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by azernik 3y ago
Moderators use third party tools heavily; vanilla Reddit is not convenient for moderation workflows.
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by azernik 3y ago
More like a principal-agent problem than moral hazard, but that's just me being pedantic, you're absolutely right.
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by azernik 3y ago
Which means NASA is satisfied that they have some other solution
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by azernik 3y ago
They're not going to get far without some other method of reducing ejecta, doing so is in the NASA requirements.
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by azernik 3y ago
That's a simplifying assumption (per the paper). In reality it would be a distribution, with a lot less going up than to the sides. Plus then you're dealing with damage to your hopefully-smooth landing site.
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by azernik 3y ago
The paper estimates that if there's LLO debris, it'll be starting out with about 1.6km/s of surface-relative velocity. Not something you want to get even a small percentage of on your landing gear.
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by azernik 3y ago
Landers don't impact hard - they fire rocket engines down, which may be much more efficient at kicking up dust than an impact. (I still think this is overblowing the problem, because any lander that causes this big of an ejecta problem
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by azernik 3y ago
We don't need to speculate. Roman legions frequently encountered elephantry and absolutely trounced them. The Romans then adopted war elephants briefly, before dropping them as totally impractical. https://acoup.blog/
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by azernik 3y ago
tl;drFrench courts kind of are subservient to the CJEU, and EU states are not entirely sovereign. Specifically, certain kinds of rulings (particularly those that prevent a state from doing something) have what's called "direct e
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by azernik 3y ago
Not sure if precedent applies automatically, but this is the EU equivalent of the Supreme Court (-ish). If nothing else, a similar appeal against a similar law will be decided similarly.
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by azernik 3y ago
This is going before an EU court, and so is a big deal both for what it says about the French law and for how it indicates the court would rule on other states' laws.
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by azernik 3y ago
This would be the equivalent of a federal court ruling: it's going before the Court of Justice of the EU, not a French court.
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by azernik 3y ago
Userspace programs do not have to be GPL to comply with a GPL-licensed kernel or even with other GPL-licensed userspace programs that they interact with.
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by azernik 3y ago
Some might, if they go after her new husband's rather substantial property.
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by azernik 3y ago
Good lord yes. Though I'd probably want a more dedicated cable organizer, with multiple separated brackets for organization and cutouts for removing and adding and reorganizing cables without unplugging them.
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by azernik 4y ago
I think you're underestimating how much energy is involved in pulling water out of the Earth well
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by azernik 4y ago
Hydrogen from the sun is generally not deuterium, let alone tritium. Irradiation does not, as a rule, make the irradiated thing radioactive; the hydrogen nuclei aka protons are "radiation" because they're moving very fast and
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by azernik 4y ago
Though there is, as I commented there, in which the "on penalty of perjury" construction very closely mirrors the original religious structure, with punishment by the state taking the place of punishment by God or the gods. Intere
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by azernik 4y ago
This isn't using ammonia to transport hydrogen; the nitrogen is what's reacting with the iron. And yes, ease of transportation and reactivity is a big motivator. From the abstract: "Ammonia is an annually 180 million ton trad
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by azernik 4y ago
If you're introducing electrical incompatibility, why on Earth would you try to preserve mechanical compatibility?
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by azernik 4y ago
With tectonics, it's that the silica/water mixture melts at lower temperatures, so the melted hydrated rock lubricates tbe fault.
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by azernik 4y ago
That's what I meant. No need for fast closing bulkheads, just get everyone out to another sealed building inside the same aerostat at whatever speed it takes them to walk to an exit and get in their protective non-pressurized gear. Out
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by azernik 4y ago
Silica's melting point is lowered when mixed with water, so oceanic faults can have actual molten magma lubricating and weakening the fault line. Otherwise, you'd have the stronger malleable solid mantle at the joint, and lose muc
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by azernik 4y ago
Maintenance is indeed the big one. That's what most ISS EVAs are for! Plus makes emergency procedures for leaks MUCH cheaper - light emergency ponchos and masks, and just walk over to the next sealed building.
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by azernik 4y ago
The difference isn't active tectonics vs not. It's plate tectonics vs stagnant lid tectonics. The presence of water at many fault lines is essential to allowing plates to stay separate and move relative to each other. The subducti
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by azernik 4y ago
No one cares about monetary inflation if it doesn't cause price inflation.
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by azernik 4y ago
Inflation occurs when more money is being used to buy things. The SVB depositors are going to turn around and put their money in a new bank.
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by azernik 4y ago
M3 is usually the money measure we care about for the real economy and price inflation, not M1. M3 is erased during a bank run, because the multiplier from M1 to M3 caused by fractional reserves goes away.
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by azernik 4y ago
Only the small percentage that was available in the bank's reserves; the money of all the people who didn't get their money out in time was indeed erased.
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by azernik 4y ago
It's the Fed. It literally prints money and loans it out. And it's doing this to replace money erased during a bank run, so no inflation implications.

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