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Engineering Death Commando

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@Robotbeat younger dryas seems to make this obvious

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@kenwheeler they should put a laser on it, have we abandoned the classica

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

the nimby activists pretending to be environmentalists successfully delayed a project to scrub our air of greenhouse gas. the complaint was insufficient paperwork on cumulative greenhouse gas impacts.

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

do we have to keep calling these guys environmentalists

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

Missed this earlier, but environmentalists using CEQA to successfully block a carbon capture project is kind of perfect.
https://t.co/bYcPJbjk7X

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@X_EverythingAp @young_naeto https://t.co/VylPyMCzYH

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@TinkerElla95 @RosieCampbell @StuartJRitchie you’re not, it means mansplaining, in olde timey language. aka, the 50s

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@RosieCampbell @StuartJRitchie we know and use everything except studs. Spanner was mentioned as a tool in Star Wars - hydrospanner, lol - and google uses it as the name of a database

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@goblinodds general practitioner is english? pretty sure I’ve heard it before. herr.

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@AndrewCFollett He’s a retired old man. Not a target. Dishonorable, cowardly attack.

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

space superstructures cometh

[Outer Space Today @outerspacetoday]

BREAKING: A robot developed by Caltech and funded by DARPA has successfully built part of a structure in orbit without astronauts, marking what researchers describe as the first autonomous construction of a structure in space.

The experiment, called ASTRA, uses a robotic arm to retrieve individual structural tubes and connecting joints, then assemble them into sections of a larger framework directly in orbit.

Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March, the system has spent approximately six months in space testing the technology.

The robot successfully constructed a new section of a truss structure, demonstrating that spacecraft could eventually assemble large structures from smaller components rather than launching them fully assembled.

The experiment is part of DARPA's NOM4D program, which aims to enable construction of enormous structures in orbit, potentially hundreds of meters or even kilometers across.

Potential applications include:
> Giant space telescopes
> Large satellite communications antennas
> Orbital solar power stations
>Future space infrastructure too large to fit inside conventional rockets

The demonstration did not complete the full planned antenna, but establishes an important proof of concept for autonomous orbital construction.

The technology could eventually allow the size of structures built in space to exceed the physical limits of the rockets used to launch their components.

Link to official report submitted by Caltech: https://t.co/63Mpylbisb

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@haynes_wiley @drantbradley it’s not. you can get it as an adult if the system does you badly enough

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@Antidiscourse25 @kenwheeler I would be shocked if ken wheeler didn’t watch Tasting History tbh

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@X_EverythingAp @young_naeto there’s veen many, many studies. this is why schools push you so hard to take handwritten notes. for memory retention.

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@plasmarob we don’t show parents how to degas a baby?

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@pugnacious_polk he took the wrong message from the midterms

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@GKunstwerk I mean, they are paid to lie in specifically that vein 😅

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@planefag the boys do fine with girl protagonists or the Honor Harrington series wouldn’t be a thing

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@Duderichy would you marry someone so unwhimsical

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@johnsmithyson0 yeah. slow process though.

[laura ⚔️ @LauraFlowD]

@teddyschleifer painful