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by avmich 3y ago
I'd even suspect that this particular direction of applied research may turn counterproductive. We have means to efficiently transfer energy from space in a form of microwave. If we - DARPA first, then necessarily its counterparts from
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by avmich 3y ago
Money promote happiness, so having more money could be a subgoal. This is a rough description, of course.
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by avmich 3y ago
> Not if the government keeps building new housing like this article is mentioning. There will always be supply. The speed of building is limited and may be below demand. Often in conclusions like this a particular trend is getting extra
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by avmich 3y ago
> Until I can see an "AI" go through a design process without a human guiding it, iterating until it decides to stop, I'll have this confidence. What use of your change of opinion then will be? The whole attempt here is to
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by avmich 3y ago
I've tried to use FreeCAD myself and didn't see that feature. I guess more learning are encouraged here. Now I know to look for parametrization as well.
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by avmich 3y ago
Reminds attributed to Heisenberg - “When I meet God, I’m going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he’ll have an answer for the first.”
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by avmich 3y ago
Thanks, didn't know about that. Maybe then the parametrization in OpenSCAD is subjectively more conveniently implemented, I don't know. Why it's not too well known?
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by avmich 3y ago
> You'd need a mechanical engineer, who is also a programmer, who is also willing to learn OpenSCAD. That is expensive. I disagree. I'd expect any engineer these days to have at least modest skills in programming. And OpenSCAD
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by avmich 3y ago
> The third stage would begin when the Mars population exceeds 10,000 people. At this point, a Martian colony should have its own bio-foundry to engineer its own microbes on demand. “This won’t happen for a long time, though. It's a
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by avmich 3y ago
For this specific subdiscussion, I wouldn't underestimate Elon's own knowledge and capabilities in the technical sides of Tesla and SpaceX, and similarly his continued work on, generally, making his engineers (in addition to his o
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by avmich 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/528/
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by avmich 3y ago
There is a difference - collection of people is not a person, at least not for all cases.
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by avmich 3y ago
Vastly faster, yes, less than an hour ballistic flight time to the opposite point on Earth (and perhaps somewhat less for closer points, though it could be complicated). Vastly cheaper... it sounds like not an optimal approach energy-wise,
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by avmich 3y ago
Wait till Starship will start flying. It's a known Musk's statement that Starship launch will be cheaper (so called "flyaway cost") than Falcon 1. While this remains to be seen, a lot is done in that area which reduces c
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by avmich 3y ago
Yes, suborbital passenger transportation looks least clear now :) . Maybe the Boca Chica launchpad will get modified/improved to be more compact. It's still at early stages of design/use, so maybe significant improvements cou
856.
by avmich 3y ago
Unless some plans have drastically changed, the idea with Starship is to launch a lot from many locations on Earth. Recent reports mention Gwynne Shotwell describing the factory being built at Starbase as capable of producing around 3 Stars
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by avmich 3y ago
As I understand, the starting point looks to be that you most often deal with single digit numbers of imperial units, but in metric it's less often the case, and that's inconvenient. While I'd generally agree that a single di
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by avmich 3y ago
> As far as dividing a meter into equal thirds, you wouldn't use a ruler to do that, or at least I wouldn't. I'd definitely use a ruler in many cases, and I'm curious about your method. How'd you divide a meter i
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by avmich 3y ago
The beauty of metric system is in its simplicity. No matter which ratio you want, you can easily calculate the proper approximation, with necessary precision. If you want, you can also precisely call that ratio - just name the numerator a
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by avmich 3y ago
Just open the eyes :) . I mean, brain.
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by avmich 3y ago
It's like suddenly listening to an unfamiliar language. "Dividing it by two gives you 3/8 rather than 9.5mm." - so? What's wrong with 9.5 mm? And what's going to happen when you divide by three, not two? "
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by avmich 3y ago
A good approach would be the opposite - provide as many math classes as kids (or their parents) want, so if something is amiss, it could be repeated or re-taught differently. Make the environment where private schools don't make sense.
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by avmich 3y ago
I think there are some laws which require a certain degree of accessibility for at least government websites. And if your big company deals with government, they'd better think about that.
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by avmich 3y ago
The visualization, I think, could be improved. Make a graph of points, where X and Y coordinates correspond to width and height of the viewport, this is like imagining all those viewports having the same left top corner and recording bottom
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by avmich 3y ago
For Russia Luna-25 mission is actually a step ahead. Both Mars-96 and Fobos-Grunt - missions launched after USSR dissolution - ended up in Pacific. Luna-25 at least successfully got itself to an orbit around the Moon. Of course this mission
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by avmich 3y ago
The missing is all yours :) . The citizens aren't the goal, the space achievements are. And that's where NASA and ULA were left in the past.
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by avmich 3y ago
In 1990's Dan Goldin, the NASA administrator at the time, was looking for ways to return to the Moon for cheap. One of the least expensive variants which was presented included launching multiple Protons and assembling lunar exeditiona
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by avmich 3y ago
Surprisingly NASA, or ULA, couldn't recruit those very same citizens.
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by avmich 3y ago
And yet the point of SLS is pork, full stop. That is reached orbit, surprisingly, is less than relevant.
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by avmich 3y ago
TI are going to use the hydrogen internally, so they can measure that in whatever they want. If they'd sell it or transported - good luck talking with the truckin' industry in kilomoles.

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