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#1 Re: Not So Free Chat » Election Meddling » 2018-10-24 19:14:01

O'Rourke is awesome if you like taking land from poor hispanic people and selling it to relatives cheaply.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgv_aDrsOcg

#2 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-24 19:07:39

Why not used compressed liquid CO2 or something like that to power a rotor while spilling out?   Not sure that would get you 50km straight up but it might get you part way.  I would imagine CO2 hitting 800 degrees almost instantly would generate quite a bit of force.  The problem I see is a material that can survive the temperature and sulfuric acid, though I imagine something must exist.

#3 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-24 14:37:47

Apparently it's around 30mph more or less.   One could probably make something designed to fall slowly enough to survive, collect samples, then float up with a balloon.  No need for rockets.  Replace balloon, resend.

#4 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-24 14:34:09

I wonder what would be terminal velocity at about 1250 PSI.

#5 Re: Human missions » Naming the first city on Mars » 2018-10-23 17:52:15

Bruno.   

That way it would be Bruno, Mars.

#6 Re: Planetary transportation » Hyperloop, Earth/Mars » 2018-10-23 10:19:24

Cold is a problem, though I don't thing creating a much more costly tunnel will help that much.   I think the reality is that this is also way far off after we're all dead so I think high speed rovers make a lot more sense.   On a flat surface, they could go hundreds of miles per hour.

#7 Re: Human missions » Space X forging ahead with BFR » 2018-10-23 07:12:07

I was thinking this the other day.  What is hotter?  Exhaust or pressure/friction?

#9 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-22 22:42:42

I'm just not sure how they're going to get out of the atmosphere and into orbit, even from 50km.  They'll have to hit about 10,000 mph with the fuel on board.

#10 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-22 20:19:37

I think balloon missions (unmanned) will be great.  I think having a rocket light enough, yet powerful enough to reach escape velocity is not only going to be tough, but would defeat the ability to send a lot of science equipment or any kind of O2 converters and such.  It would be interesting to seed the clouds with O2 creating bacteria and see if we could convert all that CO2 to O2 and carbon that falls to the surface.

#11 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-22 08:29:10

So what would be the use of people floating in cloud cities and how would that be different from floating in Earth orbit with 1G stations?

#12 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Mission to Venus » 2018-10-22 06:57:11

There's no way you can make Venus any hotter.  You could start dropping nuclear bombs by the thousands and t would barely make a tick of a difference in the temperature.

#13 Re: Not So Free Chat » Emolument Clause » 2018-10-21 20:14:18

Notice that Emolument is capitalized and present is not.   That strongly implies the more formal of two meanings used at the time.  One, an official fee for an official job, versus any gain whatsoever for whatever, which is almost never, ever used.

#14 Re: Not So Free Chat » South of the Border Politics » 2018-10-21 20:11:43

Trump, the greatest "expert" on the Constitution since Barack "ACA" Obama.

#15 Re: Planetary transportation » Hyperloop, Earth/Mars » 2018-10-21 19:34:23

A monorail would be almost as fast as a hyperloop in the thin air of Mars.   I deny that the Hyperloop problems have been so easily solved.  Keeping a low pressure over thousands of miles is going to be ridiculously expensive and power consuming.   Keeping the whole tube sealed would require massive amounts of maintenance and regular closures.

#16 Re: Life support systems » Suspended animation to Mars » 2018-10-21 19:24:27

And I definitely wouldn't want to wake up dead, like Pelham.

#17 Re: Life support systems » Suspended animation to Mars » 2018-10-21 19:22:52

I'd rather be conscious, thanks.  If you have a problem, you want all hands on deck immediately, not in a few hours.

#18 Re: Not So Free Chat » Healthcare for all, not Trump or Obama care » 2018-10-21 17:10:56

The Preamble to the Constitution is part of the Constitution like a Preface is part of a story.   It delegates absolutely zero power whatsoever.

Good lord, the lack of education in public schools these days.....

#19 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » Key features of a Mars economy » 2018-10-21 16:11:55

The only way I can see moving materials back to Earth cost effectively is with rail guns that can shoot a probe from an asteroid towards Earth with a hypersonic parachute to stop it and some minimal fuel for course corrections.   The question really isn't what the solar system has to offer the Earth because that is almost zero.  The question is, if we offload people to other worlds, at what point do they stop being on welfare.

#20 Re: Human missions » Space X forging ahead with BFR » 2018-10-21 15:47:35

The problem with the shuttle is that the ceramic tiles were actual tiles, not a unitary structure.  That gives you a lot of failure points.

#22 Re: Not So Free Chat » South of the Border Politics » 2018-10-21 11:31:54

If they were geese, no one would care.   Humans don't have rights, only animals, under government.

#23 Re: Not So Free Chat » To be hacked it seems that it does not matter » 2018-10-21 09:10:56

Yeah, and the Founders got quite the laugh out of that.   Like "WTF, did we give birth to retards or something?" 

The Power to Tax clause clearly outlaws taxes that are meant to punish or coerce the population and these have always been ruled unConstitutional in the past.   They didn't suddenly become "constitutional" or my new word "SCOTUStutional".

#24 Re: Not So Free Chat » To be hacked it seems that it does not matter » 2018-10-21 07:50:59

The ACA is entirely unConstitutional.  Just a reminder.

And if Putin caused Trump to win, thank you Mr Putin.

#25 Re: Not So Free Chat » Trump Proposes U.S. ‘Space Force’ to Guard the Galaxy » 2018-10-20 15:37:26

It was great watching all of UFO in HD on DLP projector.

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