Tar_Alcaran

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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • General question.

    NASA won’t send crew up with Starship because it doesn’t have a crew-abort system, like SLS, or basically any “conventional” rocket system.

    But the shuttle didn’t really have an emergency abort system either, other than dropping the shuttle off of the booster and fuel tank. Is the difference that Starship can’t seperate from it’s tank, because it’s not like the shuttle could drop its internal tanks either.







  • Despite being really really invasive here in Europe, I love the Staghorn Sumac.

    It’s very pretty, with great flowers and soft furry branches (like antlers). You can make an amazing “lemonade” from the fruits and you can eat the shoots raw.

    And eating the shoots raw is a great idea, because it branches out like crazy. If your neighbors have one of these, you’ll soon have half a dozen too.

    They also grow pretty fast, and the wood is super pretty (and super curvy, so you won’t be making any boards out of it)





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    3 days ago

    I mean, converting energy into matte, when you could be using said energy to get home does seem a bit wasteful.

    Replicating 1 gram of matter from energy takes 90 TJ, so replicating a sugarcube would be roughly the power of a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.