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@histoire3 no no thatβs fucking garbage
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Cope roundie
@histoire3 @silas yeah. I mean, I live in Europe myself and being an engineer I can see how round logs are just better durability-wise. But then, considering how many standards we have in Europe.... Ya know... π€£
BTW, I recently replaced all my sockets with UNEL ones - they cover most of the plugs
Yeah I need a lot of power.
No it's none of your business what I need it for...
No it's none of your business what I need it for...
@cjd @silas @ThatCrazyDude @histoire3 haarp?
> haarp
Need one of these for that
Need one of these for that
@cjd @bonifartius @silas @histoire3 HARP - need even longer barrel and more propellant lol
IDK what that is but I'll take 2
@cjd @bonifartius @silas @histoire3 that was a DARPA (I think) project aiming to whip up a gun capable of sending a projectile to the goddamn orbit
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7There are so many problems out there that look harder than just scaling a T.T. Brown thruster...
@ThatCrazyDude @cjd @silas @histoire3 didn't some middle eastern country have had a project for this?
@bonifartius @cjd @silas @histoire3 yeah, if memory serves, Saddam was building something like that. And of course the Nazi Germany tried to build a gun to shell London on a cheap, but that apparently didn't go much past the prototype stage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
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Germany did build their gun but it got raided pretty much immediately after normandy and put out of commission.
The engineer from the original HAARP project (Canadian I think) was pissed about it being cancelled and went looking for a new sponsor. Saddam was the only one interested so he agreed to build him a super-artillery gun as an alternative to SCUDs in exchange for Saddam financing his satellite launch device.
He got as far as designing and manufacturing barrel segments while working out of the netherlands before he got killed by totally-not-the-israelis-thats-a-hecking-conspiracy-theory-goy!.
The barrel segments were shipped to Iraq as oil production equipment but got intercepted and seized. And that was the end of the program.
The engineer from the original HAARP project (Canadian I think) was pissed about it being cancelled and went looking for a new sponsor. Saddam was the only one interested so he agreed to build him a super-artillery gun as an alternative to SCUDs in exchange for Saddam financing his satellite launch device.
He got as far as designing and manufacturing barrel segments while working out of the netherlands before he got killed by totally-not-the-israelis-thats-a-hecking-conspiracy-theory-goy!.
The barrel segments were shipped to Iraq as oil production equipment but got intercepted and seized. And that was the end of the program.
Speaking of conspiracy theories I genuinely think space is being kept artificially expensive to limit access. Other simpler and cheaper launch options like rocketoons, air launches and cannon launches either get defunded early or only get used for side-projects like satellite killer missiles or space tourism.
> rocketoons, air launches and cannon launches
All of that stuff doesn't work as well as you'd think, because you have to not just go UP a whole bunch, but you also have to accelerate to <insane speed> in order to get into an actual orbit so you won't just fall right back down.
An air launch from like the highest that a jet can fly reduces the rocket requirement by something like 5%, and in exchange for a lot more complexity.
Reactionless thrusters change the game though, and those probably have been suppressed...
All of that stuff doesn't work as well as you'd think, because you have to not just go UP a whole bunch, but you also have to accelerate to <insane speed> in order to get into an actual orbit so you won't just fall right back down.
An air launch from like the highest that a jet can fly reduces the rocket requirement by something like 5%, and in exchange for a lot more complexity.
Reactionless thrusters change the game though, and those probably have been suppressed...
Rocketoons are low speed, and can get you halfway to the karman line. Air resistance at 50km is a few percent of what it is at sea level, essentially it cuts out the entire first stage at the expense of making the launch much longer (no use for military applications, but fine for civil ones which make up the majority of launches). They are being increasingly used for sounding rockets and microsatellites. I strongly suspect they're an overlooked research direction.
Aircraft launches don't save *as* much but they're much more reusable than other first stage options.
Overall just from reading the development process for the shuttle it's pretty obvious that the mil-industrial complex can happily head down blind alleys for decades before they eventually correct. At the moment they're mostly centered on multi-stage solid fuel rockets but I'm not in the slightest convinced that's the best possible solution.
Aircraft launches don't save *as* much but they're much more reusable than other first stage options.
Overall just from reading the development process for the shuttle it's pretty obvious that the mil-industrial complex can happily head down blind alleys for decades before they eventually correct. At the moment they're mostly centered on multi-stage solid fuel rockets but I'm not in the slightest convinced that's the best possible solution.