Artlav
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Almost as many engines as on N1, hm?
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RisingFury
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What could go wrong?
Artlav
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There is always this guy -Somebody should send a priest to the launch site ASAP.
Andy44
owner: Oil Creek Astronautix
Somebody with lots of extra cash and no sense should build an N1. Kind of like those guys who build bolt-by-bolt replicas of old cars or airplanes. This time, do the engineering right and get the software bugs ironed out and let's see it fly for real.
Just because.
Just because.
MaverickSawyer
Acolyte of the Probe
Why? It was a horribly inefficient design. We can do better than the N1.
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I'd rather build a UR-700 and launch to the moon. In sight of Trumps villa in Florida. And paint "Chelomeis Revenge" on it.
(Damn, the LK-700 was one of the projects I really wish I had meshes, because my own ones had been too ugly to finish.)
Andy44
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Artlav
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That's an invalid question.
For example, i just build an e-book reader out of a rock.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc9OJk9lux-/
Why?
Dunno, haven't occurred to me to ask that.
Linguofreak
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To expand upon what Andy and Artlav said:
"For the coolz"
Or better yet:
"Why not?"
Edmund Hillary might say "because it's there", but the N-1 had a bad habit of ceasing to be in any particular "there".
Ravenous
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"Not because it is easy, but because it is hard"
It's a real pity there were never any good quality film made of the longer-lived launch attempts, it must have looked fantastic as it got off the pad (I mean of course those tests where it did successfully get in the air.)
There are many old films of the Saturns launching (on archive.org for example) and they're great to watch.
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All sorts of low power stuff - lights, monitors, computers, routers, 3D printers, etc, run directly off of a 24 V DC wiring, which is supplied and battery backed by the thing in question.
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The new definition of a Pyrrhic victory:
The company WeatherOnline had sued the German weather service for their smartphone app, because it offered information for free, that according to the recent changes of the law (in favor of companies like WeatherOnline, BTW) should only be sold at neutral costs.
Well, now the DWD App costs 2€ once for the professional version (which had 5 million users in Germany) and many people are ranting against Weather Online, not the DWD... paying for an app is suddenly considered some kind of confused civil resistance it seems, Also the poor quality of the WeatherOnline reports is now getting a lot more focus.
Could you imagine somebody sueing the NOAA because they want to make money with the data that the NOAA offers for free?
The company WeatherOnline had sued the German weather service for their smartphone app, because it offered information for free, that according to the recent changes of the law (in favor of companies like WeatherOnline, BTW) should only be sold at neutral costs.
Well, now the DWD App costs 2€ once for the professional version (which had 5 million users in Germany) and many people are ranting against Weather Online, not the DWD... paying for an app is suddenly considered some kind of confused civil resistance it seems, Also the poor quality of the WeatherOnline reports is now getting a lot more focus.
Could you imagine somebody sueing the NOAA because they want to make money with the data that the NOAA offers for free?
Linguofreak
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They wouldn't get very far. Works of the federal government are in the public domain by law.
tl8
Addon Developer
Does the weather service get to keep the money? I would pay $2 once off to access the government weather service if they got the money to use as they wish.
Thunder Chicken
Resident Lua Script Rabble-Rouser
Happy birthday to me... got my mom's death certificate in the mail today. 
Damn, sometimes life has no chill.
Damn, sometimes life has no chill.
