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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on February 20, 2026, 01:40:45 am »
The one manned flight of Starliner has now been classified as a CLASS A mishap, the same as the two lost shuttles. 

Apparently it should have been at the time but NASA was convinced not to as they wanted to protect the reputation of Starliner.  There are issues with Starliner where they don't know what the root causes are.  Without the root causes they can't be sure that any fix will actually work instead of making things worse. 

The odds of a manned flight before the end of the ISS seem very low.  Maybe cargo flights. 
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Starfleet Command Models / Re: Permissions (Remake) - Sticky this in favor of old.
« Last post by Starforce2 on February 05, 2026, 07:20:06 pm »
anyone know what destynova's policy was on using his stuff?
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Engineering / Re: Create your own private GPT
« Last post by Lono on February 04, 2026, 11:09:41 am »
So, it appears this has kind of fizzled out. The llama models produced by Meta are just not competitive with other newer models.

This will likely take off again when Deepseek creates a reasonable modern clone of ChatGPT that requires significantly fewer resources.

The morality of using such a tool produced by an authoritarian regime I guess is a gray area.
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Ten Forward / Re: After 27 years SETI is finished.
« Last post by Lono on February 04, 2026, 11:02:07 am »
I loved this as a college kid - but after talking to SETI researchers online for years I quickly got the feeling it was all for show.

Now we have ongoing congressional hearings where multiple trained military officers testify under oath that they are regularly encountering vehicles of unknown origin and inexplicable performance characteristics.

I feel like the public shall have an answer soon if we are alone or not.
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Engineering / Re: Cancer vs Alzheimers
« Last post by Lono on February 04, 2026, 10:54:31 am »
Very interesting - I hadn't heard of that study - thanks!
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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on February 03, 2026, 10:17:10 am »
Vulcan now Projected To Launch Thu • Feb 12th, 2026
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Engineering / Cancer vs Alzheimers
« Last post by Nemesis on January 28, 2026, 05:50:33 pm »
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For decades, researchers have noted that cancer and Alzheimer's disease are rarely found in the same person, fuelling speculation that one condition might offer some degree of protection from the other.

Nature:

Now, a study in mice provides a possible molecular solution to the medical mystery: a protein produced by cancer cells seems to infiltrate the brain, where it helps to break apart clumps of misfolded proteins that are often associated with Alzheimer's disease. The study, which was 15 years in the making, was published on 22 January in Cell and could help researchers to design drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Now if that protein can be duplicated (or extracted from cultured cancer) it might help those with Alzheimers (and maybe other types of dementia?).

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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on January 22, 2026, 11:17:33 am »
New Glenn returned to the launch schedule - Projected To Launch February, 2026

Different cargo - a communications satellite not the prototype lunar lander they were planning before.

Edit:  BO has added 3 more NG flights all for December.  The last one on the list is the Blue Moon prototype lunar lander that was supposed to go on the next launch till it was replaced with the communications satellite.

Edit 2: Interestingly there are 6 Falcon Heavy flights on the schedule.  3 listed for December which usually means the launch is planned but not the date so it is possible that not all of them will launch this year.  If they do all launch I'm pretty sure that is a record for Falcon Heavy. 

Edit: #3   New Shepherd flights are suspended for at least 2 years to "free up assets" for their HLS system (currently delayed)

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Ten Forward / After 27 years SETI is finished.
« Last post by Sirgod on January 20, 2026, 06:47:26 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07R_amRT8
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Engineering / Re: Interesting stuff about SpaceX Starship (hate the name)
« Last post by Nemesis on January 16, 2026, 12:08:10 pm »
Artemis 2 is scheduled for Fri • Feb 6th, 2026 9:41 PM - 11:41 PM EST.  Given the history I expect delays.  They apparently have something like 16 backup dates allocated which seems to be a lack of confidence in their ability to launch. 

Edit:    First delay till Sun • Feb 8th, 2026  11:20 PM - 1:20 AM EST.  Minor but fulfilling my prediction.

Edit: #2   Fri • Mar 6th, 2026  8:29 PM - 10:29 PM EST.  Further fulfilling my prediction.

Edit: #2a   The reason for the delay in #2 above has been revealed as a hydrogen leak.  As I recall Artemis 1 was delayed for the same reason.

Edit: #3   Tue • Mar 3rd, 2026  5:30 PM - 7:30 PM ES.  Brought forward 3 days.  Unusual but does happen.

Edit: #4   Fri • Mar 6th, 2026  8:29 PM - 10:29 PM EST.  Put back the same 3 days.
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