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General Discussion / Re: Eclipse 2024
« Last post by Obviousman on April 08, 2024, 08:29:44 PM »How was it in Texas? I want to see if 'The Curse of Bob' still holds.
Traveled to Texas to join an event hosted by alma mater’s space physics department. Currently the weather is pretty bad and looks pretty bad tomorrow. We’ll see. Would be content with a hazy view through breaks in the thicker stuff. The upside is that the location has real bathrooms.
I had hoped to travel to Texas (I'm a member of the Planetary Society, and they're having a big do at a location there), or at least Niagara Falls, ON (specifically Niagara-on-the-Lake), but my wife is completely uninterested. Will have to make do with the partial here in Mississauga, or watch online. Forecast for Mississauga right now is a mix of sun and cloud.We got a last-minute hotel stay in Niagara Falls (Canada) on Monday night, and _not_ for the 4x they're charging (for Sunday night?). So we are now planning to go early Monday, watch the eclipse, and then stay overnight. I am really looking forward to this, seeing an eclipse has been on my bucket list for a long time.
Yes, that is literally how most rocket stages work. How much space does he imagine the lines and everything else take up when compared to the volume of fuel?
Reminds me of some of the loudmouths saying that Starship was nothing more than a mockup because "it's just a hollow shell". These people seem to get their ideas of what "real spacecraft" are like from Star Wars, like they're supposed to be full of random bits of machinery and some little fuel tanks stuffed in some corner.
Yes, that is literally how most rocket stages work. How much space does he imagine the lines and everything else take up when compared to the volume of fuel?
Reminds me of some of the loudmouths saying that Starship was nothing more than a mockup because "it's just a hollow shell". These people seem to get their ideas of what "real spacecraft" are like from Star Wars, like they're supposed to be full of random bits of machinery and some little fuel tanks stuffed in some corner.