The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[starrmtn001]

Flying jellyfist?

Oh wait.  UFJs.  Got it!

[zeebo]

They remind me of old science educational films about cells. You know, something like Cells: Your Body's Best Friend! 

Mitochondria - Powerhouse of the Cell!

[PrairieGhost]

Flying jellyfist?

Only in Hoagies mind.

[Dr. MD MD]

Mitochondria - Powerhouse of the Cell!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ji4zycScUE

[starrmtn001]

Mitochondria - Powerhouse of the Cell!

And everybody's Mom.

[PrairieGhost]

[starrmtn001]

Great episode!

[PrairieGhost]

[starrmtn001]

So, the moon is made of beeswax and not green cheese?  Bummer.

[zeebo]

Take DD's EM drive, put it in a cubesat, and send it into orbit.  Ok, sounds cool, but, um... why?

[Nobody]

I said commercially viable, numbnutz. The Altair was really only sold to hobbyists and people who already knew about computers.  :

Can you please edit the Wiki article then?  It gives the reader quite a different impression entirely:

The Altair is widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution[5] as the first commercially successful personal computer.

[starrmtn001]

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."  From the book Illusions, by Richard Bach.

[PrairieGhost]

Ancient Aliens make donuts on the moon.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

What about illegal aliens?  In space, are the aliens illegal or are we?  

Heh, heh, heh.   

[Dyna-X]

Take DD's EM drive, put it in a cubesat, and send it into orbit.  Ok, sounds cool, but, um... why?

Could keep the cubesat in orbit indefinitely versus a few weeks.

[zeebo]

Hoagie's gonna go to Pluto in 6 mos., slow down and chill into orbit, easy-peasy no worries bro.

[Dr. MD MD]

Can you please edit the Wiki article then?  It gives the reader quite a different impression entirely:

How about you just provide the sales figures for the Altair compared to the Apple II. Then research if the company that makes them is still in business or not and then if Apple still is. Then maybe you could get a fucking clue. 

P.S. Maybe you should stop relying on Wikipedia as your arbiter of truth.  :

[zeebo]

Could keep the cubesat in orbit indefinitely versus a few weeks.

Like as in providing some kind of propulsion to offset the orbit decay?

[Dyna-X]

Like as in providing some kind of propulsion to offset the orbit decay?

Bingo. To do the moon flight or go to a much higher orbit would require a lot of wattage.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Can you please edit the Wiki article then?  It gives the reader quite a different impression entirely:

The Altair was a kit that required soldering skills. It wasn't "Plug and Play", hence not commercially viable except to a niche group of DIYers.
The Woz put out a complete, ready to use system. 

[CronkitesGhost]

He can't help himself, got through about 2 hours before going full lunatic.

He has a working EM drive, now all he needs to do is glom on to somebody with a cube sat and then folks, up, down, anywhere - we're on to Pluto! Which he now also claims has ruins of a Type II civilization.

[starrmtn001]

The Altair was a kit that required soldering skills. It wasn't "Plug and Play", hence not commercially viable except to a niche group of DIYers.
The Woz put out a complete, ready to use system. 

You're the Loganpedia of all things techy.

[zeebo]

Bingo. To do the moon flight or go to a much higher orbit would require a lot of wattage.

Ah I see.  Are there not however satellites that are just in high enough orbit, going fast enough, that they don't require such extra oomph?

[PrairieGhost]

Hoagie has taken this guys small project and wanting him to do NASA stuff. lol

[Dyna-X]

Ah I see.  Are there not however satellites that are just in high enough orbit, going fast enough, that they don't require such extra oomph?

They all decay no matter the altitude. Extra velocity will just raise the orbit or keep an orbit stable. Even the International Space Station requires a boost every few months.

When you get to altitudes of thousands of miles your cubesat will be up for hundreds to thousands of years. The lower the orbit the faster the decay rate.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Could keep the cubesat in orbit indefinitely versus a few weeks.

That actually wouldn't be very hard to design. CO2 canisters that are commonly used in pellet guns could be used for  thrusters along with a gyro-compass, like is available on Android, for orientation, and an altimeter. A quick one second burst would probably be able to extend the operational time by quite a bit and the canisters wouldn't add much weight at all. 

[starrmtn001]

Beagle Bone?

[CronkitesGhost]

what's the oldest satellite still in operation and orbit and how can it last so long?

[zeebo]

They all decay no matter the altitude. Extra velocity will just raise the orbit or keep an orbit stable. Even the International Space Station requires a boost every few months.

Nice ok thanks for the info.  Considering how much of my modern life depends on these things flying around I really should understand their basic principles better.

[CronkitesGhost]

He's got ONE caller trying to get through but can't but dammit he's going to move heaven and earth to get Amanda's question.  Clown show.