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The nonfiction book Into the Black by Rowland White has a portion about the Space Shuttle's use launching NRO satellites. This is a fascinating use of the shuttle not many talk about.

I always had good success with MakeMKV (http://www.makemkv.com), but it's only available on Windows and Mac. I'd then use Handbrake to convert into a more accessible format (maybe shoot for H265?).

I helped write a report [1] about the state of the Space Resources industry for 2019. This report should get you up to speed on the science, engineering, and law/policy going on in the field.

Our website specifically covers ISRU, including a monthly newsletter and sporadic articles (including one published this morning about minimizing lunar dust kick-up when landing vehicles on the Moon).

[1] https://www.thespaceresource.com/news/2020/the-space-resourc...

Looks good. Installed it and will try it this week! Thanks for sharing.

I was about to start learning KiCad, but I think I'll explore this first.

Plus you can use it for 4+ cities/timezones!

This is so amazing! Thanks for putting it together and sharing it

Please do! Would love to learn more about how you built it :)

Added a quick fix

Thanks! I added a quick fix :)

Noo! We're just having a few lighthearted laughs :)

You comment is so nice. I keep coming back to it. I'll strive to leave comments like this elsewhere; simple but very powerful!

Sorry about that. Working on a fix. It's currently a bit fickle :P

Hahaha. That is glorious. Thanks for sharing!

Agreed. I noticed that and found it annoying, too. Will work on it! :)

Hmm, next time! I keep thinking of ways to tie in education to a text adventure. Trying to achieve what Walt Disney said:

> I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Hey HN!

This is a silly site based on the Rick and Morty clip of Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could). The amusement comes from Rick revealing he is the pickle, so I turned that into a command line 'surprise'. When you type "flip-pickle" into the mock-terminal, an asciiart image of Rick the pickle is shown.

That's it... lol. A simple and silly project. I considered making it more of a text adventure, but honestly two days of dev time is more than enough for this app!

Plus I now know how to use a mock-terminal in React, so I learned something. :)

If you are interested in the tech, this is a single page app (SPA) built in ReactJS using the terminal-in-react [2] library. Deployed with docker-compose on my Hetzner server, utilizing Cloudflare. It has 4 sizes of asciiart for different screen sizes, so it works decently well on mobile and desktop. And the favicon! lol.

But back to the serious work.

[1] https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/its-pickle-r...

[2] https://github.com/nitin42/terminal-in-react

Check out VimAwesome (https://vimawesome.com) for finding plugins. They provide instructions for installing each plugin via Vundle, NeoBundle, VimPlug, and Pathogen.

If you are in the Texas area , humansolution (https://www.thehumansolution.com) in Austin has a good selection of chairs. Not affiliated with them. I actually drove a few hours just to try out chairs before placing an order for my Leap. It was delivered without issue (well, except Steelcase mixed up the shipping labels with someone else in CO. lol).

I love my Steelcase Leap! The cushion is very comfortable and is holding up well after a few years. I sit criss-cross and am able to easily do this with the Leap. The Aeron prevents this because of the hard plastic around the seat dug into my legs. I also got mine with the adjustable headrest, which is very nice for reclining.

I basically live in my chair, so it was a solid investment.

At first it is not about metals, but water. Water is the oil of space. You can use it to make propellant, human/plant consumables, radiation shielding, and for further chemical processing. Once you have cheap water in cis-lunar space, it becomes 'easy' to move payloads around the Solar System and start the process for other resource utilization.

Have you documented this somewhere online, and do you have pictures? Using an old train car sounds very interesting and unique! I'd enjoy reading more.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm now evaluating a bunch of my prior writing.... Eh that's a lot of red!

In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier, I think he was also quoted as saying his daughter's insatiable habit of repeatedly mounting and unmounting the horse caused a serious bug, which they would not have found otherwise.

I really like that html table you are using! It's featureful and looks great. :)

I've been failing all weekend to create nodes in a GKE cluster through either the UI console or gcloud. Even right now I can't get any nodes to spin up.

Edit: I finally got my cluster up and running by removing all nodes, letting it process for a few minutes, then adding new nodes.

namesilo [1] provides free whois privacy on domain name purchases. Classic interface, but very cheap. :)

[1] https://www.namesilo.com

> What's wrong with using tons of oil? It's not being burnt so it doesn't contribute to climate change. Are you concerned that it's wasting the valuable oil that would be better used to power a car or power station?

Instead of having a VLCC bringing crude to a Gulf Coast refinery where a large part is converted into propylene for bottle and cap production, the crude could be kept safely in its original well, unused. If the demand for propylene (et al) is reduced, refiners would alter their production to make less, ultimately lowering their crude intake, ceteris paribus.