OT?: Goodbye to an era

Well, there is the 0G crapper. That's important for humanity.

Um, no I haven't lost my marbles - at least, my posting wasn't evidence of that.

I replied to the wrong post, one that I can no longer find. It contained a link to a time-lapse video:

A lot of people seem to spend a lot of time hanging around not doing much, which can only add to the cost.

Sylvia.

Sure. The skull is quite dense. It has to be, to keep it from collapsing from the absolute vacuum inside. With his big head, an implosion could wipe out at least half of Nijmegen.

He'd love that one. He has a serious thing for crap.

John

Outside observers of engineers that muddle around in groups, slowly discussing things, have always incorrectly accused us of wasting time or getting nothing done but standing around talking.

Why then does so much real engineering get done?

Do they think we work in spurts with large respites in between each spurt?

I sure do.

John

Except that your in betweens are not work. And respite from being brain dead is net zero change as well.

They weren't muddled around in groups slowly discussing things.

Sylvia.

What the f*ck do you think a meeting is, ditz?

It's mostly about pizza.

John

Did you look at the video?

Sylvia.

Indeed. Muses are fickle mistresses.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

John Larkin schrieb:

Hello,

no, it is not. But if you want to use a replaceable ablative heat shield for a multiple use space craft, you need a good concept to mount and dismount the heat shield. Nuts and bolts used to mount the heat shield must be easily acessible, but they must be protected against the hot plasma during reentry. You also need an even surface without protruding mounting elements.

Bye

Phil Hobbs schrieb:

Hello,

Apollo did the reentry with a higher velocity because it came back from the moon, not from a low earth orbit. The leading edge of the cone was protected with an extra thick heat shield.

Bye

Leading edge of the *cone*?

plane'.

So build better crybaby. Hell, just come up to 5% of what the shuttle has accomplished. And by the way it is easily over 100 flights for the whole program.

Didi

plane'=3D

Oh really? So what the F* does your country have for a space program? S*it, you cannot even build your own satellites. Your country does not even come up to laughing stock in space.

Really? Just watch.

Didi

plane'.

Good luck. My dad had some samples but they were lost when he died.

Didi

plane'.

Spouting from ignorance once again. You look it up, i already know.