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@isaackuo @Legit_Spaghetti @edgeofeurope @benroyce So they have tested it?

This is insane...

I recall reading about #ProjectPluto at #AtomicRockets website by @nyrath and it's very nasty and dangerous:

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/planetaryattack.php#projectpluto

I've been thinking about the Classic #TravellerRPG Type S Scout/Courier.

A typical deck plan can be seen here : https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/mongoose/type-s/passcour.png and from outside, it looks like this: https://canvastemple.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=175&pic=1&products_image_large_additional=images/ScoutCourier03.jpg&zenid=6ab97188493a1931f6df81e3c1f961d9

Now there is a problem with this. Look at the deck plan. Look at the line of thrust.

The walls should be floors!

But there is a solution - and one found in the real world!

Have a look at the RV Flip!

https://youtu.be/tQxQfQU_hsk?si=nj7J8ilwwW_6pTc8

So when in atmosphere or on the ground, the fittings could be rotated one way, and in space, under thrust, the other! No messing around with grav-plates!

#SF #ScfFi #SpaceTech #atomicrockets #StarShips

I've been thinking about the Classic #TravellerRPG Type S Scout/Courier.

A typical deck plan can be seen here : https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/mongoose/type-s/passcour.png and from outside, it looks like this: https://canvastemple.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=175&pic=1&products_image_large_additional=images/ScoutCourier03.jpg&zenid=6ab97188493a1931f6df81e3c1f961d9

Now there is a problem with this. Look at the deck plan. Look at the line of thrust.

The walls should be floors!

But there is a solution - and one found in the real world!

Have a look at the RV Flip!

https://youtu.be/tQxQfQU_hsk?si=nj7J8ilwwW_6pTc8

So when in atmosphere or on the ground, the fittings could be rotated one way, and in space, under thrust, the other! No messing around with grav-plates!

#SF #ScfFi #SpaceTech #atomicrockets #StarShips

I've been thinking about the Classic #TravellerRPG Type S Scout/Courier.

A typical deck plan can be seen here : https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/mongoose/type-s/passcour.png and from outside, it looks like this: https://canvastemple.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=175&pic=1&products_image_large_additional=images/ScoutCourier03.jpg&zenid=6ab97188493a1931f6df81e3c1f961d9

Now there is a problem with this. Look at the deck plan. Look at the line of thrust.

The walls should be floors!

But there is a solution - and one found in the real world!

Have a look at the RV Flip!

https://youtu.be/tQxQfQU_hsk?si=nj7J8ilwwW_6pTc8

So when in atmosphere or on the ground, the fittings could be rotated one way, and in space, under thrust, the other! No messing around with grav-plates!

#SF #ScfFi #SpaceTech #atomicrockets #StarShips

I've been thinking about the Classic #TravellerRPG Type S Scout/Courier.

A typical deck plan can be seen here : https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/mongoose/type-s/passcour.png and from outside, it looks like this: https://canvastemple.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=175&pic=1&products_image_large_additional=images/ScoutCourier03.jpg&zenid=6ab97188493a1931f6df81e3c1f961d9

Now there is a problem with this. Look at the deck plan. Look at the line of thrust.

The walls should be floors!

But there is a solution - and one found in the real world!

Have a look at the RV Flip!

https://youtu.be/tQxQfQU_hsk?si=nj7J8ilwwW_6pTc8

So when in atmosphere or on the ground, the fittings could be rotated one way, and in space, under thrust, the other! No messing around with grav-plates!

#SF #ScfFi #SpaceTech #atomicrockets #StarShips

I've been thinking about the Classic #TravellerRPG Type S Scout/Courier.

A typical deck plan can be seen here : https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/mongoose/type-s/passcour.png and from outside, it looks like this: https://canvastemple.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=175&pic=1&products_image_large_additional=images/ScoutCourier03.jpg&zenid=6ab97188493a1931f6df81e3c1f961d9

Now there is a problem with this. Look at the deck plan. Look at the line of thrust.

The walls should be floors!

But there is a solution - and one found in the real world!

Have a look at the RV Flip!

https://youtu.be/tQxQfQU_hsk?si=nj7J8ilwwW_6pTc8

So when in atmosphere or on the ground, the fittings could be rotated one way, and in space, under thrust, the other! No messing around with grav-plates!

#SF #ScfFi #SpaceTech #atomicrockets #StarShips

The Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a volcano on the far side of the Moon. It was found by a gamma-ray spectrometer and is an area of concentrated thorium. Thorium-232 is not reactor fuel, but neutrons converts it into uranium-233 which is.

The thorium concentration reaches 5.3 µg/g while the surrounding basalts only contain between 0 and 2 µg/g. Compared to the Earth's thorium concentration of 0.06 µg/g, this is very high.

#AtomicRockets mine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%E2%80%93Belkovich_Thorium_Anomaly

Can Galactic Empires Realistically Exist?

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/empiredyn.php#id--Can_Galactic_Empires_Exist?

#AtomicRockets

@pauldrye

That spacecraft is one of the few designs that is both a tail-sitter and a belly-lander. Usually they are one or the other.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/embarking.php
#AtomicRockets

For scifi writers and scifi #TTRPG game masters. An article about different power structures in different interstellar empires.

https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-empires/

#TTRPG #SciFi #AtomicRockets #GalacticEmpire

Starmoth
A scifi universe building project

" a post-apocalyptic, post-capitalistic, interstellar setting where semi-realistic spacecraft coexist with unknowable alien ruins, paracausal creatures, open-source FTL devices and colourful, vibrant societies. "

https://www.starmoth.space/

#scifi #AtomicRockets #WorldBuilding

@maxthefox @MeiLin @angelastella

In the 1950s there was a TV and book series called Tom Corbett Space Cadet.

The rocket ships, as near as I could figure, had liquid-core or gas-core nuclear thermal engines. If not actual nuclear salt water rockets.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#nswr

When landed, the remaining liquid nuclear fuel would be removed, for safety reasons.

The truck doing this was called the "Hot Soup Wagon"...
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/radiation.php#hotsoup

#AtomicRockets

Realistic spacecraft bits, assembled by mikusingularity and I

#AtomicRockets

Taking out the trash: Here's how private companies could be vital for space debris removal

https://www.space.com/space-debris-taking-out-the-trash

#AtomicRockets #KesselSyndrome

Ways for scifi artists to jazz up their combat starship art.

Military Insignia: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/symbols.php#id--Military_Insignia

Heraldry: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php#heraldry

Dazzle camouflage: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardefense.php#cammo

#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #SciFiArt #CombatStarship

@jose_sku

Pues si quieres tener inspiración para detalles de tus aventuras te recomiendo que visites #AtomicRockets de @nyrath , es denso pero muy interesante 😉 🧐

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php

First-in-Human Trial of Oral Drug to Remove Radioactive Contamination Begins

Relevant to workers dealing with atomic rockets

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/first-human-trial-oral-drug-remove-radioactive-contamination-begins

#AtomicRockets

RocketCat's Combat Starship Power Allocation System
A proposed game mechanism for game designers

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarship.php#tripower

#AtomicRockets #Games

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #Astrogation

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #Astrogation

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #Astrogation

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #Astrogation

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #Astrogation

The Tyranny of the Wagon equation

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-wagon-equation

#Rocketry #AtomicRockets

DART mission reveals asteroid Dimorphos is dry as a bone

https://www.space.com/dart-mission-asteroid-dimorphos-no-water

#Asteroid #AtomicRockets #ISRU

Related:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls

#SpaceShip #ControlPanel #AtomicRockets

Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hyundai-promises-to-keep-buttons-in-cars-because-touchscreen-controls-are-dangerous

#SpaceShip #ControlPanel #AtomicRockets

@stux
Yes, the technical term for this is a "Brachistochrone". The turn around at midpoint is called a "skew flip". In the scifi show "The Expanse" they call the maneuver a "flip and burn"

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php#brachistochrone
#AtomicRockets

Living systems theory
Possible worldbuilding aid for science fiction authors

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarcolony.php#livingsystem

#WorldBuilding #Scifi #AtomicRockets

Florida Startup Moves Closer to Building Data Centers on the Moon

https://gizmodo.com/startup-moves-closer-building-data-centers-moon-1850192177
#SpaceBusiness #AtomicRockets

Retro-Musings: “When Worlds Collide” (1951) is a doomsday tale from an extinct era…

https://musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2023/03/06/retro-musings-when-worlds-collide-1951-is-a-doomsday-tale-from-an-extinct-era/
#Movie #SciFi #AtomicRockets

Autonomous Restructuring of Asteroids into Rotating Space Stations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12353
#Asteroid #SpaceStation #AtomicRockets

@cdelacruz

Pero hay más, veo tu apuesta y la subo con #AtomicRockets de @nyrath :

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php

(te puedes pasar horas navegando por sus contenidos y disfrutar mucho con lo que lees)

Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight
(Also resistant to EMP)

https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
#SpaceNavigation #AtomicRockets #AnalogComputer

Winchell Chung is still alive!
But I've spent the last month or so in the hospital.
Details later, I just got out of the hospital about two hours ago.

#AtomicRockets

Spaceship Types

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/shiptypes.php
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #Spacecraft

@cinebox
Yes, good old Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Though the old Soviet laser pistol used a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet rod instead of one using ruby, That's because it pumped the rod with flash bulbs instead of a strobe.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmenergy.php#sovlasgun
#LaserPistol #AtomicRockets #RayGun

EVA design morphing from space suit to space pod to space rug

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php#id--Suit_Into_Ship
#Spacesuit #SpacePod #SpaceTug #EVA #AtomicRockets

Space advocates have long dreamed of living in giant rotating habitats, but just how would you build one? One proposal brings the concept of the assembly line to microgravity.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4489/1
#SpaceColony #AtomicRockets

Dynamic soaring as a means to exceed the solar wind speed
( surfing the solarsystem heliopause to approach 2% c within two anda half years)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frspt.2022.1017442/full

Prior article (PDF file)
https://t.co/BjAWaIeqdN
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #SpaceCraft #DynamicSoaring

Nuclear pulse Orion drive spacecraft from Poul Anderson's Orion Shall Rise
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=186
#AtomicRockets #OrionDrive #SpaceShip #Spacecraft