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Perhaps of interest? Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field News By Tereza Pultarova published 15 March 2024 https://www.space.com/satellites-re-entering-magnetosphere-effects-study

And for happier news involving a ship, BB-62 USS New Jersey entered drydock yesterday. Internet age made it possible to have live stream from museum curator Ryan, museum social media manager Libby, and well known British naval historian Drachinifel all standing atop turret 3, the aft turret...

I don't know whether everybody knows that or not, Soyuz rockets are hauled by train to their launch pad. Even though I have a few trains in large scale, "G scale" from the German word for large, also termed garden railway scale, with a 45mm track gauge and 30 inch long locomotives which weigh...

Hey y'all; Here's something to make a rather odd rocket model of, fut-lnr_v_bw_v_n (ca. 1960-63, unnumbered Northrop Corp. photo) fut-lnr_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1960-63, unnumbered Northrop Corp. photo) by Mike Acs, on Flickr

Hey Y'all; Asking for assistance from the collective knowledge base here. Am looking for wood glue which isn't ACC or epoxy. And am not finding it. Decided that during this weeks 99 to 103F heat here in central Missouri I'd reactivate a few balsa wood rubber band powered submarine model...

Hey y'all; Just learned of this article in a Space Colonization Discussion group on MeWe. https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-brains-rewired-by-spaceflight The end of this bit is kind of interesting,

Amtrak's 50th anniversary is tomorrow, May 1. Wait a minute, AMTRAK is a half century old?!?!?!?!?!?:eek: 😄 It Takes a Lot of Thought and Planning to Paint a Train Over the last 50 years, Amtrak has seen many designs come and go. by Justin Franz April 28, 2021...

Aha! I KNEW spaceflight would eventually lead to something which had actual real-world real-life usefulness! https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Spacecraft_magnetic_valve_used_to_fill_drinks

Dude, you are asking an ASPIE if a hovercraft is a boat & expecting them to say boat - take a couple steps back and think that through!! !" If a hovercraft is a boat why does the US Coast Guard, who one would presume by definition know a boat when they see one, discuss their hovercraft in their...

Seriously, what season is this, monsoon or winter ❓ From the National Weather Service's 7 day forecast page for here; "Tonight Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then rain after 1am. Low around 35. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph...

A fun and interesting book arrived today! It is a veritable cornucopia of inspiration for model builds which will: a, probably never happen b, be even slower than the ones I already have going. Had been on Amazon wish list for a few years & earlier this month it appeared in hardcover for half...

What? Amazon's rating web page for this poster wants me to rate a rocket poster's Warmth, Thickness, and Sheerness? Okay then. I gave the sheerness a 5/5 stars, it is not even the least bit sheer, which is perfect for a poster. I gave the thickness a 5/5, the paper is thick enough to not tear...

And freshly out of a fittingly frosty mailbox, Also, it seems advisable to allow it to achieve room temperature before bending the binding.

Just saw this, A fun thing I think y'all might enjoy. Original post has an update;

Finally got around to getting this book about history of the modern shipping container. Procrastinated for so long it is now a new edition with an additional chapter! Arrived several days ago. Have read first several chapters and scattered bits throughout. Looks like the change to standardized...

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/moon-landing-food-safety

Last night the metal sheathed case, body, or whatever it is called, of my laptop helped me discover that my heating pad had gone dangerously bad. Was lying on heating pad in bed using the laptop when I started getting a buzzy tingly feeling when touching the laptop’s metal exterior. Say what...

Oh wow, got an email from the power company which says my 26 year old apartment only used $13 more energy last month than an energy efficient 60 year old house 2x to 3x the size. I'm supposed to be happy now, right? And I wonder where the power company which services my apartment which has no...

Question for y'all; Might someone offer a Saturn V stage alignment reference to a scale modeler at ARC forum? Even with what reference I have for myself there isn't anything I've found which clearly and simply illustrates the rotational alignment of the SV stages...