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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1442749903675998208?s=19 For "Britain will... launch a rocket into orbit next year" read "Britain will... create tax incentives for Lockheed Martin to relocate existing launches to a proposed site in Shetland".
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Communist Thoughts posted:LOL I did work with the people doing this stuff, at the end an old dude took us aside and admitted it wasn't going to happen and was just a vanity project for an MP this is a relief tbh
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The Big Rocket episode of the old Men from the Ministry radio show: (Audio only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXjl_oiEr30 The civil servants bungle in Britain's space race with a mix-up over Mildred (the departmental secretary). Stars Wilfrid Hyde-White. From November 1962.
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Trickjaw posted:Me first. They probably won't have the fuel, though. Frantically lashing oxygen and hydrogen tanks to the side of my car and piping them into the tank.
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Rustybear posted:For "Britain will... launch a rocket into orbit next year" read "Britain will... create tax incentives for Lockheed Martin to relocate existing launches to a proposed site in Shetland". Note that the only things it makes sense to launch from the Drizzle Archipelago - given the high latitude and very limited range of trajectories you can launch along without risking dropping space junk on Dusseldorf or making nuclear-armed nations very jumpy - are surveillance satellites, and while there are good reasons you'd want a couple of satellites looking down at the poles the vast majority of them will actually be looking down at Poles (and other nationalities) for rather less benign reasons. Even the tiny amount of space launches we've actually done have been from Australia despite the expense of shipping stuff to literally the other side of the planet because of the pointlessness of launching from here. Wait... we're going to ask the Chagos Islanders to take yet another one for the team, aren't we?
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Its unlikely to be military satellites it's mostly earth observation satellites in polar orbits used for legit scientific and commercial interests like monitoring flooding and crop yields and leaf greening and whatnot
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Sep 28, 2021 15:01
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1442723805558882305 Not content with turning the fish gay, we're now turning the eels into ravers.
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Sep 28, 2021 15:03
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eels are good, eels are good
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Julio Cruz posted:eels are good, eels are good Lol nicking this
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Sep 28, 2021 15:04
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Who the hell is Ilsa Goode
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ShredsYouSay posted:Where are they even going to launch the rockets from? The N.I./Scotland tunnel is in fact an elaborately disguised launch tube that will elevate vertically to launch our great vessel into the stars! 
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Sep 28, 2021 15:12
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https://twitter.com/bresh671/status/1442609932268933123 This feels a little too on the nose, even by 2021 standards.
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Dabir posted:Who the hell is Ilsa Goode The protagonist of the female reboot of The Adventures of Ebenezer
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Rustybear posted:Its unlikely to be military satellites it's mostly earth observation satellites in polar orbits used for legit scientific and commercial interests like monitoring flooding and crop yields and leaf greening and whatnot An actual polar orbit is pretty useless for earth science - you still have all the hassle and expense of having no momentum assist from the earth's rotation, plus all the extra EM and radiation shielding you need for something passing over the magnetic poles, but for no advantage in terms of coverage compared to a normal high-inclination orbit. *In theory* the British Isles are at a pretty good latitude for high-inclination orbits - except the trajectory of a rocket launched into one of those orbits would be straight over continental Europe, and while things are at a pretty low ebb with them right now, wait until we start dropping used boosters onto them. Pole-crossing orbits - i.e. the only ones we can launch into without everyone in Bavaria having to buy very strong umbrellas - are useful for actually looking at the poles (which like I say has valid scientific purposes but we don't need *that* many of them) or for military surveillance satellites that need to change planes quickly and cheaply.
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Julio Cruz posted:eels are good, eels are good An actual Good Post from Julio Cruz, truly these are the End Times.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An actual Good Post from Julio Cruz, truly these are the End Times. it had to happen eventually
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Attach rockets to the borders of England and launch it into space, simple as. Thass the brexit i fackin voted fowah.
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Sep 28, 2021 15:20
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lol shes getting roasted and i love it https://twitter.com/cymrurouge/status/1442754860903018498?s=20 https://twitter.com/b11ckchps/status/1442753845784977409?s=20 Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1442749903675998208?s=19 look we're willing to let you do whatever you want within the confines of terf island but i think the international community needs to step in to prevent the spread Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/bresh671/status/1442609932268933123 garbage. bet they were joking about it the whole time
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goddamnedtwisto posted:military surveillance satellites that need to change planes quickly and cheaply.  
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/bresh671/status/1442609932268933123 Are they going to make a Tower Raven pie next?
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1442749903675998208?s=19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPCcpzRaPE I imagine the Johnson V will turn out with equal success.
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/bresh671/status/1442609932268933123 Animals Of Farthing Wood takes an even darker turn.
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Random question of the kind that people in this thread often know the answer to. Do rental car places typically have their own petrol supply on site? I'm meant to pick up a hire car on Friday and will be absolutely stuffed if I get off the train at Newcastle and then get told "soz guv no petrol" (in a Geordie accent)
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/bresh671/status/1442609932268933123 How many hours did I spend playing CK2 and trying to catch that loving thing, and a bunch of Scouse coppers shoot it in five minutes. 
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peanut- posted:Random question of the kind that people in this thread often know the answer to. Do rental car places typically have their own petrol supply on site? I'd be surprised. They always get you to refill the tank before you return it. Can't see that it would make sense for them to invest in the infrastructure necessary to have their own supplies.
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Sep 28, 2021 15:38
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Once again analogue is vastly superior to digital. Actually given the only economic activity on this septic isle is hipsters selling stupid poo poo to each other, I demand we have an ironic retro space programme. Film-based spy satellites, communications satellites that are just big tinfoil balloons we try and bounce radio waves off, retroactively changing the mission of Beagle 2 to say "No actually we meant to crash into the planet".
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peanut- posted:Random question of the kind that people in this thread often know the answer to. Do rental car places typically have their own petrol supply on site? it should be full when you pick it up, since you're meant to return it with a full tank if it's not, make sure to take a picture of the gauge before you leave the site, and make sure that one of their people acknowledges it as such, otherwise you'll be on the hook for topping up the tank for the previous customer
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Going to start the "Labour Friends of Conservatives" to push back at the quite frankly evil comments that Rayner used the other day.
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https://twitter.com/Politics_co_uk/status/1442859514496118789?s=20 Some good news.
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ShredsYouSay posted:Where are they even going to launch the rockets from? Submarines  Boris is going to nuke the moon.
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The rocket launches are going to have the same trajectory as starmer's relaunches. In that the BFWAU is going to blow them up.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An actual polar orbit is pretty useless for earth science - you still have all the hassle and expense of having no momentum assist from the earth's rotation, plus all the extra EM and radiation shielding you need for something passing over the magnetic poles, but for no advantage in terms of coverage compared to a normal high-inclination orbit. I don't think that's what the hypothetical Great British Rocket is intended for, of course.
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This has been quite the conference.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An actual polar orbit is pretty useless for earth science - you still have all the hassle and expense of having no momentum assist from the earth's rotation, plus all the extra EM and radiation shielding you need for something passing over the magnetic poles, but for no advantage in terms of coverage compared to a normal high-inclination orbit. Nobody who uses the term polar orbit colloquially means 'pole-crossing orbit' they mean high-inclination orbit or in the most basic terms passing north-south instead of east-west. More traditional EO work is done from sun-synchronous orbits to reduce the interference from the Sun or at least keep it consistent but a lot is done from polar orbits too. The idea here is there's a lot of development towards small/cube sats which would fly low and fast and use a polar orbit to scan one entire segment of the globe and then repeat for the next segment as the earth rotates. At low altitudes you expect the craft to degrade quickly anyway for a host of reasons and the trade off is that's it cheap and cheerful becasue the payload is <1000kg. You'd in theory launch north over the north Atlantic/Greenland to setup a north->south pass.
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big scary monsters posted:I don't think that's what the hypothetical Great British Rocket is intended for, of course. The Great British Rocket is for putting a loud speaker in the sky that just shouts that you're antisemitic if you suppport redistribution of wealth on the hour every hour. No idea how it works but somehow it does, just like the rest of the antisemitic smear campaign.
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Great British Rocket is actually the new patriotic TV show by the BBC to follow on from the documentary about gary glitter where del boy plays gary glitter and it's a show where contestants have to build rockets to get them to different parts of the world while simon cowlell has a face like a smacked arse and the series finale is when they have to start world war 3.
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Commercially the idea is you bundle up a ton of these small sats into a single launch becasue the cost of lifting 1kg into LEO orbit hasn't progressed that rapidly since the 1960s but the miniaturization of space-qualified hardware has progressed massively. Instead of getting the cost per kilo down you get the capability per kilo up which opens up a ton of use cases that previously couldn't overcome the initial expense of putting a double decker bus into space.
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He could combine two problems into one and build a bridge to northern ireland that is also a giant rail gun for firing poo poo into space and/or the faroe islands.
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Rustybear posted:the initial expense of putting a double decker bus into space.
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