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L'Affaire Siloxane

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299 points·by idlewords·geçen ay·55 comments

How should we think about Starship?

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5 points·by idlewords·geçen ay·1 comments

Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth

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1 points·by idlewords·2 ay önce·1 comments

Artemis II is not safe to fly

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909 points·by idlewords·3 ay önce·638 comments

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idlewords
·5 gün önce·discuss
> Kicks in just after it starts to get interesting.

What a funny coincidence!
idlewords
·25 gün önce·discuss
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 gün önce·discuss
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
·geçen ay·discuss
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 ay önce·discuss
The atmosphere has a perfectly reasonable 110 hour day/night cycle.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
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 ay önce·discuss
Landis has a ton of good papers around Venus for those who want to nerd out deeper.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
Give it a few hours!
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
Thanks so much! I'm delighted you enjoyed the piece.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
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 ay önce·discuss
You can try it with small capsules and tethers, but it's still a pain.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
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 ay önce·discuss
It's all flat files on the server
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
Thank you! Like NASA, I hope to up my operational tempo.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
They do not, except for some of the avionics.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
I never worked at NASA. Maybe you're confusing me with Casey Handmer, who has also written on this topic?
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
I'm sorry it bugs you!
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
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 ay önce·discuss
The next two Soyuz launches are this Wednesday and Saturday.
idlewords
·3 ay önce·discuss
You would be the first person to ever accuse the Orion program of cutting costs.