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Interstellar Visitor Zipping Through Our Solar System Could Be a Hostile Probe, Alien-Hyping Scientists Warn
Oh, FFS, Loeb is at it again.
It’s never aliens!
By the way, since the solar system is moving as well - to what extent is 3I/ATLAS “zipping through our solar system” and to what extent is the solar system moving through 3I/ATLAS’ trajectory anyway?
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Rocket Lab Has Some Genuine Competition for SpaceX, but It Can’t Reach the Launchpad
“California-based startup Rocket Lab is looking to compete with industry leader SpaceX with its upcoming launch vehicle, Neutron.”
Bit old for a startup…
Obligatory: Criticizing Neutron (part two)
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Did he ever publish on that “alien metal” he was “recovering” from the ocean floor? I will give him this: He is exceptionally good at generating publicity for himslef.
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LOL, no.
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Clickbait-y title is clickbait.
ESA is giving €7 million to a team to come up with a workable design for a SSTO space plane within 12 months. Which is good. What is even better is that some on the team used to work for Reaction Engines Ltd who got pretty far in developing the sort of engine you’d need for this.
So this might lead to something. We’ll see what exactly.
I also don’t know why (other than to jack up the word count) the article mentions Sierra’s Dream Chaser, the Shenlong and the X-37B. Which are space planes, yes - but no SSTOs.
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The U.S. Could Lose a Crucial Futuristic Telescope to Spain if Trump’s Budget Passes
Spain has offered to spend up to €400 million ($471 million) to host the Thirty Meter Telescope, an enormous observatory project facing imminent cancellation due to U.S. budget constraints.
If Spain strikes a deal, the TMT would be built on La Palma in the Canary Islands rather than on Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawaii.
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Is there anything wrong with the Canary Islands for it? I guess the article says the altitude here is lower, which doesn’t help, but I don’t know by how much. Is the site sacred to anyone like the Mauna Kea summit? The telescopes there have been wonderful, but if there ends up being a better place to put them, it would be one of the few results of Trump’s murder of science that I wouldn’t complain about.
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As a comparison, let us remember good old Werner Von Braun. He opted for all-up testing of the Saturn V, and it worked the first time.
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From a Republican point-of-view, thinking gets in the way of achieving.
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Not sure if you were joking but I don’t like the term “good” applied to that former Nazi SS officer. At any rate, Braun actually objected to the “all up” testing and the decision wasn’t his:
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“Gold old” is best used ironically.
Whether he was for or against the launch, the Saturn V worked the first time. Elon is just a rich guy, was the point I was trying to make.
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