Greetings @bubblegum

Well, depends on how you define flat, does it not?

Wouldn't it be more accurate to claim it as an erratic plane?

Due to the presence of vast peaks and falls within such a space

Motionless realm?

What is realm describing, exactly?

And why refer to such as a firmament?

Is space, heavens, or sky insufficient?

I am curious about definitions, in particular, so my interest is very much peaked.

Seems unlikely, in truth.

Which law of Thermodynamics states that?

I can think of the 1st, but it seems rather unrelated

Creation or destruction of energy in an isolated system does not in turn deny the possibility of an area with no inherent atmospheric conditions

Or, in other words, some kind of fluid for transmission of light

What was once suspected to be the aether

Could, but that tends to defy laws of Thermodynamics

Specifically the idea of an infinity of malleability

Whilst being able to bear the brunt of any and all universal forces or eventualities

It has to be able to withstand compression from other planetary bodies, after all.

What does your research budget focus on?

I suspect non-astronomical phenomena

What of meteorites?

Or asteroids?

The former of which being more prolific in their scale and scope

So you believe that they do not exist, I presume?

No, but one careening down tends to give a decent impression.

Is it improbable to suspect that there may be rocks or such entities from the 'firmament?'

I am curious because I don't wish to presume a given stance

Well, haven't we all as individuals given witness to very few phenomena?

I personally have not been murdered, but would still thusly suspect that it is an unpleasant experience.

Well, Rods of God was a program requiring orbital platforms

Do you believe it was an actual program, or possibility?

And what are they?

Is it not possible to be a kind of ordnance?

Akin to, say, Mk. 20 Rockeyes

Possible, satellites decay orbit all the time after all.

If we are to accept them as true.

Of note, I tend to think Rods of God, while interesting, was far less ambitious than Brilliant Pebbles

That was a very interesting program

Well, the altitude would have to be excessively high

And unfortunately, few aircraft could carry that quantity of WHA high enough to have any appreciable impact

Far from it.

WHA is an incredibly dense material after all

Problem is carrying it indeed.

They were designed to reach terminal velocity before impact

Then it fails to produce adequate effects

WHA, while dense, would need to be of a sufficiently large size to produce nuclear fallout on impact.

For a similar concept on a smaller scale, see LOSAT

While effective, it was also not nuclear.

At a certain point...

It is more useful to just use traditional nuclear ordnance

Or fire up a few TRIDENT IIs

Or MMIIIs

On an unrelated note, and if you don't wish to answer feel free to let me know, but you stated that you receive research grants, IIRC, for what purpose is your research for?

I am curious, especially if there are some interesting developments you could discuss.

Fair enough.

If you were to receive a budget though, do you suspect that some people would still not believe you regardless of your findings?

Indeed, it may be a loop of sort that as soon as any department receives funding, be it government or not, accusations of conflicts if interest may arise.

Ah, high altitude balloons

I know a thing or two about those, granted that project was never fully greenlit.

Moon cooling?

Very much true. FAA also get all over your case about it

Not high-altitude balloons though

Violation of FAA airspace could cause an accident

At the very least, there would be extreme fines

I will note, in fairness...

If we are to use claimed figures

34 miles in altitude is only 0.4% of the Earth's diameter

On a tangent though

I know a bit about rocketry.

At the least, Astronautics.

That is important indeed.

It is flexible, but it also lacks the weather versatility of rocketry.

See the USS Shenandoah

A bit of apples to oranges, but the message holds true

I think Rad is correct about cost analysis being incredibly important

It was always the first thing we did, ever before getting to the design phase

PDR was after the first stages of design.

Absolutely they do.

I haven't interacted with NASA myself

But I have with BO

And Nanoracks

If no one's opposed, I would like to post a photo, but only for a brief moment.

If you are looking for private grants, try and find investors

It is relevant to rocketry, at the least

I've cropped out our badge as well, so it is just the rocket

Oh

Cannot post

Lack permissions

My bad

Is there somewhere I can post it?

To you too.

When you get back, let me know and I can do that.

For now I need to charge my phone.

Laptop's power supply combusted.

Same to you.

Does spelling it in caps make it more of a point? I'm not making any sweeping claims, just doubting the veracity of the video.

It seems like the claims were taken out of their context as should be presented, and distorted to portray a particular message.

Just doesn't seem sufficient as an end-all-be-all claim.

Also, I am pretty sure that thimerosal is not used in most modern vaccines, regardless of if it was even a dangerous substance in the first place.