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Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source (www.nature.com)

Can I ask how everyone personally feels about using nuclear material for space exploration? For the rovers heating elements it will be just a couple of grams but for generating electricity via a RTG a spacecraft would require several kilograms of radioactive material.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Outside an atmosphere like Earth’s, everything is already exposed to intense ionizing radiation from the sun/stars. A bit more from an RTG, even a big one, is a drop in the ocean. If we found signs of extraterrestrial life, then we’d want to be extra cautious about not sterilizing by accident, but that’s not currently a major concern. And of course, any sort of nuclear rocket propulsion would need to be handed with utmost care, but it’s also not a major issue once it’s outside the atmosphere.

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Kerbal Space Program 2 studio reportedly shut down by Take-Two (www.eurogamer.net)

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

It’s been an absurd mishandling of the IP by Take Two. Will probably be permanently stuck in early access with only maintenance development at best.

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Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update (www.pcgamer.com)

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

A lot of people (myself included) had the update installed automatically by Steam with no option for rollback, so it caught people off guard.

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