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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
starkruzr:
Am I the only one who's a little surprised that anthro chassis as indistinguishably human as this new Momo one are actually allowed in the QCverse?
She could be a real girl (as distinct from a RealGirl™) with dyed hair and contacts.
This has Consequences®.
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: Akima on 30 Aug 2011, 05:53 ---
--- Quote from: Boradis on 30 Aug 2011, 01:55 ---When I wrote these articles (the "Beanie Baby Satellite" story) I spoke with rocket scientists routinely. It's not like they're sitting on their butts about things like this. They'd like nothing better than to put up more spacecraft. There's also a lot of money just waiting for someone to find a better way into space, even without there being oil on the Moon or whatever.
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But that's the thing. We don't even have the same capability we had in 1968. There are no Saturn V rockets any more, never mind anything better using modern materials. We've gone backwards in our ability to lift payload into orbit, not forwards, for all the non-butt-sitting your rocket scientists have been doing. That isn't because the technical challenges became any greater, but because of political/managerial decisions.
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The thing is launching a single Saturn V which was, a DISPOSABLE rocket and launched 3 people in cramped conditions to the moon cost after inflation 1.11 Billion US Dollars. That just, isn't feasible unless there is a much better reason for GOING to the moon other than to just go. You can't use it to build anything resembling a permanent structure on the moon, you can't use it to mine the moon. There is just no good reason to go just to go without a much better way to get there.
Is it cold in here?:
You don't irradiate the launch site if the nuclear rocket is an upper stage. I don't have the numbers handy, but I've seen them, and if you put a NERVA-type design on top of a Saturn first stage you get way more mass into orbit.
gopher:
The earlier questions about the timeline reminds me about when JMS was asked about the speed of spaceships in Babylon %. He said that they movec at the "Speed of plot", that is whatever was needed for teh drama. I feel teh QC time moves in a similar way.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: starkruzr on 30 Aug 2011, 11:25 ---Am I the only one who's a little surprised that anthro chassis as indistinguishably human as this new Momo one are actually allowed in the QCverse?
She could be a real girl (as distinct from a RealGirl™) with dyed hair and contacts.
This has Consequences®.
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Actually, no, considering Eve from AppleGeeks has shown up in the strip. She's essentially a home-built APC made from Mac parts, and she does look realistic.
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