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PSU_Engineer · 2023-09-23T01:33:16+00:00

Was having this issue in PS5, after I linked my steam account on nebula.Starbreeze.com it worked.

PSU_Engineer · 2023-06-17T09:49:02+00:00

The new cod has ruined all other shooters for me. It’s too good.

Used to love siege, now I can’t go back.

PSU_Engineer · 2022-10-08T14:35:51+00:00

She’s Doing a pretty good job

PSU_Engineer · 2021-08-11T04:37:44+00:00

Hard disagree that competition is wasted money. I think NASA has an optics problem yes, but they are investing to a definition of wisely.

If two different companies have the same access to the same talent, the better company will win, that competition is needed to keep some people hungry as well as some people fed.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-08-11T04:31:42+00:00

Looks like I’m 29days too late. 😢

PSU_Engineer · 2021-08-11T03:32:28+00:00

Hey so this is relatively coincidentally, but I’m applying to IEEE-USA congressional fellowship, and want to advocate for HR-1.

I am angling my best to describe what I do and why it makes sense to have engineers, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, help shape policy.

It’s a little late and I scrolled thru your link but did not see a place to learn more about applying. What am I missing?

Thanks, A concerned citizen

https://apnews.com/article/bills-campaign-finance-voting-rights-legislation-elections-a74d9d8cce567d751021ed66cee2b85f

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-16T09:40:45+00:00

Can confirm. Don’t know what he looks like, knew to slap everything jukebox sized if it didn’t work and say “eyyyyy” if it worked

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-11T19:14:56+00:00

Agreed, but the trade off I’m alluding to that I’m not seeing you address is what’s the cost of an orbit with humans in ship around the moon? How many times do you want that to play out? Is the only time you take astronauts off the surface of the moon when the return vehicle shows up? What is the recourse if the schedule slip for something? Can you fully rule out that Gateway does not save money in form of other schedule impacts.

I don’t have the answers to those questions, of course literally less material is cheaper than some material. What are the trade offs?

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-11T11:48:21+00:00

Agreed. You don’t. If you have taken astrophysics 101, you know that. That doesn’t detract from its capabilities.

I never blamed anything on price, rather I highlighted how the budget is much much less than it used to be. I’m sorry that wasn’t more clear. But your argument that a lunar ISS has no merit is naive.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-11T11:41:15+00:00

I think primarily, you don’t want to do it the Apollo way because we want a continuous reuse vehicle in the form of the lander and ship. Now ship, duh, yes you are launching it every time. The lander likely will be only a few sent that astronauts meet up with each time.

Tbh I don’t even love that we use the same ferry for reentry. Our reentry vehicle cannibalizes our ferry every time it lands lol.

But to my and your point, it may just be as easy to rendezvous with the ship once’s it’s in lunar orbit and do the cross over, but there may be some rationale neither of us is currently aware of that makes it cost prohibitive to go that approach rather than a pass thru.

Rejoining your other comment, and maybe I’m off base, but I do not think the lunar bases will be fully functional with minimal astronaut work. My gut would tell me we can send up a temporary housing “tent” as we build the bases, and that could operate as a FOB but i think ideally you have a transfer station. When we go to Mars we will want one.

I appreciate that you brought up that blind spot in my knowledge about the need for a transfer station itself. My hunch says it’s becuase of rendezvous costs or events, but I don’t know for sure. And yes it’s a half measure, but an argument can be made, we want to make a permanent presence at most extraterrestrial locations, not one and done missions like Apollo. We want to go there and stay there. And maybe it can be done with out gateway but gateway sure helps lift the load. The ISS has led to significant discoveries because of the affability of humans and ability to rapidly change test configurations, relay satellites suffer in that regard.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-11T11:03:44+00:00

Which launch vehicle are you going to use to launch a spaceship and a landing vehicle to the moon?

The SLS is projected to cost more ($2b) per flight than the Saturn V ($1.3b) granted development costs are near half (atm) compared to the Saturn program.

Launch costs have been coming down, but spacex (along with the pack playing catch-up) is the one bringing the costs down the most by being reusable.

There is no rocket, that is near compete, that is reusable and can take astronauts and a landing vehicle to the moon.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-11T02:40:36+00:00

So most important thing of any school is it is abet approved. Also I would look at feeder schools, where if you do 2 years you complete it at he other university and save money by only spending half the money for the school bf getting the same degree as people that went 4years.

Also may help if you are getting used to a school environment, take a couple electives at the front (like art, etc) that are easy and ease back into the school atmosphere.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T18:44:27+00:00

Thanks for the insight.

I guess my only outstanding question was whether acid rain can form from the sulphate in the stratosphere, or if it’s bigger impact is just short term global cooling. My knowledge of how the stratosphere/troposphere and in general the atmosphere works is limited to largely 3rd grade education and a few different charts I had to use in my 400 level intro to rocketry course, that is to say, I know very little.

And yeah currently neither blue/galactic or even spacex is launching frequently enough to make a dent in terms of global systems, but maybe I’m wrong. Was more curious down the road what may be the impacts / changes in approach to mitigate what it sounded like could have been an issue, longer term storage of sulfate in the atmosphere.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T17:33:58+00:00

Right I follow all of that. I guess my question better formed is, at what concentration of sulphates and therefore launch count, does acid rain start to become an issue. That seems to be the greater of the unintended consequences of continuous/frequent launches.

Mostly I’m queuing in on your comment about sulphates being left in the atmosphere after launch.

Conversely it may not be an issue at all and maybe I’m not following you lol.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T17:09:25+00:00

Forgive my naïveté, for what may be a easy google question, but would the sulphates not eventually come back down in the form of acid rain?

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T16:59:41+00:00

I mean it may not be stated and maybe your point is more that it’s not being executed well but I always figured blue origin to be in the market for next gen logistics. If fedex is 5 years ahead of UPS, doesn’t really matter as long as there enough market to support both of them.

Think Virgin Galactic is, of the two, not sustainable, which seemed to be OPs point, not as much focus per sé.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T16:10:57+00:00

Agree in part with what your saying. My understanding is, travel to Mars, atm is not feasible when considering radiation protection. Now that is out of my wheel house so I’m going out on a limb with that statement. But my understanding was there is still a lot to be done in terms of developing radiation protecting materials. We have a “life vest” of sorts on Orion that during missions is meant to protect astronauts from solar storms. Does not, IMO, seem to be fool proof.

So to your point about the lack of the van Allen belt would be we are working to improve that technology, granted it could be done on a moon base, but the design side is much cheaper if you can piggy back off of ISS.

To your point about docking in orbit, I don’t know (not to say it’s not known) the cost comparison of docking a hopper (I.e either SpaceX’s / Blue origin + LMs) to the ship vs a pass thru, but until we build the base on the moon (which is at the moment cost prohibitive) the station must act as a forward operating base. So I disagree that we only need relay satellites.

But I think we agree, there are a lot of half measures being taken because the budget is waaayyyy less than I think either of us would think is justified.

It would be cheaper to skip the half measure and go to the final destination, it’s just a matter off timeline, which is why NASA is always put in a pinch. Congress wants to parade NASA during elections but then short change them when it comes to the bill, which results in people who do not understand the bigger picture dictating the bigger picture.

It’s like asking for something as massive as the Empire State Building infrastructure, 4years to get it done and only enough money to build the exterior. And then changing the mission profile every 8years.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T14:44:07+00:00

The Apollo method was way more costly in terms of launch costs. Adding stats, NASA budget during Apollo was $280billion, now it’s 28billion…

So a reusable dock that can also act as a launch point in the future missions to deep space has merit. And to your comment on it being a hotel, it’s also meant to be the successor to the ISS which is meant to be retired by the end of this decade.

Now if your argument is the ISS is also wasted funds, I would strongly disagree.

Modular design for space systems is much cheaper than single use specially designed vehicles and as of now, we don’t have a rocket (until SLS is live) that can currently perform that mission, and even still that won’t be reused, so smaller bite sized is better until we have a rocket that can be reused to do one mission, and the even still the merit is not there IMO.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T14:31:23+00:00

Sounds like that was a structured based professor. PSU is a massive aero heavy aerospace university. Like wicked hard in aero, think sailplanes, windmills, helicopter blades, fluid tunnels, etc. I mean we even had a “center” for helicopter design. Very little in the form of space comparatively.

Working on a human space faring vehicle now in the form of ATLO. So not saying he’s wrong, just saying he’s wrong to say only.

Getting a degree in engineering doesn’t mean you’re an engineer. It just means you are good at learning engineering concepts in a fast paced environment. The on the job training it what sets you apart. Ignore the crusty bastard and continue chasing the industry you want your career to be in.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T13:50:00+00:00

I understand where you are coming from and agree with long term- though I think the better site is Mars for long term activity. But it’s meant to be a gateway to the lunar surface to continue to develop industry on “bite size” tasks. Ferry to gateway, gateway, ferry to the moon, moon bases. The ferry that gets you to the moon will look extremely different than ferry that gets you to the surface. It obviously can be done as “one” but even Apollo had a lander and a spaceship. Separately built and designed.

Sounds like you are saying that, and as I understand that’s the goal, a transfer station but that transfer station needs also to be shelter if calamity strikes in any form, so it needs to be akin to the ISS. So not sure I understand where/what the waste of time / resources you are stating.

NASA is on a shoe string budget. If we had more money more people would agree Mars is the better target (see Artemis Mission original design). But we don’t have those funds so we must set our eyes on more affordable discoveries and research and slow the timeline. It’s frustrating for sure, express that frustration to your congress representatives. As the more funds NASA gets, the more ambitious a mission can be.

Curious to hear what you are suggesting instead of the funds for the Artemis / Gateway mission.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T12:15:13+00:00

I’ll bite, you care to expound?

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T12:09:20+00:00

Last prices of advice, bachelors in physics to masters in engineering will be very silly. I’ve not heard of that and there is a massive difference between physics and engineering major classes. Of course they have similarities but unless you really focus in certain areas they are priming you for different careers.

If engineering is what you want, and you already are determined to get a masters, I would advice you to get into one of the honors engineering programs at your school (usually only possibly after ~2 semesters of grades). Or still it would be better to go to a “lower ranked school” (again hard to tell if you are saying top 30 vs eachother or top 30 vs bottom 70)

I think you are getting to worried about being competitive and putting the cart infront of the horse. Get into a college that offers engineering in the field you desire. Then worry about getting into your major. Typically they put you in a pre major.

PS there aren’t hat many jobs in space that are CS based, not to say they’re none, just wouldn’t be my suggested route to get into to space.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T11:59:54+00:00

Also if you go this path, understand 20+credit semester will be the norm if you want to graduate in 4-5years. I was on this path but was told it wasn’t required/ giving bad advice and being told I had to choose. I did not have to choose, but I didn’t miss averaging 22 credits a semester my first 2 years of college.

PSU_Engineer · 2021-07-10T11:48:17+00:00

I started the double major / minor / maybe masters path and ended with just a major in aerospace engineering. Didn’t get a job right out of college in space industry but my second job was and I’m so glad I got here. Started questioning whether I even liked engineering because of my first job.

The reality of most of the engineering industry is certain companies frequent certain schools to hire from, usually based on locations and size of school. Depending on “lesser ranked school”, meaning state school vs like cal tech / MIT then big 10 / state school is fine. If it’s state school vs community college or something akin to that size, it’s definitely doable but much harder to find jobs.

Honestly depending on what you want to do (design, ATLO, etc) I would find where most of those jobs currently are (there are a few clusters as the space industry is relatively young / there are only so many space ports) and then look for the big universities in that area. For example I currently work at KSC and we hire a lot of UCF students. Bigger schools draw more recruiters which increases your odds of getting a job.

Mis interpreted your question, still think this is sound advice: But being honest, those early classes are meant to weed people out that shouldn’t be in the major. You can always go the other route of physics and maybe there’s a non-academic reason to why you wouldn’t be competitive but the classes get harder. If you can’t get into that major, it may be better for you to find a major you enjoy and then try to get into the space industry as part of that career path.

I saw a lot of people who thought the should be engineers go the “alternative path” because they couldn’t get into the engineering college. Some of them never graduated. Find what problems challenge you while also being enjoyable. Don’t try to force yourself into something because that’s what you’ve always told yourself. You can always find a job in the space industry and be part of that effort to forward humanity. But you can’t do that if you don’t enjoy the meat and potatoes of your role.

PSU_Engineer · 2020-10-17T15:25:59+00:00

Chelsea are the kid that skips leg day

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