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The ITS tank interior for Musk's Mars lander
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41304.msg1640338#msg1640338

Shuttle II
http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/nasa-johnson-space-centers-shuttle-ii.html
Shuttle 2 art http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=33739

Super heavy lifters
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41585.0

Venus/ solar probe chip
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42272.0
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-final...t-can-survive-500c-temperatures-venus-1605664

SLS endorsed
http://www.space.com/35634-nasa-space-launch-system-commercial-use.html
http://spacenews.com/commercial-group-endorses-use-of-space-launch-system/
http://spacenews.com/the-big-changes-that-may-not-be-coming-to-nasa/

Tornado hits SLS facility
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=34134
https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/nasa-michoud-takes-a-direct-tornado-hit.29530/
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/02/maf-tornado-damage-injury-assessments/

How to slow a solar sail
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=37063

Saturn V lamp
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153696794758807&set=pcb.527653124094039&type=3&theater

Spacehab contest
https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Contest/

The push for space
http://spacenews.com/nasa-to-study-launching-astronauts-on-first-sls-mission/
http://spacenews.com/first-sls-could-be-named-after-eugene-cernan/
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-space-war-234829

Vortex view...new materials...
http://www.universetoday.com/133147/vortex-coronagraph-game-changer-seeing-close-exoplanets/
http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2017_006_metamaterial-mail-armor-inspires-physicists.php
http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/news/archive/?id=17475

acoustic cloak
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05405

Laser advance
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelea...sics_phenomenon_could_improve_telecommunicati

The array can also be scaled up in size to create high power lasers for industrial and defense applications, he noted. “A fundamental challenge in high power lasers is heating and with the predicted efficiencies of our BIC lasers, a new era of laser technologies may become possible,” Kanté said.

Silicon based life form?
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Possibility_of_Silicon_Based_Life_Grows_999.html

Carbon sea
http://marygreeley.com/?p=47632

Global cooling idea
http://www.universetoday.com/133634/might-possible-refreeze-icecaps-slow-global-warming/

lens free photography
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?164184-Lensless-Photography

tiny tools
http://microfabrica.com/technology.html?_vsrefdom=googleppc&gclid=CMunuqrLqdICFRIbgQodtZ4NyQ

Why space matters
http://spacenews.com/how-one-man-and-a-satellite-freed-slaves-in-africa/

Life?
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/2711.pdf

Moon-bots
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1701/1701.07543.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01657.pdf

UAE space
http://www.universetoday.com/133533/united-arab-emirates-plan-colonize-mars-600000-people-100-years/

Uranium from seawater
http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/17/uranium-seawater-factors-nuclear-power/

unusual
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05418

Unusual electromagnetic disturbances resembling rings, loops, links, globules, lines, knots, roses and clouds are introduced, the generation of these disturbances in the laboratory is briefly considered and some possible directions for future research are highlighted.

For skeptics
http://www.universetoday.com/133792/ufo-visualizations-show-trends-alien-spotting-saucers-lights/

Twin roll steel casting
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/new-steel-process-is-faster-lower-cost.html

Clear ceramic
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/second-hardest-transparent-material.html
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep44755
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/new-modeling-of-fullerite-and-diamand.html

Space Mining
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/automation-that-could-take-away-human.html
http://data.spaceappschallenge.org/aerospace.pdf

One link of note to anyone interested in severe storms:
www.orf.media

https://weather.com/tv/shows/wx-geeks/video/forecast-liftoff-supporting-spaceflight-301

A huge bank of lights
http://www.universetoday.com/134633/german-largest-artificial-sun-generate-climate-friendly-fuel/

Spaceships and spaceplanes--animated
http://www.universetoday.com/134586...-plane-amazing-hand-drawn-animations-explain/

publiusr · Mar 31, 2017

Figure 1. Scales of Starships compared with largest Earth vessels. From top, largest Earth ocean ships, Firefly, Ghost, 10 km diameter Sailship, all to scale. The ~3m Breakthrough Starshot sail is actually not visible on this scale. (Figure from Michael Lamontagne).

From: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=37845
https://www.seeker.com/tech/stretch...power-the-next-generation-of-wearable-devices

Medusa
https://jour.space/issues/issue-2-2015/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=38184

Bigger than stratolaunch
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=23216.0
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=34924

Water from solar paint
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2017/jun/solar-paint-offers-endless-energy-from-water-vapour

ISS from Landsat
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/flying-high-landsat-8-sees-the-international-space-station/

Tabby's star
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/explaining-curious-case-tabbys-star/

The VEI
http://geology.com/stories/13/volcanic-explosivity-index/

Standard candle not so standard after all: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03393
https://www.universetoday.com/136220/amazing-new-views-betelgeuse-courtesy-alma/
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=34994 lasers

Dust to dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04771
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?165625-Missing-What-s-Missing

missiles http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/

Radar
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1707/1707.03357.pdf

Materials in the news
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-carbon-harder-diamond-flexible-rubber.html
https://futurism.com/physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-and-quadruple-its-strength/
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/C...speed_communications_to_the_deep_sea_999.html
http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today...brightest-laser-sparks-new-behavior-in-light/

Mars news
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=35039
https://www.space.com/37348-nasa-fission-power-mars-colony.html
http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=47784&p=1698987#p1698987

The SLS payload planner's guide:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20170005323

file:///C:/Users/srlab7/Downloads/Space%20Launch%20System%20(SLS)%20Mission%20Planner's%20Guide%20-%20ESD%2030000%20Baseline%20-%2012Apr17%20106pp%20-%2020170005323.pdf

Ice Giant study available on-line:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/icegiants/mission_study/
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Launching on an SLS, we again see a dramatic increase in useful inserted mass at Neptune
(>5,000 kg for 13-year flight time). Using SLS it is also possible to insert >1,700 kg in Neptune
orbit in ~11 years from launch.

Book on time machine travel
https://www.universetoday.com/136013/time-machine-tales/
https://www.space.com/37314-saturn-above-it-book-author-interview.html

nice space themed STEM book
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3278/1

Mini-Saturn https://www.space.com/37430-electrified-droplets-create-mini-saturn-planets.html

Got a math question? ask http://www.wolframalpha.com/

R-7 lives http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-fg.html
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/5m-redesign.html

Fly over Pluto
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170714-2

Salvation
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/...-7000-meter-asteroid-hitting-in-6-months.html

Lunar Gateway and more
http://www.americaspace.com/2017/07...-for-nasas-lunar-orbiting-deep-space-gateway/
http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/flybys-last-gasp-north-american.html
http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/plush-bug-economy-bug-shoestring-bug.html

Last but not least
http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/sei-swan-song-international-lunar.html

We won't do anything like this as long as we don't place a proper value on spaceflight (that is to say, a proper value on the universe). This is the source of my major beef with "cheap" commercial space. It marks a new stage in a worrying trend that began with Space Shuttle. We need to stop trying to convince people we can do worthwhile things in space for cheap. Instead, we need to sell them on the idea that space is worth a lot more than they think it is worth.

publiusr · Aug 6, 2017

Asteroids in the news:
https://astronomynow.com/2017/09/05/radar-reveals-two-moons-orbiting-asteroid-florence/
http://www.sciencealert.com/astrono...new-object-in-asteroid-belt-and-it-s-gorgeous

OSIRIS-Rex seen from Earth
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-s-osiris-rex-mission-will-have-a-map-for-that

Cis-lunar station
https://www.space.com/37706-nasa-lunar-station-automated-science-lab.html

Deployment tech
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Making_telescopes_that_curve_and_twist_999.html
http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/hod-lipson-lifelike-robots

Low power sensors
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-09-11

Interesting Lightsail/solar tech
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/...terial-suitable-for-interstellar-mission.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/...ene-solar-cells-mountable-on-any-surface.html
http://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-resear...e-based-transparent-flexible-solar-cells-0728
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/08/robust-catalyst-to-split-water-into-hydrogen-oxygen.html

Laser advances
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-molecular-layer-thin-silicon-enable.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/...rent-into-light-emitting-quasi-particles.html

The Majorana fermion.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/08/majorana-fermion-a-particle-thats-its-own-antiparticle.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/F..._hyperfine_splitting_in_antihydrogen_999.html

Eclipse glasses
https://www.space.com/36941-solar-eclipse-eye-protection-guide.html

power yarns
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2017/8...-Energy-Harvesting-Yarns-Gene_story-wide.html

A day out at oshkosh--by gosh
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3299/1

Starships on the mind
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starship-congress-2017-tickets-33352347770

Nice book on space stations
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3298/1

The blue jet
https://www.space.com/37650-jet-lightning-blue-jets-gemini-observatory-video.html

North Korea missile tech
http://thebulletin.org/north-korea’s-“not-quite”-icbm-can’t-hit-lower-48-states11012
http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets/Specials/R-27/index.htm
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N17/024/94/PDF/N1702494.pdf?OpenElement
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=40159.220

SLS info--single shot moon-mission
file:///C:/Users/clayall7/Downloads/IAC17pap.pdf
file:///C:/Users/clayall7/Downloads/IAC17ovh.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/sy...-liquid-oxygen-tank-for-first-sls-flight.html

Captain pl1ngpl0ng · Oct 15, 2017

European Space Agency's (ESA) search for Dark Matter & Dark Energy expected to launch in 2020

http://sci.esa.int/euclid/

NASA's coop with the mission :

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/euclid/main/index.html

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publiusr · Oct 31, 2017

Light trap
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-write-traps-for-light-with-tiny-ink-droplets

Thoughts on ISS
https://denniswingo.wordpress.com/2...s-for-sustainable-and-affordable-exploration/

The Mars Base Camp
https://lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/space/photo/mbc/MBC_Updates_IAC_2017.pdf
https://lockheedmartin.com/us/ssc/mars-orion.html

Musk responds
http://spacenews.com/musk-offers-more-technical-details-on-bfr-system/
file:///C:/Users/clayall7/Downloads/The%20SpaceX%20Family.pdf

Solar Thermal
https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2017/1...howComment=1509476011490#c8759133926373268660

Yesteryear's Mars
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44296.0

Mike Griffin back
http://spacenews.com/pentagon-nominee-griffin-procurement-a-mess-u-s-losing-edge-in-aviation-space/

SLS
https://www.wired.com/2017/11/behind-the-scenes-nasa-tests-most-powerful-rocket-ever/

Interesting
https://www.anl.gov/articles/argonn...-locally-circumvent-second-law-thermodynamics

Space toys
https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot...showComment=1511988246654#c937359200588439345

New ICBM
https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/the-hwasong-15-the-anatomy-of-north-koreas-new-icbm/

Hypersonics
http://engine.scichina.com/publisher/scp/journal/SCPMA/61/2/10.1007/s11433-017-9117-8?slug=full text

Anti-matter flight
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L7ORPM_3pXVANEArofmOWkbk81wL3myY/view
www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/generating-abundant-matter-and-antimatter-will-become-easy-with-exawatt-lasers-by-2021.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01546-9

um...
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=36567
www.parabolicarc.com/2018/01/14/watch-chinese-rocket-stage-crash-explode-town/

Holograms
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01125-y

Spacecraft skin
https://phys.org/news/2017-12-thermal-skin-temperature-satellites.html
Nozzle tech
https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/MFS-TOPS-81

Huge stations
http://space.nss.org/media/NSS-JOUR...l-Habitats-Ventilation-and-Heat-Transport.pdf
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/1314Crowe.pdf

skyfall
http://spaceflight101.com/abandoned...tory-re-enters-harmlessly-over-pacific-ocean/
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/s...ric_Protection_from_Galactic_Cosmic_Radiation

Differnt plastics--good for trek toys?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032386117311060
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A...e_possibility_for_invisible_displays_999.html

SPSS
https://www.mtu.edu/ece/department/...panel-sspi-technology-maturation-approved.pdf
http://www.nss.org/settlement/journal/NSS-JOURNAL-New-Developments-in-Space-Solar-Power.pdf

Mach effect propulsion
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/s..._for_In_Space_Propulsion_Interstellar_Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/s...se_II/PulsedFission-Fusion_Propulsion_Concept

2001 turns 50
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3463/1
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3462/1

Solar sails and starshot
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160005683.pdf
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1708/1708.03556.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Kilometer_Space_Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/s...hitecture_for_Interstellar_Precursor_Missions
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/201...plication-of-the-solar-sail-and-falcon-heavy/

If the NASA Space Launch System is available to conduct human visits to suitable NEOs, the sail could serve at least two functions. Because the SLS has 2-3X the throw mass of the Falcon-Heavy, the sail could be accommodated as a pre-rendezvous abort option or as a back-up to the SLS propulsion module for Earth-return maneuvers.

ll StarTrekFan ll · Dec 31, 2017

www.physicsforums.com

Captain pl1ngpl0ng · Feb 7, 2018

https://www.quantamagazine.org/

Tim Walker · Feb 25, 2018

Transhumanist forum - "The Future Human"

http://www.thefuturehuman.org

publiusr · Sep 10, 2018

XCV330 · Nov 9, 2018

Did you know there's a real UESPA?
It's called UNOOSA.
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs has been around since the 1950's but it has never had a mission, or much of anything else until recently, when it announced plans to launch a package of experimental payloads for member countries aboard a Dreamchaser shuttle sometime in 2021. The Dream Chaser is a lifting-body vehicle being designed in part for a contract warded for it to supply cargo to the International Space Station. It was initially designed to also transfer crew. Dream Chaser is owned by the Sierra Nevada Corporation.

http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/copuos/stsc/2018/symp-06E.pdf

publiusr · Dec 14, 2018

TETRAHEDRONS
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-chemists-mechanism-growth-tetrahedron-shaped-nanoparticles.html

The Fuzzy Future
https://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Future-Society-Science-Heaven/dp/0609604465
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing More than just metal

Titanium
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-nanotwinned-titanium-forges-path-sustainable.html

Sad
https://www.studyfinds.org/study-robots-capable-developing-prejudice/

Robots in disaster zones
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-online-method-allocate-tasks-robots.html

Plants can prepare
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-insect-sequence.html

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-ultrafast-quantum-materials.html

just plane nuts
http://photorecon.net/

giant planes
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/antonov-an-225-kiev-ukraine/index.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings...ngs_ultrawide_vtailed_new_large_airplane_nla/

long march to space
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201812/14/WS5c1301f8a310eff303290f5d.html

Sunda strait
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46743362

Asteroid station
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10436
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07427 Tunguska hit ground?

Supernova sim
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06237

capsule return
http://spaceflight101.com/osiris-rex/osiris-rex-sample-return-capsule/

Cool coating
https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=184474&from=
New coatings
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/arc-15201-1-2_tufroc.pdf

R-7 Rocket Chart
http://spiki.org/astrobidules/forum/soyouz-beta-en.jpg

Salyut 7
http://amzprime.maft.uk/info/B077TKLQST/s

Interesting series and oddball books
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8606894/
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/

The need for infrastructure:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellist...ructure-not-just-launch-rockets/#4b902d513181

interstellar-precursors
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/ab...-term-exploration-of-the-interstellar-medium/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517319136?dgcid=rss_sd_all#!
HAL goes solo--the AI probe
centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/31/ai-colonization-the-founder-and-the-ambassador/

China
https://gbtimes.com/chinas-core-spa...chers-unveiled-at-zhuhai-airshow?cat=business

hypergolics
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Hyper...the_Latent_Energetic_Behavior_of_ZIFs/7235555

boosters
www.thespacereview.com/article/3658/1

landers
thespacereview.com/article/3658/1

The "starship"

think · Mar 26, 2019

http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/home/

stumbled into ctheory but ... wishing I was ten years ago not a dead end just needs content for this year...

Jim Klag · Apr 19, 2019

For anyone interested in the Event Horizon folks who "photographed" the black hole M-87. here is their website.

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/

publiusr · Apr 30, 2019

tracy18 · Sep 25, 2019

I like It's Okay to Be Smart for their insightful videos. I like Bartleby as well for their writing tool and collection of STEM related books.

Captain pl1ngpl0ng · Dec 28, 2019

2019 Breakthrough of the Year

https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/index.html

also:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-physics-2019-20191223/

and

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-biology-2019-20191223/

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