(A)(1) Image the Polar cloud tops at a angle towards the equator.
(A)(2) Attempt to image Almatha and other Moons over the equator, and the other moons.
This URL is an early blog article about ideas from as early as 2011 that I shared with the NIF facility at Livermore labs.An idea I with held from sharing publicly I shared with the NIF users group in the fall of last year,I received an interesting reply, the reply was a request not to submit the idea to the user groups channels.
https://yellowdragonblog.com/2014/01/17/icarus-pulse-detonated-icf-hybrid-in-space-engine/
This I found odd, The 10’s of Billions spent on NIF was for science but also to verify physics for the stockpile stewardship program.To be sure I proposed running the idea of fission/fusion micropellets through the NIF supercomputer as I am sure a highly enriched fissionable outer layer micropellet would contaminate the INF target chamber.
So what did I propose through the NIF users group that they found so objectionable? I am not sure they would not tell me.I suspect perhaps it was not fission/fusion micropellets in the NIF target chamber,I think it was the weapons system I proposed to them.My proposed weapons system is based on the fission/fusion micropellets as in space starship propellent systems.
Here is what I proposed, some delivery system strategic or tactical (local or long range delivery) places micropellet fission/fusion in a combat location.A local or long range asset with a power beam weapons system(Laser) fires and ignites the micropellets/ microcapsules.
I do not know what the trades are here? could a handheld laser ignite a fission/fusion micropellet? I think that unlikely.
Could a Bomber with a laser beamed weapon ignite a flock of micropellets from a standoff range of hundreds of miles? (rain,fog,clouds)
A Proposed Hong Kong Foreign worker Nanny,Au per, housekeeper ESOP
Retains the surplus value of the labor of the foreign nanny,housekeeper,au par for the future benefit of those workers.Needs a comprehensive knowledge of Hong Kong Coop employee ownership laws.
We propose that the city of Hong Kong and the enlightened employers would allow time for at least 1 university course per semester for each housekeeper, nanny.Both the city and the university, as well as the ESOP, would represent a pool of money and opportunity so that the foreign household worker could achieve a two-year degree in a 6 year period of employment.
Foreign workers who manage this ESOP would be treated under the permanent resident rule for executives
In Hong Kong there is no special regualtion of employee ownership except for stock regulation under securities laws there is some unfortunate tax laws on capital gains
We the people of the United kingdom through Parliament and the people of the European Union through the European council and Parliament agree to hold referendums on independence for Scotland,Northern Ireland and Wales if elected to do so.These referendums would be honored by the European Union through Article 50 as the right to EU membership by newly independent succeeding states
The United Kingdom and the EU agree that the referendum should state “I vote yes or no to independence and EU membership” In Northern Ireland the ballot should read, “I vote for reunification”, “I vote for independence” “I vote to remain with the UK” A runoff election shall be held among the two highest vote results if there is not a 50% majority.Agreements allowing free movement of Peoples between Ireland and the UK shall continue and will be adopted by “Commonwealth of the United Kingdom” a proposed political entity(see below) Northern Irish Voter opinion
The UK and the EU agree under article 50 that the referendum might result in independence and if so it is agreed in advance that there shall be created a commonwealth of the United Kingdom.England would succeed to the UN and international bodies as the original member state, independent states would become members of the commonwealth of nations and in currency Union and customs union with the Pound.The commonwealth of the UK shall guarantee free movement of people’s between its member states for citizens.This means a citizen of England could migrate by right to Scotland and become a EU citizen again while in residency.
This English citizen residence in Scotland would need to establish a passport to migrate to the EU. EU citizens would need to spend time in Scotland long enough for citizenship** to have the right to migrate to England.**The Commonwealth of the UK would recognize that all of its citizens are dual nationals of its members.A EU citizen in residence in Scotland would need to become a citizen to migrate to England or use the English visa border control
The EU under article 50 would guarantee that free movement of goods and services across the commonwealth borders would enjoy special statuses with EU trade but direct trade to and from England and the EU is subject to WTO and other trade agreements.
Gibraltar shall be allowed to hold a referendum to its future status as to the Commonwealth of the United kingdom and the EU shall under article 50 agree to this.The ballot for Gibraltar shall give the option of continued EU membership by joining with Scotland or Northern Ireland.
In the beginning when the Voters Approved the BART system the city of San Francisco was gifted with the MUNI system sharing stations along Market street.BART’s gift was the tunneling costs.The time might be to consider again sharing tunneling costs to encourage an early deployment of a Second BART tube.Both MUNI and BART have studied a Geary street tunnel and it is this that speaks for a joint tunnel study.The systems would not share tracks of course but would share tunnel costs of a two level tunnel.What to study?
(A)(1) BART and MUNI share a two level tunnel out to ocean beach and share stations but in most cases BART trains would expressed by many stations without stopping.Software shared by both BART and MUNI could monitor this and alter the stops made by both MUNI and BART to accommodate traffic levels on both in real time.
(A)(2) BART or MUNI does not run all the way out to Ocean Beach and shared two level tunnel ends.Or two level tunnel continues a way South but this would require a MUNI Geary tunnel sharing a tunnel with another MUNI line heading south.However BART out to Ocean Beach could allow MUNI to run trains through Geary tunnel that serve two different lines but not likely during busy periods.
(A)(3) No recent BART or MUNI studies discuss using the Bay Bridge instead of a tunnel.High speed rail tunnel sharing with BART or MUNI has not been studied although I have discussed it in earlier posts regarding sharing a two level tunnel under San Jose.
Questions?
(B)(1) A two level tunnel like Market street MUNI/BART would cost more to dig(?) Shared stations would as well so there must be a financing / ridership synergy.Ridership synergies are elusive but financing tunnels between agencies I think might be the opportunity we seek.Agencies could owe one another for costs and capitalized over time; example agency 1 gains the most from ridership of a BART/MUNI Geary tunnel so agency 1 pays for or borrows say 75% of the tunnel costs.Agency 2 with less ridership pays the percentage down to 50% in later years.This is Tunnel arbitrage !
This architecture is inspired by the following FISO Texas presentation Lunar orbits .The SLS could be best used if a serially produced payload manufactured from the SLS’s own production machinery was that payload.
This idea is put forth by the advocates of a SLS derived space station the skylab-II.Skylab was manufactured from Saturn V tanks so the proposed skylab-II would be manufactured from SLS Hydrogen tanks. FISO Texas Skylab-II presentation My thoughts are that SLS could place multiple Skylab-II in some of the lunar orbits studied in the lunar orbit study.Earth Moon Lagrange points(EML-2) DRO (distant lunar retrograde) and the report argues for the NRO orbit or Lunar rectilinear orbit.The Orion has limits to its range as far as propellent and weight go so DRO to Lunar South Pole base are with in its range of capability.
Jon Goff’s views on the same FISO presentation lunar orbital options NRO VS EML-2
I did not know of these Lunar retinguler lunar orbits until last week’s FISO so I learn something new! Jon Goff helps explain it better than I can however Jon helps me ask better questions.I believe the FISO paper discusses lunar gravity transfers between NRO and EML-2 but not much detail.To build on Jons views the existence of Skylab-II and Bigelow cyclers might solve human crew mission duration problems.
In this scenario the noble gas SEP propellent is not used as Ullage/pressurent but has fuel lines directly to the ACES aft SEP engine.Cryogenic Neon would use a small tank if the ACES has ZBO.
Use the depleted O2 tank in the event of a overpressure event but then would need a kludge for that…..:)
Fermenting soy from spent brewer’s grain
The closest I have been able to come to this idea is this site “Beer Soy” I would want to duplicate this experiment using Aspergillus as well as traditional yeast soy fermentation.This idea is related to an earlier idea of mine Michigan fermented Fish Sauce
Expansion to gas of cryogenic ullage Neon as a power source
Cryogenic Neon has one of the largest liquid to gas expansion volumes known and as such should allow for a lightweight in space tank.Perhaps the expanding Neon used as ullage gas and subsequent use as a SEP propellant could also turn a flywheel as it turns to gas to generate electrical power? metering the Neon as ullage may present problems in flight during launch so such a cogeneration system might find better use on a fuel depot.Or Metering rate problems mean two Neon tanks on the launch vehicle one for fluids the other high-pressure gas, this would not be ideal.
Expansion of Neon can also inflate Bigelow habitats as blogged about earlier in posts that talk about habitats being used as propellant tanks for SEP systems in preposition of habitats mission design.
As blogged before the SEP engine would be collocated with Chemical propellant IVF engine
Ground-based launch operations provides the cryogenic Neon and should be considered the charging of the Battery
Combined SEP delivery of habitat and sample return from Deimos
The hypothesis here is that a Habitat that is pressurized with Noble gases that serves as an additional reservoir of propellent is delivered to Deimos with a SEP stage and after Habitat prepositioning retrieves Deimos boulder for return to Earth.
The same idea applies to delivering habitats to asteroids and a subsequent sample return.
Yellow Dragon, a mission to repurpose existing ideas into new ideas 