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by avmich 3y ago
With anybody paying attention to the SpaceX history there should be little doubt this company did groundbreaking achievements in an important technical industry. It's sad the founder and frontman of the company, Elon Musk, demonstrates
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by avmich 3y ago
I think I'm quite familiar with Alexei's actions.
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by avmich 3y ago
I'm trying to compare Alexei with some other known political figures. For Americans, I think Alexei is roughly comparable to MLK. USA was able to gradually turn from some positions to different others. For Russia it seems the current s
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by avmich 3y ago
Here's another pretty complex Proton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket)
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by avmich 3y ago
I somehow doubt Israel uses a lot of 155 mm artillery shells per day at the moment.
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by avmich 3y ago
In this yesterday's video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpoLmPRZ8I (Starship is Misunderstood, with Casey Handmer (Terraform Industries)) - Casey Handmer touches a bit on some fundamental problems Starship present
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by avmich 3y ago
It's a bit puzzling to hear such an opinion from an entrepreneur. The problems on this road clearly exist, but it's so unclear that those problems are unsolvable. For example, > which organization would decide for all of humani
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by avmich 3y ago
Without bucks, no Buck Rogers.
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by avmich 3y ago
Maybe we should just wait for that one? If Starships will fly anywhere as frequently as currently projected, we'll have that question less than in five years.
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by avmich 3y ago
> This is obviously true of communist countries that have never shown compelling evidence that centralized planning is beneficial. USSR evacuated the large chunk of industry East during first months of Germany invasion in 1941 in a centr
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by avmich 3y ago
> What do you call that other than an epic fail? Lack of imagination on the doomsayers side perhaps?
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by avmich 3y ago
That's rather similar to what we have or going to have. Both Israel and Gaza may receive - keep receiving - external aid. The difference is that peace around Gaza, today's and tomorrow's, is going to be enforced more elaborat
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by avmich 3y ago
The plan right now could be to deny any remaining Hamas influence to anything in Gaza. Yes, some Hamas members may survive, even politically, outside, but they aren't going to affect anybody in Gaza.
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by avmich 3y ago
Israel is the one who's going to build it. See, the approach is the following: eliminate Hamas, then start a sort of deprogramming the society, similar to what was happening in Germany, with local specifics of course. Such an approach
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by avmich 3y ago
Lack of imagination can prevent us from seeing solutions. Gaza certainly has advantages - location, population size and age, attention of the world in XXI century among them.
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Doesn't mean they can't build it.
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by avmich 3y ago
He's not "people", he's a "human". One human could be significantly off from the expected behavior; many people are less so.
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by avmich 3y ago
Hamas doesn't get away from it this time already.
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by avmich 3y ago
Because there's an anti-terrorism operation turned to city war going on, and to be in the middle of hostilities is dangerous. It's really, really hard for palestinians today, yet just remain in place and ignore all calls to leave
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by avmich 3y ago
Yes, while their optics is like this, it's hard for them to get to a peaceful solution.
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by avmich 3y ago
Box is not checked yet, otherwise IDF wouldn't have any resistance. We should try diplomacy all the time, but right now the offer of Israel is unconditional surrender or continuation of hostilities. Maybe - maybe - less atrocious to ci
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by avmich 3y ago
It's interesting that we keep quite a critical view of modern politicians, yet when discussing on the field interactions we assume that armies of people, all like one, follow the bloodthirsty orders from commanders above.
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by avmich 3y ago
Ask Carter what he thinks about that. I think he'd at least admit that Biden has a huge hindsight - the world today is so different from 1970-s.
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by avmich 3y ago
What Israel is doing right now should be viewed from the point of view of the goal of removing the Hamas threat as such. The logic here is "Hamas should go - what's the best way to make that happen?" and from this POV the sit
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by avmich 3y ago
I think the WWII example is really useful here - completion of hostilities and post-war work. Expansion of Gaza may be not necessary at all, looking at Singapore example, not to mention West Bank.
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by avmich 3y ago
Coating with the layer of regolith cement will probably make it much harder to disassemble. Maybe blocks themselves should have attachment points which aren't used for structure assembly, but can be used for unplanned extensions? And i
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by avmich 3y ago
Does not sound particularly convincing. First, fixed-price contracts can be quite convenient for government when they pay for the fact and at the same time have other options. Look how it was with rocket launchers - Atlas-V and Delta-IV and
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by avmich 3y ago
The complaint is about B vs. H characterization of magnetic field.
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by avmich 3y ago
Centimetric :) . Sorry, by metric I did mean SI.
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by avmich 3y ago
Metric has more noticeable drawbacks hen we go from distance/temperature/mass to electromagnetism, in this sense CGS has some advantages. The reason CGS or natural systems are nowhere near being popular is that their area of use i

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