Ryan Kingsbury

traveler, aerospace engineer, ham radio op. Building space lasers at Blue Cubed, former @planet-teer.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 is vertical at pad 4E in California ahead of today’s launch of the Transporter-15 rideshare mission. The 57-minute launch window opens at 10:19 a.m. PT → https://t.co/bvmAjXtV1E

[Ryan Kingsbury @roamingryan]

@Chris_arnade Dhaka makes for an incredible experience for independent and adventurous travelers. I think you'll like it!

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@andrewmccalip @astrojockey It's a cheapo DeWalt, but given I'm tapping M2 threads into aluminum it's not exactly a demanding job.

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@astrojockey @andrewmccalip Literally what I'm doing this Saturday night. Please don't be jealous.

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@astrojockey @somefoundersalt Watching well-funded companies engage in Old Space LARPing always makes for a good laugh.

[Ryan Kingsbury @roamingryan]

@kscottz Just a minor recurring skit in the broader security theater.

Hilariously, Colorado was one of the first states to become compliant yet last year there was some sort of breakage with backend tech that rendered many Colorado unreadable by the machines at the checkpoints.

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@IanJohnBuckley Wow, looks great!

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@lauriewired You might be surprised at how many unhardened x86 machining are in orbit right now running janky old Ubuntu distros. Satellites eternally trying to enumerate network printers that will never come in the cold and lonely vacuum of LEO.

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@ibelings 1-bit ADC, 1 Hz bandwidth and 1-wire interface. We can use it to monitor infrasound. Whales and whatnot.

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@hutcho66 Also widely available on Indian Railways.

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@kscottz Heck if I know, but I'm just glad society has moved on from the phase where every teenager feels the need to travel with a full size pillow.

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@JTrea81 In traffic design and urban planning circles, what exactly is the definition of an "errant vehicle?" Does the term cover "jacked up truck being driven recklessly by an idiot" or is there another category for that? I'm all for there being consequences for the latter.

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@kscottz "Because we can."

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@kscottz This is "hard tech" https://t.co/6KfmHwEjCd

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We've heard of PCIe over barbed wire, but how about PCIe over pulsed mud?

[Jordan Taylor @Jordan_W_Taylor]

How do I transmit the data?

The most steampunk way of all: With a mud pulser!

'Mud' is a general term for drill fluid, used to cool the bit, carry away cuttings and pressurize the shaft.

A pulser transmits low bit-rate data through pressure pulses in the mud itself.

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@IanJohnBuckley @Ascii211 Yeah, I think that's one of the reasons why they recently rolled out those ZU*T parts.

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@IanJohnBuckley @Ascii211 I don't disagree, but I think they would have had to go up to the ZU4 to have 10G capable transceivers. Or maybe the newly released ZU3T.

[Ryan Kingsbury @roamingryan]

@kscottz Apparently the OP hasn't been to Cape Coral!

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@Robotbeat This is nonsense. Current starlink sats aren't generating anywhere near 60 kW each. You are off by an order or magnitude, maybe two.

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@ibelings Tape?