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Right. I said mountain to stress the importance of topography in the NM accident. The parent commenter may pat himself on the back for never flying into terrain during GPS outages …

The highest mountain summit in Florida is 105 meters above sea level.

Location: New Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: to NYC only Technologies: Yes, but you'd probably want to hire me as a writer/analyst. Résumé/CV: https://idlewords.com/cv.htm…

Thank you! I realize people have subscription fatigue, and that on this site in particular there's a culture of expecting to read the full text of everything for free. So I try to …

I am trying to be friendly with the paywall.

A lot of the work was done to a design point of 0.25 seconds, and Dyson's book says the issue there wasn't the blast clearing, but just being able to move the machinery fast enough…

> Kicks in just after it starts to get interesting. What a funny coincidence!

Hi everyone, The domain should be back up within the next few hours. I had the domain set on auto-renew but unfortunately something went wrong, and I didn't get an email from the r…

It's fine to dump sewage overboard if you're far enough from shore. Cruise ships treat it to some extent, but ultimately it all becomes fish food.

There's a nice paper on this, ICES-2018-123 "Dimethylsilanediol (DMSD) Source Assessment and Mitigation on ISS: Estimated Contributions from Personal Hygiene Products Containing Vo…

The atmosphere has a perfectly reasonable 110 hour day/night cycle.

I thought so too, but the phosphine signal turns out to be small but real. What everyone involved in the back and forth debate over it agrees on is the need to send better sensors.…

Landis has a ton of good papers around Venus for those who want to nerd out deeper.

Give it a few hours!

Thanks so much! I'm delighted you enjoyed the piece.

It's not an absurd question. The threshold value is the one that breaks surface tension and effectively pulls waste away from the body. It will be more than a few hundredths g but …

You can try it with small capsules and tethers, but it's still a pain.

The hose is the same but there are different funnel attachments (the part looks kind of like the cup from a jock strap, and is longer and narrower for women)

It's all flat files on the server

Thank you! Like NASA, I hope to up my operational tempo.

They do not, except for some of the avionics.

I never worked at NASA. Maybe you're confusing me with Casey Handmer, who has also written on this topic?