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I was just thinking more of just how much more time would be available to look around and different things. Right now the hubble and webb and all other big telescopes are scheduled at 150% and astronomers would love even more time. Having five more hubbles would lead to lots of interesting...

Maybe because they became so wildly successful, they fell into the wishfulfillment fantasy that they did it all by themselves and that society (or other people) had nothing to do with their sucess at all. It was them and their work. So they think that all the rest of the people around them are...

Heck, just think what you could do with four or five of these telescopes in orbit at the same time. Sure, there would be overlap and people whining about how the 400-900mn optical rangs was being ignored, etc. But man, if you could have two hubbles with a baseline of 200,000 miles looking at...

Is this just a simple mistake, or somerthing deeper because Russia wants out no matter what and they can shrug and say "Dumb Khazahks, Da?" and move on with their own concerns? But thinking in circles like this isn't my forte at all...

To me the entire problem boils down to the marginal cost of replication being zero, i.e. copies are free. The first one still costs a bunch, but making two doesn't cost twice or even 1.5x as much. It's zero. So this is what people struggle with. They expect serious things to be hard to copy...

The real problem is the TCP Bandwidth Delay Product. Large data volumes, and high latency leads to choppy network performance that looks like a sawtooth. I spent a bunch of time 15 years ago testing various vendor's solutions to use between our sites connected by T3 links (45mbits/sec) but...

This smells to me like a process problem, more like they re-used the old loading process and something went wrong. If with the bigger volume, they pulled more vacuum as the liquid loading condensed onto the (probably liquid notrogen at this stage) and the tank was at the limit and just buckled...

These look to be pipe dreams to me. Do they really think they can fit two more engines into the existing first stage diameter? Or will they need to make wider tanks? Which really to me implies a brand new rocket. I'd honestly not be surprised if they don't file 9x4 until 2030.

This brings back memories of using bboard when I got to college in '86 on a DEC-20 system. I wish I had saved more of that stuff, and I doubt any of it is still around from way back then any more. But those were the days!

Insane cross investments. It's a bubble. Big time...

Will BO be able to take away Falcon Heavy launches because they have a bigger fairing? And more capacity to orbit? I mean 45 tons to LEO and 13 tons to GEO ain't bad at all. FH is 70 tons to LEO, 26+ tons to GEO. Whcih is quite a bit bigger. But BO has a 7m fairing while FH is 4.6m in...

Congrats BO! Now do it again please!

So we have mass estimates over time from the start of the space age? That would be interesting to see the growth there.

I just can't see Blue Origin moving any faster than they are. I could see SpaceX move faster, but they're willing to launch and break things and keep testing. But hey, I'd be happy to be surprised by anyone moving faster and making it work better. But even the Chinese are having problems, and...

I've got a 2024 Wilderness which I bought because I do Ski Patrol and want/need to get to/from the mountain in all kinds of weather. The biggest letdown so far is the "hunting" between gears around 70 mph, which is wierd since it's supposed to be a CVT transmission. I like that it's got the...

Trust busting... split it so that no vendor can control all tickets, they each sell from the same pool, but have to compete on fee costs. Yes, so smart cookies will figure out how to game the system there as well. Sigh... Does this all come down to economies of scale leading to...

The human teams needed how many thousands of dollars in training before they attended this event? :-)

Or they just totally lucked out this time and weren't outside their limits. But since we don't have their CFD and windtunnel results, it's not clear where the issue is. It could simply be scaling issues. The wind tunnel is using a much smaller model, where just a little change in conditions...

Until someone else starts launch and landing and reusing 1st stage launches, SpaceX is going to just keep extending their lead. It's a step change of change that the rest of the business hasn't caught up with yet. Eventually there will be another competitor, but it's going to take a while...

Actually BB came out with their Z10 touch only phone which was quite a bit better than the iPhone of the time, and even had Android compatibilty. Unfortunately it wasn't high enough volume of sales to help them get back into the game.