Richard

Radiation protection specialist | #Teamspace & fission/fusion/solar supporter | @OpenUniversity alumnus | husband & father of a neutrino physicist & actress 👍

[Richard @Framryk]

@NASASpaceflight @lonseidman Tape version of Elite on the BBC Model B micro Chris. Thargons, space stations, code acquired 👍 Plus many manually entered codes. Sphinx adventure anyone?

[Richard @Framryk]

@exQUIZitely Thank you for the good memories. First computer: BBC Model B micro, first games “Sphinx Adventure” and Elite. Wireframe graphics, combat with Thargons and pirates. Built up to an Anaconda craft with military lasers. “Do more with less” was the mantra. Thank you 👍

[Richard @Framryk]

@OLHZN @TJ_Cooney 100k! Nice one @TJ_Cooney !

[NASA @NASA]

The Artemis II astronauts, now suited up for launch, are headed to the launch pad.

The crew includes NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @AstroVicGlover, and @Astro_Christina, and @CSA_ASC astronaut @Astro_Jeremy.

[Richard @Framryk]

@HealthRanger @elonmusk Radiation protection professional here, 30 years. ALON glass geodesic double domes (one inner, one outer). Fill the gap with water produced by cracking lunar ice. Fill the gap with krill, suitable plant species and carp. Shielding and food. 0.04 mSv/h reduced to BG. 👍

[Richard @Framryk]

More realistic than the push for Mars. Lunar ISRU + mass drivers + NEO asteroid capture or development + Space Based Solar + building the bridges to Mars and Titan. Definitely doable. In my personal field, He-3 fusion! @OLHZN @mikoske @JaraySzabolcs @AstroRoadie We can do this!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@BigImpactHumans We hope to make the Moon accessible to anyone who wants to go there

[Mark Kretschmann @mark_k]

Elon Musk just announced a major strategic pivot for @SpaceX: the company is officially shifting its primary focus to building a "self-growing city" on the Moon.

The logic is centered on speed. While Mars missions are restricted by orbital alignments every 26 months, SpaceX can launch to the Moon every 10 days. This allows for much faster iteration and development.

@elonmusk estimates that a lunar city could be achieved in less than 10 years. In contrast, a similar presence on Mars is now projected to take 20 or more years to establish.

Mars remains on the long-term roadmap with work potentially starting in 5 to 7 years, but the immediate priority is now "securing the future of civilization" via the faster lunar route.

[Richard @Framryk]

@JaraySzabolcs @michaelnicollsx Hope the testing centres have good interlocks to minimise the risk of human exposure 😀 Likely since those are serious doses!

[Richard @Framryk]

@downdetector Yep, getting "Grok is experiencing issues" and "Sorry about that, something didn't go as planned. Please try again, and if you're still seeing this message, go ahead and restart the app." From 2:30 PM EST / 19:30 PM GMT?

[Richard @Framryk]

@JaraySzabolcs @lilmoonwalker1 @mikoske @AdrianViplak @FelixSchlang @david_tamasi @spacestationguy @LucasSa54749430 @Phrankensteyn @RichL_B @imPenny2x Happy New Year belatedly from the UK Szabolcs! 🥳

[Richard @Framryk]

@konstructivizm Between the ALON geodesic double dome, farm algae, krill and carp. Water is excellent shielding and the domes will scatter sunlight into habitation. A metre thick of water shielding would reduce Martian radiation levels to Earth equivalent.

[Richard @Framryk]

@konstructivizm Speaking as a radiation protection professional, you don’t go for metal shielding. Ideally, use Mars terrain and build thick Mars concrete walls or use lave tubes. Then build a double layer geodesic dome ceiling with ALON (transparent aluminium!) panels, with water in between.

[Richard @Framryk]

@mikoske @DJSnM Mikko this is really awesome 🤩

[Richard @Framryk]

@NASASpaceflight No cruise ships or Coronal Mass Ejections this time please! @OLHZN 😀

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Godspeed New Glenn!

https://t.co/vn2FIJD47A

[Richard @Framryk]

@_jaykeegan_ @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX Love that there are diverse ways of boosting the ISS, including the excellent @SpaceX Cargo Dragon. Really wish ISS lifetime could be extended with a more significant boost, or movement to a storage orbit rather than the planned deorbit burn up. @OLHZN @MarcusHouse @DJSnM

[Richard @Framryk]

@danhuot Best Flight ever. Looking forward to Flight 11 now though @danhuot !

[Richard @Framryk]

@mikoske @LinkN01 Swedish and Finnish are excellent but I wish I had gone beyond “tack så mycket” in Swedish lol. Can’t see FSD worrying about thanking you though! I think LLM and FSD will converge before 2030 and we will end up with multi-lingual support.

[Richard @Framryk]

@ziontree Noting that soft sea defences (shingle bags with marram grass embedded to create berms) has successfully held the Suffolk coast in front of Sizewell for decades. Without these defences, coastal erosion would pull back the coast between Minsmere and Thorpeness. Vacuous argument.

[Richard @Framryk]

@OLHZN @Erdayastronaut We watched the first booster landings as the Space Lobster Nation. Never thought we would get to 30 booster re-use scenarios but absolutely amazing we got here!