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PostRe: Space! by **D_C** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:00 am

Has there been any info about when the Starship test is this week?

PostRe: Space! by **Saint of Killers** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:38 pm

twitter.com/NASA/status/1387447572256657414

PostRe: Space! by **floydfreak** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:02 pm

D_C wrote:Has there been any info about when the Starship test is this week?

after they have built this city and nothing is gonna stop them

PostRe: Space! by **Peter Crisp** » Sun May 02, 2021 5:40 pm

I wish the scientists would hurry up and discover Subspace.

PostRe: Space! by **Alvin Flummux** » Sun May 02, 2021 7:02 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:I wish the scientists would hurry up and discover Subspace.

No no, the Warp, let's find the Warp. :nod:

PostRe: Space! by **Sprouty** » Sun May 02, 2021 8:16 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:I wish the scientists would hurry up and discover Subspace.

No no, the Warp, let's find the Warp.

Or proof of the multiverse!

*High fives my other selves*

PostRe: Space! by **VlaSoul** » Mon May 03, 2021 10:15 am

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:I wish the scientists would hurry up and discover Subspace.

No no, the Warp, let's find the Warp.

Honestly if we're talking about the 40k one, that's the worst possible outcome

PostRe: Space! by **Peter Crisp** » Mon May 03, 2021 12:44 pm

VlaSoul wrote:Honestly if we're talking about the 40k one, that's the worst possible outcome

So, we let a few demons in what's the big deal?
In return, we get guys with power armour and super gravely voices who get forced to star in some terrible video games.

I know very little about the 40k universe but it can't be all that bad.

PostRe: Space! by **Alvin Flummux** » Mon May 03, 2021 3:06 pm

VlaSoul wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:I wish the scientists would hurry up and discover Subspace.

No no, the Warp, let's find the Warp.

Honestly if we're talking about the 40k one, that's the worst possible outcome

Exactly! Things can only get better from there.

PostRe: Space! by **Qikz** » Mon May 03, 2021 3:28 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
VlaSoul wrote:Honestly if we're talking about the 40k one, that's the worst possible outcome

So, we let a few demons in what's the big deal?
In return, we get guys with power armour and super gravely voices who get forced to star in some terrible video games.

I know very little about the 40k universe but it can't be all that bad.

Honestly the 40k universe might be the darkest, worst possible situation for humanity. It's strawberry floated.

PostRe: Space! by **Meep** » Mon May 03, 2021 4:31 pm

It's hugely depressing when you realise if you are any age under 48 no one has set foot on the moon in your lifetime. I assume any children or young people watching the landings at the time would have imagined the world to be very different today. It probably seemed inevitable that there would be some kind of permanent moon base by now.

PostRe: Space! by **Imrahil** » Mon May 03, 2021 9:12 pm

Yeah, I think a lot of people back then assumed new technology would be invented to allow mega cheap transit of materials into orbit. It's improved a bit but there's a hell of a long way to go before we can do anything major. The ISS has been insanely expensive.

It still costs around a million dollars to get something the size of 100 tins of baked beans into space, or thereabouts. I don't know why I chose baked beans as the example. They're probably not going to be essential for building a moon base.

The sooner they invent wormhole technology the better. We'd have a moon base up in no time.

PostRe: Space! by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue May 04, 2021 1:42 am

We're figuring out cheaper ways to get into space, and one of them is letting the private sector go wild on it, spending its money on developing technologies NASA and other agencies have never had the public funding to pursue. Another would be the creation of a system of space planes and orbital skyhooks (not space elevators).

PostRe: Space! by **Peter Crisp** » Tue May 04, 2021 2:16 am

Alvin Flummux wrote:We're figuring out cheaper ways to get into space, and one of them is letting the private sector go wild on it, spending its money on developing technologies NASA and other agencies have never had the public funding to pursue. Another would be the creation of a system of space planes and orbital skyhooks (not space elevators).

Skylon could be the answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

It's British :wub:

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PostRe: Space! by **Moggy** » Tue May 04, 2021 7:03 am

Peter Crisp wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:We're figuring out cheaper ways to get into space, and one of them is letting the private sector go wild on it, spending its money on developing technologies NASA and other agencies have never had the public funding to pursue. Another would be the creation of a system of space planes and orbital skyhooks (not space elevators).

Skylon could be the answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

It's British .

Skylon was great but I think I preferred Casino Royale.

PostRe: Space! by **Squinty** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:52 am

I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).

PostRe: Space! by **Moggy** » Tue May 04, 2021 9:07 am

Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).

This one?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... est-star1/

20 years to Alpha Centuri seems ambitious, but I guess they are desperate to win Civ.

PostRe: Space! by **OrangeRKN** » Tue May 04, 2021 9:08 am

Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).

Breakthrough Starshot, probably

EDIT: beaten!

PostRe: Space! by **Victor Mildew** » Tue May 04, 2021 9:09 am

Moggy wrote:
Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).

This one?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... est-star1/

20 years to Alpha Centuri seems ambitious, but I guess they are desperate to win Civ.

Ghandi

PostRe: Space! by **Squinty** » Tue May 04, 2021 10:44 am

OrangeRKN wrote:
Squinty wrote:I wish I could find it, but I read something recently about a private initiative that was planning to send tiny probes to the nearest star system. They said they'd be there within 40 years if launched (this sounds like balls).

Breakthrough Starshot, probably

EDIT: beaten!

This is it. Cheers to you both.

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