NASA chose the SpaceX Starship as its lander for the upcoming Artemis III mission, meaning its astronauts will be perched over 100 meters above the lunar surface when they land. To solve this problem, SpaceX is developing an elevator that will carry the astronauts to and from the lunar surface. A team of NASA astronauts recently tested out the system, riding a prototype elevator developed by SpaceX that simulates an excursion to the surface of the Moon.
The Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a volcano on the far side of the Moon. It was found by a gamma-ray spectrometer and is an area of concentrated thorium. Thorium-232 is not reactor fuel, but neutrons converts it into uranium-233 which is.
The thorium concentration reaches 5.3 µg/g while the surrounding basalts only contain between 0 and 2 µg/g. Compared to the Earth's thorium concentration of 0.06 µg/g, this is very high.
we are house-sitting for the in-laws, and they have amazon prime logged in on their TV. finally trying out #TheExpanse! watched ep1 last night and excited to get through more of it this weekend.
i might be able to get the account password from mother-in-law, but i really don’t want to get my own subscription or support amazon in general… is there another way to watch without uh, sailing the seven seas?
I bought a copy of the new Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log solo RPG and now I'm making my own personal use "realistic" Federation before I play it. I mean, what else am I going to do on a Friday night, go out and meet people?
(Based on @nyrath 's Near-Space-to-30-LY map, thanks very much)
I am still fiddling with a simplistic 13 empire approximated by the vertices of a cuboctahedron. Simplistic 100 ly radius bounding sphere, each empire sphere 33.3 radius.
Each systen is connected to 2 closest neighbors. Systems that are ±20% of being equidistance from the nearest two empire centers are the neutral zone (white). Rest of systems belong to closest empire center.
Yes, FTL that cannot be used in a strong gravity gradient is fairly standard.
My empires are starting out as spheres so the stars can be roughly sorted automatically by the Python script. Because the dataset had 2,600 freaking stars. The idea was after the script did the grunt work, I could manually tweak the map to make it more interesting. Then trying to automate the tweaks.
Pues si quieres tener inspiración para detalles de tus aventuras te recomiendo que visites #AtomicRockets de @nyrath , es denso pero muy interesante 😉 🧐
Hello Sci-fi fans and writers, I hope that this here is the correct spot to ask this question regarding a conundrum I have come about during my work on a sci-fi short Story....
How would interdiction of Spaceships be possible?
Hello Sci-fi fans and writers, I hope that this here is the correct spot to ask this question regarding a conundrum I have come about during my work on a sci-fi short Story....