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Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser - a reusable lifting-body spaceplane, currently slated to fly to the ISS on top of the Vulcan rocket in December 2023
I had never heard of the Sierra Nevada Corp. and was confused when I thought about the beer company working on a rocket :) Stranger things have happened though I suppose.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser - a reusable lifting-body spaceplane, currently slated to fly to the ISS on top of the Vulcan rocket in December 2023
I had never heard of the Sierra Nevada Corp. and was confused when I thought about the beer company working on a rocket :) Stranger things have happened though I suppose.
- butterfly can fly crazily high (3500m)
- You can find Pterodactyls and wild Yaks higher than a cessna
- a vulture can fly higher than a passenger plane (regular altitude)
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I was shocked to see a butterfly above the cloud level
Yes, and the bumblebee was up there pretty high too. You gotta wonder, what were they doing up there? Did they just get... lost? Just taking a nap in a thermal updraft?
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Yes, and the bumblebee was up there pretty high too. You gotta wonder, what were they doing up there? Did they just get... lost? Just taking a nap in a thermal updraft?
It probably got above the clouds just the same way as the mountain goat did: By living on a high mountain.
https://journeynorth.org/monarchs/resources/gallery/gallery-...
Things I learned here: - butterfly can fly crazily high (3500m) - You can find Pterodactyls and wild Yaks higher than a cessna - a vulture can fly higher than a passenger plane (regular altitude)
Things I learned here: - butterfly can fly crazily high (3500m) - You can find Pterodactyls and wild Yaks higher than a cessna - a vulture can fly higher than a passenger plane (regular altitude)
Couple of things I learned from this: 1. Some birds go really high into the sky. Not sure how they evolved to tolerate such a hostile environment. But it seems that Duck-like birds are able to handle very high altitude. 2. There are lots of cool spaceships that man has made. But it seems most of these were made in the 1950-1990 era. It's a shame that we are no longer doing that.
Anyone know the tech stack used to make these?