“AI growing pot in space for a miision to mars” sounds like a Musk-branded Mad-Libs game.
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The good news: they were able to successfully build and test-fire a brand new RS-25 engine for the first time in decades.
Bad news is that they cost $100M each despite (or maybe because of) being a half-century old design, and they’ll probably never be used.
Also, apparently the new solid rocket motor design could use some more tweaking.
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So what innovative startup has a brochure about shooting porn on Mars? It’s on the bingo card.
Also: surely someone wants to put AI there, cooling or something.
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I was wondering how it could possibly be considered more secure and this is what the article said:
That’s some crazy nonsense right there. Unlike private terrestrial networks sending data from the moon requires wireless transmission over a huge area that could be intercepted without a physical connection to a network. And if they want to keep their data in a difficult-to-access vault there’s absolutely nothing stopping them from doing literally that exact same thing on earth.
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Perhaps using laser-based communication. Some magic laser with an ultra low beam divergence. It would have to be very high powered, and quite large.
We are on our way to The Expanse
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Space mushrooms!
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I tried looking for it last night but unfortunately there is far too much light pollution.
A brightness of +5.7 is really only possible to see in perfectly dark skies. Even then, about half the time you cant be sure if you really saw it.
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Every year the brightness of the city gets worse. I think that to see a really dark sky, you have to travel for hours to the sugar cane plantations in the north of Rio. From my window I can only see the planets and the brightest stars among the glow of the city lights.
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And that’s it for the Mars Relay Network.
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