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pB11 fusion is "aneutronic". Wouldn't that suggest that DB10 would also be? Also, since the D has twice to mass of the p in pB11, wouldn't that also suggest that it can happen at a lower energy?

I cannot find any info on this. Anybody?

pB11 fusion is "aneutronic". Wouldn't that suggest that DB10 would also be? Also, since the D has twice to mass of the p in pB11, wouldn't that also suggest that it can happen at a lower energy?

I cannot find any info on this. Anybody?

Take a motor winder.

Sadly, my Estes V2 rocket was the victim (on the first flight) of a batch of defective D engines that blew up on ignition. 20 odd hours of work (as a teenager) put into building, painting and finishing that thing, only to have it disintegrate into little chunks in about 1/20th of a second. I once a...

Did ANY of those killers wind up in prison?

paperburn1 wrote:I have been near some big bangs before but that would be incomprehensible to me. It looked like hatches bounced in that on vid.

I think the technical term is Big da da boom

And just think, that was probably ≤1/2 design level!
Check out MIL-SPEC MIL-S-901D.

Can you all take this conspiracy crap to another thread and leave this thread to actual SpaceX NEWS?

The fundamental data behind astrology? Did the ancients record annual weather events for a long enough period to observe cycles related to the major planets?

Why they can't just record it and then up-link when it restabilizes... SMH

RPM is actually immaterial. It is tangential velocity that matters. The tangential velocity is limited by either the specific velocity or the characteristic velocity depending on the strong direction of the fly wheel. And the energy storage is proportional to the tangential velocity squared. The onl...

They are still high power, low energy storage devices.

Currently, flywheels are only used on the grid for fequency regulation. They are just too expensive for anything else, unless ubidized to a fair-thee-well.

Most modern flywheels are made with fiber reinforced plastic, and when tey fail they usually just puff up into a mess of delaminated fibers.

Does anyone know where the system's planetary orbit plane would be? If it aligns with our sun, wouldn't a megastructure be plausible?

paperburn1 wrote:I am still waiting for when I can buy a roll this stuff so I can wire up something really really neat.

How about making it yourself?

I'm sure you've seen one of the many such speculative calculations into how many times a booster must be re-flown for the savings to make sense. ULA says 15, which is probably high. but if it's not more than half a dozen or so, then the savings are probably minimal at best. Few of these costs go aw...