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|Vancouver, Canada: Radius Gold Inc. (TSX-V: RDU) announces that it has granted incentive stock options to directors, officers and employees of the Company to purchase up to an aggregate of up to 1,200,000 common shares, exercisable for five years at a price of $0.56 per share.
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Report NEP-HIS-2015-08-25This is the archive for NEP-HIS, a report on new working papers in the area of Business, Economic & Financial History. Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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The following items were announced in this report:
- David Levinson, 2015. "Climbing Mount Next: The Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Society," Working Papers 000139, University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group.
- Fregert, Klas, 2015. "Heckscher on the Slow Monetization of Sweden and His Incidental Refutation of Jevons and Menger," Working Papers 2015:23, Lund University, Department of Economics, revised 14 Oct 2015.
- Hansjörg Klausinger, 2015. "Die Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Hochschule für Welthandel, 1918–1973," Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp202, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.
- Maria Pia Paganelli, 2015. "Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment," Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series 2015-6, Center for the History of Political Economy.
- Julia Cage & Valeria Rueda, 2014. "The LongTerm Effects of the Printing Press in SubSaharan Africa," Working Papers hal-01071879, HAL.
- Carole Donada & Gwenaëlle Nogatchewsky & Anne Pezet, 2014. "It takes a quarter of a century to build a dynamic capability : Supplier relations management at Renault (1975-1999)," Working Papers hal-01070044, HAL.
- Goulven Rubin, 2014. "Disequilibrium economics: some comments about its nature, origins and fate. A review essay of "Transforming Modern Macroeconomics, The Relationship of Micro and Macroeconomics in Historical Persp," Working Papers halshs-01091765, HAL.
- Rossella Calvi & Federico G. Mantovanelli, 2015. "Long-Term Effects of Access to Health Care: Medical Missions in Colonial India," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 883, Boston College Department of Economics.
- Rohlfs, Chris & Sullivan, Ryan & Kniesner, Thomas J., 2015. "Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II," IZA Discussion Papers 9260, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Scott Scheall, 2015. "Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism," Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series 2015-5, Center for the History of Political Economy.
- Karl Pichelmann, 2015. "When 'Secular Stagnation' meets Piketty's capitalism in the 21st century. Growth and inequality trends in Europe reconsidered," European Economy - Economic Papers 2008 - 2015 551, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission.
- Ben Jann, 2015. "Assessing inequality using percentile shares," University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers 13, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences, revised 27 Oct 2016.
- Christian Walter, 2015. "The two quantifications of the financial theory. A contribution to the critical history of financial modelling [Les deux quantifications de la théorie financière. Contribution à une histoire critiq," Working Papers halshs-01118147, HAL.
- Amélie Charles & Olivier Darné & Claude Diebolt & Laurent Ferrara, 2015. "A new monthly chronology of the US industrial cycles in the prewar economy," Post-Print hal-01146800, HAL.
- Santos-Cabalgante, Beatriz & Fidalgo-Cerviño, Esther & Santos-Cebrian, Mónica, 2013. "The Origins of the Spanish Railroad Accounting Model: A Qualitative Study of the MZA's Operating Account (1856-1874)," MPRA Paper 66109, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Jacques Le Cacheux, 2015. "Dette publique, depression et croissance en France, 1871 -1914," Working Papers hal-01136325, HAL.
- Guillaume Allegre & Xavier Timbeau, 2015. "La critique du capital au XXIè sicècle," Post-Print hal-01140572, HAL.
- Maurizio Franzini & Mario Pianta, 2015. "Four engines of inequality," LEM Papers Series 2015/20, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
- Ryoko Ueda, 2015. "How is corporate governance in Japan changing?: Developments in listed companies and roles of institutional investors," OECD Corporate Governance Working Papers 17, OECD Publishing.
- Patrick Gilormini, 2015. "Les apports de Saint-Simon à une conception de l'entreprise comme passion de l'intérêt général," Post-Print halshs-01178421, HAL.
- Claude Roche, 2014. "A propos d'une incompréhension moderne : Locke, la propriété et la régulation du système financier," Working Papers halshs-01143970, HAL.
- Emilie Caldeira & Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, 2015. "La décentralisation dans les pays en développement : une revue de la littérature - Decentralization in developing countries: A literature review," Working Papers halshs-01005204, HAL.
- Ali Bennasr & Éric Verdeil, 2014. "Un printemps arabe pour la corporatisation ? La Société tunisienne de l'électricité et du gaz (STEG)," Post-Print halshs-01075947, HAL.


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Deserved Rangiora Classic win for A G's White Socks
By Jonny Turner
Relief was the overwhelming emotion driver Ricky May felt after A G's White Socks ended his season with a swooping win in the Rangiora Classic on Sunday.
A vintage May drive helped the Greg and Nina Hope trained pacer reel in Thefixer to win the $30,000 group 3 feature.
The victory meant the Rock N Roll Heaven five-year-old would go to the paddock on a high note before he is prepped for a New Zealand Cup and Interdominion campaign.
A frustrating season meant A G's White Socks was in the winner's circle for just the second time this term on Sunday.
The pacer had to settle for second placing seven times this season, with six of those coming via just a head or a nose margin.
"I was wrapped for the horse and everyone today, he really deserved that," May said.
May landed A G's White Socks an early one-one sit, before settling him off a good speed set up by The Fixer and Alta Orlando, who duelled in the lead over the last lap.
The reinsman pulled A G's Whitesocks out for his finish on the point of the home bend, and he went whoosh.
"He really sprinted hard today, he has been doing that lately."
"That is the way we are going to have to drive him."
"He can really fly off the gate and he can do work, but when he is saved up like that he is even better."
Thefixer fought hard after leading and was denied by just a nose at the finish.
Chase Auckland and Ashley Locaz both produced good warm up runs ahead of the upcoming four-year-old features at Alexandra Park when running third and fourth, respectively.
Didjabringthebeers continued his march through to open class by winning the feature trot at Rangiora on Sunday.
Kimberly Butt gave the John Howe trained five-year-old a perfect run in the trail and he scored his fifth win of the season.
Amaretto Sun showed he was on track for a tilt at the Rowe Cup with a solid second placing.
His stablemate, Marcoola, provided the shock of the race.
The Dominion winner hit the wheel of fourth placegetter, Habibti Inta, and galloped before the home turn.
Driver Clint Ford was fined $300 after the incident.
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Word reaches us of truly sensational news from Colombo this morning. After a run of four straight defeats and only one hundred in his last 48 Test innings, Andrew Strauss has resigned as England Test captain with immediate effect ahead of the 2nd Test with Sri Lanka, which starts on Tuesday.
Even more surprising - and a move that harks back to the famous day in 2008 when Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood simultaneously resigned as Test and ODI captains respectively - is the stunning news that Alastair Cook has also fallen on his sword as vice-captain.
Strauss has come under immense pressure this winter as the number one ranked side have lurched from batting collapse to batting collapse and his own powers with the bat continued to dwindle, but the news about Cook is particularly surprising given that everyone assumed he had been confirmed long ago as the heir to Strauss.
We understand that Cook has pointed to the fact that his form is actually worse than his opening partner, with Strauss scoring 167 runs in his last five Test innings to Cook's 71. With T20 captain Stuart Broad on a flight back home nursing an injured calf, coach Andy Flower has had to make an emergency appointment to lead the side in Colombo on Tuesday.
Kevin Pietersen has none of the honour and virtue exhibited by Cook and has snatched the opportunity with clinical aplomb and now has the most unlikely second coming as England captain.
Those England supporters that had been calling for the head of Strauss should have been careful for what they wished for.
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If you or a dependent undergoes medical treatment for diseases like cancer, kidney failure, thalassemia, etc you can get income tax deduction for the amount you have spent for the treatment. Section 80DDB deals with this.
Eligibility for 80DDB
This tax rebate is applicable for individuals and HUFs resident in India. Medical treatment for the following diseases should be undergone and you should have paid the expenses for yourself, spouse, children, parent, brother or sister:
i) Neurological Diseases with disability of at least 40%
a Dementia
b Dystonia Musculorum Deformans
c Motor Neuron Disease
d Ataxia
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g Aphasia
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iii) AIDS
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v) Hematological disorders
a) Hemophilia
b) Thalassaemia
You would have to produce the certificate from specialist government doctors in Form 10-I. They have to be certified by a Neurologist for diseases in (i), Oncologist for (ii), Nephrologists for (iv) and a specialist with the degree in Hematology for diseases in (v). You can get a certificate from a specialist even if the treatment is being undergone in a private hospital.
80DDB tax deduction on medical treatment is not available for NRI taxpayers
Maximum deduction limit under 80DDB
The actual expense or Rs 40,000, whichever is lesser can be claimed for income tax deduction under section 80DDB. If the person undergoing treatment is a senior citizen and resident of India the exemption limit is Rs 60,000.
How to get 80DDB tax benefit
You can submit the required certificate to your HR in the relevant year to get this deduction on salary TDS or if you miss it you can still put this amount in a cell for 80DDB under Chapter VI-A deductions in ITR form in the section Income & Deductions.
Though certificate is not required to be attached with ITR form you should keep it you for record sake. Your taxable income reduces the amount you claim as the 80ddb deduction.


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Nowadays tech world refuses to entertain the cliche of "premium features are not for free" statement. And more and more tech companies try to build open-source platforms to enhance the experience of the users where they can enjoy premium features free of cost, particularly in the iOS mobile market. The other hand user's urge to find ways to be successful in having an escalation of privileges for free has led and inspired many developers around the world to distribute their apps with their premium features for free using third-party app stores.
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Individual study: Organic farming increases the diversity and abundance of wild bees on annually mown fallow strips in Soester Boerde, Leine Bergland and Lahn-Dill-Bergland, Germany
Holzschuh A., Steffan-Dewenter I. & Tscharntke T. (2008) Agricultural landscapes with organic crops support higher pollinator diversity. Oikos, 354-361
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Convert to organic farming
Also in the same study, Holzschuh et al. (2008) report higher bee abundance and diversity on permanent fallow strips next to organic winter fields, compared to fallow strips next to conventional wheat fields. On average, 2.6 m wide annually mown fallow strips next to organic fields had 6.3 bee species, 8.5 bumblebee individuals and 2.6 solitary bees/100 m in total over four surveys, compared to 4.0 species, 3.7 bumblebees and 1.1 solitary bees/100 m on strips next to conventional fields.
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A replicated paired site comparison study in 2003 in three regions of Germany (Holzschuh et al. 2008) found that 21 uncultivated fallow strips adjacent to organic wheat fields had an average of 6.3 bee (Apidae) species, 2.6 solitary bee individuals/100 m2 and 8.5 bumblebee Bombus spp. individuals/100 m2/. Uncultivated fallow strips adjacent to conventional wheat fields had an average of 3.9 bee species, 1.1 solitary bee individuals/100m2 and 3.7 bumblebees/100m2. Bee species richness was 60% higher on uncultivated strips adjacent to organic wheat fields than those adjacent to conventional wheat fields, and had 136% more solitary bees and 130% more bumblebees. Strips adjacent to organic wheat fields also had more flowering plant species and higher flower cover. Species richness and abundance of bees in fallow strips appeared to be limited by foraging resources, which were more abundant when adjacent fields were organic. However, only bees that gather pollen from a range of plants were found on fallow strips during surveys. Specialist bees did not appear to benefit from fallow strips, suggesting that they do not completely compensate for missing semi-natural habitats. Bees were surveyed along 100 m transects four times in May-June 2003 in 42 paired fallow strips adjacent to organic/conventional fields. Flowering plants were surveyed in bee transects and in two transects along the centre and edge of the adjacent field. All fallow strips were mown once a year, with an average width of 2.6 m.


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Mountmellick Yarn Bombers launch early attack to wow Tidy Towns judges
Mountmellick in Laois awoke yesterday to a town bedecked in colourful woolly creations, thanks to the town's yarnbombers.
For the fourth year, the crafty members of Yarn Bombing Mountmellick have launched an art attack on the town, and this year it came unexpectedly early.
"Surprise! We have thrown a little curve ball this year by yarnbombing early. There's method to our madness though- this year we decided to coincide with the National Judging of the Tidy Towns Competition. The Mountmellick Tidy Towns Committee work so hard and we want to give them every chance to score a few more points. So, here we are!," the group have proclaimed on their facebook page.
Visitors are already stopping to take photos and tour the fun artworks, that will stay in place for just a few weeks.
New Zealand couple James Davies and Lynn McCowan are over visiting Lynn's sister Fiona, a Scot living in Mountmellick.
"It's brilliant. We took the car and went right around the town. It's just mad, pixies in the trees. We've seen it done in Australia too," said Lynn.
The ladies arose at 5am on a wild and windy Sunday June 11, and got busy tying their artworks to trees, railings and benches. This year the Methodist church has got a yarnbomb fairy village, with fairies up in the trees, while Mountmellick Community School features stunning knitted shops by Dee and Nora, with the message to 'shop local'.
"This is our reminder to you all to shop local! Spend where you live & keep our town vibrant," said the group founder Nina Horan.
The town's library is worth a visit too, with woolly flowerpots decorating the railings, while outside the primary schools, knitted 'angry birds' are stuck on every post. Mountmellick ICA too were in on the bombing, and their HQ is bedecked with crocheted bunting and more.
There is more to come throughout this week thanks to the busy fingers of dedicated Yarn Bombers, with a special creation parking up outside Mountmellick Arts Centre today, Monday, by sisters Trish and Doris.
Nina urges everyone to do their own bit of yarnbombing and tidying to show the town at its best to Tidy Towns judges.
"Remember, these next two weeks are crucial to Mountmellick Tidy Towns So, play your part," she says.
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An engaging working environment and a culture that recognizes the importance of downtime not only boosts employees' morale, it also encourages creativity.
Mark "Improve Your Office Day" on October 4 with a gesture that brightens up the workspace. © Swarovski
The notion that hours spent in the office is the only measure of productivity is rapidly being discredited. Some companies and organizations have embraced the ROWE™ (Results-Only Working Environment1) approach, where "presenteeism" is out and employees are allowed to work wherever they are most productive—their home office perhaps, a shared workspace, or even a coffee shop. Indeed, some bosses are going a step further and encouraging the "monk mode morning"2, the term coined by Cal Newport in his book Deep Work: "Between when you wake up and noon, no meetings, no email, no Slack, no internet. Instead, you work deeply on something that really matters."
It Pays to Take Time Out
There's a growing recognition, too, that downtime is crucial to productivity. The world of business has learned some important lessons from the world of elite sport, where recovery time in between competitions or intense training sessions is regarded as an essential element of an athlete's routine. The brain needs recovery time, and this is why ensuring sufficient sleep and taking vacations help employees to be more effective and boost creative thinking3. Even micro-breaks during the working day can help employees to recharge and refocus. A study4 by Stanford University showed that when people were attempting creative tasks, a walk around the block sparked more ideas than remaining seated at a desk.
There's nothing like an upbeat handwritten note to show someone they're valued! © Swarovski
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Enlightened employers are now recognizing that an attractive and engaging working environment tend to promote greater creativity and productivity. Some office spaces feel impersonal, but even small human touches can make a big difference to how employees feel about going to work every day. A touch of visual interest such as a splash of color and a touch of Swarovski sparkle will brighten up a desk or make a routine task more pleasurable. Give a deserving member of the team a pair of crystal lucky elephants symbolizing wisdom and good fortune, or an elegant crystal-dusted ballpoint pen dusted with crystals to give a stylish flourish to note-taking. Alternatively, encourage quiet time after a busy working day with the soothing shimmer of a tea light in a crystal-embellished holder. What better way to mark this year's "Improve Your Office Day" on October 4!
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1 Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE™), Judy Thompson & Cali Ressler.
2 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport (Piatkus, 2016)
3 'Three Science-Based Reasons Vacations boost Productivity', Psychology Today
4 'Learning, Memory, and Cognition', M. Oppezzo & D.L. Schwartz, Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol 40(4), July 2014, 1142–1152


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post5173302518369647830..comments2020-10-16T04:52:44.467-07:00Comments on Rocketpunk Manifesto: Ships for the Orbital PatrolRickhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-10928045088485045992015-08-25T18:06:02.932-07:002015-08-25T18:06:02.932-07:00Lurked in the background reading this site for a w...Lurked in the background reading this site for a while, thought I'd pipe up for once. Disclaimer that I'm way out of my maths depth on this one, my SF work is built on "seems plausible" rather than "numbers are in the right ballpark".

Cone vs Wedge shape

Seems likely to be related to desired payload? Seems likely that you'd want a coaxial weapon - especially for kinetics, and to lower the need for mirrors and the like in lasers. If your weapon payload module is shorter than this 12 metre cone shape limit, no problem. But I suspect that this won't do for any sort of kinetic projectile.

Current artillery guns range from 6-10 metres (ground-based, M109 self-propelling howitzers and the like) to 15-20 (large-caliber naval guns), reaching ballistic velocities barely over 500 m/s. This won't do. Upping the barrel length to rifled small arms proportions (because we are, like small arms, relying on kinetic energy and not an HEAT shell to do the work) we're looking at 15 metres at a ballpark (18 inch barrel on a 5.56 weapon = about 80 calibers ish).

I think there's more of a following for laser weapons here though! I haven't the slightest clue about laser weapon engineering other than that cooling is going to kill you outright in space, though, so couldn't even start to guess the length of a spaceborne laser weapon.

AI as a mental force multiplier

Perhaps the one thing I'm actually qualified to talk about, briefly mentioned above. Our current, industrial- and real-world application of AI may be summarised as only slightly better than the bulldozer-shovel approach.

Our AI-bulldozer analogy using conventional programmed AI can deal with several kinds of earth, with a limited understanding that the earth it moves has different qualities that affect how the earth-moving should be carried out.

I feel quite confident that future AI developments will expand to include the abstract idea of earth-moving, with a further idea that there are several tools at hand for the job and that any combinations of these tools may be used as long as the required earth-moving result is accomplished.

The possibility of "strong" or "human-equivalent" AI is a whole different matter, but I'd bet on the Patrol Ship being constructed long before then.HSARhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-17041942926003654012015-07-20T17:42:48.491-07:002015-07-20T17:42:48.491-07:00Polite pilots - thanks for the clarification! (Fun...Polite pilots - thanks for the clarification! (Funny how I didn't think of the switched-letter possibility.)

I had no idea that the Marines came up with dive bombing. And yeah, if you're trading mass for speed, you won't get much faster than insertion from space.Rickhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-86943894974653553452015-07-20T12:35:33.322-07:002015-07-20T12:35:33.322-07:00Ha ha: the pilot obviously needs to attend to the ...Ha ha: the pilot obviously needs to attend to the welfare of his crew; hence polite! I'll blame fat fingers for that one.

Marines are good at pushing the envelope; they also invented dive bombing in the 1920's, what we recognize today as "nation building" during the Banana wars period and more recently "Distributed Operations", which allows units to operate farther apart than ever. SUSTAIN does seem to be more SoF oriented, but then again the Marines consider that they are SoF capable. As a way of substituting "speed" for "mass", the only way to beat that is to "beam" them in a la Star Trek. Thucydideshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-44864952028335604872015-07-20T08:57:47.557-07:002015-07-20T08:57:47.557-07:00A new front pager is up, Luna Rising. surges of ...A new front pager is up, Luna Rising.

surges of interest in manned space among elements of the US armed forces

Although you don't say so explicitly, it fits your segue that most of these were early on - basically in the rocketpunk era, before the robotic option emerged. And most were just paper studies; so far as I know, only DynaSoar and MOL got to the metal bending stage.

And I have to admit trouble in taking SUSTAIN seriously. For one thing, are Marines really even configured for operations on this scale? Of course I would not want a squad of gyrenes to get in my face, but I think of them as trained and equipped for larger 'conventional' ops, not like Navy SEALs.

Of course if the thing were budgeted they could configure for it, but basically this looks like an exercise in envelope pushing, something the Marines are historically good at. Sometimes with notable consequences, e.g. developing amphib ops between the wars, when the rest of the world associated the whole idea with Gallipoli.

robot vehicles in orbit and manned or human capable vehicles in climate controlled hangers on the ground with regular inspection cycles would seem to be a much more "realistic" scenario, sadly.

Alas (from a Romance perspective), this is entirely plausible. But flip side, I also suspect that our ideas about AI and robotics are still pretty much shaped by old SF tropes, when they are really just powerful mental tools. (I'm working on a post that will touch on this.)

Mysterious little typo: maybe with a polite and medic aboard A cop? Just checking!Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-18964655352818019352015-07-19T11:08:31.690-07:002015-07-19T11:08:31.690-07:00From historical examples, I would suggest that the...From historical examples, I would suggest that there have been surges of interest in manned space among elements of the US armed forces, but in general technology has pretty much eclipsed any potential advantages of a manned platform in favour of unmanned vehicles.

I could point to Project Horizon, where the US Army was considering how to build a manned base on the Moon, or US Air Force projects like RoBo and DynaSoar (manned rocket bombers), or MOL (a manned recon sat), or the US Navy's "Space Cruiser" discussed upthread (shooting an astronaut into space from the missile tube of an SLMB is pretty crazy on the face of it; the only remotely similar idea I could think of is putting armed biplanes aboard an airship in the 1930's. The Navy is nothing if not forward thinking...).

Of course a military base on the Moon isn't all that useful for anything (if directed at Earth, Garry Anderson has a few ideas later on with the UFO series), while computer control of the ICBM and RV's ensured highly accurate missions without the use of a human bombardier, and remote sensing by unmanned satellites pretty much all killed the Rocketpunk idea. Even surprising an enemy satellite or space system is much easier with an ASAT or micro satellite, or a drone like the X-37.

Perhaps the closest that any service may have gotten is the USMC's SUSTAIN program, to use rockets to send small units of Marines directly into the AO from the United States in a matter of hours and without needing to worry too much about things like airspace clearance and overflight rights. Here at least there is a rational for the manned crew (although the rational involves them rapidly exiting the spaceplane once it reaches the ground), which is missing from all the other ideas in real life.

It might even be possible to imagine a Space Guard with robotic vehicles entirely controlled from some sort of "Mission Control" building on Earth. The robotic "cutters" spend most of their time inspecting space vehicles and installations for compliance with various regulations, grab onto and deorbit space garbage which threatens space installations and other mundane operations. If there is some need to perform space rescue, a CRV like vehicle (or a derivative of the X-37) can be quickly shot into orbit and meet up with the vehicle or installation that needs rescuing, maybe with a polite and medic aboard, or maybe under remote control (the Space Station or vehicle crew provides the medic). Hardly romantic, but from an operational perspective robot vehicles in orbit and manned or human capable vehicles in climate controlled hangers on the ground with regular inspection cycles would seem to be a much more "realistic" scenario, sadly.Thucydideshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-75251281049918351552015-07-18T19:38:14.211-07:002015-07-18T19:38:14.211-07:00fighting mirrors provides some flexibility to lase...fighting mirrors provides some flexibility to laser operations in orbit

Good points. And the ability to zap around the curve of the Earth could be a big deal. (Of course, all this presupposes lasers that can zap at a range of several thousand km. But much argument in comments here leaves me feeling that such is at least reasonable in a midfuture setting, though it would be equally reasonable to say that it just doesn't pan out that way.)

I don't think the fighting mirrors would be 'cheap' - but certainly a lot cheaper than a complete laserstar.

not sure the Space Guard would be keen to go to Mars

As almost always in these things, it depends. Different internal interest groups will push different ways. The Chief of Operations probably feels overstretched as it is, because operations chiefs always do, while the policy leadership has the natural (for them) impulse to fill a vacuum.

A great counterexample to expansion has been the total indifference of the US military to human spaceflight, let alone pushing for a Space Force. But in that case any such force would be entirely different from existing components. No existing Pentagon 'mafia' - fighter jocks, carriers, whoever - could look forward to owning it. But a Mars patrol does the same stuff orbital patrol ships already do, just on a different duty station. And the ship I outlined would be fully capable of operating in Mars space - perhaps tweak up the propellant fraction just a tad to give more margin for Mars surface to Deimos, if that capability is desired.

The ship has ample delta v for the Hohmann trip to Mars. The limited-duration life support is totally insufficient, but the ship could be flown there under robot control, the crew(s) going on regular deep space transports. Procuring its own deep space ships would come much later, if the Orbital Patrol gradually morphed into a Solar Patrol.Rickhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-34027926361440670732015-07-18T11:44:53.501-07:002015-07-18T11:44:53.501-07:00The use of fighting mirrors provides some flexibil...The use of fighting mirrors provides some flexibility to laser operations in orbit. It is potentially cheap (your laser hardware is on the ground in a hardened installation), multiple light paths, to confuse eyeball frying strategies (of the constellation of mirrors in orbit, which one is going to be used?) and to increase the area of coverage. The Cubesat analogy was mostly to show a fighting mirror could be in a very small package stowed away in a payload module; a weaponized deployable mirror would be more sophisticated, but might not be in a much bigger package.

I'm not sure the Space Guard would be keen to go to Mars, given the time and resource allocation needed. As well, Space Guard Cutters would not really be equipped with the propulsion, life support and radiation protection needed for deep space missions lasting for two years or more. The Commandant of the Space Guard would have some difficulty supporting a request for a Martian expedition (maybe in fine bureaucratic tradition he could try to pawn it off on the Skyguard instead!). It would be interesting to think of a scenario where the Earth's (or a national) Space Guard is deployed to Mars.Thucydideshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-86633136486461280752015-07-17T19:17:56.973-07:002015-07-17T19:17:56.973-07:00Space Guard Cutter can become an extremely effecti...Space Guard Cutter can become an extremely effective warship if it carries a deployable "fighting mirror"

Or even without one, depending on what else is up there. It can certainly carry and deploy kinetics, and while it does not have major onboard electrical power, it could carry a decent size laser installation, chemical powered (perhaps through electric turbogenerators, if that turns out to be preferable). And equally if not more to the point (since ordinary transport types can carry a larger payload), it has control facilities and crew training that can fairly readily be 'weaponized.'

Everything really depends on what the terrestrial powers have up there. Which might be less than we'd intuitively expect, since they are mainly worried about each other, or even midrank regional rivals, and space force budgets compete with other defense priorities. OTOH, I'm portraying a setting with $200 billion plus in orbital assets. So for story purpose you could justify anything from space remaining more or less demilitarized to it being armed to the teeth.

On deployable fighting mirrors, they seem to be popular, but I'm not sure how much advantage they confer. They let you zap around corners, which could matter in orbital space. But I don't think they increase zap range, and they require their own control systems, etc. The solar sail analogy doesn't hold up, because a fighting mirror has to have observatory-grade optics to pass along a precision beam. A solar sail just has to bounce sunlight in more or less the right direction.

there is no real reason a Martian colony would not want to create and deploy a Space Guard of their own

Once there is a Mars colony, indeed not. But an Orbital Patrol might well look at an initial Mars presence once there are on order of a thousand people on/around Mars - presumably long before anything like a colony emerged there. Now, if there is a single unified Mars Project, it might well establish its own rescue/enforcement arm almost from the outset. Such an agency is contrary to rugged-individualism tropes, but would encourage the early development of a proto-Martian identity.

(As you know, I don't think rugged individualism is at all well suited to space conditions, but that is a dead horse to beat in another post.)Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-37730006807154778492015-07-17T17:53:05.199-07:002015-07-17T17:53:05.199-07:00A nasty thought: a Space Guard Cutter can become a...A nasty thought: a Space Guard Cutter can become an extremely effective warship if it carries a deployable "fighting mirror", allowing the owning nation to project their laser in unexpected places if a crisis occurs. The Cutter can either deploy the mirror and aim it using on board systems (although after the first laser shot is banked off the fighting mirror, the Cutter will become the target of a lot of hostile attention), or dump the package and jet into a new orbit while the mirror deploys (it will most likely be a mylar "balloon" with a small aiming package and set of thrusters for its one use. Think of the solar sail deployed from a breadbox sized "Cubesat" for a conceptual idea).

WRT Mars, there is no real reason a Martian colony would not want to create and deploy a Space Guard of their own (on the "national" model of Coast Guards). Like their Earthly counterparts, the Martian Guard observes objects in Martian orbit, checks and enforces standards, and if required, cleans up space debris that threatens orbital installations or rescues people and ships in Martian orbit. There is no real reason the Space Guard would have to be associated with Earth's Space Guard, and indeed the logistics would speak against this. Even Martian Space Cutters would be different from their Earthly counterparts to match the different operational conditions (Martian Cutters would have a much easier time operating since they can dock and deploy from the Martian moons in close orbit around Mars, while the Earthly Space Guard would either have to boost from Earth or use space stations, and have many more constraints because of this.Thucydideshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-25343445167224088632015-07-17T17:05:28.122-07:002015-07-17T17:05:28.122-07:00Tinsley's design Except, happily, for the M-w...Tinsley's design

Except, happily, for the M-wings, not an aesthetic triumph. And I never quite figured out why it flew backwards in atmosphere.Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-40466921472632962022015-07-15T18:01:16.877-07:002015-07-15T18:01:16.877-07:00Amusingly enough, the Orbital Patrol ship boosted ...Amusingly enough, the Orbital Patrol ship boosted into orbit on a heavy lift stack reminds me a little bit of Tinsley's design for the Three man space scout.

Nyrathhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-16310242691396877102015-07-15T16:22:30.429-07:002015-07-15T16:22:30.429-07:001980 era "space cruiser" (it was really ...1980 era "space cruiser" (it was really nothing of the sort)

No kidding! Unless they were thinking 'cabin cruiser' rather than the naval kind. Even then it would be cramped, waaay too suggestive of a coffin.

There's no reason the transstage couldn't have its own heat shield and Earth recovery chute, which only need to handle the empty mass of the transstage. I am overall pretty agnostic about the possible configurations of Patrol craft - ultimately they will all be determined by the actual or projected mission requirements, as these emerge from operations.

For a strictly orbit to orbit patrol ship that can do all of the same missions, (except the landings) you could get rid of 30 tons of dry mass

So long as you are regularly operating into LEO (or low Mars orbit), the heat shield and aerodynamic form are well worth having. Certainly you can delete Earth recovery, and Luna/Mars landing, if these are not in the anticipated missions.

And I wouldn't be concerned about round trips to Mars, since the life support is not designed for long duration (and the ships I have outlined are too small for human interplanetary missions). One-way robo ferrying to Mars (or back) is more useful, if the Patrol expands into Mars space, as it likely would if the human presence there becomes substantial and politics does not preclude it.

... obsolete, then the space authority could probably find a less well-endowed organization to sell it to. Serenity anyone

Well, yes. Obsolescent types will be a natural source of (relatively!) cheap spacecraft on the second hand market. That and economic bubbles, which will sometimes throw shiny unused models on the market for pennies on the dollar.

landing legs do make it more versatile and a much better plot device

Indeed! And more to the point, an emergency craft really doesn't want to rely on other ships being available, because when you need them, Murphy will make sure they aren't available. A fair number of adventure tropes - though certainly not all of them! - have roots in practical considerations.Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-26278566444797800362015-07-15T11:25:30.046-07:002015-07-15T11:25:30.046-07:00For a strictly orbit to orbit patrol ship that can...For a strictly orbit to orbit patrol ship that can do all of the same missions, (except the landings) you could get rid of 30 tons of dry mass, and the dV to match would be 11600m/s for LEO to Mars orbit and return. That would mean a total mass of more than 800 tons. If you set the bar one step lower at LEO to L4/L5 and return, that gives a more reasonable total mass of a little more than 450 tons. The ship could still do a one-way trip to Mars and return if there was a refueling base on one of the moons, but its versatility is reduced just a bit more. If the 20 tons of heat shield and aerodynamics save 50 tons of fuel and increase the ship's versatility, then they are worth it.

I think that the only reason the patrol ship would need to land is if there aren't well-stocked propellant depots in lunar orbit or L4/L5, or if they were out of the space authority's control. Propellant depots would mean frequent trips by lighters to and from a lunar ice-mining base, and the space authority could probably afford its own specialized lighters to enforce their authority over the lunar surface. As to bringing it back to earth, even when the cost of another refit exceeds the cost of launching a new ship, the old ship is still 100 tons of space-capable hardware that doesn't need to be boosted into orbit or constructed on an extraterrestrial base, so it's definitely more valuable in space than on earth. If it becomes so old that fusion engines and/or magnetohydrodynamic wizardry make it obsolete, then the space authority could probably find a less well-endowed organization to sell it to. Serenity anyone?

Of course, landing legs do make it more versatile and a much better plot device, since the intrepid crew don't need to stop at a station and become passengers on someone else's spacecraft just to get to where they are trying to go.

As for radiation protection, you could store a fraction of the ship's fuel as water surrounding the crew cabin. It also might reduce fuel tankage mass.
email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-88889570576769881432015-07-15T10:03:08.600-07:002015-07-15T10:03:08.600-07:00There may be other work arounds to get the sort of...There may be other work arounds to get the sort of "rocketpunk" performance out of ships.

Lookig again at the 1980 era "space cruiser" (it was really nothing of the sort), we see a tiny spacecraft initially conceived to be blasted into orbit from a SLBM tube to make surprise inspections of Soviet space hardware. However, it was realized that the Space cruiser design had lots of advantages, inclusing the ability to make plane change manouevres in the atmosphere, the ability to make pin point landings (via parasail) and small enough to be launched from multiple types of vehicles, including recycled M-X boosters an being carried aloft by the Space Shuttle.

The last two opened some interesting avenues, since the larger diameter of tghe launcher and the greater "throw weights" allowed the "Space Cruiser" to be carried with a trans stage that provided more consumables and rocket fuel (and thus greater deltaV). It was suggested that with a big enough trans stage the Space Cruiser could actually reach lunar orbit (although an astronaut sealed in his suit for the trip would probably not appriceiate this).

The basic shape of the Space Cruiser (an elongated cone) can be scaled to a certain extent, and the rear of the cone can be extended a bit with a cylendrical portion for crew and some stowage, say the size of an Apollo CM or SpaceX Dragon (the fuel and systems will be in the pointed part in front, in reverse of the Apollo/Dragon practice). An additional trans stage can be boosted into orbit to be docked to the back of the cone shaped cutter, which holds a lot more fuel, extendable solar panels, consumables and maybe even some extra living space. Depending on the mission, the trans stage also houses modular units for special missions (so a crew might have a Pilot, a Mission Specialist and a Payload Specialist).

So this Space Guard Cutter can operate in LEO with a two or three man crew, or dock with the trans stage and carry out extended missions, maybe even to the Moon and back, re;leasing the trans stage prior to atmospheric manouevres. If the trans stage can be braked under its own residual rocket power once the cutter has cast off, or use MHD or other techniques to aerobrake, then even better.Thucydideshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-34388862490071019322015-07-15T09:05:50.059-07:002015-07-15T09:05:50.059-07:00I get that such a ship is rocketpunky, and that...I get that such a ship is rocketpunky, and that's a big deal to you

No. Seriously. Not. In spite of this blog's name and banner image, the rocketpunk vision has turned out to be fairly incidental to my project here. Most of my discussion of spaceships has been about fairly Realistic[TM] deep space craft, nuclear or solar electric, with milligee acceleration. Clarke turf, yes, but totally alien to Heinlein, who really loved him some bone crushing acceleration. I've never even looked at nuke thermal propulsion - the realio trulio Atomic Rockets - until I played around a bit for this series.

I had never even really thought much about orbital space, and the craft it calls for - I did just a bit, at sfconsim-l, just before I launched this blog, hence the semi-streamlined forward section of one of the deep space ships in the banner image. Only when I played around with the numbers here did I find out that classic winged/finned tail landers and such look doable, and might even have a plausible mission.

There are good reasons (at multiple levels) why no such ships might be built. But, flip side, I don't think it is fanciful that a quasi-military or emergency service might have some ships that sacrifice payload and operating economy for maximum flexibility. As always, YMMV, but that is presumably why we have these discussions!

Jeebus, guys 'n' (I hope) gals - the comments are the best part of this blog, but I end up having to write a whole friggin essay to respond to them! :-ORickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-60071084284212071302015-07-15T09:03:09.603-07:002015-07-15T09:03:09.603-07:00know how to make such ships with long enough built...know how to make such ships with long enough built-in endurance to not need major repairs during their planned service lives

I wasn't really thinking of rebuilding the airframe, the way wooden ships were dismantled and rebuilt. (A process that sometimes became administrative sleight of hand, building a new ship with the old ship's bell and name.) I was thinking more of upgrading onboard systems, replacing worn fittings (gaskets, seat cushions, whateva) that are more economical to replace than build to match vehicle service life, yada yada.

Not to mention giving the the hab compartment a thorough steam cleaning. :-D

Does anyone in this community have first hand knowledge of current aviation practice? The ISS will eventually have to be abandoned and ditched (though they have extended its planned lifetime, and will probably do so again). I assume this is not because the basic structure is wearing out, but because onboard systems are, and there is no way to overhaul them. As cageworks are developed, the scope of maintenance in space will expand until eventually ships are built there, but likely not at the development level I'm considering here.

And truth to be told, maintenance was a toss-off thought. I originally specified Earth recovery for operational reasons, if only because 'ground crew' is a whole lot cheaper to support on the ground than in an orbital hab.

(Yes, there are seams and inconsistancies in my discussion, and I DO appreciate having them pointed out. Basically that is how progress is made.)

we are not going to be aerobraking these ships

Why not? Ships built primarily FOR lunar or outer-orbital space, like lunar landers or those operating between lunar orbit and the Langrange points, won't be built to aerobrake. But ships operating between the Moon and LEO surely will aerobrake (unless some devil in the details makes it non-viable), because the 15 percent shielding mass penalty is about the cheapest 3200 m/s of delta v you'll ever get, at least at this techlevel.

When I initially modeled the ship in this post, I wasn't even thinking about the Moon. My first specification was enough (powered) delta v - 5700 m/s - to get from LEO to geosynch, then the return transfer orbit, aerobraking back to LEO. (I then goosed delta v up a bit to get a nice round 75 pct propellant fraction, not to mention some operating margin.) But it was only after choosing that performance spec that I realized, hot damn, it is actually easier to get to lunar orbit and back. One of those counterintuitive things!

It might work out that geosynch, for all its economic importance, remains almost entirely a domain of satellites, with the rare ship that goes there using drop tanks and kissing them off on return. And patrol ships may be built purely for either low orbit or lunar space, with only standard transport types used to get between them. But for a (zero budget!) technology demonstrator, I wanted to show the full range of what a plausible chemfuel rocket ship can do.Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-43612305469596792962015-07-14T22:57:24.200-07:002015-07-14T22:57:24.200-07:00Rick, et. al... I guess I should have made my pre...Rick, et. al...

I guess I should have made my premises clearer.

1. The reason you don't want to recover Patrol ships to Earth is that they have a limited service lifetime, after which you dispose of them. We already know how to make such ships with long enough built-in endurance to not need major repairs during their planned service lives. We're not going to suddenly get stupid about that. Also, if a ship needs a big enough repair to justify grounding it, running through what would amount to a factory rebuild, and launching it into space again, would it be safe to try to land it to begin with? Even if it would, why not just launch a new ship instead? Yeah, it's a little -- maybe even a lot -- more pricey, but it's new, with all of the advantages that usually implies.

2. Because patrol ships stay in space once launched, they need not be so configuration constrained. They need not have mass spent on aerobraking and ground recovery features as well. As already stated, that frees up significant mass for payload or propellant.

3. Because we are not going to be aerobraking these ships, the 3200 m/s to the Moon and back is not a realistic figure. You have to decelerate into Earth orbit once you get back. That's what I meant by doing the math. Or, if you want an aerobraking and Earth-landing ship, then you're not just lifting the payload, consumables, and some structure out to lunar orbit, you're lifting all of that special-purpose mass all the way out to lunar orbit too. And if your mission is out to lunar orbit to do something there to begin with, once again your lifting all of the mass that does you no good out there. That made some kind of sense with Apollo, where the extra mass was limited to a heat shield for a crew return module and some parachutes. But the whole spacecraft? Every time you go out? I get that such a ship is rocketpunky, and that's a big deal to you, but I'm just not seeing the sense in it, even for the sake of firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-28439458094084170962015-07-14T18:33:50.532-07:002015-07-14T18:33:50.532-07:00So what if we used gun-propelled conventional expl...So what if we used gun-propelled conventional explosives while in atmosphere?

Serious creativity points for this approach! The great meta frustration paradox of 'nuke pulse drive' has always been that the one application for which it is uniquely capable - as an SSTO - is the most problematic of all. The suggestion, shown at the Atomic Rockets site, of using a couple dozen Shuttle solid boosters to lob it clear of the atmosphere reeks of desperation.

Using gun-fired shells substantially alleviates the problem, but (I suspect) doesn't really make it go away. Reflecting bangs off a pusher plate is an inefficient way to produce thrust. For the drive itself this is not a problem, because if there is one thing it has it is sheer power to spare. But it would take a LOT of feeble little HE shells to push that sucker along - so many, I suspect, that they would still wipe out the advantage of the drive.

One thing that wouldn't be so much a problem, I think, would be 'safeing' the guns, because their potential range would not be all that much greater than traditional battleship guns. Not a threat to populated regions from any site acceptable for launching the vehicle anyway.

But in any case, the nuke pulse drive is not suitable for routine use in orbital space, because it is a nuke drive that can't possibly be all-around shielded. Routine use would blow through long term radiation limits out to an enormous radius, on order of 100,000 km.

And a few footnotes:

I doubt that recycling the name was decided at a political policy level - how many pols could identify the constellation, let alone the space drive proposal? My guess is that it came from someone in NASA who wanted to give the name of noble Orion, as I call him, to a spacecraft that might actually get built.

Is nuclear power (as distinct from bombs) really that controversial any more? My guess is that those of us who remember the 1980 era have all too vivid memories of antinuclear marches and such, but I think it has mostly faded as a political hot (so to speak!) button.

My own skepticism about the nuke pulse drive (apart from, you know, that whole atomic bomb thing) centers on the pusher plate and those giga monster truck shocks. Would they really stand up to hundreds of close-in nuclear bangs in rapid succession?Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-47069229164703855842015-07-14T12:15:25.950-07:002015-07-14T12:15:25.950-07:00A new, quick little front pager: The Heart of the ...A new, quick little front pager:
The Heart of the Kuiper BeltRickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-58120087625075110042015-07-14T08:28:05.134-07:002015-07-14T08:28:05.134-07:00All that aside, here's an idea I have no idea ...All that aside, here's an idea I have no idea if it is practical:

The problem with nuke pulse drives is taking off. Even assuming that we can get fallout (unburned fissile material) down to negligible quantities, fission products would still make the landing pad and everything around it horribly radioactive for months.
Even if there is no-one living in the extended radius, it would make operations way more difficult, and Norway may be unhappy about it.
Even worse, giving how people freak out about nuclear powerplants and invent the most insane problems when they are working too safely for their nuclear scare, one can imagine how they would react about a nuclear explosive-driven rocket. How long before Greenpeace activists sabotage a launch?
On the other hand, taking off with good old chemical rockets kind of trash half of its advantages, as you have to design pretty monstrous ones to launch it.

So what if we used gun-propelled conventional explosives while in atmosphere?

While in atmosphere, the yeild of pulse units would have to be way lower, because air would transfer energy more effectively.
So pack conventional explosives on the pad, under the plate. That's what replaces your first pulse unit.
Then, place guns near the launchpad. As the craft ascents, they fire guided artillery-like projectiles in rapid succession at it, each containing a directional charge. As if flies right below the plate, it detonates in its direction, pushing it.
The projectile's trajectory would always be carefully calculated to not pass to close to the craft - if it didn't explode, or exploded too late (like right next to a window).

The craft would take off in a carefully planned trajectory so any projectile that miss would end up in the uninhabited Arctic or Pacific ocean.
The guns themselves would be fixed, so some joker can't turn them around to bombard Russia or Europe. And the projectiles may be specially made to be easier to intercept, just in case.
Once above the atmosphere, the craft would have enough delta-V with its on-board pulse units to go orbital, and take any orbit it wants. So the atmospheric trajectory would gain to be fairly vertical, compared to conventional rockets.

Even in atmosphere, the projectiles' yeild would probably be lower than required, so the frequency would be higher (the plate wouldn't be fully pushed back). Depending on the specifics (fragments?), a protective, disposable shield may be added on the plate.

It would be the crude equivalent of a laser- or pebble-launch, with similar advantages: no fuel transported by the ship (meaning better performances), complexity moved to the ground where it's easier to manage, reusable installations.
There would be high redundancy: multiple guns, many projectiles - if a projectile fails, the course of others would be modified in real-time to take the trajectory change.
The projectiles wouldn't be cheap, but compared to rockets, it would probably still be better. Particularly as they could be mass-produced.

What glaring flaw did I miss?Ethhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-67266662974379439102015-07-14T08:09:31.061-07:002015-07-14T08:09:31.061-07:00I was recently wondering how Orion would fit there...I was recently wondering how Orion would fit there.
(As some idiot politician thought it was a good idea to recycle the program's name a few years ago, we should maybe talk about nuke pulse drive instead.)
In this particular future, the answer is probably not at all. Varied powers don't want to alarm each-other by using such... aggressive propulsion method, and similarly the Guard would try to keep lower profile than that.

It feels that it could be possible in a slightly different near future (and hell, starting now). While the varied powers still wouldn't want to alarm each other - probably one of the main reasons it was cancelled in the '60 (seriously, who thought putting a 3000 Mt nuke in orbit was a good idea?) - there is now a long tradition of international cooperation in space programs.
So a concerted effort to create an international organisation that would develop and use nuke pulse crafts could work. It would explicitly try and keep members from taking it over, so the US/Europe and Russia can work together as a better alternative of either doing nothing or starting a new, unwise mix of space and nuclear race anew.
It could be fired from northern Norway: Norway is historically neutral, and the closer from the poles the better with those pulse nukes.
It wouldn't be easy (nor probable), as the US and Japan would have to accept that the Chinese are part of it or start their own program. And North Korea may try and start its own as well, though that could be an interesting thing to follow.
But it could work.Ethhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-82751584373983439272015-07-13T20:31:59.862-07:002015-07-13T20:31:59.862-07:00main difference between cutters might be the crew ...main difference between cutters might be the crew endurance and delta V

Seems likely! On crew endurance I think there is a big dividing line somewhere around the two week mark, basically between what you can tolerate for a fairly short mission and what you need to live aboard for an extended time. And maybe another, currently pegged at six months, where you need a spin hab and really robust shielding. Space medicine and psychology experts will refine this - rocket science is a snap compared to human factors!

In this early period the ships of the Patrol will likely be limited to two weeks, as distinct from stations/bases. But as the human deep space presence grows the Patrol will naturally default to expanding its scope, in due course procuring its own deep space ships. And in this era the interest (and thus potential pushback) of terrestrial powers will likely be inverse to distance from Earth. At least until/unless some McGuffinite emerges to focus their attention outward. Then of course all bets are off. Maybe.

A footnote on 'cutters.' As usual I am biased against overly nautical terms, where 'overly nautical' especially connotes vessels small enough that you expect to feel sea spray when aboard one. (Boat is the exemplar in that respect.) To me, 'cutter' falls in that class, even though some Coast Guard cutters are frigate sized. But the Patrol might adopt the term to emphasize that its armed spacecraft are not warcraft. Absolutely not. Wouldn't even dream of it. ;-)

How much of a wild card would [magnetohydronamic aerobraking] technology be if it works?

Depending on how it works, what requirements, etc. If beaucoup electrical power is required, it won't much matter for smaller spacecraft, at least until/unless beamed power is readily available. Big electric ships might be able to aerobrake handily down to low orbit - but still have a tedious spiral to get back outward, which could still discourage them from close approach to Earth.

In general, some combination of 'alternative' techs - MHD braking, beamed power, tethers, you name it, could eventually sweep the whole rocket era into nostalgia for the days when men and women were hot, and space travel was Cool. Or they could become 'electric railroads' serving main routes while other travel is not much affected. Or never play more than a marginal role.Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-15600436214343340032015-07-13T17:56:55.745-07:002015-07-13T17:56:55.745-07:00What are all the spacecraft in your header image? ...What are all the spacecraft in your header image?

A fun question, that I don't think has been directly asked before! [A small request, though; I ask 'anon' commenters to add a name/handle to their comments, to avoid confusion among multiple anons.] The ships were purely visual designs, not part of a story setting, and not specified in any technical detail.

As you guessed, the ship on the left is the Clarkean double sphere, but it also does double duty, with a Heinlein style view dome above the astrogation deck. (I wasn't able to get the neat little ring of side windows around it.) It is meant to represent a commercial deep space ship.

The center top ship is (IIRC) a heavy tail lander SSTO - you can see the fairings covering the landing legs, midway between the fins. It does have a side cockpit, probably because it would fly plane-wise in the lower atmosphere before pulling up and pitching back for final powered descent. Maybe not the safest way to get down, but damn it would be impressive to watch!

The deep space ship to the right, with the semi-streamlined forward section, is a military craft. It differs in all details from the double-sphere ship, so is not a half-sister, but presumably has a similar electric drive. Note the forward-aiming large antenna and (presumably!) heavy laser cannon. This predates my current conception of laserstars, or I might have specified a bigger mirror. Or you can take it as a mixed-armament craft, not primarily a laserstar.

Finally, the ramjet shuttle on the lower right is misleading in one important respect - it is well behind the others, and a lot bigger than it looks, some 100 meters long. I had never heard of Skylon when I modeled it, but it is about the same size and overall configuration, albeit without the BADASS wingtip engines.

Your Patrol might have three main bases in orbit; two in Earth orbit and one in Lunar orbit

Seems like a plausible arrangement! And ...

one or two multi-purpose rockets(or a bunch of modules that can be quickly mixed and matched) ... probably want to have space cutters that are optimized for the particular jobs

Taking these comments together, as covering similar ground: In a word, yes. Per remarks above, I was basically seeing how much Cool Stuff a plausible ship could do, which turned out to be an amazing lot. In real life the designers will slice and dice carefully to get the optimum balance for anticipated missions, with allowance for the potential unknowns. And likely at least two types, an aerobraking model primarily for lower orbits and a space-only model, with greater crew endurance, for lunar space and the outer orbital envelope generally.

Amazingly for a Hollywood spacecraft, the Starfury might indeed be a good conceptual model if quick pivot performance is important. (As I think it might be, but that is for an upcoming post).

Fusion, or other big tech advances, would knock over the whole tea wagon. But for this series I'm being very conservative, to explore the limits of what we basically already know we can do.Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-57357844482287139322015-07-13T17:48:24.234-07:002015-07-13T17:48:24.234-07:00In any case, meters per second is actually a gross...In any case, meters per second is actually a gross approximation in real-world orbital mechanics terms

Absolutely. Planning burns will be much more precise. I'm thinking in terms of oral reports of running situations, 'closing rate 5400 meters per second' or the like, where the number would have changed by the time you read off multiple significant figures in any case.

absolutely no reason to ever bring it back again

Major overhauls, perhaps, beyond what can yet be done in space? Admittedly I ignored this in discussing logistics/commercial craft. Even more admittedly, I was exploring maximum flexibility, and basically the limits of what the tech can do under reasonable overall constraints. Actual Requests for Proposals will be rather more nuanced (and rather less inclined to pick handy round numbers).

have optional modules available that carry more payload or delta-v

For non-aerobraking craft this is a no brainer; for aerodynamic vehicles it gets a bit dicier in practice, which is why you don't see a whole lot of modularity in aircraft. But certainly a bay could accommodate a cargo payload (or weapons with their racks/release mechanisms), or added hab capacity, or tankage for some extra propellant. External loads can be carried freely, so long as you ditch them before aerobraking.

Okay, do the math yourself

How do you think I got the 3200 m/s figure for 23 deg? (Rounding, of course, and pending someone pointing out a mistake.) As Daniel says, inclination changes at low orbit are pricey; much more than 23 deg would require well over 3200 m/s, enough to pay for jumping over the Moon with a week's consumables. But obviously in responding to an urgent call you won't want to spend an extra week.

In fact, one reason to have some ships equipped for Earth recovery might be so that they can be ground based, available to launch into any orbit as needed. Polar orbits are mainly associated with military spysats, something the Patrol keeps at double arms' length from. But geosats also use high inclination orbits, and at the implied space development level some civilian researchers might be in those orbits, placing them within the Patrol's scope.Rickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494544263897150929.post-87945236263516118152015-07-13T17:29:58.848-07:002015-07-13T17:29:58.848-07:00How much of a wild card would this technology be i...How much of a wild card would this technology be if it works?

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php#id--Aerobraking--Magnetohydrodynamic_Aerobraking
Atomic Rockets links to this with more detailed information.
http://selenianboondocks.com/category/mhd-aerobraking-and-tps/

This would allow rather non-aerodynamic spacecraft to aerobrake into LEO & only craft intended to go from orbit to earth surface would need streamlining. If the required magnets turn out to be less massive than a heat shield such an MHD braking system might be standard equipment on spacecraft. Interplanetary craft would also use the tech for getting into Mars or Jupiter orbit from interplanetary space.Jim firstname.lastname@example.com


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Howdy ho, my friend. I feel like I've been super MIA lately, but it's all for good reason! Reason number one is kids+family+life, which is definitely a legit reason. Reason number two is our home construction! It has finally come to an [almost] end. There are still a few punch list items remaining, but all the major stuff is finished and we are all living in a normal house without visqueen walls and workers in and out of our door all day errday! It is a good feeling, I tell ya. A very good feeling. I hope to be able to get some good shots of the new stuff to show y'all here soon! Just hasn't happened yet!
So a little bit of lovely lately that has been happening in my neck of the woods…
… A crawfish boil with our amazing life group from church!
… Going to the sweetest Peter Rabbit themed birthday party for my niece Sybil!
… A fantastic Easter celebrating life and freedom from our chains! Love this fam o mine 🙂
… Speaking of Easter, my favorite springtime mom hack is to get the kids in their Easter clothes a few days before the actual day and go ahead and take pictures. That way, there's one less thing to do before trying to get out the door for church! Dempsey's outfit and Lily Ryan's dress came from Row 10 and Wilson's suit came from Zara!
… Working hard on MAY MOD Runway Event coming up on May 9th! It's benefitting Magnolia Speech School, which is the school that provides Dempsey with his early intervention therapy! It's going to be REALLY fun. Get your tickets here!
… Enjoying one of the recent sunsets close to our house. We've had some of the prettiest ones I've seen recently!
… Having my photo shoot for THE HIVE blog's second appearance in The Scout Guide Jackson! These were a couple of my favorites from the shoot with photographer Karla Pound. So excited for y'all to see the final when the new book comes out this summer!
… Having a post-dinner cocktail with Price at Gold Coast inside Cultivation Food Hall on a recent date night. It was delicious! If only I could remember what it was called… 😉 I love that it came with a side of extra!
… These kiddos always making me smile 🙂
… Getting to go to a fun event at Highland Village with some fun gals around town to celebrate Kendra Scott's summer launch!
And that brings me to the end of this round of Lovely Lately! I hope you have been lovely lately as well 🙂
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"Transformation comes from looking deeply within, to a state that exists before fear and isolation arise, the state in which we are inviolably whole." Sharon Satzberg
There were two planetary stations over the weekend – Uranus stationed retrograde and Jupiter stationed direct. Jupiter will start to move forward now ushering in a very good time to envision how you would like to expand your life. It's a good time for exploring new ideas, for learning, teaching and traveling in order to expand your horizons. Jupiter stationed at 14 degrees of Sagittarius and will remain in this sign until early December when it will enter the sign of Capricorn.
The Sun moves up to a conjunction to Venus t this week and at that time will form a challenging aspect to Pluto, Saturn and the South Node. This influence can bring up issues having to do with a lack of love, a lack of self love and concerns about abundance. With Pluto and Saturn involved these issues can have an ancestral aspect to them – issues that family members have struggled with throughout the generations. It's an opportunity for a deeper level of understanding about them, should they arise, as well as an opportunity to let go of old patterns that may be holding you back.
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The Moon waxes full on Thursday at 22 degrees of Aquarius at 8:29 AM EDT. The influence of Vesta is strong at this time, squaring the Sun, Venus,and the Moon.
Vesta is named for the Vestals or Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome. The Romans worshiped Vesta as the keeper of home and hearth as well as the keeper of the sacred flame- the fire that would not go out. The name Vesta is derived from ancient Sanskrit and means "shining."
The Vestals were also the keepers of occult teachings known only to them. They were present at every important government function in ancient Rome. They were regarded as important keepers of ethics and wisdom, without whom Rome would fall.
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The purpose of this project was to validate an indwelling catheter system's ability to completely collect bile from an unrestrained, conscious cynomolgus monkey for an extended period of time. [?C] Glycocholic acid was administered as an intravenous bolus twice to three bile duct-cannulated cynomolgus monkeys, and the routes and rates of excretion of drug-related radioactivity were determined. Two animals had complete bile collection over the duration of the study. Average biliary recovery of administered dose was >94% for both animals over both collection periods. A third animal had only partial bile recovery during the first session and no bile collection during the second session. There were no adverse health effects observed over the course of the study.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Accepted
January 2001
Project Type
Major Qualifying Project
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Biology and Biotechnology


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