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For SpaceNut re landing legs for Starship for Lunar landing.
Thanks for taking a look at the image Gemini created.
Your post in Landing Legs referred to Wikipedia but did not show a reference.
To save our readers time, please edit your post to show a direct link to the material you are citing.
I am confident you will NOT find that the legs are added AFTER reaching LEO.
I am confident the legs are part of the launch vehicle.
My post was about letting go of that old idea, and instead, configuring the Starship for service as a true "space" vehicle.
If you add the legs in orbitl then they can be as big as GW Johnson recommends.
Please note the large feet! GW has a recommended against typical little flat feet because they can dig in if the vehicle is moving sideways.
PS ... thanks for the links you found to Louis and other member conversations about electric vehicles and electric roads.
Louis was talking about charging vehicles from road supplied power, and not the road sucking power out of vehicles.
I think the induction idea has great merit, because it keeps the power supply infrastructure under ground and out of danger from wind, lightning, accidents due to collisions or other damage that objects above the surface experience.
One other possible advantage might be improved roadway clearing during snow events, but i'm not sure about that. I just assumed there must be some warming of the roadway in the vicinity of the induction coils, but the amount of that waste would be small, because of the expense of electricity at the supply end.
I bring this up because Calliban has proposed an overhead electric supply such as trolleys use. That is certainly a well proven technology, and installation costs would surely be less than an induction coil system under a roadway surface.
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For SpaceNut re new Engineering Category ...
GW Johnson brought to my attention that he is unable to contribute to the new Tools Forum.
It appears that I am able to contribute as a moderator.
Please take a look to see if you can adjust permissions to allow GW to add new tools.
Thanks!
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Recruiting High Value members for NewMars.com/forums, in association with the Mars Society
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I made a change to the permissions
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For SpaceNut !!! Thanks very much re Post #4353!
I'll let GW know he can try it now.
Best wishes to you for a new roof for the coming winter.
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For SpaceNut re Potholes run to 242000.
The run completed overnight without hiccups. I'll post the results later.
Surprise! We had a perfect run! The next scan will be run at 243000.
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For SpaceNut ... just FYI ...
I got this today, while trying to edit an existing post.
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Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@newmars.com to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
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We haven't seen that error since we upgraded our system in 2024.
I'm sorry to see it again.
The problem seems to be related to using a code block. It may not apply to other post content.
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For SpaceNut ....
Dr. Muller arrived here thanks to the work we (forum) have done over many years to try to build up searchability on the Internet.
Dr. Muller entered a search (paraphrasing) for a web site where Mars Development is under serious discussion, and we showed up in the results.
Congratulations for ** your ** efforts over many years to encourage participation in the forum.
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Its most likely the apache server is getting fragmented again. which is the issue we previous found on the host....
Dr. Muller seems quite interesting.
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