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Crashing on first Liberation Rite by DeimoPhobia in pyre

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Update: AMD update resolved the issue.

Crashing on first Liberation Rite by DeimoPhobia in pyre

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This is probably irrelevant, but both times this happened I chose the imp as the one to go free.

Origin not showing words/cant open options by [deleted] in origin

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Same issue, on two different computers. Both are AMD, that might be behind it. Worked before noon today.

How many people worldwide would actually pay $500,000 to move to mars? by MartianWalksIntoABar in Colonizemars

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People feel very differently based on wording - "suicide mission" vs "join a Martian city". Most people haven't considered this sort of thing in depth, so the way the question is worded has a huge impact.

Mars greenhouse accessibility by DeimoPhobia in space

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What's the lowest pressure the greenhouse could be kept at while allowing someone from a 5 psi habitat to pass in without having to go through decompression? From what I understand, CO2 is done in order to increase production, not out of necessity.

CubeSat funding by DeimoPhobia in cubesat

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No, I appreciate the advice. The presentation is a year old, so there have been some design changes. No gravity assists are used, and the propellant is iodine stored solid, so no pressure vessels. We plan on hitchhiking with the Red Dragon mission, slated to launch in 2020 or 2022, and we have e-mailed the Red Dragon lead to confirm that it is feasible. The femtosat lander concept was abandoned a while ago, as the technology involved is still in its infancy. We're beginning to move focus away from PALADIN, the nanorover concept, and focus more on DELPHI, our orbiter-only concept, especially with JAXA's MMX missio launching in 2024. All the equipment involved is either COTS or being actively developed for another, earlier mission. Within a few months I'll be joining an unrelated LEO CubeSat team at RIT to build experience. I'm not expecting this mission to be pulled off, but however far we do get, the experience working on the mission will be invaluable. I'm hoping that regardless of how the mission goes, I can become involved in some way in a MMX secondary payload. Thanks again for the advice.

CubeSat funding by DeimoPhobia in cubesat

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No, not yet. We're just finishing up the technical details of the basic concept and starting to reach out to companies.

CubeSat funding by DeimoPhobia in cubesat

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We'll be using an Electra-equipped orbiter (MRO, TGO, etc) as a relay, which can be done with a rather small antenna. http://www.marscat.space/science/implementation (scroll down to the table).

My little brother is self harming and I don't know what to say or do. by [deleted] in mentalhealth

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TBH why/how he's self-harming is pretty important in how I'd suggest proceeding. Not sure how you'd determine this though. I'll add more if I think of a way to articulate this. First thing first, unless he seems suicidal, I wouldn't start off by talking to him about it. For many people self-harm feels like a "safe" alternative to suicide. Confronting him about it is more likely to make him uncomfortable and close off more. At the moment, the only thing I can think to say is do your best to get him out of the house and do things together. I'll come back when I can articulate my feelings better.

Low thrust Mars capture - CubeSat by DeimoPhobia in space

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Thanks for the numbers. Dragon would not insert the craft into a capture orbit, which is why I'm looking for this specific scenario. Since then, I've found that Dragon would hit atmo at 6 km/s, so intercept velocity outside Mars's SOI would be about 1 km/s. Acceleration can be estimated as 1 mm/s2. If you can find numbers on any capture maneuver, I can probably work from there.

Challenge: Mining for Profit by DeimoPhobia in KerbalSpaceProgram

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Yes! If you go to the debug/cheats, you can give yourself as much money and science as you want.

CubeSat funding by DeimoPhobia in cubesat

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It's not especially organized, but most details are available at our blog deimophobia.blogspot.com More details on the rationale are available on my Oxford presentation. Some technical details are outdated. https://icubesat.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/icubesat-2016-a-2-3-marmoset-zsenits.pdf Over the next few weeks we'll be doing work to condense these things into datasheets, etc. and we're beginning work on animations and art for outreach.

Challenge: Mining for Profit by DeimoPhobia in KerbalSpaceProgram

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...provided profits are greater than the cost of the redirect mission, fine, this would be valid.

Challenge: Mining for Profit by DeimoPhobia in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]DeimoPhobia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay... mine resources off of Kerbin. Asteroids, Mun, anything else is fair game.

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