Category Archives: Space

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Tongue-Shaped Glaciers

September 23, 2019 Rand Simberg 3 Comments

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Carbon Capture

September 23, 2019 Rand Simberg 22 Comments

Elon wants to manufacture fuel from the earth’s atmosphere. He takes climate much too seriously.

Hard to see that competing with the price of refined LNG any time soon. If he gets rockets to the point at which he cares about propellant cost (which is the goal), would put himself at a competitive disadvantage with (say) Blue Origin.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) September 23, 2019

Starship Update

September 22, 2019 Rand Simberg 19 Comments

Elon provides a sneak preview of next Saturday’s big reveal.

For the first time in history, not in science fiction, an actual spaceship is under construction. https://t.co/fm4aOw88mZ
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) September 22, 2019

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The Gateway Foundation

September 20, 2019 Rand Simberg 18 Comments

They gave a presentation on their rotating space hotel at the Space Settlement event in Seattle. They say they’re going to start construction (on the ground) on October 1st.

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Kerbal Space Program

September 13, 2019 Rand Simberg 29 Comments

So, one of the reasons I upgraded my computer was so that I could do things like running Kerbal. I’ve got a new motherboard, with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor, and 32G of RAM. But when I load KSP, I develop cursor lag. Is this because I only have two gig of memory on the graphics card?

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