Why The Biggest Laser in the World is Making Big News About Fusion
The National Ignition Facility has finally earned its middle name, generating temperatures and pressures at which a fusion reaction is able to drive itself and maintain the burn for longer. It's not going to change the world overnight, but it's another step towards understanding how humanity might be able to harness fusion power in the future.
Oakland's Chabot Space And Science Center has a full scale Mercury capsule exhibit, but, it doesn't have a full scale Atlas rocket like the one which launched John Glenn. So I hit upon the idea of making a 1:1 scale drawing of this rocket - 96 feet tall, err long I mean. So that it could be seen from the air.
The entire drawing took about 3 hours with the help of volunteers, it was supposed to be temporary, but now we're discussing ways to make it a permanent exhibit.
Music used:
Marty's Gots a Plan... - By Kevin Macleod - Incompetech.com
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=usuan1500015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exPD5SZ7Ypc
The space station masses over 400 tons, so can an astronaut orbit this? And what does this question have to do with supernova?
We can use Universe Sandbox 2 to simulate how the forces of gravity work down to small scales, but also how they interact in more complcated ways than most people imagine.
http://universesandbox.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt54lfOFsDs
The forthcoming Kerbal Space Program update, 1.10 features a major collaboration with the European Space Agency to bring the Rosetta and BepiColombo missions to the game in the form of playable missions and special parts.
I sat down to play through the mission while talking to the real Manager of Spacecraft Operations for Bepicolombo - Elsa Montagnon. Obviously because of quarantine rules this had to be an entirely digital collaboration, but she explains a lot of details of how the real spacecraft is managed while I tried to navigate my way through multiple gravity assists to reach the innermost planet.
Thanks to Elsa for joining me
Discover Kerbal Space Program, and learn about rocket design, dynamics and orbital mechanics while having fun
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
Find out more about BepiColombo at the ESA website
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo_overview2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9oaesxGbE8
MeticulousMitch did his best mad scientist impersonation when he posted this 100% stock Helicopter design to the Kerbal Space Program forums. The key innovation is the design for a bearing which uses aircraft wheels running against the rotating fuel tank in the middle.
Genius.
Download it here http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/43226-KSP-s-First-Ever-Stock-Helicopter-%28yes-stock%21%29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sj_jgrokww
Still working on my full scale Battlestar Galactica build, I think I may be about halfway done now that I have landing bays, launch tubes and main engines bolted on. Also, having consumed a strong beer people were very insistent that I try landing on Tylo, claiming that the inebriation would lend some much needed challenge.....
Originally broadcast on http://twitch.tv/szyzyg
Unedited Stream at https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=OJHJbDwWCsk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcuUPA8U_M
Since I'm bad at the whole ground game let's just blot out the stars with my spaceships, maybe that'll get them to surrender.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2VHNHqzIqg
After watching me crash a few times and hearing his repeated suggestions I decided to let my father 'show me how it's done' and design a spaceplane. He's perhaps his real world design and engineering skills will help?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpW3k7upKd0