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- HRogge - 11-17-2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9tm3R ... r_embedded

Our story in 1 minute...

- HRogge - 11-20-2012

http://www.zdnet.com/uk/europe-sets-goa ... 000007675/

- Stephen Mann - 11-21-2012

HRogge Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9tm3R ... r_embedded

Our story in 1 minute...

Very nice, and much too short a time span for such an important story. Besides, I wanted to see more dinosaurs and roman shield walls.

- robkelk - 11-23-2012

Looks like the Lollipop Guild (or their Kiwi cousins) have been busy with an Unreal Estate project...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... ssing.html
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- HRogge - 11-23-2012

Okay, lets turn down the energy for our next wormhole experiment...

http://plus.google.com/photos/10887187 ... 7169250770

- Dartz - 11-26-2012

Asteroid mining

So, creating an oversupply of material, drives down the cost to below economic value. Meanwhile utilisation increases.... hopefully to the point where at the lower price, they can break even.

Hopefully.
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- HRogge - 11-26-2012

Dartz Wrote:Asteroid mining

So, creating an oversupply of material, drives down the cost to below economic value. Meanwhile utilisation increases.... hopefully to the point where at the lower price, they can break even..

Yeah...

Gold would be an incredible useful metal for industrial products, its corrosion resistant, conduct electricity and can be used for quite a few chemical 'reactors'... but at the moment its much too expensive to be used in this way.

- Dartz - 11-26-2012

It does explain why the original New Birmingham mine on Frigga crashed and burned so hard....

They open up pre-war, when the mining boom is just starting to crank up (Like a .comin 1998), an grow big quick because of a lot of investors hopping on, producing massive quantities of high-value precious metals.

The problem is, with so many other sites producing massive quantities og high-value precious metals and global demand so low, the price plummets as demand has not yet caught up with supply. The ones who struck it rich early on in the boom jump ship finding other ways to keep their operations going and diversify into further industries, while a lot of the independants and latecomers crash as they have tons of now near-worthless 'precious' metals that no-one has a demand for, and banks calling in loans that'll now never be repaid because the business model was based on 100,000 dollars a ton, not 100 dollars.

But.... as demand kicks up to match supply and people start to find new and novel uses for cheap 'precious' metals, mines which failed and fell into the hands of madboys/private equity groups/assorted fen suddenly start to become commercially viable again, especially if the accommodation has been 'in-steam' and lived in rather than allowed to decay.

Or something like that. I mean.... I don't know economics. That's just a result of me trying to comprehend he article.
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- firvulag - 11-28-2012

I don't think this site has been mentioned before:

http://exoplanet.eu/

Might be useful for those people doing interstellar exploration.

- HRogge - 11-28-2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510112

Go Skylon, Go!

- LynnInDenver - 12-04-2012

Psst! Wanna create a Senshi uniform, but can't draw and don't have a handle on DAZ Studio or Poser?

http://dolldivine.deviantart.com/art/Sa ... -162640596

(Sadly, it's Flash.)
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

- HRogge - 12-04-2012

http://plus.google.com/116992234810067 ... t9zcbbneo2
What do you mean we are on the wrong moon?

- HRogge - 12-08-2012

[Image: JctwL.jpg]

Finally we got a picture... the antigravity mouse!

- Cobalt Greywalker - 12-08-2012

Well, there's still SOME Warsies left on Earth... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20536090]LINK.

The Warsies OFF Earth really need to get off their clunky-tech thing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510109]Yes, we know you like old skool games, but stop freaking the Mundanes already.

- HRogge - 12-08-2012

The Christmas tree in Lisas lab on Jenga:

http://plus.google.com/photos/10894198 ... 1018829586

- Bob Schroeck - 12-16-2012

http://www.readability.com/read?url=htt ... s-in-space]An interesting article on property rights in space.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

- robkelk - 12-17-2012

The Chinese are better at space exploration than I thought, by Toutatis ...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 12-18-2012

The Register: Shh! Proxima Centauri can hear us!
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- HRogge - 12-19-2012

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp

- robkelk - 12-19-2012

HRogge Wrote:http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp

Let's call the one in the Goldilocks zone "Gallifrey"...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- HRogge - 12-20-2012

http://visual.ly/nearest-stars-earth

- Dartz - 12-21-2012

Watching Gundam Unicorn

Some excellent interior shots of an O'Neill cylinder.

The same could be said for all of UC Gundam, actually. When they're not being dropped on Earth. Considering even the opening to the original series includes images of the inside of a colony with a suspension bridge traversing a massive sun-window.
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- HRogge - 12-23-2012

Asterank is an economic and scientific catalog of over 580,000 asteroids in our solar system.

http://www.asterank.com/3d/

- robkelk - 12-23-2012

HRogge Wrote:Asterank is an economic and scientific catalog of over 580,000 asteroids in our solar system.

http://www.asterank.com/3d/

According to their home page, the second-most-valuable asteroid out there is 164 Eva. Maybe NERV should move...?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- HRogge - 12-23-2012

http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=vFgJ7Hss1VA
Nice to watch but not enough realism in it... but still, I don't regret watching "Evacuating Earth". *G*