there is another one that don’t dead open inside (basically the orders of the words is different), but I don’t remember the name

That would be !nosafetysmokingfirst@sh.itjust.works! Over 250 subscribers in just a week!

Now increasing more slowly but steadily.

You’ve just got one more!

This post is well on its way to hitting 243 upvotes, but I suspect that 729 will be difficult to reach.

NGSO = Non-geostationary orbit

My tiger friend has got the sled,
and I have packed a snack,
We’re all set for the trip ahead,
we’re never coming back.

forever chemicals

Do tyres contain PFAS? I thought that the fish issue was that some of the rubber additives mimicted fish hormones.

Great, now I’m all hungry for steak.

I love them

Your steak, your friend’s steak, or your friend?

Who is Al, and what does he do to salvage the steak?

Came here to post this :)

Well done, Norway!

Starbase activities (2024-09-15):

• Quiet Sunday, not much action reported.
• Overnight, the first of S33’s aft flaps enter Megabay 2. (reported by u/Planatus666, no archivable link of this action available)
• Pad A: Chopsticks work continues. Landing rails were tested.
• Zack Golden speculates on the possibility of a mobile launch mount for Pad B. (Golden 1, Golden 2, Golden 3, Golden 4)
• RGV Aerial post recent photos of the build site, Pad A (chopsticks work), launch site, and Pad B and its flame trench.

Cool! Thanks for the info dump!

I wonder if we’ll use these names when colonizing Mars. Like Earth has New York, New Jersey, and New Zealand, I wonder if Mars will eventually have human settlements at New Yellowknife, New Kalavryta, and so on.

given time LAL will be replaced

That sounds encouraging!

To overcome this problem, Tian and his student Yang Lu turned to a theory that attempts to explain why humans are able to discern colors relatively well under low-light conditions. The Retinex theory suggests that our visual system is able to discern light in two different ways—namely, the reflectance and illumination components of the light. Even in low-light conditions, our eyes and brain are able to compensate for changes in the illumination of the light enough to discern colors.

Tian’s team applied this concept to their autonomous-car-navigation system, which processes the reflective and luminescence qualities of polarized light separately. One algorithm—trained using real-world data of the same images in light and dark conditions—works like our own visual system to compensate for changes in brightness. A second algorithm processes the reflective properties of incoming light, removing background noise.

Not sure if I fully grasp how this works, but it sounds cool!

Not sure if or what 3D print plastics you could print in vacuum.

I think it should be doable as long as the plastic isn’t too volatile. The biggest challenge might be cooling the stepper motors.

Excited to see more reusable orbital launch vehicles!

No one forced you to subscribe in the first place.

I suspect that your prize will come tomorrow in the form of 243 triangles…

Don’t worry, it’s just Monty Python. Always worth a watch.