LostCosmonaut

Video from last year

edit: I haven't skied this yet, but I want to. Sadly it's only open without requiring probe+beacon one day a year on average

Did somebody say (half) aircraft carriers?
https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/usns-1930-flight-deck-cruiser-designs/

FM 17-12, Tank Gunnery (April 1961)

Technically if England is becoming a communist country they're becoming second world not third world

However, one look at any of the forecast
soundings shows how impressive/deep the stratospheric intrusion
is/will be -- with the tropopause (the separation between the
troposphere and stratosphere) expected to fall to as low as
3kft- 4kft AGL this afternoon -- which is almost unheard of for
these latitudes. This is what truly speaks to the rarity of this
pattern that has evolved, even if daily records are not
met/exceeded.

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=ILN&product=AFD&format=CI&version=3&glossary=1&highlight=off

Stratosphere is getting ridiculously low

Oops; https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2019/01/29/stowe-mountain-resort-stuck-chairlift-spurs-evacuation-vermont/2708251002/

The Japanese Heavy Armor link in the op is broken, here is an archived version; https://web.archive.org/web/20120423174233fw_/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ Reports/USNTMJ-200E-0184-0239 Report 0-16.pdf

Maritime Services to Support Polar Resource Development

45 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

 

But only if you have a permit for that license

Good luck getting that permit without the registration.

Free Flight Tunnel Test Log

Popular Mechanics interview with Musk on the BFR

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/

On the windward side, what I want to do is have the first-ever regenerative heat shield. A double-walled stainless shell—like a stainless-steel sandwich, essentially, with two layers. You just need, essentially, two layers that are joined with stringers. You flow either fuel or water in between the sandwich layer, and then you have micro-perforations on the outside—very tiny perforations—and you essentially bleed water, or you could bleed fuel, through the micro-perforations on the outside. You wouldn’t see them unless you got up close. But you use transpiration cooling to cool the windward side of the rocket. So the whole thing will still look fully chrome, like this cocktail shaker in front of us. But one side will be double-walled and that serves a double purpose, which is to stiffen the structure of the vehicle so it does not suffer from the fate of the Atlas. You have a heat shield that serves double duty as structure.

Yeah.

To the best of my knowledge this has never been proposed before.

@Belesarius

Roy Halladay elected to hall of fame on the first ballot.

Project Cyclops

2019 Missile Defense Review

What this tells me if that you lopped off the fins on the S-IC you could maybe just about fit a Saturn V into the internal volume of an Ohio.

On 1/16/2019 at 11:02 PM, Sgt.Squarehead said:

You guys like kites at all?

 

I'm game. I'll have to head to somewhere with less trees than New York, though.

In sadder news, rumors that Smuggler's Notch is going to be bought by Vail; https://www.skimag.com/ski-resort-life/smugglers-notch-there-goes-the-neighborhood

Somewhat considering doing this;

Also, Adirondacks and Southern Vermont are supposed to get 18+ inches of snow Saturday night and Sunday. Get hype

Those are some well-built suspensions right there.

Think it's pretty early, not sure of the exact date.

Dorian Revealed: MOL Compendium

Advanced Technology Tactical Transport

A Case Study in US Air Force Air-to-Air Armament Post–World War II through Operation Rolling Thunder

I believe the KH-9 HEXAGON was the last one to use film canisters.

Then they switched to electronic for KH-11, which looks not entirely unlike Hubble (there's speculation that the telescopes NRO donated to NASA were spare KH-11s).

KH-10 was MOL/DORIAN, which never flew (random trivia fact; the first black astronaut selectee, Robert Lawrence Jr., was picked for MOL). Though I've also rarely seen DORIAN associated with other projects; http://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/DORIAN/04-CONFIGURATIONS.PDF

20 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

If you have nudes from our glorious leaders you are required to post them. It's the law.

I knew getting "secret" tattooed on my crotch was a great idea. Now if you post those pics you'll have to deal with the American consulate in Australia! Ha ha!