vxbush 11/6/2025 5:27:27 AM

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JCM 11/6/2025 8:18:17 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Until recently space flight was economically the providence nation states with enough money.

NASA should focus on bleeding edge research. Deep space probes. Drop that benighted Artemis program.

IMAO opinion we need to step back. Go back to the early days of thinking of space. It was called Stepping Stones. Get to orbit, build a Space Station, then launch all the manned mission and probes from the station.

The reason is everything we do is launch constrained. Size and weight are limited by the launcher. Build a space station. Big one. Design everything that leaves orbit to be modular. Sensor module, camera module, guidance module, propulsion module, manned module. You get the idea the modules and sub modules are launched to the station and assembly.

When there is a mission. You Lego brick the craft together with the modules you need. Lot more flexibility, save time and money.

A station like that also would make commercial space, like mining a nickel asteroid easier. 

NASA can coordinate that.

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 8:43:09 AM

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Reply to JCM in 2:

The NASA budget has always been political. Spread the money to as many states as possible to get the budget.

The Apollo and Shuttle programs were like that.

At this point, enough has been developed for private industry to take over.

Let NASA may for science missions and launch services. JPL, etc can produce the spacecraft.

And let private industry figure out how to meet the requirements.

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 8:48:35 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 8:51:36 AM

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Another 3I/Atalas anomaly

Nongravitational accleration, enough that if it was a comet, a significant fraction of mass would have been ejected - but there is no evidence of the tail that would produce. 

Much less mass needs to be ejected if the speed is higher, such as from a propulsion device, as opposed to just being heated by the Sun.

See item 10 in this link

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 8:57:57 AM

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///////(in advance)

Aliens are running the Democrats and the Left in general.
The idea is for us to all starve to death so the aliens can take over the Earth
3I/Atlas is their "ark" with all the alien colonists.
We didn't die off the way were supposed to
What will happen when the aliens arrive?
(This is fiction - but it would make a good movie)

JCM 11/6/2025 9:10:18 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:

Same series yes. Any difference don't appear to be relevant to the UPS crash.

Engine departures are exceedingly rare. AA191 Chicago a DC-10, 1970, China Air 385 a 747, El Al 1862 a 747, Amsterdam, 1992 are the one that come to mind.

Chicago was maintenance. The 747s were fatigue at the pylon to wing spar attachment point, and the failure C and D inspection to pickup on the cracks.

JCM 11/6/2025 9:10:47 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5:

I won't worry until I see the title of the book they bring with them.

JCM 11/6/2025 12:18:54 PM

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A bit of sanity in England.
Tommy Robinson found not guilty over border stop terror charge

On Tuesday, district judge Sam Goozee found Robinson not guilty of failing to comply with the counterterrorism powers during the incident in Folkestone on 28 July last year.

Mr Goozee said: “I cannot put out of my mind that it was actually what you stood for and your political beliefs that acted for the principle reason for this stop.”

Speech laws take a hit.

JCM 11/6/2025 1:14:16 PM

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On the subject of space....

Chinese have a problem.

Plea for Elon Musk to rescue astronauts stranded in space after 'unknown object' damaged their ship

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 1:28:40 PM

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In #10 JCM said: Chinese have a problem. Plea for Elon Musk to rescue astronauts stranded in space after 'unknown object' damaged their ship

Chinese want to spy on SpaceX. 

JCM 11/6/2025 1:37:57 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 11:

Yeah, I'll bet the insistent on a Chinese on the "rescue". Nothing "special" about a capsule, sure Dragon is touch screens and automation.
All the geewhiz with SpaceX is engineering and software.

I don't know anything about compatibility of docking mechanisms. I know Apollo / Soyuz had a special adapter and ISS Soyuz and US have different docking modules.

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 2:00:00 PM

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In #12 JCM said: I don't know anything about compatibility of docking mechanisms.

The Chinese probably use the Russian docking mechanism as they did at one time work together.

Or they stole the US one.

JCM 11/6/2025 2:19:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13:

Did a quick check... it is based on the Russian one. With speculation of changes to make it incompatible. Which makes sense in a paranoid commie mindset.

Can't have those nasties Russkis docking with the Chinese Station and having their way with the brave and beautiful Chinese Comrade women astronauts.

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 2:32:25 PM

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In #14 JCM said: having their way with the brave and beautiful Chinese Comrade women astronauts.

Unless those brave and beautiful Chinese women are using sex to spy.

Occasional Reader 11/6/2025 6:15:40 PM

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So, I appear to locked out of Disqus.

I was just wondering if anyone else here has had the same experience today. 

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 6:30:25 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16:

I can still post to PJMedia. Haven't tried anywhere else today

Kosh's Shadow 11/6/2025 6:36:05 PM

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Occasional Reader 11/6/2025 8:15:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 17:

Thanks for the feedback; so that’s with Disqus?

Occasional Reader 11/6/2025 8:16:54 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:

I love my 1911 but I take no part in this particular religious war! Glock makes excellent pistols. They are just different. 

Also, I have loaded and fired countless Glocks, I’ve never had a problem with a magazine “bursting”.