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by aeternum 2y ago
Media literacy sounds about as useful as a phd in astrology
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by aeternum 2y ago
You are hereby accused of being a scallywag! You must now stop whatever you're doing and find independent sources to refute the claim. If only we still believed in burden of proof.
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by aeternum 2y ago
They sometimes do, but they publish it in a place where no one reads it, perhaps by design. They could publish it to the front page, especially if the original article was front-page. Elon has also admitted many mistakes in the past especi
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by aeternum 2y ago
They do (sometimes) but in such a way that almost no one sees them, especially online. If a tree falls in the forest..
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by aeternum 2y ago
Interesting, yeah thinking more about this it probably applies to recycling also. Separating your plastics is mostly useless as they just get shipped to third world countries where they are mostly dumped or burned. But that act of sorting
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by aeternum 2y ago
Yes, also no one considered the negative externalities in terms of public sentiment. Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant and it leads to snarky comments and negative sentiment about environmentalism. The effect is not measu
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by aeternum 2y ago
Is advertising collusion illegal in the US?
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by aeternum 2y ago
Why does the warning have to happen in the next few seconds? Electric vehicles warn you at the start of your trip if you won't make it to your destination. I used to have a super old handheld aviation GPS that would warn me something
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by aeternum 2y ago
Improved avionics should help with all of those aspects: 1) Continually recalculate fuel remaining upon landing at destination based on ground speed and burn rate. Warn if getting anywhere near reserves. 2) Show nearest filtered airports (
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by aeternum 2y ago
Wolves change the flow of rivers. Starfish decimate coral reefs. But algae, they nearly destroyed all life on earth by polluting the entire planet with deadly oxygen, caused all the exposed iron (an essential nutrient) to oxidize/rust
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by aeternum 2y ago
This is a common argument but makes little sense because the accident and loss rates of GA is so incredibly high. The cost of an ADS-B receiver for example is only $200. Full transceivers are a few thousand. Aircraft owners are already pa
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by aeternum 2y ago
Most cars give you significant warnings that you're about to run out of gas and as a result very few people do. Improved avionics could warn you that you're flying into a storm or that the airplane is not airworthy or that you are
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by aeternum 2y ago
Right but I don't know of any GA stall/spin warning system that takes into account pilot input. Even simple sensors are lacking, for example accelerometers are nearly free yet GA planes give you no warning that you're in a s
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by aeternum 2y ago
Excellent points, it's really these other aspects that get pilots into trouble. For example it's crazy that most pilots are still taught to calculate W&B using printed charts and approximate takeoff performance. I think you co
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by aeternum 2y ago
If you forget how to build things you soon forget how to fix things.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Why would it result in net water shortages? Is lots of additional rainfall not a potential consequence?
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by aeternum 2y ago
This video ignores how bad humans are at seeing motorcycles. Every motorcyclist knows to assume they are invisible to cars aka cagers. It's likely that the FSD system is better than a human at seeing and avoiding motorcycles but that&
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by aeternum 2y ago
It's pretty well accepted, like the numbers are not even close. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/temp-deaths-zhao
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by aeternum 2y ago
Its the environmentalists that are causing the mental health catastrophe. Humanity survived much more extreme temperature changes in the past with much less technology than we have today. Even today more humans die of cold than heat so per
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by aeternum 2y ago
Is too deep for recovery a thing? I believe even manned submarines have reached the deepest point in the ocean (which is much deeper than most of the ocean), seems like multiple countries would have recovery capabilities.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Hmm how? Doesn't seem like they triggered destruction of starship on the last launch unless it was after it hit the water. Anyone know if that is done or even possible?
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by aeternum 2y ago
And thus the inflation. In the 90s the US gov had a surplus. Disappointing to see the GP comment downvoted as it is correct. Spending more than we tax will inflate the USD money supply.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Makes sense but are there actually limits that prevent the scaling? IE instead of a single laser broom I build 50 near a solar/nuclear plant and use the surplus energy. Usually they all deorbit different objects but I could choose to
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by aeternum 2y ago
Yes, I find that when reading a paper I think to myself "Do the authors really want this to be true?" and if the answer is yes as it often is, I boost my own acceptance criteria to p<.03 Particle physics still uses five sigma a
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by aeternum 2y ago
It's kind of amazing that we discovered the scientific method, used it to invent the transistor and bring the information revolution. Yet we still pool scientific results using only the printing press. It's like we unlocked the te
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by aeternum 2y ago
Anything that can deorbit debris can be used as an anti-satellite weapon almost by definition.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Lots of fluff in this article. No pictures either except for a nearly useless cartoon with ambiguous labels. The article also somehow starts talking about democracy and seems like it might just be an SEO piece to promote the author's
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by aeternum 2y ago
I don't think the issue is necessarily trips. Many cars are being sold with multi-year free charging packages which incentivize people to not charge at home. People who buy one of these cars in population dense areas often face a choi
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by aeternum 2y ago
I mean just delta-v to do the intercept in the first place. I suppose you could choose space junk that is already on a near intercept with the aerogel dispenser satellite or use something like spin deployment to launch the gels. Can aeroge
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by aeternum 2y ago
The problem is you need a lot of fuel and delta-v for that. IMO lasers is a much better solution. High-power thermal laser ablates a key portion of the space-junk to slightly change its trajectory and preferably help deorbit it. All you n

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