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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    It's the same issue that has been there for every space mission with humans ever.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    That's what bottles are for. 800g a day per person, halved or quartered. It's hardly a difficult problem.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    Water recycling is done routinely and very effectively at 98% efficiency. O2 recycling is only around 50% efficient on the ISS but...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Chatting with AIs.
    I think it's due to using a higher ranked source when there's duplicate material.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Petrol Profiteering...
    If only we'd all switched over to EVs.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    One single launch of the new generation of SHLV could put 12 tons onto Mars surface with a soft landing. No one thinks a Mars mission...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    That's from their documents. The Mars entry for curiosity was aerobraked until it could deploy parachutes then used some little rockets...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    Those rockets were tiny. 400kg of propellant to land twice that mass of payload.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    I doubt we're planning on landing 100 tons at a time on Mars any time soon. 100 tons in low earth orbit probably means around 50 to...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    The sky crane was to land the package softly and make sure the landing stage didn't squash it. I just checked, the aero braking took...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    It makes the target you have to aim for narrower and makes the sums a lot harder. They have to make sure they're getting enough braking...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    There is atmosphere, it's just thinner.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Chatting with AIs.
    It's a very big algorithm with psuedo random noise added.
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    Which is why you have extensive testing especially of new versions of hardware, like doing a moon flyby. And for mission critical...
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    IT Minion replied to the thread Space stuff....
    We've kept people alive on the ISS continuously for 26 years. That's built with leaky 1990s Russian hardware. Shipping sufficient food...
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