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I sent off the base of a Delta II rocket to get signed by @torybruno.bsky.social and it came back with some nifty Vulcan stuff. Thank you so much!

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Although I have a couple other aerospace projects to finish. Such as RTA-03 and Moa. I have decided I will move forward with the wood cubesat demonstrator. Try to help cut down on aluminum burning up in the atmosphere.

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Something I enjoy doing is designing and making mission patches. I recently did one for a friend and it was fun bringing someone else's idea to life.

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Beautiful video of inter-cellular signaling in a swarming response that I pulled from the other place, produced by @strickland-evelyn.bsky.social in collaboration with D. Irimia lab. The dye detects calcium flux that indicates a signal being received by each cell: you're seeing the 'alarm' go out.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I'm going to do it. Im going to move forward with the solar punk buisness model. Starting with residential hydroponics as that's established and a fairly safe starting point.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I want to start selling modular at home hydroponics kits. But that market is pretty saturated. Do I dare to dream?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I'm going to make more of an effort to use meters instead of feet. I already use every other metric unit. Feet is a holdover from being close to the US and it stops now.

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So I ran some numbers. Hypothetically a cubesat mission could be built and flown for under $100,000 as long as it's relatively simple. And most of that is launch cost ($50,000 - $90,000 with Rocketlab). Kind of neat.

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I'm at a point where I will not watch any video about Chernobyl. How many times can people make the exact same video telling the exact same story until they realize they are contributing nothing?

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The strangest thing about me is I read about things like hardtac, salted pork, treebark flour, tinned food, grog, pemmican. And it is very appealing to me for some reason. I also enjoy -30 C weather. If our souls are comprised of many people, one of mine is a 19th century artic explorer I guess.

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My game Flank Speed is $1.99 USD now. Just a simple arcade space shooter I made to see if I could make a game in only a couple months. It's casual and not terribly in depth, but if that sounds fun feel free to check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/2867450/... #gamedev #space #steam #indiedev

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In today's newsletter, OUR UNIVERSE: Part One...the story of a coffee table astronomy book that sold 2.5 million copies. This week features my visual speculation on what alien life might look like on other planets. 1/2 theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/national-g...

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

I decided to write simple #poetry

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After a few days of learning about wood and the Japanese lignosat. I suspect cube sat frame parts could be made out of maple wood. With vacuum baking to try and removes as much volatiles as possible. Something about wood spacecraft fits my solar punk aesthetic.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Now I find myself thinking about prepping wood parts so they minimally outgas in hard vacuum.

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Thinking about that Japanese cubesat made of a wood frame gives me ideas. Possibly not good ideas but ideas nonetheless.

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I watched section 31. I really wish I didn't, it was awful.

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The next rocket in the works will be a thermal steam system (because it sucks but is fun). Would preffer peroxide, but working with water currently. I wonder if I can use a different working fluid with a lower vaporization temperature like ethanol or acetone? Can't use ammonia because laws.

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An Earth operators view of driving Lunokhod 1

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I suppose I could focus on residential thermal batteries. Would people be ok with a 32.kWh thermal battery that's non-toxic, non-explosive, easy to fix, but has slower energy conversion than a chemical battery?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

One idea ive been actively working on the last couple years is a modular run of river water turbine and clean large scale thermal battery system. The turbine is easy to prototype myself, but the thermal battery is not.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I like the idea of an iodine sublimation thruster. But ensuring the iodine gas does not come back and interact with the vehicle is a bit of a issue. Cheap easy propellant that also eats many commonly used metals and polymers.

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This is actually not a bad thing. Chemtrails don't exist so they can't ban them. Contrails are basic physics so the only way to ban them is to do electric planes or ban air travel in those states. Let them fight contrails and fail publicly. Like flat earthers proving the Earth is round

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

So many people focus on orbital launch systems. But forget that suborbital sounding rockets offer a cheaper access to high altitudes, microgravity, and space for schools and what not. There's a real market there. Sure orbit is glamorous, but the small rockets are just as important.

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Crazy idea, but to help fund space projects, I'm contemplating manufacturing and selling alluminum cubsat and nanosat frames of different designs. Just a thought.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment