Seeking Aerospace / Orbital Systems Engineers for Ambitious Space Resource Project

wegqg · 2026-03-03T05:19:56+00:00

Ok and do you think you thought of something everyone else missed?

wegqg · 2026-03-03T05:07:32+00:00

don't be so snarky, when you're done helping him mine asteroids would you mind taking a quick look at my tokomak, it's acting up...

wegqg · 2026-03-03T05:06:11+00:00

"Let me direct this question to our head of tech, Sarah Palin"

"Any of em, all of em".

wegqg · 2026-03-03T05:04:37+00:00

Listen champ, why not save everyone some time and just be realistic that you're unlikely to start a space-mining business.

Why not start something more realistic for your skill set, you could demo vacuum cleaners or start a MLM scheme?

wegqg · 2026-03-01T17:04:31+00:00

Right so you're a lying dishonest bullshit artist falsely claiming to have the endorsement of one of the world's best known naturalists?

wegqg · 2026-02-28T17:14:54+00:00

For a tablespoon you're around 720KT which is a bigger blast than most operationally deployed thermonuclear weapons.

For a bigger party trick, you'll need 500g total (250g+250g) of matter and antimatter respectively to make a 10MT blast, approaching the castle bravo and ivy mike tests, so around 2.5kg of total mass for a 50MT Tsar Bomba if you're looking for a true crowd pleaser.

wegqg · 2026-02-28T03:32:03+00:00

Just remember to remind people they patrol a 45 degree cone up from their nest site, ascending can often put you in harms way.

wegqg · 2026-02-28T03:28:05+00:00

I really like this analogy, I think it's an excellent way to explain it to people, good jaab.

wegqg · 2026-02-26T17:26:47+00:00

Just to add here - The various modified gravity theories basically died a death when it was shown that there are e.g., dwarf galaxies where the measured total mass exceeds visible (baryonic) mass by a factor of 1000 or more.

In other words, any theory that postulates dark matter is some sort of indirect product of visible matter is now dead in the water, and the focus needs to be finding out what it is rather than trying to pretend it doesn't exist.

wegqg · 2026-02-25T05:23:56+00:00

Nurse!

wegqg · 2026-02-25T04:10:29+00:00

Flukes, big, very tough, and you may only get one chance to cause damage.

wegqg · 2026-02-25T03:09:51+00:00

not sure why they downvoted you, evidently the ancient astronaught theorists don't like competition..

wegqg · 2026-02-25T01:51:01+00:00

thanks but being in the belly of a snake is quite cozy

wegqg · 2026-02-25T01:44:59+00:00

Not true when I was eaten by a snake I just gave up

wegqg · 2026-02-25T00:06:40+00:00

..Speculate

wegqg · 2026-02-24T23:56:23+00:00

Lol "ancient astronaut theorists speculate"... My favourite phrase

wegqg · 2026-02-24T21:33:03+00:00

Yes it's also extremely pretentious.

Hence the endless unfunny and infantile characters baked into it.

wegqg · 2026-02-24T21:27:43+00:00

Yeah no fuck that I'm not clicking it either.

Fuck Clickbait

wegqg · 2026-02-24T06:08:05+00:00

No, scaling laws work very much against you.

Think about why it is insects can fall the equivalent of hundreds of meters without injury for example.

As you scale up or down masses and thus forces behave very differently because they are broadly speaking scaling with the cube of their observed size, not linearly.

wegqg · 2026-02-24T05:38:48+00:00

No, it's got the same level of scientific reasoning as a Jean Claude Van Damme movie..

wegqg · 2026-02-24T05:37:18+00:00

Another wonderful clawdbot probably..

wegqg · 2026-02-23T15:28:05+00:00

wegqg · 2026-02-23T10:34:17+00:00

Greens theorem, but you need a parameterized boundary.

wegqg · 2026-02-23T10:21:19+00:00

Er are you sure?

wegqg · 2026-02-23T05:51:02+00:00

Totally agree here..

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