emmanuel_car

I’ve got a similar mantra - “it’s not hard, I just have to do it”. And then when it’s done I follow up with a “see, not hard, just had to actually do it”

Oh it wasn’t a criticism, I just thought it was a funny image, someone holding a live mouse and being really serious about it.

When an ordinary person holds a mouse long enough, and takes it seriously enough?

I was expecting this sentence to be a “bird in the hand” type metaphor.

It looks like bikes are parked between the first & second gardens, there might even be more further back!

Not fiction, alternative facts

I love/hate that we even have to ask.

That’s to Ceres, Mars is only 9 months, so how do we get from 9 months to 23k hours?

Interesting read, this part caught my eye:

Launching a crewed spacecraft to Mars might require 2 to 4 megawatts of power, meaning multiple MPD thrusters operating for more than 23,000 hours. This presents a challenge as the hardware operates at high temperatures, and the team needs to prove that the thruster’s components can withstand the heat for multiple hours during upcoming tests.

Would the thrusters really run the full 23k hours? That’s just shy of 960 days, surely once you reach a certain speed you wouldn’t need to run them continuously at full power.