/pol/ - Politically Incorrect

Landspace ZQ-3, one of China's F9 clones, being assembed. Next to it is a ZQ-2 also being assembled

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/

good launch tracker

also; never forget the astro tomboys

>>13587089

The goal of humanity must be to rape the universe

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>>13587089

Why is NASA so jewish all of a sudden?

>>13587401

based.

The aliens are antisemitic and that's why they won't talk to us.

At least the timing hasn't been bad regarding launches. Just Jeff's flying dildo.

space is fake n ghey

Forget Mars, seed Venus CO2 with GMO Algae then STAND BACK! :)

Venus has polar regions colder than Earth at about right pressure. With high concentration of CO2, plants wont need outside water and could probably get all the water they need by cracking O2 off CO2 and maybe that Sulfuric Acid rain.

They say if all offspring of two house flies survived in 6 months the Earth would be covered with flies 60ft deep. Those are the type of numbers possible with Venus.

The Jewish fake science guy Carl Sagan said Algae on Venus wouldn't terraform it because as soon as O2 happens it will burn the hydro-carbons due to pressure and heat. Yeah, maybe some but I'm pretty sure deposits would start forming and "life would find a way".

All we need is a few small Seeders and the right types of Algae.

Days on Venus last about 1 Earth year, but many Earth life forms also run on 1 year cycle.

Its almost like Venus was designed to support life, with just a kick off to get the snowball rolling.

for me it has to be the LM

>>13591249

first it would be covered in 400ft of rotting Algae (think "low tide") but with also strong odor of rotten eggs from the Sulfur of the Sulfuric Acid rain.

Then send it the worms, which without predators will grow to fantastic size and vigor, and turn cannibalistic. Literal "living mountains" of worms.

>>13591892

Good evening svensk anon.

First time in this general frens. What nations are the best at manufacturing satellites? What nations are the best at manufacturing rocketry?

>>13591916

In terms of number of orbital launches, number of payloads launched to orbit, and total payload mass launched to orbit, the US is the leader by far. This is mainly due to SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Starlink

Number 2 is China, mainly due to CASC.

Number 3 is Russia with Roscosmos

European Ariane 5 was retired in 2023 and Vega C was grounded due to a second stage failure in 2022, however Europe is now getting back in the launch game with Ariane 6 and a fixed Vega C

In terms of launch technology, the US is also number 1. They have an operational partially reusable launch system (SpaceX's Falcon 9) which, unlike the Space Shuttle, seems to actually save money. US engine technology is arguably the most advanced (e.g SpaceX's Raptor and Blue Origin's BE-4). There are companies in other countries working hard to develop similar technology (especially in China), but they have yet to deploy it

>>13592058

Thanks anon, interesting stuff. What about the UK? I know they were trying to launch their own satellites, don't they make a lot of satellites?

>>13587089

The only reason the US is lagging behind China and others in Spaceflight and science is because of the trillions we give to Israel with nothing in return. Why are we sinking so much money into this tarpit? The Israeli's are all retarded and can barely operate the tools we give them. The libs are right to try and divest from Israel, it's a waste of time and money.

>>13592660

Not a nothingburger, they're checking the data. I think they're confident the data is accurate from the James Webb telescope but they have to check. If it is accurate then it could mean from our current understanding, that there is marine phytoplankton on K2-18b. Which would mean that there is strong evidence of life beyond our own planet. They have already found evidence for methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of K2-18b before but now they also picked up DMS/DMDS(dimethyl sulfide/dimethyl disulfide) which is produced by phytoplankton here on Earth. This bit is straight from the University of Cambridge article I'm pulling from.

>The observations have reached the ‘three-sigma’ level of statistical significance – meaning there is a 0.3% probability that they occurred by chance. To reach the accepted classification for scientific discovery, the observations would have to cross the five-sigma threshold, meaning there would be below a 0.00006% probability they occurred by chance.

Once solar exploration really kicks off we will more than likely find microbial life in our solar system, microbial life that we can see with our own eyes under a microscope rather than through gasses gained through a telescope. Microbial life beyond Earth is highly likely, the real question is there intelligent life?

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>>13589359

Looks like I broke the bot almost immediately.

>>13589359← you are here

>>13593401

DARPA has been working on blimps for awhile now. I remember talk about the upper atmosphere bacteria idea as early as 2000.

>>13592687

I'm hoping to push some emotional buttons so that we don't stay complacent. I think the United States is still marginally ahead in Space and there is healthy competition with Chinese.

I do think we overspend our defense budget on Israel for increasingly diminishing returns. I think everyone here would like more funding for spaceflight development and I think we could take a look at inefficient spending on Israel as a source for it. Spaceflight spending has always returned massively on the investment and is one of the only things that makes America look good internationally.

>>13597263

ZQ-3 actually has quite significant differences to Falcon 9. For example:

> Methane-oxygen propellant

> Steel propellant tanks

> Bigger diameter and lower fineness ratio

> Hybrid vertical-horizontal integration (judging by pic 1)

There are other Chinese F9 clones under development which are much more similar to the original F9. For example, Space Pioneer's TL-3 is almost a carbon copy of F9 (pic 2)

China could build a giant Electro-Magnetic Space Cannon sloping(pardon pun) 45deg down from peak of Mt Everest and pointing West, thus the base would be toward East and into Red Chinese territory. Pointing West would use Earth's rotation to gain speed for orbit.

Make it about 10 miles long so its also about 2 miles below Sea Level at very base, which should be plenty to allow payloads to be flung with reasonable Gs. 2 miles below Sea Level might be a bit warm, but you can draw nice cold, clean air from the peak of Mt Everest.

Fling the loads in standard Space Shipping Containers to about Mach 20. Even at that height, less than airliners, air is pretty dense, so combine it with a vacuum tunnel created by firing massive lasers. With a little skill you should be able to create very low density pocket just ahead of the Plug. Similar to Radiation Therapy, it could be many lasers from diff directions intersecting where you want the action to happen.

You could also have powerful lasers shooting up the Plug's ass, to help boost the output of its rocket boosters to far beyond limits of mere chemical reaction.

Other crazy sounding but actually viable ways to get lots of weight at least up past the tough lower atmosphere could include balloons and/or kites. Just at least haul the rocket up about 60 miles to the "edge of Space", then fire, and again maybe augment its thrusters with powerful lasers.

Did I mention the Chinese are very proud of having 1000s of years experience with both balloons and kites?

IMO less practical ideas include Tether Balling an orbiting object to Earth via some sort of Super Cable made out of super-shit. Wouldn't tethering it automatically "freeze" its tendency to stay in orbit, and thus every load would tend to pull it down, as would any wind on the Cable? Anyways, sounds like it could get fucked up and once that happens no saving it. I guess you could have maybe Atomic Rockets on the object to control it. Still sounds like a mega-project begging to REKT itself and once REKT no fixing nothing, and starting from scratch. Balloons & Kites are low cost, low risk, and at least you can wrench on a land based Super Space Gun, even if its up in the high mountains or underground.