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@nyrath.bsky.social I got one for ya.

Have you seen anything in your research on whether spacecraft hull plating or armor in any particular geometry, like curved or angled, would offer better protection from cosmic radiation by reflection or refraction?

Could be. Or maybe Bruce Pennington

1701 deflector dish - machined copper and brass, weathered with airbrushed Tamiya smoke. 1/350 scale.

Reference image for my lego builds, showing different engines, the shape of their exhaust plumes in vacuum, and the colors of the parts used according to their Lego Studio names. RCS has a white-ish exhaust cone, using the trans-clear color. Heavy molecular propellant such as Kerosene has an orange glow inside the nozzle (Luminous Orange) and a smoky / heat mirage visible exhaust (Trans-Black). Light molecular propellant such as hydrogen or methane have no visible exhaust cone, and a pale blue (Translucent Light Blue) glow inside the nozzle. Fusion exhaust may have a pink or purple color to it, but I am unsure how long the exhaust plume might be, if it extends outside the engine nozzle at all.

@nyrath.bsky.social @toughsf.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social or anyone who might have any insight, I am trying to figure out what the exhaust plume of a Fusion Rocket in vacuum might look like.
The question in-full:
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If you have any thoughts, please weigh in

Wise words from the great @mikeokuda.bsky.social

via @roddenberryfdn.bsky.social

I am very fond of the Jupp, though I would make a small change if this was a non-background ship.

I would change the officer's lounge (seen here on the Refit) into a very small shuttlebay.
It would probably hold either two shuttles or 1 + auxiliary support craft (such as a travel pod and workbee)

Fireball XL5

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Fireball XL5 is 63!

"In 2062, Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol and the crew of his spaceship, Fireball XL5, explore Sector 25 of the galaxy, encountering friendly and hostile aliens along the way."

It would be fun to write an alternate history in which the post-Apollo space program would be based on Apollo/Saturn technology & experience - and then ask people to identify the bits I made up (as opposed to the bits based on real plans from the 1960s/1970s).

My mother and grandmother were part of the letter writing campaign that saved Star Trek TOS. This photo was a thank you from the Star Trek folks and is an heirloom of my house.

#Blender coolness. #SciArt

I love the spectacle aspect of minis wargaming.

Someone was asking what the interstellar medium around the Sun looks like in 3D. Here's a quick render. I might add an improved version of this to a room in my Star Central VR world.

Brown: dust, red: ionized gas, blue: hot stars.

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

TOS phaser concept art - it has a few dimensions written on it

Tholian ship concept art

I was a Junior in Wooster High School in Ohio. I was in a class where we were taught to create Crystal Radio sets, requiring an antenna and earphones.
I plugged my set in and the first thing I heard was “Kennedy has been shot.”
I dropped the earphones; afraid I had made the radio incorrectly.

Foundation.

WHAT A FUCKING SHOW.

Theodore Kosloff as “Electricity” From the film 'Madame Satan' Man in a spiky costume made to look like lightning bolts

Mood.

Benton Discovery, bimodal NTR
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#lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

Extremely rough pen sketches of an Imperial scout ship from the tabletop role-playing game Traveller.

Inspired by a recent Traveller session: (very) quick studies of an Imperial scout ship.

E6B - Wikipedia

The FAA still requires you to learn to use a slide rule flight computer ("E6B") to get a pilot license. They're pretty nifty: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B

The AI disclaimer writes itself though. AVOID USING COPILOT TO CO PILOT

1967 Fantastic Four Cartoon Intro YouTube video by Phillip Duncan

I remember that

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An acrylic hair brush and airbrush painting from a failed calendar project. 'January' started the series sowing Earth from its formation to 2.2 billion years ago, half the history of Earth. Each successive month represented half the remaining history with some 'editorial shuffling'. I did the first 6 months, Adolf Schaller did the last more recent ones and we collaborated equally on the final month. Unfortunately his work for the project is probably lost except for the 'December' work which I have and still has my contributions unfinished. #SciArt

An acrylic painting done in 1982 for an Earth history related 'Cosmic Calendar' that was supposed to be published by a Carl Sagan affiliated business, but the project fell apart leaving a dozen unused paintings. I have mine, including one that is yet unfinished. Here we see a Paleozoic tide pool.

Little animation of my latest spaceship arriving at Mars. #scifi #b3d #space #mars #future #digitalart

One large model rocket, and the three stages of a smaller one, freshly spray painted and left to dry in the sun on a deck.

The box cover of a very old model rocket kit. It has an illustration, not a photo. The three stage model has a silver body tube, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stages have blue, white, and red fins.

After several months, I'm back building rockets. Actually, painting them.

The box art for the three-stage Microsonde has terribly difficult paint scheme no sane person would attempt, so of course I'm trying.

The big rocket is the Maxi-Lepus, which was in a video in a post yesterday.

My perverse brain keeps insisting on viewing the hose adapters as cartoon eyeballs. So to me the photos looks like something out of the movie The Electric State

Old guy working at Ceres morgue, recyling department. Dead bodies not needed for police investigations are reduced to component elements and used for food production. Label on his overalls say "Waste Not, Want Not" From The Expanse

There is some concern that in solar system colonies phosphorus could be life's bottleneck. Some theorize that the dear departed might have to have their bodies smelted to recover critical chemical elements.

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Coffin burial won’t work. And sky burial is right out - no one’s bringing vultures.

Cremation? Do gas and ash perform the needed recycling? Also does anyone actually want to light a fire that hot in a closed system? 4/

Been reading @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @weinersmith.bsky.social ‘s City on Mars and woke up thinking about dead people

They haven’t mentioned them (yet??) but that’s cool, All The Things In Society is a lot, but ultimately if you have long-term space colonies, gotta deal with dead people 1/