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Why do you need catch pins? SS lands itself. It wouldn't have catch tower elsewhere than Earth and maybe Mars. Why? As a general rule, a rocket with the highest delta-V capacity is going to need three kilograms of propellant for every kilogram of rocket+payload. The lower the total kilograms of roc...

The real strength behind Quaise is the fact that if it works as predicted they can drill holes 100 times faster than anyone else.

Festivus for the rest of us. Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaQLZaaHWo
new brag video

new brag video from them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaQLZaaHWo

Old guys throwing down on new guys. Things just got interesting again.

Laments, I too just lurk once in a while. ahh for the heady days of real fusion news involving polywell. But I get it. Nobody wants to angel fund something that has a 25 percent chance of working. My hopes for polywell were a fusion rocket with an ISP of a million the design seemed perfect for that ...

Fusion gain has been demonstrated for the first time!!! The NIF shot from the 5th of December 2022 had a 300 MJ wall plug input for a 2.05 MJ laser output and 3.15 MJ of fusion yield. So the Q value was about 1,5. It was reported that the fuel burn up rate in this shot was about 4 %. The NIF team w...

Wellat least we have something to talk about,

20 tesla magnets are commercially available. Does anybody have any thought on the possibility of overcoming the problems that were discovered under lesser field strengths? Or should we put this concept to bed once and for all?

If they can reliably bust the 10 mile (16 KM) this is a game changer, every coal fired plant could be brought back to life for what 5 years of fuel costs. Running costs would be minimal after that. all on a footprint where the coal used to sit before burning.

[Here is an idea, use the green energy to suck the co2 out of the air and reform it back into fuel.
Oh wait that steps on to many big oil toes.

By the by, EMC2 is still not dead either. New focuses, same premises. If Jaeyoung gains more traction you may yet see something. Been a lot of work on the simulation side these last couple of years. I agree, Simulation testing in design has been a thing for a long time. But in the past two years I ...

With the advent of new commercially available 20T magnets brings me hope. But that huge barrier of no funding is still the 400 pound gorilla in the room. "Performance of this magnet is similar to a non-superconducting one that was used in an MIT experiment that concluded its experiments five years a...