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Commented on What have the Romans done for us ...?
@132: I think there is a value in doing something once to make sure it works. I don't say: lets keep flying to orbit to see if a human being can still survive for more than a month up there....
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Commented on What have the Romans done for us ...?
There is also stuff like knowing that humans can survive prolonged microgravity. Before Laika or Juri Gagarin there was a lot of controversy whether or not the human physiology was able to deal with zero gravity. Can your heart work,...
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Commented on What have the Romans done for us ...?
Btw. is there any reason beyond a recent anniversary for two space-related posts within a couple of days? One that we may read about in, erm, 2013 or so?...
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Commented on What have the Romans done for us ...?
Miniaturization and lightweight construction far beyond what would have been reasonable to develop for anything that costs less than $20,000 per kg to deploy. A sustained commercial need for high efficiency photovoltaics and incentives to keep improving it. Plus, some...
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Commented on Back to the Moon?
if the US was a feudal state where most of the GDP went on things that were completely useless to the population Take a really hard look around you in the US and think about whether or not the...