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by AlanSE 9y ago
Mind if I butt in with a noob question? What do you mean when you say "Series Alphabet"? Are these things funded by the company Alphabet? It feels like there a lot more background that I'm not privy to.
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by AlanSE 9y ago
I've been reading the 1-2-3 Magic book (expecting my first soon), and the philosophies have extremely stark differences. The 123 approach outright attacks (what it calls) the fallacy of "little adults" - saying that explainin
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by AlanSE 9y ago
With only a handful of people actually in space right now, one of their primary functions is to be guinea pigs for the long-term effects of microgravity. Absolutely nothing about that is true for the case of a station with 100 people engage
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by AlanSE 9y ago
Plenty of people move for economic reasons in the transition to retirement. You're exactly right to put this kind of economic trend in personal terms - we should seek to do this. Nonetheless, I feel like a reference to "your mum&q
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by AlanSE 9y ago
Fascinating, this is a well-formed argument. To be frank, it's borderline the best argument for space development that I have ever heard. There are many things that we do well on Earth, but there are some industries where the arc of pr
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by AlanSE 9y ago
There's an open PR that adds support for using vault with inventory imports, you should go comment on that if it's important to your use case.
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by AlanSE 9y ago
You would need source control access to do that.
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by AlanSE 9y ago
I don't think you can really undersell the cult-building aspect, in addition to the psychological factors, which are heavily intertwined. Co-working spaces have actually been rather successful in outsourcing these factors - both the cu
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by AlanSE 9y ago
Binary systems radiate out gravitational waves. Google image search for "binary system gravitational waves" and you will pretty easily identify the canonical graphical representation. While there are lots of problems with the &quo
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by AlanSE 9y ago
Just an FYI, I am one of the supporters of this guy on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nyrath There are a few things I really liked on the site and believed very strongly were important to continue disseminating. My partic
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by AlanSE 9y ago
> Biological life existed for 5 orders of magnitude longer than civilization without the sort of devastating consequence civilization has wrought. That is far from scientifically certain. Out of the extremely numerous extinction events i
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by AlanSE 9y ago
Checking in - Iron Yard python/django graduate from summer 2015. I had struggled professionally for years before that, and I was hired as a Software Engineer at a startup within 2 weeks of finishing the code school. Today I'm a So
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by AlanSE 13y ago
None of this (in the link here) applies to toroidal space stations. The torus shape referred to in the link is maintained by its spin and its self-gravity. People live on the outside of it, and atmosphere is held in the same way that Eart
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by AlanSE 13y ago
How does this compare to Mission of Gravity? I've had that on my shelf and haven't got around to it yet. It's a very cool setting, and the author was writing it before we had all the research on the subject we have today.
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by AlanSE 13y ago
That's not correct, but it's a deceptive trick. The governing condition is that the surface is equipotential after you include both the gravitational and centripetal fields. It's tempting to then think that gravity will be
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by AlanSE 13y ago
Could you please point out where a stackexchange answer was wrong on that question? I'm a heavy user on this site and have written (and continue to write) a lot on this subject there. Thanks.
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by AlanSE 13y ago
I'm not sure if I understand entirely what you're asking, but I think it comes down to "planetary differentiation". It's the same process by which water floats on top of oil because of density. The heavy stuff flo