Eric: Added some thoughts of mine

2024-04-20T16:01:26Z

Added some thoughts of mine

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These get really neat! Granted i have to check myself before a [[Von Braun Complex]] or [[Oppenheimer Complex]] gets the best of me, but they are really neat. Between those Solar Planes, those Crewed [[HALE Planes]] (Although those were largely replaced with "Globalhawk" etc since as with Nuclear Submarines your main limit to mission endurance...is the sentient meat that needs fed/watered/sewage systems etc)

There was also some sort of ''airship'' DARPA had a project for. They were going to have some of the external membrane be an antenna of sorts for the SAR or whatever.

There was a decent video done on it on YouTube, although original reporting by VICE or Vox or whoever + some article digging / wikipedia rabbit holes did way better, but that Wide Area Motion Imagery these enable can get a bit spooky in the wrong hands.

Absolutely amazing technology though, and if we don't get around to making Refurbish/Take Down like they Planned to/did a ''bit'' of (Re: Hubble Telescope Repairs), keeping things out of orbit to begin with is an interesting way to reduce [[Orbital Debris]]

Sidenote NASA Funds being abysmally low killed it off, but they had a Telescope in the back of a big airliner that was really neat. Could get "top of a mountain" / borderline space performance, but be anywhere within it's range (so fuel+airstrip etc). Also like ground telescopes it could be modified/repaired real easily. Granted some Swarm Robot type thing but with JWST Mirrors and a whole ecosystem of vehicles maintaining that/taking modules up and down would be way more powerful! Also we have that Lunar Crater Radiotelescope in the works!

Thats enough gushing/ranting on my part lol, i see HALO Aircraft / Pseudosatellites and i gotta infodump a ''little''!

--[[User:Eric|Eric]] ([[User talk:Eric|talk]]) 16:01, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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Eric: Added some thoughts of mine