It also means much more costly resupply missions.

"The bigger the display, the steeper the mark-up." - Rule of Acquisition #287, maybe

If the flashing lights are getting brighter, the beat may be about to drop.

Don’t worry everyone I’m taking one for the team it’s supposed to be cloudy and rainy on Friday night we’re I live. I’m in the path of totality next year and I’d be willing to bet my life savings that it’s going to be cloudy in Cleveland on April 8th 2024.

Tell him it’s woke and he will bring it down with nothing but a tweet and boy, what a witty and well thought out tweet it’ll be….

Today’s weather: sunny skies. Friday’s forecast: clouds with periods of even more clouds.

Just wanted to shoot you a thanks for the link.

It's not normal friction. It's dynamical friction. Friction from gravity. Dark matter is matter and therefore creates gravity. It interacts with any other matter via gravity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fBvKb2JD9c

This is me literally any time there is an event in the sky that I really want to check out.

Even something that lasts several days, guaranteed overcast/cloudy/storms that night, every. single. time.

Ships like the ones you are speaking of must be built in orbit, we don’t have the technology to launch them without them coming apart yet.

Heavier to launch all that stuff and have it accelerate to such speeds

You have to get rid of radioactive waste sure. But surely that rock is no more radioactive that most other rock

The only way the asteroid would offer protection from radiation is if it was hollow and made of lead, gold or water. The asteroid itself would likely be radioactive if you were mining space fuel for an interstellar journey. Hiding ships within meteors could have tactical advantages but why not just build the ship to look like a meteor?

Theres 1 or 2 payloads a year that might be willing to pay that

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Protection from space debris, mining as a key point but not the whole point.

Sitting inside the asteroid would surely provide protection from radiation.

Ability to have multiple smaller payloads more easily (due to less weight) meet this required speed to board the asteroid and coalesce to form a much more complex operation once on the asteroid. Meaning even achieving that speed at all is made far easier.

Manufacturing propellant for the departure from the asteroid at the end of the mission.

> The oldest segments are from 1998

You wish. That's just the launch date. Zvezda dates back to late 1980s and Zarya to early 1990s, because they were considered as modules for Mir and later Mir-2 project, to finally get included in the ISS.

As noted in the other comment, this isn't the common mechanical friction. It's the same "friction" of the moon's gravity causing the earth's rotation to slow down at a barely perceptible rate.

This is just another “wishful thinking” project. Ain’t gonna happen in OUR lifetimes imho.

How is the planet hot enough to have such an atmosphere when it's so so distant from its host stars? Many times farther than Pluto is from the Sun.

>In most western countries anything els is ilegal.

i didn't know bartering is illegal.

Now Im going to down vote you! Just kidding its funny how personal folks take that.

Yea I see planets and moons orbiting them, or solar systems galaxies, or galaxies black holes. How you can predict when they will be at a certain point even thought we dont see them. Then an atom with its electrons orbiting them, how fare does it go? And all thats mostly a vacuum, oh but wait

Maybe the vaunted Australian Space Agency can go up there and solve the problem.

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Can you fucking IMAGINE? Having a human made spacecraft in another SOLAR SYSTEM?! Even if the data we got back weren’t images of the planets there and just basic data, that would be so incredible.

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