Scott Manley's always informative video breakdown of Starship Launch 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8htMpR7mnaM Tugg Thanks! SpaceX could basically stop here and kill the space market with its prices. A starship and its booster just cost 40 to 90 million to build, and yet it heaves 100 tons int...
Jump to post889091 wrote:So they will need to stick one of these on the inside of the canopy?
889091 wrote:So they will need to stick one of these on the inside of the canopy?
Yep, in June. In other news, the Swiss Air Force is cancelling the Payerne air show, the Fliegerschiessen at Axalp, as well as an event on the Emmen air base. It costs too much. The Swiss military is lacking one billion CHF - one billion that they need to pay for the already ordered equipment and ar...
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Jump to postSomething pointed out by people on avherald is that the CG plane was called "No. 1", meaning that it was the first aircraft to use the runway. Thus they didn't expect any other aircraft to land very soon.
Jump to postI am no pilot so could someone enlighten me as to how TCAS would function in this situation? Would it give the, “Traffic, traffic,” call? As the offending plane didn't have an ADS-B transponder and so didn't broadcast signals for the TCAS, the landing A350 was essentially blind. On or near the grou...
Jump to postYiiiikes.
I can't really make out the Coast Guard plane that apparently crosses the active runway. The position lights aren't really bright and blinking... makes me wonder what the ground radar was doing that night.
The videos are eerie.
NCD is mourning the loss of the pilot, who was a valued member of the Non-Credible Defense subreddit. It's a defense-themed shitposting site, with many of the contributors having a military background. https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/18djy0p/the_host_of_our_v22_ama_has_passed_aw...
Jump to postThat was amazing. The 2nd launch went so good for so long. We're at the dawn of a new age in space exploration. When the huge rokkit finally works, launch costs will do a nice free fall. (Is it me or was anyone watching on the the Space X You Tube site which was interrupted just before launch by Mus...
Jump to postPointy end up...
Cars parked at a safe distance...
Last illicit drone flight around Starship to check on the nuts & bolts...
Me being a referee and having to interrupt the game to watch the launch...
Let's open this next great chapter in space exploration!
In a earth-shattering development, SpaceX has discovered Youtube *cough* and published a video there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pCXD709TI
It's a short vid about preparing for IFT-2.
Are these just for boosting existing markets, or are we going to see any innovation like U2 trying TATL? I doubt that. U2 would have to fill those TATL flights, and that's really difficult if they don't offer connecting flights. But U2 is happily selling you TATL tickets in collaboration with Dohop...
Jump to postI'm absolutely shocked that Hamas was able to pull it off - a concerted, well-organized attack to overwhelm Israeli defenses and advance up to 20 km into Israeli territory. Their OPSEC game must have been stellar, and somehow you have to *train* for such an attack. Even more horrifying, the 700+ dea...
Jump to postThe aforementioned issues with rainbow colors, alcohol and related matters only tell me that FIFA needs a strict ruleset. You have to allow X, Y and Z without contention if you want to host any of our finals. End of the discussion. Especially as FIFA is in a much better position than the IOC. The Ol...
Jump to postMaybe it's just become too expensive for most single countries to be able to afford it? AFAIK, the Olympic Games are far worse... they need much more housing for athletes and staff, and the Olympics leave many over-sized sports venues behind. Portugal and Spain already have the necessary stadiums t...
Jump to postFIFA doesn't surprise me anymore. They would still honor any country with a world cup if the money is right. With Maroc, Portugal and Spain, the three countries share some rich history - all three areas were Arabian under the Umayyad Caliphate from about 500 until 1200. Maybe that's a nod to the Ara...
Jump to postAs somebody who likes Flixbus (the company owns Greyhound, btw), I'm always interested in the causes of bus accidents. I've seen some unprofessional behavior myself... here, in the end, it could mean a fatigued driver.
Jump to postGDB wrote:A very rare tank on tank, at even rarer ultra close range;
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambl ... ce-defense
Will someone please explain what the hell is going on here? The problem is that the Ukrainian grain can be imported into the EU without any tariffs, and it can be traded within the EU without any restrictions. Ukraine is a grain-producing powerhouse, even during the war, and can easily push the Pol...
Jump to postThe grain conflict might actually take some time. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/9zAdKd/polens-president-statsministeren-misforstaatt-om-vaapenstans-til-ukraina Ukraine has entered a lawsuit against Poland, Hungary and a third country - Romania? Slovakia? The Ukrainian government says that th...
Jump to postI’d be more worried about Poland. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/europe/poland-ukraine-weapons-grain-explainer-intl That was apparently a misunderstanding. Poland wanted to say that they stop giving Ukraine the newest weapons; they'll still donate the older systems. (But about 2/3 of their older we...
Jump to postAnd there is this new-fangled thing:
Nowadays you can transport a liver, lung or heart in a so-called Organ Care System for up to 12 hours. With blood flow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWmYJNg5Jw
Could there be a market for it, or like passenger supersonic transport is it not feasible for the foreseeable future? I'd rather choose euthanasia than foot the transport bill... :white: sure, there are insurances... In rescue and emergency medicine, you only transport a patient if he's in a stable...
Jump to postA quirk has emerged - the organizers of the yodelling festival submitted a noise impact report, as well as proof of insurance. So they assumed approval of the Patrouille Suisse aerobatics...
...but nobody ever approved anything. Neither the Air Force, nor any local municipal government.
Huh.
'We are determined to help the people of eastern Ukraine" Putin is more direct here. He says nothing of taking over Ukraine There are speeches and writings that prove Putin's goal of destroying Ukraine as a culture, as a state, as country. If he was only concerned about the population in Easte...
Jump to postIt seems that Ukrainians special forces are active in Sudan, hunting down militias that were previously Wagner-backed. Or they're still Russia-backed. Maybe they're still in training, and they've found a reliable enemy respawn point for their daily XP grind. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/19/africa...
Jump to postHmmmm... I wonder about stealth planes having a directional antenna to give their position to friendly military communication satellites. It might be time to add a function to the autopilot : if pilot has bailed, and if you're not a burning wreckage on the ground, then fly to the nearest friendly ai...
Jump to postI don't think GDB has posted it yet.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6_kApQ6WsQ
The Russian commander seems to hate surrenders so much that he spends some artillery shells on his own soldiers than on the Ukrainians just nearby.
It all depends on your point of view. How do you know yours is the correct one?
Jump to postThere is an absolutely hilarious piece by Misha Firer, a Quora user from Moscow. He visited an exhibition with captured Ukrainian weapons, vehicles and equipment. I'm happily imagining a Russian bloke seeing all this modern stuff - radios, MREs, medical kits, a M777 howitzer - and then undergoing mi...
Jump to postReminded me of this planned Il-62 landing on a 860 m grass strip - to serve as a memorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4R-Kky6vw
Exhaustive German Wikipedia article on the preparation and the landing:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iljuschin ... lln/Rhinow
pugman211 wrote:Indeed on AVH that nose gear is turned 90 degrees, the crew did very well not shearing that off imo.
That's nice. Now, Airbii can land everywhere. Lion Air, on the other hand, was crucial in testing the 737 flying boat... It seems like designing a version of the A320 MLG dedicated to AI for rough runways proved unnecessary. The standard MLG is more than sufficient, even for unprepared terrain like ...
Jump to postFirst this earthquake in Marocco, then this in Libya... the region doesn't get a break :-( Places with little rainfall are out of luck when such a flood arrives. The video shows that the ground is mostly sandy, with very few rocks. That's not great when it comes to floods. (I totally misread the tit...
Jump to postMedvedev wrote on his Telegram channel. Every message can be heard with four ears. 1. What does the message reveal about the sender? 2. What is the appeal to the receiver? 3. What does the message reveal about the relationship between sender and receiver? 4. What is the factual information in the m...
Jump to postWill he want to restrict the next Super Heavy as well? Or is this a factor? Not that I think he is PR savvy now, going the opposite way if anything. During the beginnings in Boca Chica, Musk wanted the entire world to enjoy what happens there. Do not create any hurdles for the thousands of fans who...
Jump to postScott Manley announced in his latest video that SpaceX launches won't be streamed anymore on Youtube. SpaceX will instead use the MySpace page Mr. Musk has bought last year. This is a serious downgrade, as Youtube offers 4K (instead of Twix' 1080), and the launches will be streamed on a less efficie...
Jump to postMy wife’s school lends itself to a Ukrainian group so they can have a Ukrainian school at the weekends. The head of the group was in Ukraine at the start of the war and now she’s just back from her summer holiday. She says things are now very different, at the start it was viva Ukraine and now peop...
Jump to postUkraine could go to Mr. Bezos' OneWeb, or if that fails, INMARSAT offers between 450 and 600 kb/s. With good video compression, the drone could feed back a video image and its own GPS coordinates.
But Starlink offers you a good data rate and low latency...
One Reddit comment hit quite hard. "We left all the textbooks on delusion and propaganda with the Russian government." The western democracy has a notion of "Okay, now let's hear what the other side is saying", which enables actors to present a narrative that is patently false. C...
Jump to postIn addition, flying or driving short distances rather than developing high speed trains which can be zero-emissions contributes to more CO2 so other long-distance options for travel need to be developed. No one will want to take Amtrak and travel for 3-5 days on train from coast to coast unless the...
Jump to postPlant trees. Not a good idea, because we need the most CO2 reductions within the next 10 years. A tree will take up the most CO2 when it is 70 to 100 years old. For the same reason nuclear power isn't a solution - when they're all built and running, 20 years have passed... If the goal is saving the...
Jump to postAnd so it begins ... "200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way." I guess there won't be an army of virile men scoring around the clock after all. In biology, it's an interesting question why there is a sex parity, about 50% men and 50% women. A single man can fertilize...
Jump to postIt was a bombshell announcement when I studied biology then, and some blokes just turned some skin cells into embryonal cells! Apparently one needs only to switch off (or on) a few genes, and a skin cell will turn into an embryonal stem cell. Very interesting, but the 99% failure rate is hard to und...
Jump to postA new super heavy thing has been stacked in Boca Chica. Wikipedia gives a NET launch date of September 8.
Sauce: USCG's info to mariners https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/defau ... 5g2023.pdf
Regarding a major military having the technology to detect it, I presume that that military could detect subs as well, something it would not want to shout about. I remember, however, the cracking of the enigma codes in WWII. If a decrypted message gave away the position of enemy shipping in the Me...
Jump to postRevelation wrote:Finis.
art wrote:I understand that it landed at about 70 degrees south. I wonder how much less likely it is to find solid H20 at that latitude than nearer 90 degrees south.
Hopefully someone will explain how important this specific rail line is to the Russians, and whether cutting it would significantly contribute to cutting the "land bridge" to Crimea. AFAIK it's not only the railway line, even though Russian logistics heavily depend on railroads. Secure a ...
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