3269

Earth First!

3270

Planets with breathable atmospheres first! :)

3271

Chris Dodd (“Everyday Astronaut”) had an informal interview with Elon Musk at the SpaceX event. It’s really more of a discussion than an interview.

Elon lays down some heavy duty engineering advice:

  • If the design is taking too long, the design is wrong.
  • “The product errors reflect the organizational errors.
  • “One of the biggest traps for smart engineers is optimizing a thing that shouldn’t exist.”
  • Am I asking the right questions? If I am asking the correct questions, the correct answers will come to you.
  • If someone can explain there is a way to make your design better, this is a gift.
3272

That’s pretty good advice for engineering in general.

3273

Clears we need to smash Mars and Venus together and make Earth 2.

3274

Good idea.

3275

Now that’s the kind of innovative thinking I can get behind.

3276

I’d always thought saying “water ice on Mercury” was like saying “a snowball’s chance in Hell”, but:

3277

Ice on mercury and they discovered it with Arecibo’s radio telescope. Funny, I was just reading commentary on how giant radio telescopes like the Chinese monster that was recently opened to the world have kind of fallen out of favor as a useful tool.

3278

How are you supposed to hear alienz without a giant radio telescope?

3279

Giant speak and spell attached to a cheap phonograph.

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3281

I don’t know how old this is but I found it fun to read

XKCD on orbital speed

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3283

Mark Maimone is a former flight software and mobility subsystem lead on Mars Science Laboratory. He gives an awesome talk about the ins and outs of software engineering for the Curiosity rover on Mars. If you have an interest in embedded systems, autonomous systems, and flight software, check out this talk about introducing C++ to Mars.

3284

On a less technical and intellectual level - I really dig Kate Rubins’s new spacesuit!

3285

Her suit is like camo for space stations.

3286

Yea she’s like a floating head LOL

3287

First all female (there are two of them) spacewalk occuring right now. Live feed on CNN and I’m sure elsewhere.

3288

The mentioned they are installing a battery charger/discharger. I get charging a battery, obviously. Why would you want to discharge one? Disposal?