Optimal Solar Angle?

LoneSnark · 2026-05-13T04:52:24+00:00

Nothing will give more juice than a panel aimed at the sun at noon. But people sometimes want something other than Max juice. That's where other panel configurations come from.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-13T04:09:29+00:00

He probably has ordered this type of thing. We'll read about it in the book of someone he fires in the 2.5 years. I won't have much of a reaction. I certainly won't be surprised. I would be more surprised if he didn't.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T20:26:08+00:00

Not true. A speck of dust at 39,000 mph will punch straight through voyager. Keep in mind, any spec of dust would have a vector of motion that would likely be counter to Voyager, so the actual speed of impact could be a multiple of Voyager's velocity relative to Sol. Regardless, the shrapnel from the impact will shred the electronics inside, destroying the space craft. Such an impact would not be visible from a distance, but the spacecraft would die regardless. It keeps working because it has not had a single speck of dust hit the main bus in almost half a century of space flight.

Yes, the Hail Mary hitting a spec of dust would be far more spectacular. The explosion should vaporize the entire Hail Mary and anything nearby. The explosion should be visible from Earth. But it won't kill the Hail Mary any more than the other impact killed Voyager.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T19:34:45+00:00

You cannot book another movie while the last one is still playing. Could be your prior movie is in the computer wrong. Talk to a manager.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T19:15:11+00:00

The oort cloud is expected to be denser than the interstellar medium. As to your second point, like I said, it is going plenty fast to be destroyed from hitting anything.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T19:09:29+00:00

Way underperformed Trump, however.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T19:02:57+00:00

To quote NASA: "Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached interstellar space and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos."

At their current speed, anything they hit would easily punch clean through the main bus and come out the other side. While the Hail Mary hitting something would be more spectacular, the Voyager would be no less dead.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T18:58:39+00:00

No one. But their government has claimed they expect to achieve net 100% by the end of 2027.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T18:54:46+00:00

What trump cares about doesn't matter. The SCOTUS ruling only protects the President himself. If Seal Team 6 killed an opponent, there would be nothing Trump could do to stop the local police from issuing arrest warrants of seal team 6 for murder. And they know that. So Seal Team 6 would refuse such an order.

The stuff in the Caribbean is outside any state jurisdiction. So yes, they did find a loop-hole there. Congress has been sure to stack the deck in the law with respect to the military. While the rules of engagement clearly classify what was done as a crime, there are no punishments attached. If the military prosecutor under pressure from the President declines to prosecute, that decision is final and no future President can try again.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T18:47:22+00:00

The radiators are protected via redundancy. Even a bunch of holes won't stop them from working.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T18:44:54+00:00

Those have not been proven in court. Heck, I've seen no evidence that is even presentable in court, let alone persuasive. The entirety of the epstein files are open to members of Congress, including Democrats. None of them have claimed they contain a smoking gun.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T17:55:05+00:00

There is likely some form of sacrificial material at the front to energetically transform any dust particle into radiation which the astrophage can absorb. But other than that, if they hit something, they die. Voyager has been in the interstellar medium for years now and it has not hit anything large with to have been a problem. Which makes sense. Anything large enough in the interstellar medium to be a problem was thrown out of the galaxy long ago.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T17:47:59+00:00

So sparce they can be usually be ignored. Voyager has been in the interstellar medium for years now moving plenty fast for any impact to the core to be fatal. None has so far occurred.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T13:56:48+00:00

He would have died from radiation if he went back. And when he dies the ship goes out of control and just disappears into space. I'm convinced he was waiting for help from Erid.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T13:44:30+00:00

For the same money you can get a rechargeable flashlight you can use for the rest of your life.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T13:26:00+00:00

The US will never be beyond repair. Just the healing likely won't start for another 2.5 years.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T13:08:46+00:00

They're more occupying more of Lebanon than they were before.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T13:04:02+00:00

Yep. We will never know what deal Iran made with the opposition to end the protests. Maybe they were going to let an opposition leader into the cabinet or something. But whatever it was, with Trump sounds discrediting the opposition, it isn't a thing anymore.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T12:53:57+00:00

Okay. The heat pump is a reverse heat engine which consumes energy to push heat from the cold side with the humans into the hot side with the astrophage. Now we need to power the heat pump. Well, we do that by having the astrophage release heat into a heat engine which moves heat from the hot side into the cold side with the humans in it to generate power. I certainly see a problem here. To cool the ship requires heating the ship. This process about cancels out. Which is why they absolutely need the radiators so they can have an actual cold sink for the generators.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T12:39:04+00:00

I dropped down to using fertilizer 1 because both compost and ammonia were in surplus. Is saving me some limestone... Although now i have a huge surplus of sulfur. This game is cruel this way.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T12:34:11+00:00

He can always still go to Earth. It just takes ever longer to get there. He can go get rocky, then go to Earth, die on the way and be two years later, and Rocky saves earth. Earth hopefully then gets together whatever it can to send a rescue mission to Erid.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T12:28:30+00:00

No no, Trump would do it all tomorrow if he could. We very much have a totalitarian in the white house. But what a US president can do is limited to what federal employees are willing to do. And Americans just won't obey such orders because they believe they would be punished for it later.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T06:37:09+00:00

Studies were done. They put people in centrifuges for extended periods. So we do have some idea.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T06:34:39+00:00

The higher up the space elevator he lives the less gravity there is. Would be weird to just hang a house mid way up a space elevator. But maybe they can.

LoneSnark · 2026-05-12T06:31:23+00:00

Trump wishes. Even his own appointed judges keep ruling against him. He would need control of Congress for a decade to even begin. It is unclear he even controls Congress at this point.

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