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6/1/2016 8:08:48 PM
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Your Tax Dollars Actually Doing Something Good
Nasa just released 56 patents into public domain. Things like:
•A “dusty plasma thruster,” an electric propulsion system that can use unprocessed lunar dust as propellant; this eliminates the need to process fuels for such an engine—simply scoop up electrostatic dust from the lunar regolith, feed it into the thruster, and zip around the Solar System
•A method for converting Nitrogen Oxide waste into fertilizer (very useful, one can imagine, for long-term space travel, and Martian habitats)A means of weakening the shock wave strength in the leading edge of a vehicle traveling at supersonic speeds
•Low-cost methods for manufacturing high-quality carbon nanotubes, with an estimated production cost of $50/gram (opposed to current costs of $1,000/gram)A design for a Hall thruster (a type of ion thruster) that uses a “magnetically-conformed, variable area discharge chamber,” increasing engine efficiency
•A downlink data multiplexer (sounds cool)A tougher type of aerogel
•A “monopropellant” rocket engine with fewer moving parts and potential points of weakness, which is designed to use liquid hydrogen as a propulsive fluid to achieve “high velocity and high specific impulse.”
All these things are now free for private Industry to utilize in the technology and products of tomorrow, driving innovation and technology.
Thanks NASA.
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5 RespuestasWe need to cut NASA spending
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1 RespuestaEditado por Seananagans: 6/4/2016 7:15:23 AMDusty Plasma Thruster: The act putting flour in your butt, mounting a woman, and then run high amounts of electricity through your body, causing you to fart out flour and thrust aggressively; thus, Dusty Plasma Thruster.
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And still no actual hoverboards that actually float and don't catch on fire.
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2 Respuestas'Dusty plasma thruster' Let's be honest that's the best name for a thing ever.
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Nahh. We need alcubierre drive! Give middle finger to universal speed limit because we are moving space itself! Take that, lightspeed!
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16 RespuestasEditado por Unforgiven: 6/3/2016 12:40:43 AMThey should come out for a way to make real gold using other metals / compounds. That would mean anyone can make gold, and I could make a bunch of it, and sell it. Then profit :)
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Editado por woupseaa: 6/4/2016 5:05:54 AM
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I want them to invent a spray that can make my poop evaporate. That would let me poop anywhere.
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Um excuse me, we're all 6 here and only respond to dumb stuff like penis polls. Take your smart shit somewhere else.
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1 RespuestaPraise the NASA \[T]/
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1 RespuestaEditado por fruit salad: 6/3/2016 4:08:23 PMI want more space.
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15 RespuestasWhile I agree, I wish nasa would be privatized as I feel they could do more good with the government not involved.
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3 RespuestasBut muh freemarket...
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4 RespuestasActually, I was kind of hoping for this.
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1 RespuestaI want my tax dollars to be used to build a giant dildo.
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15 RespuestasNASA always does amazing things and creates fantastic technologies yet for the last 6 years they continually have budget cuts from the Obama administration. Imagine how much more they would have if they weren't constantly being squeezed.
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2 RespuestasStill waiting for a reusable, self cleaning condom that converts semen into ambrosia
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Too bad nothing interesting will come from it
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This is amazing because everyone needs high quality nanotubes!
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Nasa = freemasonry
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That's pretty sick.
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7 RespuestasEditado por Autolycus: 6/2/2016 2:59:34 AMCorrection, 1/200ths of my tax dollars. This is one of the programs I'm not opposed to funding, though I am opposed to throwing people in prison for not doing so. And just imagine the increase in progress and efficiency if it wasn't tied up in a tangled mess of bureaucracy. Also: brb, gonna go work on my iron man suit.
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And people want to cut NASA's budget...f*cking idiots.
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11 RespuestasJust think what they could accomplish if we gave them even 10% of what we spend on welfare
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1 RespuestaI'm no scientist, but what do you think on the possibility of the Alcubierre Drive? I'd fund that shit.
