plainfield.bsky.social
Dog, Cat & Wildlife feeder with native plant gardening.
Backgrounds in Earth and computer science.
Fan of Graphic novels storytelling and art.
Kindness matters.
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I apologize for piling on. This isn’t X.
Everyone’s entitled to follow things they enjoy. I watch Apollo 9 as a kid and been a geek since.
the national academy press site helps to keep uptodate. It’s public and accessible reading and summarizes current work.
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Yes
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National Academy of Science convenes an oversite committee on space science and if they ain’t pushing Hubble repair it’s not science driven.
So I’m happy for your closely following someone. Try following the nasa decadal surveys.
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Or the science community which drives their decisions.
There’s no pressing need to continue to spend $$ operating the degraded Hubble for science needs.
These kind of show off ideas that don’t pay off are far more likely joes
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Fascinating
What do you find to be his most compelling contribution so far?
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Ecotones Rock!
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Orbiting removes the complex, costly and high risk Entry, landing & descent to Martian surface. Then the refueling and ascent to dock with a return craft.
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If the orbiter has a human otherwise it’s a relay to a human and adds delay.
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Yeah. The case for humans is reduced comm latency.
Astronauts in geosynchronous orbit around Mars can teleoperate robotic exploring drones, probes and etc. rather than build costly autonomy that has to run on slower rad tolerant computing hardware.
Not a single port of terrestrial stuff
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It is discouraging because you assume they will follow a science agenda without any evidence they are even considering science driven missions.
Musk’s Mars colony is 0 science.
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Little wiggle room.
Trump took NASA seriously in 2016 with Bridenstein appt and Pence pushing lunar exploration and it’s still a go but underfunded.
National Academy reviews and comments on nasa mission plans and Congress legislates missions and rockets for jobs.
New Administrator is in a box.
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Hey Eric. Rip Les Aspen.
Lived in Rockford 78-82.
Stereo system from Crazy Lenny up ⬆️ n Mad city.
Beer runs for Point beer, Huber and Leinenkugel in returnables.
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True.
While not a show stopper the national academy weighs in on all NASA missions and will provide expert feedback on any mars colony:starship musings beyond Artemis.
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what does "saying the wrong things about race" mean here? should i not get a little agitated when someone says they think black people might be biologically inferior?
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Ron “Boots” DeSantis
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I studied odonates for my masters. Fantastic lovely.
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Also, Ro’s initial campaign was about being technology friendly. Not being regulatory adversarial, but working with the Silicon Valley tech companies. They gave to him big time.
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Imho Ro’s a not so bright contrarian.
Was once my representative who pushed out Mike Honda as a reformer. Thinks his appearances on conservative media is a Jedi mind trick to flip conservatives.
Instead it’s warping his brain.
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Stand with us and repost to tell @forbes.com we deserve a fair contract. (3/3)
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Congratulations.
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The secret best thing for me is Mark Zuckerberg watching a social media site unravel to a competitor in a matter of weeks.
And the users fleeing the legacy site report better engagement.
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My town.
She’s driving up and over Pacheco pass, which is a steep, windy, busy road. Not an easy drive.
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We live in a gilded age.
Old people on fixed incomes ain’t the problem.
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Convicted felon elected President and crazy Patel floated as FBI head so obviously Peter Beltway Baker has a hot take on the Biden pardon.
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Absolute Nonsense.
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NASA hired Spacex to do commercial lift and it has a contracts under Artemis.
What is SpaceX’s space exploration program?
It’s strange to see launching payloads to claims of space exploration.
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The article described the effects of a short space flight on humans which we have had hundreds of flights prior and is not significant but for the fact it was a private flight.
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Lots … of spacex medicine research … where and who?
NASA has a human research program.
www.nasa.gov/hrp/
You want to take credit for that work ?
Fwiw USA and USSR/Russia have cooperated for decades in space biology.
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Okay I’ll bite
What science does spacex conduct ?
NASA science dials are documented in the decadal surveys which are reviewed by the National Academies.
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NASA missions are science driven.
SpaceX doesn’t do science. They’re like UPS.
The money saved by using competing commercial launch services goes into tech dev and science.
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Imho Casablanca with Ebert’s commentary is the best.
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Mars is a con.
We cannot sustain a colony on mars and it would serve no scientific or logistical purpose.
Mars is his “full self driving” con for funding Spacex.
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If any President signs a bill into law, he can't pick and chose to deny an agency or program the funds stipulated. THAT would be unconstitutional.
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That’s true. None of them fell off afaik.
A rotating object struck the leading edge of the Columbia wing during launch.
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lol what.
I did a tour and was told that the tiles readily absorb water so they spray them with scotch guard.
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You’re not gonna get me to defense starship.
What’s a tile failure ?