I would love to know what nasa/roscosmos official/unofficial plans are for cooperation breakdown or hostilities regard the ISS
Itās a multi billion dollar thing, nobody would āhope for the bestā and not have SOME kind of plan in place
Even if itās just, evacuate and scuttle
I know the Russians have a gun in the Soyuz, for landing survival purposesā¦ but thatās supposedly not accessible from the interior, and I feel like an impromptu space walk to go get something from the trunk might raise a few eyebrows
I donāt want hostilities, but at that levelā¦ they make plans on plans on plansā¦.
Itās gotta have come up, and probably deserves more than a āhope they stay on their sideā
Iām pretty sure the scientists on the ISS are more focused on doing the science and maintenance that they are there for rather than taking sides in a war the people didnāt want. At least that is what I am hoping for. And yeah from a Scott Manley video a few months ago theyāve had plans for how to deorbit the ISS for several years.
Even when itās no longer serviceable for human occupation, thereās still a whole lot of gear there, that would be god awfully expensive to bring up out of the gravity well. I donāt know if the economics could be made to work, but wouldnāt it be cool to strip it out of most everything (reducing mass) and then strap a couple of really powerful receiver / transmitters on it, then push it out to a parking orbit? Those solar panels are huge, and without needing to power everything thatās currently there, you could use it as a seriously powerful wifi range extender.
Lunar orbit, perhaps?
Weāre going back sooner rather than later.
I read up up lunar, if I remember right, biggest problem is in order to get to the moon, you have to do it āfastā enoughā¦ what with planetary bodies in motion and all
And the ISS likely couldnāt handle a fraction to the acceleration forces needed
You should be able to āgo slowā at it, even a tiny thrust over a significantly long time will get you up to ridiculous speed. You just gotta know where the moonās gonna be when you get to the same spot. After that you just fall into the gravity well, and with a little luck and a whole lotta math, āmissā. After that itās just falling in a circle.
The real challenge is mass. The more mass you have, the much much much more fuel you gotta have. Even on an extreme diet, the ISS is a bit of a porker for a long range journey.
Still, seems such a shame to just junk all that power generation capability.
New Electroboom video! In the video he talks about how a ferrite core can affect the resonance of an LC oscillator, which I believe to be analogous to xSeries implants.
iām thinking the damn thing is likeā¦ somehow busted at this point. i will look into possible fixes soonā¦ it uses a plugin for this and works with stripeā¦ the stripe side seems to be working fine but the plugin has hadā¦ issues.
Iāve had a few nightmares of losing or breaking implants, particularly them breaking thru my skin somehow like a compound bone break
But given that implant stuff occupies a non zero amount of thought / brain spaceā¦ itās understandable that it would eventually find its way into a nightmare made from bits and pieces of thought
i will look into possible fixes soonā¦ it uses a plugin for this and works with stripeā¦ the stripe side seems to be working fine but the plugin has hadā¦ issues.