Grins evillyShroom Man 777 wrote:@ Yenchin:
You can do awesome biotech experiments in the space station and send it back to Earth. Then the space capsule ends up landing in a quiet Shroomanian town and your experiment breaks out and starts eating people and growing bigger!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
- PeZook
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZook
I'm a socialist too.PeZook wrote:Commodities and state-owned industries. The only socialist country on Nova Terra is the Red Technocracy, and they are not communist. They actually have a private sector, and probably a stock exchange.Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: Well, the difference is that in capitalist systems, insurance companies take the money to invest. Since some nations adopt the extreme end of socialism, which is communism, well.... what is there to invest in?
I'm not sure how the USSR handled that, but the PRL had a state-owned insurer (PZU) which invested the money just fine.
Damn you ruined my evil plan.[OOC: Shady, don't bother with SCUDs, mang. We're giving you a discount to rebuild your military stronger than ever, but don't go bankrupt your country. Besides, SCUDs aren't THAT long ranged. The only nations within range are the Central Sea nations... like PeZookia Confused]
I won't be buying SCUDS, i have other ideas.Yeah, we'll need to build them to service the tracking stations. But...damn, the ISCA has no capacity left!Shroom Man 777 wrote:On that note, we need Nuclear Commerce Ships to ship spaceship parts all over the New World, to Comona and stuff.
HehShroom Man 777 wrote:Astronaut training in North Point's TOP GUN institute! From beach volleyball to SPACE Volleyball!
MESS mangs, we need your monies! Give us ROBs!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZookDrake (Sea Dragon rocket) will be ready for testing about Q4 2011. It'll provide a capability to launch approximately 600 tons to LEO. Currently planning on using it to launch an orbital propellant farm (amongst other uses).
That's the thing, though: systems integration is expensive. Especially if Lonestar already chose the docking system, and we end up with two different onesIf there are no drawbacks to standardization, then go for it.
)? Physical training?Raj Ahten wrote:I'm trying to think what the hell Indhopal could do for the space mission for only $50 million a year. Random design work? Number checking? Provide security (or the catering
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZookPhysical training wouldn't be a bad idea actually, given Indhopal has state of the art training facilities.Guess we can put the astronauts through basic or whatever in Indhopal, and I could also just provide some of the thousands of scientists neccesary for the mission from the university.PeZook wrote:Physical training?Raj Ahten wrote:I'm trying to think what the hell Indhopal could do for the space mission for only $50 million a year. Random design work? Number checking? Provide security (or the catering
I could see an Indophal astronaut on the team, seeing as all of you guys are crazy about being mercenaries
Votech specialists?
Cold, hard cash for other people?
If you study the space program long enough, you get stunned with the sheer amount of small-time stuff which had to be done.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Well, a lot of small countries can contribute in a lot of ways. New Gottland could make a space-edible version of those fish biscuits of theirs
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZookI believe it can do manned launches. Cost is about $500 million per launch, at least initially. The launch vehicle should be fully reusable as well, which will cut costs compared to other heavy lift vehicles. The biggest problem is that it's extremely inefficient in terms of fuel. Makes the lift off mass about 18000 tons. However, that massively simplifies the design of the engine.PeZook wrote:Drake (Sea Dragon rocket) will be ready for testing about Q4 2011. It'll provide a capability to launch approximately 600 tons to LEO. Currently planning on using it to launch an orbital propellant farm (amongst other uses).
Can it do manned launches? What's the cost per launch? This monstrosity is like...four Vulkans. It could build a lunar outpost with six months of endurance in one launch.
With a tool like that, space colonization will be a breeze
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZook
Hmm Ok. My chip will go through the MSA then.Beowulf wrote:What's all this from the MESS members about chipping in individually for FASTA? We have an agency for this already: MESS Space Agency. It'll partner with the FUN nations for the space missions. Probably end up paying about half the cost of the missions. The MSA won't be pitching in to help with ground construction, however.
Drake (Sea Dragon rocket) will be ready for testing about Q4 2011. It'll provide a capability to launch approximately 600 tons to LEO. Currently planning on using it to launch an orbital propellant farm (amongst other uses).
It was an enhanced Tradewind Pebble bed based nuclear thermal rocket upper stage for one of teh Red Technocracy's heavy lifters.Zor wrote:I beleive it was a Blackbeard Missile armed with a nuclear warhead.
Union Aerospace Corporations' new RAR division returns first results
The newly established RAR division working overtime has returned it's first proposal; a nuclear pebble bed reactor-powered third stage for UKB's Vulcan rocket; which raises the amount of cargo that can be delivered to low lunar orbit from the Vulcan's current 32 tons to a colossal 50 tons, thanks to the Nukebeard booster stage.
The RAR division's head was contacted via telephone, and he had this to say:
"This is just the beginning. The engine we have in mind can deliver almost 250,000 kilograms of thrust, which is the equivalent of slightly more thrust than the Titan III's central core can deliver. We're only really limited by the amount of weight the Vulcan can lift to low earth orbit. With the current configuration, we're limited to 100 metric tons. We've done some calculations and if more strap-on boosters are added to the Vulcan, raising it's LEO payload to 145 metric tons, we can stretch the Nukebeard booster; adding more tankage, and raising LLO payload to 75 metric tons."
If the RAR division's Nukebeard proposal is accepted by the UAC Council of Member States, engineering work will begin to transform this proposal into reality.
Drawing of the proposed Nukebeard. Blue is the interstage, Red is the Nukebeard booster itself, and Yellow is a projected payload enclosure
kinda hard, my system is still down after a week, waiting for someone to get off their lazy ass and look at it!Shroom Man 777 wrote:We need IM so we can all chats. Everyone get MSN.
So what the heck do you want me to do with it? As of now, the entire facility is under quarantine, especially when the company in question is in God knows what state due to the civil war.MKSheppard wrote:It was an enhanced Tradewind Pebble bed based nuclear thermal rocket upper stage for one of teh Red Technocracy's heavy lifters.
