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I assume that a space station like portrayed in 2001 A Space Odyssey could either be fixed in rotation, or contra-rotating. Is there an advantage of one over the other?

Excellent! Thank you much! By the way, what would the value be for 15 degrees north?

Hello. I am conversing with Flat-Earth folks who tend to lean upon the Azimuthal Equidistant (AE) map centered on the North pole. I know that the AE map is a projection of the globe onto a flat surface, and is only accurate in distances north and south along lines of longitude. The east west...

The entire flight was only about 19 seconds. As a designer with previous flight experience he probably knew there wouldn't be enough time to properly eject with a required safety margin. If he took 10 seconds to peak, and 5 seconds to realize something was wrong, he would be dead even if he...

His rocket's parachute separated at lift off and stayed with the launch site. His entire flight was sans parachute.

Thanks. I didn't think Mars was so close to a vacuum. I was thinking a colony could compress the CO2 from say 3 psi and convert it to a breathable atmosphere with photosynthesis. At 4 or 5 psi, a slow decompression would be survivable if they were used to a low pressure, high oxygen core. But 30...

Assuming that both the Earth and Mars's atmospheric pressure follows an exponential curve, how many kilometers deep would the average bore-hole on Mars need to be in order to arrive at a depth where the atmospheric pressure was 0.35 bar or approximately 5 psi? What about 0.7 bar?