This Earth, the only true home i ever had and will ever have, is not my world, i’m just a passerby in here … it is yours and it is strange.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This scenario but we add a third object that will pass inside the Earth’s orbit between the Earth and the small object and very fast to escape Earth’s gravity and move away, so to momentarily exert a large gravitational force and to locally cancel (and more) Earth’s gravitational pull to slow down the small object to about zero near ground level.
    Tidal effects will be catastrophic so please don’t do this to your home planet unless you really, really want to.


  • translation from the original :
    https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aYZXOxxT8d5nwfye-oiZmA
    Guoxing Aerospace launched 12 satellites in one rocket! The Space Computing Constellation 021 mission was a complete success!
    On 2025 May 14, at 12:12 Beijing time, Guoxing Aerospace successfully launched 12 satellites for the Space Computing Constellation 021 mission using the Long March 2D carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellites entered their predetermined orbit, marking the successful launch of the world’s first space computing constellation.

    The successful completion of the initial constellation launch mission will usher in a new era of “space computing” globally.

    From 0 to 1, the world’s first space computing constellation was successfully launched.

    The Space Computing Constellation 021 mission is the first launch of Guoxing Aerospace’s “XingSuan” plan and also the first launch of the Zhejiang Laboratory’s “Three-Body Computing Constellation”. This initial constellation is a joint construction of Guoxing Aerospace, Zhejiang Laboratory, and Neijiang High-Tech Zone, and consists of 12 computing satellites developed by Guoxing Aerospace, including:

    • Neijiang (XingShiDai-27)
    • Neijiang High-Tech (XingShiDai-28)
    • Taizhou (XingShiDai-29)
    • Haikou (XingShiDai-30)
    • Ma’anshan ZhiSuan 1 (XingShiDai-31)
    • Chongzhou (XingShiDai-32)
    • TianTie Technology (XingShiDai-33)
    • Miyanyuwuchangyuan (XingShiDai-34)
    • YuKongZhe (XingShiDai-35)
    • “DaLingHaoBay” Star (XingShiDai-36)
    • Zhejiang 1 (XingShiDai-37)
    • Zhejiang 2 (XingShiDai-38)

    Guoxing Aerospace’s “XingSuan” plan has launched its first constellation of 12 satellites in one orbit.

    The mission code “021” refers to the transition from 0 to 1, symbolizing the breakthrough of achieving the world’s first space computing constellation.

    “Artificial intelligence should not be absent from space due to a lack of computing power,” said Wang Jian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Zhejiang Laboratory. The construction of the space computing constellation will enable a single satellite to play a greater value, which has far-reaching significance for the transformation of the aerospace industry.

    ( … the article is much longer and they have many photographs and a short video of the rocket launching the satellites

    … if you want to continue translating it, go on … i made my small contribution ! )











  • … a sphere nine metres in diameter and weighing 400 tonnes will be submerged off the coast of California at a depth of 500 to 600 metres. It will have a storage capacity of 0.4 megawatt hours (400 kWh) …

    i will try a rough calculations : suppose we can have concrete at $100 per ton, then it’s a minimum investment of $40,000. Also suppose electricity is stored with a large added value of 10 cents per kilowatt hour, so, for every cycle a rough gain of $40. By these numbers, 1,000 cycles would pay for the concrete … so, it may look good considering they plan a life of about 50 years for such devices.
    On the other hand if competitive battery storage cost only one cents per kilowatt hour (temporary in and out storage) and if concrete and fabrication goes up 10 times to $1,000 per ton then it is not economically viable anymore.

    A good calculation of profitability would need to take into account the less than 100% energy efficiency of batteries cycling and of hydraulic energy cycling, … and so many more parameters which have to be studied.