What "weed need" is a space mission!

[chappy]

Originally Posted by chalsall

SpaceX develops custom CFD using GPUs! Cool!!!

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by xilman

That is a really nice presentation!

In what appears to be a miscue in the article, they refer to the engine as a Merlin derived engine, while I understand the Raptor to be a different engine family. The Raptor is much more that a scaled up Merlin.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by chalsall

SpaceX develops custom CFD using GPUs! Cool!!!

Nice material, thanks for sharing it.

edit: clicking on the bottom of the page you linked, after reading your material:
Pascal GPU - Ten Times the Maxwell

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by chalsall

SpaceX develops custom CFD using GPUs! Cool!!!

I watched the video on the weekend. Pretty darned awesome.

[only_human]

Extraterrestrial espresso maker ISSpresso headed for International Space Station

The ISSpresso will ride along on the SpaceX when the rocket launches on Monday with a load of 4,000 pounds of food and scientific experiments bound for the space station.

The high-tech coffee maker was supposed to arrive in January but an earlier shipment from Virginia exploded.

[chalsall]

I suspect quite a few geeks are going to be doing some streaming today (weather permitting)!

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by chalsall

I suspect quite a few geeks are going to be doing some streaming today (weather permitting)!

The forecast looks good. I'll be one of those geeks :D

[only_human]

NASA offering $18,000 for human lab rats to stay in bed

The second stage will see the volunteers transferred to NASA’s Flight Analog Research Unit in Houston, Texas. They will spend 10 weeks lying in bed, with their bodies tilted slightly backwards, with their feet up and their head down.

Movement will be kept to a bare minimum, with the human lab rats only able to go to the toilet in a plastic bedpan, while they will also have to wash while lying down with a hand-held showerhead.

Reading and watching movies will be allowed, as these activates don’t use up much energy. However, the participants could suffer from aching joints, due to lying on one position for such a lengthy period of time.

The idea is to emulate what an astronaut’s body goes through during the weightlessness of space flight.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

The forecast looks good. I'll be one of those geeks :D

We're streaming... I already have a woody....

Edit: Shit! ~ T-3 minutes and the weather said "No Go".

Edit 2: I'm wondering... Could this be consider a geek's version of coitus interruptus?

[only_human]

Launch scrubbed because of bad weather slightly more than 3 minutes before launch.

Originally Posted by chalsall

We're streaming... I already have a woody....

Edit: Shit! ~ T-3 minutes and the weather said "No Go".

Edit 2: I'm wondering... Could this be consider a geek's version of coitus interruptus?

I think you are right.
Ad astra: 99% per aspera and 1% ignition.
And there was no ignition.

NASA originally shared:

SCRUB: Because of weather conditions that violated the rules for launching, SpaceX has postponed its planned launch of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft. It is SpaceX’s sixth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

The next launch opportunity is Tuesday, April 14, at 4:10:40 p.m. EDT. Our continuous launch coverage will begin at 3 p.m. Follow our launch blog: http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex

As for tomorrow’s forecast, it’s slightly worse tomorrow with forecasters predicting a 50 percent chance of acceptable conditions.

[chalsall]

T-1 60 minutes...