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It's 3mm steel so for Starship (and Cybertruck). Super Heavy looks to be 4mm steel. Passed the cryo tests. Likely going to blow it to find the...

It's a test tank for thinner steel with a new alloy, and whatever design changes came along with that.

Data compression is darn useful and we can assume ET would use it. Unfortunately it also turns the data stream into random noise. The better the...

A couple of weeks ago a great aunt broke her arm and at night mom has been taken care of her. Last Wednesday they found the sister to that great...

People have been fusing dishes for a long time before they called it fusion. When new foods came form the new world to Europe people eventually...

Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 18 Jan – 24 Jan 2021 ...

Yes, there are a lot of stories about how Chicken Tikka Masala (and Madras and Balti dishes) originated in the UK. I used to eat regularly in a...

Yes. That was my point.

Is this tank design for the bottom of the first stage? Or is it a new design for the SN-xx rockets?

Turkey dinner, once and while mom likes to cook a bird up.

A wealthy fairly young couple from Vancouver took a private plane to the Yukon and posed as hotel employees to get the vaccine ahead of time. They...

When we're considering the question of why we haven't heard from them, the possibility that we might not recognise their signal does matter. Because...

Both your statement and mine are true. We have in fact tried METI. It wasn't a comparison to any other activity. A lot of things are...

A link to a list of three paper titles using the phrase, "Destroyer(s) of Worlds" to hype their reads. ...

The abbreviation for Helium II reads as "He II", or "HeII" when rammed together. This allows you to get titles for papers on detecting He II in...

This comment is true. Here are only a few examples. ===================== Is the Spectrum of Gravitational Waves the "Holy Grail" of Inflation?...

Up till now, we've put a lot more effort and resources into SETI than into METI. Maybe we will and maybe we won't. Conceivably future...

I have been told anecdotally, that Chicken Tikka Masala is not native to India and may in fact be a UK creation; just as Chow Mein and Fortune...

No, we've sent transmissions ourselves, and as our technological capacity, resources and energy budget increase as we move out into the Solar System,...

I have heard that a purely random signal would attract great attention.

What would make a powerful transmission "clearly non-natural"? Natural radio emissions from astronomical objects can be powerful too, after all. ...

Oh, and it would have no international partners. Sure, international partners are a good thing for a symbol of international cooperation, but it...

It will be interesting to see, starting with whether it gets done. Its scope isn’t the same as the ISS, transport is cheaper, technology is newer,...

Tom Cruise and director Doug Limon will not be on the commercial Crew Dragon AX-1 mission to ISS. Currently scheduled for January, 2022. ...

Britain has an Indian history, explaining the popularity, like Gin and Tonic, I believe Chicken Tikka Masala out numbers fish and chips per day in...