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- Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:29 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The funniest script line in a movie, EVER
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7999
Re: The funniest script line in a movie, EVER
I wish I knew why it was so funny. Cause the general public mistakenly thinks fusion reactors would explode if not cooled? ... if it hadn't been Aliens it would have been Dark Knight Rises and too many other instances. The DKR macguffin seems to have started out in the script as an SMR fission job ...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:54 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: PPPL Colloquium: The Lockheed Martin CFR, Aug 6, 2015
- Replies: 34
- Views: 26991
Re: PPPL Colloquium: The Lockheed Martin CFR, Aug 6, 2015
Nice Lockmart backstab on aneutronic: "pB11 = 30 years away" Redefinition of a "fighter" possible as most current fighter deployments are for ground attack missions... but if a chem-powered fighter or SAM can down the new fusion-powered behemoth then what advantage? Fighter escorts for the new "figh...
Re: EM Drive
Searching on the paper title at least reveals the first page with abstract. They did tests in a vacuum. http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2015-4083 The paper at Dresden - 10 page pdf: http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_maschinenwesen/ilr/rfs/forschung/folder.2007-08-21.52...
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:45 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 811235
Re: LENR Is Real
So... 590 posts later... there's been little more real news than the odd bits that started out the thread. Why not ignore the subject untii if and when there's any more bits of acrual news? Axil, parallel... you are of course free to respond to this post of mine but you'll be ignored. Nothing person...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:47 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Including images
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9240
Re: Including images
Hmmm...
... seems you need to link to a specific image file on flickr. So here I chose the original one you uploaded:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/330/1852 ... eee4_o.jpg
... seems you need to link to a specific image file on flickr. So here I chose the original one you uploaded:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/330/1852 ... eee4_o.jpg
- Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:01 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466371
Re: Mach Effect progress
That means not only mundane things like bicycles and "econobox" (Prius etc) vehicle get competition Training wheels... MET ground vehicle: wheeled version could be plug-compatible with current road systems and regulations if the MET "box" could be mounted so as to point downwards and swivel fore-an...
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Angara News
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12337
Re: Angara News
Do you rattle off stuff like this all the time? You must be fun at Christmas parties. Just a rocket fan... there's an Elton John-based parody waiting there :) But I spelled them out to emphasize just what the Soviets did to themselves with the stuff and why having tons of metal tankage crashing dow...
- Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Angara News
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12337
Re: Angara News
I'm really curious what is "clean" about kerosene. Is this as compared to solid boosters that fill the air with toxins Oh no, much worse than that... The new rockets are to replace the Proton-class launchers, which use hypergolic N2O4 and UDMH Dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazin...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:39 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466371
Re: Mach Effect progress
... well, only as different as you'd want it to look93143 wrote:With sufficiently advanced M-E thrusters, I could literally modify my car to go to Mars, and it wouldn't look any different from the outside.
All my friends know the low rider
The low rider is a little higher...
Re: Go Navy!
Detonating ordnance stacked in view is a useful test, but where the pedal hits the metal is when the laser can hull the boat to get at ordnance that's not in the line of sight...williatw wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 0DbgNju2wE
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Is a Purely magnetic (NO CABLING) Space elevator possible?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 22017
Re: Is a Purely magnetic (NO CABLING) Space elevator possibl
You've reversed the polarity :) The ion beam is what is expelled away from a DPF. The electron beam heads in the opposite direction and strikes the DPF anode. And at plasma densities approaching breakeven the corresponding electron beam is not expected to make it out of the plasmoid... it will just ...
- Wed Nov 26, 2014 2:46 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154765
Re: SpaceX News
A hop with the grids from last June complete with cows:D Tibbets wrote:... with new aerodynamic controls which was flown presumably after the failure of one landing test vehicle last summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgLBIdVg3EM
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:53 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
- Replies: 37
- Views: 39781
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
You don't suppose there is a perception of competition developing amongst the alternative small fusion efforts? LM, EMC2, GF, TA, FF(?) Nomenclature: Companies and their associated device names... any additions or corrections? Lockheed Martin: CFR (Compact Fusion Reactor) EMC2: Polywell Tri-Alpha E...
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 527200
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
I guess the question is why do tungsten at all... The plan remains to first test with tungsten and then switch over to beryllium. The current delay is from the company that originally contracted to machine the tungsten cathode... apparently the piece proved to be beyond their capabilities and other...
- Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:44 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154765
Re: SpaceX News
Unfair would have been something like "Boeing will be primary for 7 billion with a guaranteed 10 year CC contract upon completion and SpaceX will be allowed to play at backup for 150 million...maybe"
... worse has been done to companies in the industry.
... worse has been done to companies in the industry.