. But because of the position of the Earth relative to Mars in their orbits around the sun, there's only small windows to perform launches.

Earth is traveling about 67,000mph around the sun. Mars around 53,000mph. So when launching, you have to perfectly time the intersection because there's no way to catch up if a miss occurs. It's more an issue with coming back as the Earth is much faster. It's an amazing feat in science we can even do what we do now with planetary explorers.

Oh, to answer your question..No.

Ok, back to beer...

I know landing isn't necessarily the issue, but it's one of the big ones to drive the costs down first. They can't really start trying to figure out solutions to all the rest when just the trip there is next to impossible as far as investment/worth.

 

[1977Brewer]

In b4 the lock.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Good lord no politics? Ok, lets discuss religion. That's always a Friendly Friend topic!😀

I just want to have a conversation with some one who has been dead for 5 years to get the low down on after life. Especially if they have !

 

[Psylocide]

 

[1977Brewer]

floccin lololol

 

[TheCADJockey]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I know landing isn't necessarily the issue, but it's one of the big ones to drive the costs down first. They can't really start trying to figure out solutions to all the rest when just the trip there is next to impossible as far as investment/worth.

About 15 years ago, I started the creation of a more modern Economic system based on an infinite money supply. One of my ideas, was to allow massive investment into space technology development/exploration without heavy taxes. Too long to explain the system. Have about a 12pg manifesto written...

 

[Rhetorik]

 

[Psylocide]

Oh come on now... needs teh meme

 

[mcspanner]

Are we all on self destruct mode tonight?

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I just want to have a conversation with some one who has been dead for 5 years to get the low down on after life. Especially if they have !

"Usually you need a seance for that kind of action Cotton."

 

[banesong]

Are we all on self destruct mode tonight?

Yes, well... About that...

 

[TobyG]

Are we all on self destruct mode tonight?

It's still afternoon CDT. I don't know if it'll make the night at this rate.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Yeah...wait till beer kicks in. All will be "normal".

 

[Psylocide]

 

[Psylocide]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

1st pull of new dipa. Happy with it for now.

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