This is cool but it would be extremely awesome if visitors could have a look inside the cockpit.
I've been to several air museums but IMO the Pima Air Museum is the best. Just a fantastic museum which could be even better if there was more opportunity to see the inside of cockpits.
The B 58 Hustler is just a fantastic looking Buck Rogers ship. So is the F 14.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:45 pm
by Merkin
Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:37 am
I've been to several air museums but IMO the Pima Air Museum is the best. Just a fantastic museum which could be even better if there was
Was just there in early January. They had crewmember of a WW2 B17 there giving a talk about flying on them during the war. Fascinating, but I was with my grandkids and they didn't care to hear what he had to say.
My father in law was on a B17 during the war, and only talked about it once.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:43 pm
by 84Cat
Greg, what do you know about this?
Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance
Bezos recently sold $2.4 billion in Amazon stock and, in securities filings, disclosed that he could sell an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in stock over the next 12 months. Although there are no confirmed values, there has been speculation in the launch industry that ULA may be sold for $2 billion to $3 billion.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:13 pm
by 84Cat
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:18 pm
by azgreg
84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:43 pmGreg, what do you know about this?
Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance
Bezos recently sold $2.4 billion in Amazon stock and, in securities filings, disclosed that he could sell an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in stock over the next 12 months. Although there are no confirmed values, there has been speculation in the launch industry that ULA may be sold for $2 billion to $3 billion.
Not a damn thing.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:23 pm
by UAEebs86
84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:43 pm
Greg, what do you know about this?
Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance
Bezos recently sold $2.4 billion in Amazon stock and, in securities filings, disclosed that he could sell an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in stock over the next 12 months. Although there are no confirmed values, there has been speculation in the launch industry that ULA may be sold for $2 billion to $3 billion.
If Blue Origin buys ULA (which is a consortium between Boeing and Lockheed Martin), almost all US launches will be basically Bezos vs. Musk. (until some of the newer/smaller ones like Rocket Lab ramp up)
Not sure I like that.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:33 pm
by 84Cat
I'm not an expert on the space industry but I do know that ULA is uncompetitive at the moment and Boeing is a mess right now. It seems no one else wanted to step up and buy ULA. Of course, the more competition the better
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:14 pm
by azgreg
We make thee "raceway covers" that are on the upper stage of the Falcon 9 (the part that doesn't land). There's three parts to the raceway. One of the parts takes 7 pieces. SpaceX has placed an order that will produce 115 of them a month for the next two years. That's enough for 16 launches a month.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:01 pm
by azgreg
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:11 pm
by 84Cat
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:48 am
by UAEebs86
So that explains why I'm a moron:
Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says
Leaded gas was banned in 1996, but exposure to the poison cost people born before then several IQ points on average, researchers estimated.
Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States, a new study estimates.
The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on people born before 1996 — the year the U.S. banned gas containing lead.
Overall, the researchers from Florida State University and Duke University found, childhood lead exposure cost America an estimated 824 million points, or 2.6 points per person on average.
Certain cohorts were more affected than others. For people born in the 1960s and the 1970s, when leaded gas consumption was skyrocketing, the IQ loss was estimated to be up to 6 points and for some, more than 7 points. Exposure to it came primarily from inhaling auto exhaust.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:56 am
by 84Cat
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:37 pm
by 84Cat
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:56 pm
by azgreg
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:34 pm
by 84Cat
New company trying to go supersonic
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:05 pm
by Merkin
From the comments, this is extremely amazing in itself.
XB-1 uses the J85 engine which was designed in 1954, just 15 years after the first jet powered aircraft ever flew, the Heinkel He 178.
Trillions of cicadas will emerge across several U.S. states this spring in an event one expert dubbed "cicada-geddon." Not only are more cicadas than usual expected this year, but some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that makes them hyper-sexual.
Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives underground and only emerge after 13 or 17 years. This year, two broods of cicadas will emerge: Brood XIX, which comes out every 13 years, will emerge in the Georgia and Southeast, and Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years, will appear in Illinois.
With this convergence, the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen in generations.
In a radical new paper just published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the BES III collaboration just announced that an exotic particle, previously identified as the X(2370), may indeed be the lightest glueball predicted by the Standard Model. Here’s the science of the claim, as well as what it all means.
Re: official science and technology thread
Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 10:19 am
by UAEebs86
UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy can hear almost perfectly after groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes
A British toddler has had her hearing restored after becoming the first person in the world to take part in a pioneering gene therapy trial, in a development that doctors say marks a new era in treating deafness.
Opal Sandy was born unable to hear anything due to auditory neuropathy, a condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain and can be caused by a faulty gene.
But after receiving an infusion containing a working copy of the gene during groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes, the 18-month-old can hear almost perfectly and enjoys playing with toy drums.
Her parents were left “gobsmacked” when they realised she could hear for the first time after the treatment. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Opal’s mother, Jo Sandy, said. “It was … bonkers.”