Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[danielravennest]

I feel a copyright infringement law suit incoming...

The Superman logo is a trademark, not a copyrighted work. As SpaceX is not using it in trade, it is not a violation. This mounting bracket is covered up once the Starship is assembled, and they aren't selling the Starships. If it was painted on the outside of the rocket without getting a license from AT&T (who owns Warner, who owns DC), then they could get in trouble.

Here's a closeup of the stacking crew, giving you an idea how big this rocket is. Starship 2nd stage above, Booster 1st stage below.

 

[Caete]

Starship rocket stacked for the first time in South Texas. This was a "fit check", to make sure the first stage fits on the launch mount, and the second stage fits on the first stage. Both will now go back for pressure and static engine testing before being restacked for launch.

Hmmm seems quite familiar, especially with those white booms...

 

[danielravennest]

Hmmm seems quite familiar, especially with those white booms...

They are incredibly tall boom lifts - 200 ft high with a work platform at the top. And south Texas is very windy.

 

[Noodles]

I may have told this story before, but if someone did, Houston would *know*.

A main purpose of the ISS is microgravity science. As part of that, they installed an "accelerometer mapping system" to measure just how micro the gravity is. For example, if a crew member pushes off one end of a module with 100 pounds of force, since the station is roughly a million pounds, the whole station moves in the other direction at 100 micro-g. The AMS is sensitive to 1 micro-g, ie a one pound force. There's all kinds of background disturbances from crew moving around, the solar arrays pivoting, etc. But a rhythmic oscillation of rising force and tempo would *clearly* stand out in the data. The only way to avoid getting caught would be to do it entirely free-floating in a quiet corner of the station, and there isn't a lot of privacy on-board.

Now, it might have happened anyway, despite the risk of getting caught. But someone would have to have plausible deniability, or it could be a career-ender.

This sounds like a challenge.

Go to space and have sex, but don't very very carefully, so NASA doesn't know.

 

[Noodles]

The Superman logo is a trademark, not a copyrighted work. As SpaceX is not using it in trade, it is not a violation. This mounting bracket is covered up once the Starship is assembled, and they aren't selling the Starships. If it was painted on the outside of the rocket without getting a license from AT&T (who owns Warner, who owns DC), then they could get in trouble.

I mean, what are they going to do, send the Space Police after the rocket? The cop cars certainty won't be fast enough even if there were laws in space.

 

[Free]

I mean, what are they going to do, send the Space Police after the rocket?

More appropriately they would send space lawyers after it. Probably by beaming cease and desist orders through their space laser.

 

[Caete]

They are incredibly tall boom lifts - 200 ft high with a work platform at the top. And south Texas is very windy.

I know what they are. I live in Texas, in walking distance of one of Spacex's offices. I just enjoy how Elon has no real original ideas but reimagines something from the past and throws a lot of money and hype at it. Usually it fails to live up to the hype and the target goals are lowered. There are a few exceptions but usually he over promises and under delivers.

 

[danielravennest]

The cop cars certainty won't be fast enough even if there were laws in space.

There are very much laws in space. The Library of Congress lists 477 titles related that subject

The fundamental one is the UN Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits claiming territory in space, and makes nations responsible for the space activities of their companies and citizens. SpaceX is very much a US company, and they can be sued. It doesn't matter if their rocket happens to be on Mars, they still own it, and their office is here on Earth. Space law partly follows maritime law, which has a long history. Somebody owns a ship, regardless of where it happens to be. The ship's crew remain citizens of whatever country they are from. So astronauts aboard the Space Station remain citizens of their home countries, and the various parts of the Station are the property of whatever country or company owns them.

 

[Caete]

I mean, what are they going to do, send the Space Police after the rocket? The cop cars certainty won't be fast enough even if there were laws in space.

 

[Essence Lumin]

This guy is pouring liquid oxygen into his bbq. Isn't that extremely dangerous? Little kids close by too.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

George Gobel used to be way less careful than this guy.

 

[Caete]

https://virtocean.com/index.html

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

That's right, Curiosity is still up there, doing it's thing!

 

[Free]

Looks like a bit of an oopsie on Branson's rich man barely into space adventure.

Spaceship carrying Richard Branson flew off course [Updated]

Also, an explanation of why Mark "Forger" Stucky left Virgin Galactic.

arstechnica.com

 

[bubblesort]

After being tried and debunked, for at least 300 years, doctors still want to blow smoke up your butt. I'm pretty sure this is a fetish. No serious scientist looks at a weird procedure like this, that medicine studied intensely, for centuries, and says, "I think I have something to add to this body of knowledge!" LOL

There's no way this is real. This has to be one of those joke papers that got submitted to demonstrate how sleazy the academic publishing industry is.

Breathing Through the Rectum Saves Oxygen-Starved Mice and Pigs (Published 2021)

Japanese scientists who studied an unusual method of delivering oxygen in mammals hope to one day try it in people.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Free]

Breathing Through the Rectum Saves Oxygen-Starved Mice and Pigs (Published 2021)

Japanese scientists who studied an unusual method of delivering oxygen in mammals hope to one day try it in people.

www.nytimes.com

Are they...blowing oxygen up our ass?

 

[Free]

Spaceship carrying Richard Branson flew off course [Updated]

Also, an explanation of why Mark "Forger" Stucky left Virgin Galactic.

arstechnica.com

The FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s spaceship after flight deviation

The most misleading statement today was Virgin Galactic's."

arstechnica.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

This is mostly interesting as another blip in internet history. Yahoo/AOL is an independent company again. Well, independent from Verizon. The company that bought it up owns Chucky Cheese, Michaels Craft stores and the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas among other things.

Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition

Private equity firm Apollo is the new owner.

www.theverge.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I am simply amazed that Branson's craft is manually piloted. It's like something from a '50s space opera where Brick Squarejaw's muscles strain as he wrestles his Patrol Scoutship through the asteroid field.