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The technology and infrastructure needed to reach Planet 9, build a mining outpost, then transport everything back at a profitable cost is likely decades if not centuries away. Tha…

I wonder whatever happened to the goal of humans on Mars by the mid-2030s.

Many college-educated Chinese join the CCP since it’s essentially a requirement to move to senior roles in many organizations there. Exceptions exist, but I doubt there’s a single …

Didn’t another scientist named O’Neill also propose using railguns to bring payloads into orbit from the moon? Would be interesting to use the moon to test alternative means of rea…

There’s this guy too ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagâri_Hasan_Çelebi ) who allegedly made a manned rocket flight in 1633 in front of the Ottoman sultan.

The British Interplanetary Society proposed using a modified V-2 called ‘Megaroc’ to perform a manned suborbital spaceflight before 1950. ( https://www.bis-space.com/megaroc/ ) The…

Odoacer also recognized Julius Nepos as de jure Western Emperor (although Nepos only ruled over a small rump state in Dalmatia) until Nepos was assassinated in 480. The Kingdom of …

Maybe in another life. Aviation and space is my bigger interest, and I even dropped out of college last semester to pursue my own drone-tech startup full-time. I guess it's the vas…

The Dyer Midget is a pretty solid boat (about 8-ft long and costs $4k). I practiced sailing around on local lakes with it as a teen and love it. If you’re aiming for low maintenanc…

This shit is crazy. I’m working with a user that’s doing stuff with aerial reconnaissance and the camera sensors they’re mounting on aircraft are usually only 120-150MP. Having a 2…

I remember first hearing about the JWST in elementary school. Watching it get closer and closer to launch honestly feels like the end of an era.

I don’t enjoy distance running but I still push myself to do it. Fitness reasons and it helps vent some frustration after a bad day. Writing short stories. Reading a short story by…

Very much so - even if you’re partially immersed. Grew up with immigrant parents where Mandarin was spoken in the household but lived in a area with no other Chinese-Americans. Eve…