Posted on Jul 9, 2017
China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing
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Yes, they are going to be very peaceful in space. I am sure they are not trying to militarize space or kill our GPS. FYI, for the new breed, I will teach land nav using a lensitic compass for $50 per person in peacetime...and my wartime rate is going to go high, since you will be begging for the classes. (I probably need to get a class on the Plugger GPS system.)
Yes, they are going to be very peaceful in space. I am sure they are not trying to militarize space or kill our GPS. FYI, for the new breed, I will teach land nav using a lensitic compass for $50 per person in peacetime...and my wartime rate is going to go high, since you will be begging for the classes. (I probably need to get a class on the Plugger GPS system.)
China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing
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For Liu Hong, a professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the project's principal architect, said everything needed for human survival had been carefully calculated. "We've designed it so the oxygen (produced by plants at the station) is exactly enough to satisfy the humans, the animals, and the organisms that break down the waste materials," she said.
Famous last words...
Famous last words...
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Semi OT, but there was a recent article about a proposal for US to establish a separate Space Command - as in Space Warfare. I thought we already had that covered so it seems like a naming strategy more than anything else. I guess that's the next battlefield after cyber. Blowing up each other's satellites and space stations? Uber space rides already in the works by several enterprises. Talk of habitating Mars, because we've screwed up Earth. A bottomless money pit.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/07/politics/space-corps-bill-trnd/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/07/politics/space-corps-bill-trnd/index.html
A proposed new military branch would send US troops to guard the galaxy
The crew of real-life Buzz Lightyears is described in the National Defense Authorization Act, which is now headed to the full House for a vote.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
I agree with the bottomless money pit comment. What we really need are space janitors to clean up the space debris. We'd better figure out how to get our communications and GPS from earthbound systems, because if they ever start blowing up satellites and space stations, that part of the space above us is going to be inhabitable for a helluva long time -- and by inhabitable, I mean for both humans and for non-human satellites.
I don't often credit Hollywood with anything besides film-making skills, but I believe the move Gravity would be prescient if something like that ever happened.
I don't often credit Hollywood with anything besides film-making skills, but I believe the move Gravity would be prescient if something like that ever happened.
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If they get the Space Command started maybe we can get on line and do police calls or FOD walks. Lots of litter out there and it doesn't break down so it will eventually pose hazards to vital equipment. No matter what it is, a collision at 17,000 mph never turns out well.
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It's not like the Chinese were the first to work on this concept. The US started working on self sustaining biospheres for humans in the 1990s. See link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
However, I did always like compass courses.
However, I did always like compass courses.
Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. It has been owned by the University of Arizona since 2011. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. It is a 3.14-acre (1.27-hectare)[1] structure originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological system, or vivarium. It remains...
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