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This marks my second NOC Theatre review since Hannah and the Dread Gazebo performed at the Fountain Theatre a few months back and it was here that my key interest in doing so was a commitment/announcement of sorts. For as much as I can, my focus will be to review plays & musicals with the […]
NASA aims to send astronauts to the moon’s surface within the next five years. In order to make lunar exploration possible, NASA will require a robust fleet of lunar landers and other vehicles. A new visualization of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket may help accelerate the design process for moon-bound spacecraft.
NASA aerospace engineer Nettie Roozeboom came up with an idea that could significantly speed up the design of rockets, moon landers, and other spacecraft that will support lunar exploration. By connecting two NASA facilities, one for advanced aeronautics testing and the other for analysis, in real time, her proposal could speed up design tasks.
From wind to data, in no time flat! @NASAAmes created a visualization of the @NASA_SLS rocket, using a supercomputer & a wind tunnel. Discover how this could speed up spacecraft design, including for our #Artemis program: https://t.co/gfbN9FlHxa pic.twitter.com/3iKmZlhsvU
— NASA (@NASA) November 6, 2019
In September, Roozeboom tested her concept with SLS at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. SLS will ferry the Orion spacecraft to the Gateway in lunar orbit. The SLS team had to test the design of the rocket’s nose and ensure it could safely do the job for flights that will be used to bring goods to the moon.
Roozeboom’s job is not an easy one: She has to measure shaking caused by quickly changing pressure from the air a vehicle is moving through, as it travels through the atmosphere to get to space. These measurements indicate how designers should build their spacecraft to withstand the shaking present in real flights. While Roozeboom’s team conducts wind-tunnel tests, high-speed cameras snap the changing glow of an advanced paint that reveals pressure changes during the rocket’s simulated climb.
Aerospace engineer Nettie Roozeboom discusses preliminary data flowing in from a wind tunnel test of the SLS rocket. (Photo Credit: NASA / Advanced Supercomputing Division / Dominic Hart)
The demonstration, which was named after the game “Red Rover,” transferred as much as 400 terabytes of data from the wind tunnel to a supercomputer. From there, supercomputing experts took the wind tunnel experts’ uncanny software and optimized it for real-time visualization, according to NASA.
A model of the SLS rocket covered in a thin coat of pink at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. (Photo Credit: NASA / Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart)
The result was a colorful sight: NASA’s supercomputer sifted through incoming data and quickly revealed a visualization of the results. The SLS design team observed this exchange on a 1/4 billion-pixel hyperwall, and immediately corresponded with experts at Ames to adjust test conditions and data collection.
“This could be a tremendous benefit for programs early in the design cycle,” said Thomas Steva, an aerodynamics engineer on the SLS team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “That’s a time where high-fidelity data is typically sparse.”
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Earlier this year, we reported that Mendeecees Harris, of “Love and Hip Hop” fame would be released from prison next year.
But a new report from The Shade Room, estimates that the date might be even sooner. While Harris has already been away from his family for four years, TSR reports that he could be coming home by the end of this month or the next.
Sources state that Mendeecees is expected to be released in November but no later than December 15.
Harris was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pled guilty to drug trafficking charges in 2015. If he were released next year, he would have served over half of his sentence. Now, with the new release date, he’ll be right before the halfway mark.
As we reported earlier, Mendeecees confessed to transporting cocaine and heroin from New York City to Rochester, NY.
Harris appealed the decision but the sentence stood. At the end of the trial, he had already served 15 months in jail before he was granted bail.
Since he’s been in prison Harris has completed a substance abuse program, has taken courses on how to parent from prison, money management, health and nutrition and public speaking. Gossip in the City reported that Harris’ completion of the substance abuse program reduced his sentence by a year.
We know he’s looking forward to coming home.
In response to The Shade Room’s story, Yandy Smith, Mendeecees’ wife and mother of two of his children, commented with several heart emojis.
Sharing passwords has become necessary in this economy where every network wants to have its own streaming network with exclusive content so that you feel obligated to watch, lest you miss out. Gotta market that FOMO. But since this is something all these networks invest in, that means more cracking down on sharing.
According to CBR, The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an anti-piracy group made up of Warner Bros., Disney, Netflix, Sony, and Paramount (basically the entertainment monopoly mafia), has made clear that it will move to take action against people sharing their subscriptions in the future.
Despite only 10% of customers doing this, according to whoever crunched the numbers, that 10% means 13.7 million people who are not signed up at Netflix’s $9.95 basic monthly charge. Which means roughly losing out on $135 million worth of subscribers, or $1.62 billion annually. (Of course, that’s assuming the sharers would have signed up on their own otherwise. That’s not always the case—and it’s a majority of younger users who share their information, because, once again: the economy.)
Siri, play the world’s smallest violin.
(via CBR, image: Netflix)
- Jensen Ackles has directed many episodes of Supernatural, but with the series wrapping up this will be the last time Ackles gets to tackle working on his longtime show. (via Variety)
- Reps Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have shared love and support for Ayanna Pressley after she endorsed Elizabeth Warren. (via The Hill)
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This Flounder is a big bucket of NOPE. #TheLittleMermaidLive https://t.co/6O0GmsPbDR
— POPSUGAR (@POPSUGAR) November 6, 2019
- Whoever came up with this “I would like to be assisted/or not” visual basket system at Sephora is a genius. (via HuffPo)
- There is going to be a The 100 prequel series. Hopefully, they won’t bury any gays. (via TV Guide)
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