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by andygates 8y ago
Oh honey, if it was that easy I'd have abs instead of angst.
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by andygates 8y ago
Fizzy water here. Got a sodastream, keep a couple of bottles in the fridge at all times.
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by andygates 8y ago
They're in a controlled environment, not being baked and frozen. This is a test of the gravity only. Test one thing at a time.
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by andygates 8y ago
That's so not the case (mostly for reasons of size) that the Germans are flying Eucropis as a separate mission right now. It will do spin-simulated lunar and mars g.
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by andygates 8y ago
No, the point is growing in lunar gravity. Things get confused and need training by light in microgravity. We really don't know what they do in lunar g; "it just works" is a great result. Boring but useful.
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by andygates 8y ago
Lunar G isn't microgravity. We genuinely don't have the data, which is why this, Eucropis, and subsequent work is a big deal.
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by andygates 8y ago
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH might grumble.
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by andygates 8y ago
This is one of the reasons I devoured the trilogy and started looking for more: a whole different set of expectations and norms that are subtly different. I think scifi audiences might be primed for that?
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by andygates 8y ago
It was a silly concept that has been scrapped, IIRC.
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by andygates 8y ago
The Chinese case in those photos is subtly different: a bunch of competitors all spammed the same place, so there was massive oversupply. When a competitor failed, the stuff was worthless except as scrap because of the insane glut.
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by andygates 8y ago
> ... aerodynamics only come into play at the outside edges of the peloton. Instead, the researchers found that peloton dynamics are likely driven by rider vision, with each rider keeping other riders within a range of peripheral vision
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by andygates 8y ago
Research into vessel liners is ongoing and promising. 7-X is getting carbon-carbon, JET has an upgrade going in about now. It's a materials-engineering challenge, but not a showstopper.
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by andygates 8y ago
If we can build plants that are as huge and complex and expensive as fission plants, then about the same effect, but without the fuel / proliferation / waste problems (which is nothing to be sneezed at). If the cost is low, a brav
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by andygates 8y ago
And that's another reason ITER et al are very broad international projects: everyone wins when the project wins, and nobody can stall one project by poaching Von Braun for their own scheme.
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Energy Vault have an energy storage startup that might be nicely scaleable(disq.us)
2 points by andygates 8y ago|0 comments
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by andygates 8y ago
It had leadership problems, but those have been corrected with the new boss. That's not a political problem per se, it's really just a "big project with a bad boss" problem.
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by andygates 8y ago
Obvious sales pitch is obvious.
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by andygates 8y ago
I guess Tim's blatant sales pitch found a mark, eh?
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by andygates 8y ago
Considering "sides" is itself an a priori bias. Articles can stand or fall on their verifiability. That the current soup of deliberate misinformation happens to be played more by the loony right than the loony left is an artefact
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by andygates 8y ago
I did not know that a modern version of the system was in use. Spent a few years living along the South Devon route, and Brunel's seals eaten by rats were a definite thing.
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by andygates 8y ago
> watch your friends quickly get baited Yeah, that's a good sign that you need smarter friends. Autoplay is cancer, though.
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by andygates 8y ago
But the sunshade is megascale engineering that you'd have to get everyone in on - and quickly, so that's a real project risk, even assuming it's worthwhile. And the clathrate gun was overhyped.
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by andygates 8y ago
Virtue doesn't scale. But corporate catering does, and one of the big caterers (Sodexo?) is rolling out a whole new set of base menus that are meat-free.
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by andygates 8y ago
The problem there is that stuff in space is very evenly distributed, so that sort of super-clumpiness is hard to sell. There would need to be a mechanism for why, in our observable universe, there happened to be no antimatter. If we saw oth
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by andygates 8y ago
Technology always outpaces legislation. It's been that way since the telegraph and earlier. Legislators can't rule for stuff that isn't there, and tech changes spec all the time. Once there actually are fully-autonomous vehic
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by andygates 8y ago
New builds are a target of opportunity for local mappers. There only need to be one or two in a medium city to spot these. It's a much more _fun_ activity than, say, maintaining POIs.
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by andygates 8y ago
One of the challenges there is POI freshness. A paying advertiser is going to be timely across the Googleverse.
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Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis(theguardian.com)
38 points by andygates 8y ago|77 comments
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by andygates 8y ago
> I hate seeing this conversation about diesel when we should be having this discussion about gasoline. We're really having this conversation about combustion . For city driving of all types, it's time is very nearly up.
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by andygates 8y ago
Presumably "those people" are already riding the bus, so clearly we _can_ get people to ride buses.

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