efaardvark Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 When it has to be there within 60 minutes, Amazon Prime's drone delivery service has you covered. At least if you're in Lockeford, Calif. or College Station, Texas. Presumably they'll expand their delivery territory over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 YKYITFW the Earthlings send 184 rockets of 37 different designs from 9 different launch complexes to orbit. In one year. That's over 3 launches per week. All but 8 launches successfully delivered their payloads. It's even more amazing when you realize that most of them were multi-payload launches. Every Starlink launch carried at least 41 satellites for example. Also, several F9 launches were Dragon / CRS missions, 2 of which were Crew Dragons 4 and 5 carrying people as well as cargo to/from the ISS. This doesn't include any of the sub-orbital rollercoaster joyrides from Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. We also have SpaceX's Starship prototype's first orbital launch attempt coming up in "a couple months" (Elon time) to look forward to. Largest rocket ever, over twice the thrust of the Saturn V, capable of getting 100 tons to orbit in a single launch, and totally reusable. We're not living in the Apollo era anymore, that's for sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, efaardvark said: We're not living in the Apollo era anymore, that's for sure. This is true, and I'm glad I lived through the excitement of the Apollo era and was able to watch each of the missions as they happened. Sitting with my parents in our living room in the early hours of the morning to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing is something I'll remember for the rest of my life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 8 hours ago, Animedragon said: This is true, and I'm glad I lived through the excitement of the Apollo era and was able to watch each of the missions as they happened. Sitting with my parents in our living room in the early hours of the morning to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing is something I'll remember for the rest of my life. Same here. I was born in ‘64 so one of my earliest memories is watching the moon landings on our family’s first TV. (Side note.. the TV was a Heathkit that my dad built. It was b&w for the first moon landings but later he upgraded it to color for the Miss America pageant. ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 YKYITFW CNET gets taken over by a chatbot. (Not exactly, but I can do clickbait too. ) Seriously though, I find it interesting that the company execs seem not so much worried about the poor-quality AI-generated articles being published without attribution as about Google's possibly finding out how to detect them and reducing their prominence (and thus ad revenue) in google searches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) In anime you know you're in the future when you did something to turn it into a wasteland and have to fix it. Edited February 10 by Clayton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 10 Author Share Posted February 10 Looks like both the booster and the launch stand survived the static-fire test. Musk tweeted that one engine was disabled by command and one was shut down by the vehicle software but the remaining 31 would still have been enough to get to orbit. So I guess next up is launch and, hopefully, orbit. There's still the question of, "just how do you land this thing?" however. The "chopsticks" seem to work well enough for stacking and unstacking, but the choreography of snatching flying things out of the air is going to be on a whole other level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 9 hours ago, efaardvark said: Looks like both the booster and the launch stand survived the static-fire test. Musk tweeted that one engine was disabled by command and one was shut down by the vehicle software but the remaining 31 would still have been enough to get to orbit. So I guess next up is launch and, hopefully, orbit. WOW!! That was spectacularly impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 I didn't post that Booster video... here's the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 (edited) YKYITFW NASA sends a nuclear-powered helicopter (octocopter) to explore Saturn's moon Titan... Currently funded and in prototype/testing phase here on Earth: There's also the Psyche mission to a metal asteroid that's probably the remnant core of what was once a planet in the asteroid belt.. You won't have to wait as long for this one since Psyche is launching later this year and the asteroid belt is a lot closer than Titan. Probably launching this year.. at least we're already doing software testing. Edited February 18 by efaardvark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 YKYITFW drone deliveries have been a real thing for years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Spirit Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 YKYITFW your house comes with voice commands. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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