Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "" video.

  1. It usually is used in the context of design or activity: 1) at 10 GHz sample rate, we’ll have to average on orbit (vs ground processing) 2) we won’t know the exact nature of the background until we measure it on orbit.
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  2. An on orbit activity is anything that occurs after an instrument on a space craft has been delivered to an operational orbit. In orbit can be anything that goes around at least once.
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  3. There are muon resonances, and to make them pure requires the weak interaction, Eg nu_mu + e —> nu_e + mu. That is not happening. They come from the decay of pions, which can be made in a resonance: gamma + p—> Delta —> pi + p, but that’s a hard gamma…hundreds of MeV minimum. P + p works too, but what a mess.
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  4. If you hit max q in space, you are relativistic in a big way.
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  5. You are correct that muonic deuterium molecules are smaller than normal….but it’s not that they start closer thereby reducing the potential energy thereby reducing the temperature, it’s that the fusion isn’t thermal: it’s the quantum mechanical overlap of the deuteron wave functions is much, much bigger. So it is a quantum enhancement……and we deuterons are spin 1, that is: bosons. We like to hang in the same quantum state. Never thought about it before, much muon catalyzation will NOT work with the evil triton, which has a much higher fusion crosssection
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  6. Nyet!
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  7.  @Christopherwoo I think it has to be calculated. I mean even if you measure pressure and altitude, how do you know you’re at max? Maybe you lose guidance or thrust control and start heading down? Max Q is gonna be LOV. Now I only did mars entry, and duh….that’s calculated….so idk about launch telemetry.
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  8. That is a totally different Q, but you know that
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