Re: The Warm Equations

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:02:41 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/28/2024 9:35 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 6/28/2024 8:46 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:22:49 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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On 6/27/2024 7:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 6/23/2024 11:37 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

Interesting to note the way margins of a real-life space venture
are run:
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Two astronauts have been stuck at the ISS for an extra two weeks,
so far, because their ride has flat tires, and it's not a crisis,
and nobody has had to volunteer to step out the airlock.

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The real question is, there are 7 or 8 people in those tin cans.  Is
there enough food, water, air, and diapers for all of them for another
month ?  Or is SpaceX going to have to send an emergency supply ship ?
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Can the Boeing Starliner drop without a crew ?  I suspect so.
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That's kind of a dumb question.  OF COURSE the Starliner can be dropped.
  Undock it, do an EVA to push it a bit and it will eventually "land"
somewhere on the planet.
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Now, a controlled drop to a specific area.....

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Perhaps a small explosive charge with a timer would be advisable, to
keep it from coming down in one piece. Ideally, it would come down in
zero pieces, providing a nice show as each teeny-tiny splinter burns
up on re-entry.
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It would take more than a small explosive charge to do that.

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Starliner has already made one (sort of) successful unmanned trip
to the ISS, and returned safely. It is completely capable of returning
unmanned, no explosives needed.
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But yes, on that trip they also had thruster problems.

The Boeing Solution to problems:
-- capture the regulators
-- full speed ahead!

There was a time when, around here, Boeing was the plane to fly.

But then they moved to corporate offices to Chicago.
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