long story… having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in 2021… finally happy […]
perfect start perfect skydiver-flight perfect landing small fire no “unscheduled rapid disassembly” aka “BocaChicaBoomBoom” 15h later… still standing!!! congratulationzzzz! so it is official: the Starship has landed…. intact in one piece. CONGRATULATIONZZZZ!🥳🥳🥳 Next stop: Low Earth Orbit 🙂 in order […]
direct link to Video: https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Ingenuitiy-first-flying-vehicle-on-Mars-2021-04-21.mp4 (for some buggy reason Diaspora or the WP Diaspora plugin is unable to include the video or properly link to it) full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KolyCqICI it is the first time, mankind has flown a vehicle on […]
update: NASA awards SpaceX with MoonLander contract building rockets is hard building BIG rockets is harder building BIG REUSABLE rockets is even harder what is currently called “StarShip” is actually only the upper (2nd) stage what will be the full […]
“Linux has made it to Mars” “The Red Planet runs on Linux” (src: theverge.com) just hope the #Perseverence Mars rover ain’t running Windows 🙈 (then it is lost already X-D) it will start a flight in the next 2-3 months […]
Sept. 17, 2020 scroll down for English: Wenn wir den Mond am Nachthimmel sehen, sieht er so alt aus, dass er schon immer da war. Aber wie hat sich der Mond ursprünglich gebildet? Die Erkenntnisse aus einem neuen NASA-MondGesteins Studie […]
because of unprofessional journalism (no sources given to the origin of the pictures) it is not clear if those pictures are real pictures taken by a space probe and send back to earth or some CGI 3D renderings! SHAME ON […]
https://youtu.be/smK9dgdTl40?t=2059 “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you […]
Almost 10 years after it’s release – Mass Effect 2 grafix are still pretty pretty 🙂 the Mass Effect 2 setup was not working. When one inserts DVD2 and hits “retry” nothing happens. “simply copy all the files from the […]
“God has given mankind a stage – how the story ends – is up to you” … with the first pogo free Saturn V. “THE PERILS OF POGO” by Werner von Braun: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/ch-3-5.html
https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/ Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Left to right, are Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtgeschwindigkeit 1.080.000.000 km/h Eine Milliarden km pro Stunde 25.920.000.000 km / day in Worten 25 Milliarden km pro Tag 181.440.000.000 km / week in Worten: 181 Milliarden km pro Woche 5.443.200.000.000 km / month in Worten 5 Billionen km pro […]
Will StarLink be sufficiently protected against “solar storms”? aka “space weather”? it is important to ask those “what if” questions and at least exercise it and prepare somehow. quick answer: depends on the magnitude of the event Carrington 1859 size […]
important factors: shielding radiation: it is very important for long term survival of humans on any planet or in space to properly shield against radiation a thick atmosphere preferably with oxygen a magnetic field (artificial or by-iron-planet-core) to long-term colonize […]
how can everyone help? Musk: talk about it! 🙂 spread the news! set the focus! cognitive disconnectedness between governments and science: the non-sustainability mess Let’s face it… the fossil fuel powered steam engine economy … once started… is very hard […]
how can everyone help build the city on Mars? Musk: talk about it! 🙂 write about it! spread the news! set the focus of the discussion! computer rendering of SpaceShip 2020-12: SpaceShip SN8 takeoff! (landing did not go so smooth) […]
Why is quantum computing important: optimization Update: Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy The tech giant unveiled its x-quantum computer chip Bristlecone in March 2018 (src: cnet) original nasa paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082Lc-kdD/view book: https://deepai.org/machine-learning/researcher/eleanor-g-rieffel https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Introduction-Engineering-Computation/dp/0262015064 Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ! […]
multiple problems: distance, temperature, water, funding the discovery of exoplanets many light years away means: we shall take good care of our blue planet and share it peacefully and instead of putting all efforts into destroying each other and all […]
a (ever mutating Corona)Virus is the smallest possible threat to mankind… the literary biggest threat are: asteroids / meteors as the user might now, there is NOTHING absolutely NOTHING the Galliers feared, except that… the heaven could fall on their […]
NASA wants to return to the Moon with Humans For the first time in over 10 years, we have money in @NASA’s budget request for a return to the Moon with human-rated landers. #Moon2Mars pic.twitter.com/x7cR1nRyzA — Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) March […]
as far as i understood the “string theory” and also Einstein’s Theory is that on the smallest building blocks Matter = is actually = Energy, in “string theory” this energy is resembled as a vibrating string, if it vibrates in […]
Soyuz MS-18 launch marks 60 years of human spaceflight how can everyone help build the city on Mars? Musk: talk about it! 🙂 write about it! spread the news! set the focus of the discussion! short story: inside the […]
How many arms does our Galaxy have? 2x major 2x minor = 4 Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and colour […]
Our solar System: including orbits 40 light years away… Despite the very unsexy name – “TRAP“-IST-1e and the other TRAPPIST-1 planets released in 2018 determined that the planet is one of the most Earth-like worlds (ever) found It is […]
update: The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight)[1] mission is a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.[1][11][12] by Lockheed Martin, managed by NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most payload instruments […]
Problems with Mars missions: Radiation, Solar Flares, Meteoroids and Dust Storms “it receives occasional lethal blasts that occur with strong solar flares” (src) who cares we gotta go there – Mars might be mankind’s only hope for survival in the […]
these are all challenges that need to be overcome… and they can be overcome… with “good enough” energy storage systems. how can everyone help build the city on Mars? Musk: talk about it! 🙂 write about it! spread the news! […]
due to the lack of magnetic field solar radiation is said to have nocked away most of Mars’ water… (every drop of water instantly either freezes or vaporates) – there seems to be “enough” water in frozen form that just […]
src: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4y1WDl-WP8 The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.[1] Estimates of the length of one orbit range from […]
Strange Cigar Shaped visitor Asteroid Oumuamua and ice clouds “the first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems.” (src: NASA) Scientists conclude that interstellar object […]