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idlewords

30,183 カルマ登録 17 年前
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L'Affaire Siloxane

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299 ポイント·投稿者 idlewords·先月·55 コメント

How should we think about Starship?

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5 ポイント·投稿者 idlewords·先月·1 コメント

Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth

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1 ポイント·投稿者 idlewords·2 か月前·1 コメント

Artemis II is not safe to fly

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909 ポイント·投稿者 idlewords·3 か月前·638 コメント

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idlewords
·5 日前·議論
> Kicks in just after it starts to get interesting.

What a funny coincidence!
idlewords
·25 日前·議論
Hi everyone,

The domain should be back up within the next few hours.

I had the domain set on auto-renew but unfortunately something went wrong, and I didn't get an email from the registrar about it (or it got misrouted to spam).

I've renewed the registration but it seems to be taking a while to propagate back to the .IN servers. An interim measure is setting an /etc/hosts record for pinboard.in to 64.62.134.190.

My sincere apologies for the outage. The TLS cert for Pinboard renews in October, and in my mind I thought the domain renewed at that time as well, or I would have paid closer attention. Irked at my own carelessness here.
idlewords
·30 日前·議論
It's fine to dump sewage overboard if you're far enough from shore. Cruise ships treat it to some extent, but ultimately it all becomes fish food.
idlewords
·先月·議論
There's a nice paper on this, ICES-2018-123 "Dimethylsilanediol (DMSD) Source Assessment and Mitigation on ISS: Estimated Contributions from Personal Hygiene Products Containing Volatile Methyl Siloxanes (VMS)". The upshot is more than half of the siloxane burden on ISS comes from God knows where (packaging, plastics, machinery, you name it).

https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/items/ff1a240e-1fb1-4b04-acb2-42e9c45...
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
The atmosphere has a perfectly reasonable 110 hour day/night cycle.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
I thought so too, but the phosphine signal turns out to be small but real. What everyone involved in the back and forth debate over it agrees on is the need to send better sensors.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
Landis has a ton of good papers around Venus for those who want to nerd out deeper.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
Give it a few hours!
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
Thanks so much! I'm delighted you enjoyed the piece.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
It's not an absurd question. The threshold value is the one that breaks surface tension and effectively pulls waste away from the body. It will be more than a few hundredths g but less than 1g.

Unfortunately we have basically no data on the effects of partial gravity, in this context or any other. We can try flying partial-gravity parabolas in aircraft and simulate a Martian toilet the same way they tested the design for Skylab; I don't think this experiment has been done.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
You can try it with small capsules and tethers, but it's still a pain.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
The hose is the same but there are different funnel attachments (the part looks kind of like the cup from a jock strap, and is longer and narrower for women)
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
It's all flat files on the server
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
Thank you! Like NASA, I hope to up my operational tempo.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
They do not, except for some of the avionics.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
I never worked at NASA. Maybe you're confusing me with Casey Handmer, who has also written on this topic?
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
I'm sorry it bugs you!
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
I think you mean Artemis IV (the moon landing)? Artemis III is now a near Earth orbit mission to dock with whatever mockup lander SpaceX or Blue Origin can throw up in time.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
The next two Soyuz launches are this Wednesday and Saturday.
idlewords
·3 か月前·議論
You would be the first person to ever accuse the Orion program of cutting costs.