Do you have a giant stockpile of world ending nuclear warheads and want some good PR to suggest they're not only useful for destroying cities? Here's crazy 10 things you can do with nuclear weapons that you might not have heard of.
For education purposes only, do not try this at home.
Thanks to 'Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer (⧖) ?️? / @NuclearAnthro' for reminding me of a bunch of these.
https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk_ymR0XFDg
Rocket Lab last night suffered an unexpected failure when the second stage of their Electron rocket spun out of control after the second stage engine appears to have pointed far off axis. It's not clear why this happened, but the payload has been lost as a result.
This launch was also intended to demonstrate booster recovery and the last messages from Rocket Lab indicated that it soft landed in the ocean and recovery operations proceeding. I hope we find out more about this soon and Rocket Lab get back to launching their immensely cool Electron rocket.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6l8dgbF9E
Just a quick look at me trying to figure out small spacecraft designs since the 0.18 release changed a lot of things.
Specifically the old 3 part Capsule + Rockomax Tank + Aerospike can no longer take a ship all the way to Minmus and back.
But, the 7 part Interplanetary rocket can now be built as a 6 part version with the addition of the new longer tanks.
And the video opens up with a small orbit capable spaceplane. I did make a smaller version without the Avionics & fuel lines, but I couldn't get the gear positioned in a manner that didn't result in it crashing on takeoff all the time.
(and yes, before people ask, I think I'm coming down with the flu)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiSiEyllHUE
Elite: Dangerous v1.2 arrives today adding the ability to form into wings with your friends, new heat mechanics, emergency in flight repairs, a couple of new ships and an exterior camera to admire the exterior of your spacecraft.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmtK3nFKvME
This one actually launches from a runway. The undercarriage weighs more than the rest of the aircraft, but will a tiny acceleration I can get it airborne and land smoothly, assuming the sun is high in the sky.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTR5idEMgkE
The Latest EVA outside the International Space Station saw one of the cosmonauts taking a knife to the outside of their return spacecraft to collect evidence for the investigation of the origin of a hole in the spacecraft.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_fAsUTvgQ
The Last Federation is one of those games that defies classification, it's a grand space politics game with turn based bullet hell combat with some RPG elements. Your goal is to use political maneuvering among 8 alien races to convince them to join into a single federation. It's received continuous updates and now we have the first piece of DLC which among other things, adds new game modes that change the goals.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/273070/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXz5MZXheQ
While on vacation in Hawaii I did get to visit a lot of cool places, obviously I really wanted to see telescopes on the top of the mountain, and we will get to that, however a lot of the telescopes are operated from the much more hospitable environment near sea level.
Gemini Observatory is a pair of 8 Meter telescopes, in different hemispheres, able to cover the whole sky between them. I dropped by for a chat with the staff.
http://www.gemini.edu/
Yes the audio is bad, and you're a dum dum if you think I don't know this already and insist on pointing this out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJs0OhdcGVI
The launch window for Mars is open, and we have 3 spacecraft headed for the red planet from 3 different countries, and performing 3 very different missions. Let's talk about these missions, and since I was asked on twitter, I'm going to explain how mission planners pick launch dates using 'Pork Chop Plots'
JPL Trejctory Browser
https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php
On The Nature Of Porkchop Plots
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ffbe/ce81839847de08ea7712aa289962018363e8.pdf
Easy Porkchop Plot
http://sdg.aero.upm.es/index.php/online-apps/porkchop-plot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEPwokZmRQ