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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

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

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