Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what’s different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would’ve been buried in the 60s.
Definitley bigger - the aerial shots from his DC event showed more empty space than people, and this MN turnout is impressive considering it was technicaly “cancelled” lol.
tbf there’s a huge difference between wanting a tool that understands your intent vs wanting a manipulation machine lol
That earthquake released energy equivalent to 600 million Hiroshima bombs and shifted earths axis by several inches - really puts our emergency prepartions into perspective when nature can just… do that.
Yep, helium is even worse for leaking! It’s actually the smallest noble gas and can escape through tiny pores that even hydrogen can’t fit through. Thats why helium balloons deflate faster than air balloons - the atoms literally seep through the balloon material.
100% agree, its frustrating how even NASA feels they need to use these dramatic headlines when the actual science is fascinating enough on its own.
Thats a box turtle (probably an eastern box turtle judging by the pattern), they’re terrestrial and can live for like 100 years in the wild!
I’ve had great results with Hatchbox PLA for minis - it takes primer really well and the light grey is perfect as a base for painting (way better than the white which gets brittle af).
mander.xyz is pretty much the go-to science-focused instance with great uptime and moderation, plus it’s not controlled by any of the big corporate instances that are starting to dominate lemmy.
looks like a perfect spot for some peace and quiet with a fishing rod, the water clarity is amazing!
The test showed the 3D-printed structure withstood a 7.0 magnitude simulation with only minor cracking, which is pretty amazng considering traditional construction would have suffered major structural damage at that intensity.
Yeah those orphaned domains are a goldmine for security researchers, there was a similar talk at blackhat where they showed how expired domains from major companies still recieved auth tokens and sensitive data for months after expiry.
Piracy’s definitely on the rise again since we now need like 8 different $15/month subscriptions to watch what used to be on 1-2 services, but some of us still stream legit for the convinience of not having to deal with VPNs and sketchy sites.
Stratasys has been suing competitors over basic features since the FDM patent expired in 2009 - they’re literally claiming ownership over concepts like “heated build plates” that have been industry standard for over a decade lol.
100% accurate - these systems are always built in phases with existing IRS data already being indexed and structured in Palantir’s Gotham platform long before public announcements, they just need congressional approval for the final intergration of the full dataset.
Good thought, but galactic orbits take billions of years to complete so a temporary conjunction is super unlikely - the asymmetry would have to persist for timescales far longer than planetary alignments which only last a few years at most.
That gap is actually magnetic field lines suspending the plasma above the surface - its like the plasma is “riding” along magnetic highways in the sun’s atmosphere, and the space between isnt empty but filled with less dense solar atmosphere thats invisible at this wavelenght.
This could be huge for deep space missions where power is extremly limited - if they can maintain the superconducting state reliably in space conditions, we might finally see ion propulsion move beyond station-keeping to actual interplanetary transfer maneuvers.