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trailynx
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
You might enjoy the Halo Drive idea [0]. From my (very layman) understanding this uses this principle for propelling a spacecraft - you just need a moving black hole nearby :)

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423
trailynx
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
hey, I checked as well and it looks like they currently don't have any tours online. I can forward you the contact from when we booked our tour at the time if you want. sent you a linkedIn connection request (I think, connected some dots).

Also, I found this [0] post with lots of pictures [1] from the Technical University of Graz about a visit, and the pictures give a good taste of what you might see there.

btw, if you come to pass Austria (Vienna or rural Upper Austria) and want to grab a beer or something let me know - seems like we are both working as engineering managers and share some interests, might be interesting :)

[0] https://www.tugraz.at/institute/iee/news-events/article/fueh... [1] https://www.tugraz.at/institute/iee/bildergalerien/2019-07-1...
trailynx
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I did that tour a few years back and it was truly impressive and mesmerising - especially standing in the reactor chamber with all the (empty) rods on top of you (they cut a hole into the wall so you can enter there - and it was never in use, so safe to be in there). Pretty crazy. The whole tour was like entering a time capsule and felt like being in a movie or computer game. Everything looking brand new and unused, but old and outdated at the same time. Apart from all the tech and science that they showed and explained this eery time capsule part was sticking with me. And the tour was even free, or almost free as far as I can remember, only getting a slot was hard. Can recommend a visit, if you get the chance.
trailynx
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
for comparison, building the ISS took 40 assembly flights [0] (36 of them from the Space Shuttle)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Internationa...
trailynx
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I need to disagree. As a (central) European person I very much consider at least Istanbul to be an European city - not sure about the whole of Turkey, though. After some thoughts why I feel this way I think it boils down to geography and history. Istanbul is geographically on both sides of the bosphorus strait, where the “continents” Europe and Asia are considered divided. And then it has historical significance for Europe (as Constantinople), being one of the major stable forces in Europe during at least the middle ages (but also before and after).
trailynx
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Prior discussion of that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367

I personally like the name „checklist script“ (also checkscript) for that, which I found in that comments at the time. I think it conveys easily the two purposes of the thing (checklist gradually becoming a script).