Something more reasonable would be an engine similar to the SSOMS: Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System. It uses monomethylhydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide which can be stored for a decent amount of time. These are probably the fuels that New Horizons uses for attitude control even. OMS has a specific impulse of…

I was hoping that there would be some math in this article. Undeterred, I have decided to do it myself. Below is a back of the napkin mathematical explanation of why New Horizons won’t orbit.

I guess it depends on how you look at it. They think (believe) that they have uncovered something that the gov’t/international conspiracy/aliens/lizard people/et al. is trying to hide. If these organizations were smarter, wouldn’t they have done a better job of hiding it?

It’s like these people are unwilling to admit that there is someone (in fact, a large group of people) that is smarter than them and if they can’t understand how it was done, it must have been faked.

Yeah, my old region had to ask several people not to come back over skipping work assignments.

Also notable: combined cycle natural gas power plants can be up to 68% thermally efficient. This is more efficient than any mobile system (cars, trucks, airplanes, etc.) could ever possibly hope to be. It was actually thought that this level of efficiency was impossible.

Or imaginary mass. ;)

Image classifying, like possibly for data that will be transmitted by a deep space probe?

Here’s a non-snarky dismissal of solar roads: It will be way too expensive and will not be able to provide a benefit to offset the cost.

Well, New Horizons is 478/1 898 600 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 th the mass of Jupiter so I’d say she’s got energy to spare. (numbers from Wikipedia)

To be fair, Apollo 11 was trying to rendezvous with the moon rather than escape the Earth system. If the Apollo 11 CSM were going as fast as NH, they would have needed some way of slowing down when they got to the moon.

Man, I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to get to this.

I didn’t bother to read through all of the comments much less dip into the grey comments so I apologize if this has already been suggested. If/when you go to Whole Foods, you should park in the “high efficiency vehicle” parking spot(s). Technically, it is highly efficient at going over rough terrain so I suppose on…

I think everyone here knows what it’s like to have a new website rolled out that’s frustrating to use.

My guess is that it skirts some treaty that’s in effect limiting the expansion of nuclear arms. They don’t want to decommission anything because they can’t replace them even if it’s better/safer (for what that’s worth). Although that’s just speculation.

Totally grounded to the ground.

I’ve worked in places that use equipment that can kill you quickly, easily, and in horrifying ways and getting killed by an assembly bot is terrifying to me.

It depends on how the wing is attached. There are a lot of aircraft (especially composite ones) where the fuselage basically sits on top of the wing. The wings are actually bolted to each other underneath the fuselage and the fuselage just sits on top. This way, the fuselage doesn’t have to carry the bending moment of…