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April 1, 2015 06:59:00
April 5, 2015 16:33:21
April 21, 2015 21:45:03
April 26, 2015 15:55:35
John Bensted Tardis, the original cubesat!
April 26, 2015 20:11:06 · Reply
John Bensted Subject idea for a future show ..... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465787600/project-dragonfly-sail-to-the-stars
April 26, 2015 20:32:00 · Reply
May 1, 2015 06:59:00
Anuj Pandey We are prepping to bring up a India Sepecific Tech News Show, Looking out for hosts and guest, the format is pretty simple and you do. Wish me luck. May be would love to see you as guest on the show.
May 1, 2015 16:56:49 · Reply
Tom Merritt That's great to hear! Best of luck of course and let me know what I can do to help.
May 2, 2015 15:44:26 · Reply
Denis Murc https://www.patreon.com/user?u=919190&ty=h
July 16, 2015 22:31:54 · Reply
Denis Murc https://www.patreon.com/user?u=919190&ty=h
July 16, 2015 22:33:59 · Reply
May 3, 2015 17:48:42
John Bensted Could this be a candidate for launching the MCT?
May 3, 2015 19:24:13 · Reply
vandamme etienne I doubt Musk is looking into this kind of system.
May 9, 2015 15:17:06 · Reply
May 10, 2015 16:32:03
May 17, 2015 18:32:30
PongSat Parts I'm still in the negative feedback stage of my KickStarter planning (more people should use that KS feature) , but I hope to release it on the next full moon June 2, 2015 and have it run for one month cycle (29.3 days). www.kickstarter.com/projects/kb3tyv/267390287?token=d174c29f
May 17, 2015 19:45:33 · Reply
PongSat Parts Relating to 23:00. I have built an Open Source KickStarter business / reward analysis spreadsheet at http://goo.gl/J3GFjK
May 17, 2015 20:34:56 · Reply
June 1, 2015 06:59:00
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June 15, 2015 17:22:34
Trent Waddington I'm kinda saddened that your discussion on the possibility of NASA crowd funding didn't consider the effect on groups that have actually had successful crowd funding campaigns. Can you imagine Planetary Resources, for example, being as successful as they were if the average pledge could have gone to a NASA program instead?
June 16, 2015 03:28:56 · Reply
Felix S. Well I would be more than happy to give NASA money living outside of the US. On the crowdfunding money levels: Star Citizen should reach 100 million dollar in the next six month, if not even more (currently 84 million https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals ) so nothing is impossible ;)
June 19, 2015 18:49:57 · Reply
June 21, 2015 17:14:04
Illyrien @Mike, no, your point is not proven by a single rocket exploding. You should really take a look at the shows launch profiles. They typically list amount of launches and number of successes for the different types of rockets. Its not a 100% successes, but its pretty high. Likely, it will get better, as humanity learns to handle that kind of thing. Also, do note that historically, exploration has hardly been safe. Columbus lost 33% of his ships, on his first voyage (1/3).
June 30, 2015 10:28:48 · Reply
Mike I get your point. However, the question here is "can comercial enterprise expand the frontier?". I say no. We are still using Columbus's wooden ships to explore Universe. It cost 30 million dollars to build the rocket which you will discard. You will burn $1-2 million dollars in fuel on start, at least. How practical all this?
June 30, 2015 13:03:40 · Reply
Illyrien To an extent, yes we using "wooden ships" to explore space. That is, right now. Looking ahead, will we continue to do so? Well, if SpaceX and all the others are successfully in their reuseable technology, then the price will fall a fair bit. Also, there are companies, like Planetary Resources, which are wokring on mining space, especially, in order to build a "gas station" in higher orbit. With these two angles, the price to explore space will drop a lot. Also, it really isnt just commercial enterprise, its more of a civil society, which also includes those people who back this out of interest, be that eccentric billionaires or crowdfunded kickstarters. Goverments are much trickier, sure, though the power of coercion, they have access to enourmous resourcers, but they are also risk-adverse and inefficient, to say nothing of the sad fact that they are just battlegrounds between different groups of welfare-recipients. It would be nice, if governments started backing space, but I don't see how we can count on it. If, as a minimum, we could just get them to stop their destructive and needless interfering.
July 1, 2015 07:10:04 · Reply
Yann Hamiaux I agree with Neil deGrasse Tyson, as I understand the need to make the public aware how important it's to keep the governments funding and keep in mind how many different projects/discoveries NASA put ahead within only 5 decades! With the success, innovations and great media broadcast of SpaceX (where SpaceX & Tesla bring on a regular basis interesting news which capture our imagination), we can conclude... maybe private entity + a program funded by people = a space programs that could move up as the speed of computer technologies over the last 30 years!? But, the reality is that you need especially a low penalty program, which is also sustainable in time, on failure to allows high risk to be taken and were failure represents a learning/improving experience. Governments tend to be slow to react... and that pace of speed also brings some warranties to the private industries that the commitment is there for a few/couples of years. Private industries or people, could move way faster, turning down within a matter of days or hours, sometimes on a speculation story which is obviously false by those who understand the technical details involved!
June 30, 2015 20:27:25 · Reply
July 1, 2015 06:59:00
Denis Murc https://www.patreon.com/user?u=919190&ty=h
July 16, 2015 22:30:11 · Reply
Denis Murc https://www.patreon.com/user?u=919190&ty=h
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July 12, 2015 19:53:31
William Baughman I also vote to go back to the moon before going on to Mars. I believe we really do not know all that much about the moon. Between the satellites send and the Apollo program, we have not spent that much time and resources studying the moon. The moon itself, given potential resources, is a legitimate object of study on its own. Also living on the moon will give us experience in handing solar events and radiation events, which will be crucial to a successful Mars mission. I vote to keep the plants on the set as opposed to models and the other stuff. wba1
July 13, 2015 01:51:35 · Reply
Ross Trower I say we go to Pluto first, Mars will be a walk in the park then.
July 13, 2015 16:21:59 · Reply
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August 30, 2015 16:05:19
Bruce McKean First the new studio set up, then the haircut and now a new intro: no more "...tomorrow begins right NOW!" Is all change good change? Oh well, I guess I'll stick with you a bit longer...but go easy on the speed of change, please, for us old guys.
August 30, 2015 18:23:56 · Reply
Bruce McKean First the new studio set up, then the haircut and now a new intro: no more "...tomorrow begins right NOW!" Is all change good change? Oh well, I guess I'll stick with you a bit longer...but go easy on the speed of change, please, for us old guys.
August 30, 2015 18:23:56 · Reply
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Craig Prall Including me ... again.
April 2, 2015 02:28:01 · Reply
Denis Murc https://www.patreon.com/user?u=919190&ty=h
July 16, 2015 22:32:29 · Reply
Reuben Mahar I do love me some DTNS.
April 7, 2015 18:36:32 · Reply
Denis Murc https://www.patreon.com/user?u=919190&ty=h
July 16, 2015 22:31:25 · Reply
seerpea What does Roger do for the show? Jenni is still there, or is he being groomed to replace her?
April 8, 2015 03:42:42 · Reply