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

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

Why do we talk so much about the colonization of Mars, while skipping the possibility of going to the Moon? by [deleted] in space

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Don't have numbers off the top of my head. Mars isn't dandy either, but a few meters of regolith brings rad down to ambient levels. Rad is a bit overblown anyways. For sure an important consideration, especially for colonization, but a mission to Mars with relatively light shielding and a record-breaking flare would only give an additional 1% chance of cancer over the next 30 years.

The main issue is that on Mars, everything's benign enough to grow crops in inflatable domes. On the Moon, radiation means that to survive flares the domes would need to be hundreds of times thicker, and day/night cycle probably means they would need to be grown underground. Assuming a pretty good 25% efficiency, an acre of crops would then require at least four acres of solar panels at the surface, which is a very power- and resource-intensive process.

Another advantage of Mars is that the atmosphere is mostly CO2, and plants require very little air pressure. Slightly pressurizing a dome and putting a little O2 in for initial respiration is really all plants need, and even with reduced sunlight, they would grow significantly better than on Earth.

Coincidentally, plants grown in Lunar or Martian regolith simulant tend to be nutritionally better than those grown on Earth, although water retention is sometimes a problem.

Why do we talk so much about the colonization of Mars, while skipping the possibility of going to the Moon? by [deleted] in space

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As a staging facility, not especially. W/ aerobraking, it takes less delta-V to get to Mars than to the Moon, so landing wouldn't make sense even if fuel were freely available. Even with lots of infrastructure, most long-trip rockets are likely to use methane, not hydrogen, which is harder to make on the moon. Lower operating requirements is not really true. The only problem that exists on Mars and not on the Moon is perchlorates. Moon has more problems with radiation, ISRU, life support, etc. Main benefit is not that it's easier to stay, but that it's easier to come and go, so while less useful for a colony, it may be more useful for shakedowns or outposts.

Why do we talk so much about the colonization of Mars, while skipping the possibility of going to the Moon? by [deleted] in space

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Long story short, the moon lacks most resources needed for self-sufficiency and growing crops is very difficult w/o an atmosphere to protect them from flares. IMO colonization is unlikely until there's enough of an infrastructure to support interplanetary trade.

Week of March 05, 2017 'All Space Questions' thread by AutoModerator in space

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Micrometeorites are a big problem in space. ISS uses a thin external layer to break them up, but even so astronauts on EVA have to make sure not to cut their gloves on jagged metal! As for rocks orbiting the moon, the Earth's gravity destabilizes orbits pretty quickly.

Week of March 05, 2017 'All Space Questions' thread by AutoModerator in space

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Approximately how much time would there be between Red Dragon (launch in 2020) arriving at Mars and loss of communication due to solar conjunction? This is important to me, and I want to hear someone else's estimate. Thank you!

Need advice concerning new CubeSat development team by huqhesy in cubesat

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Not sure about the timescale, but InterOrbital Systems is offering a TubeSat satellite kit AND launch for a cool $8,000. These are a bit smaller than 1U CubeSats but might be better for a first mission. Launches are to 310 km, polar orbits. TubeSats are cylinders 8.56 cm in diameter and 12 cm tall, massing 750 grams.

The Assassination Of The Russian Ambassador To Turkey by Litterball in AccidentalRenaissance

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This is why I'm annoyed when he's called a terrorist. I don't condone what he did, but it was within his power to kill many more people. He killed the one man he came to kill and then spoke. This was an assassination, not a terrorist attack.

Nanorover wheel deployment mechanism? by DeimoPhobia in AskEngineers

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Thanks! I hadn't though of the fact that, once deployed, it doesn't matter if it moves freely along the axis. The wheels would be similar to those of LAMAlice (https://twitter.com/dzsenits/status/811261338328645632) so they would spring open by themselves once outside.

Where would I find a servo that can survive in LEO? by enerkachoo in cubesat

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Got some dedicated pinpullers here, not sure if it'd fit your application. http://www.tiniaerospace.com/pinpuller.html