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by bdamm 5y ago
It'll probably get blown away in a storm and buried in sand.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Quite the contrary, I believe NASA is very serious about meeting their goals. If the goal was to fly for 30 days, then they'd have a huge challenge in over-engineering the mission to ensure 30 days. This way, they can get the initial p
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by bdamm 5y ago
They understand it perfectly when solar panels appear on your roof, a Tesla appears in your driveway, and vacations appear on your docket.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Really this is what Docker is all about. If you have environments that need certain preconditions then wrap them up in a container so they don’t break when the system updates.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Tesla Model 3 LR owner. Completely agree. There's no need for all the extra baggage for rapid battery swap. Road trips are easy already without swapping the battery. And the battery is swappable... just not rapidly. I've done many
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by bdamm 6y ago
All EVs on the market can have their packs replaced. For old Nissan Leafs, the price of a refurbished pack has gone down to the point where it even makes sense to extend their lives with a pack refurbishment.
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by bdamm 6y ago
There is at least one commercial EV aircraft that can do it, but frankly it won't be as big a deal as it is with cars. Cars are speeding up and slowing down all the time. Aircraft generally speed up, stay fast, and then slow down at th
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by bdamm 6y ago
Abuse is an arms race, so I'm not certain it can entirely be "open source". Someone has to man the servers to adapt as the assault develops. There can be tools that are open source, but without a foundation that is running se
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by bdamm 6y ago
This site (cool intent, good luck) highlights what HN does really well, because this site doesn't go deep on a refined textual experience. HN has a very simple user experience, deep content, and yet remarkably little abuse or junk cont
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by bdamm 6y ago
Yeah, I really can't help but wonder if SpaceX is going to go after the long distance travel market. Starship can do suborbital hops without Superheavy.
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by bdamm 6y ago
"China" isn't one people either.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Parts could be squeezed between high pressure zones and get shot out of the collision, but even those parts won't gain a higher orbit because the perigee will be below the original orbit.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Yeah, the terminology is wrong. It's not a high orbit, it's a high ballistic trajectory, which then is terminated on the low side. But if that object improbably happens to collide with a high-orbit object then you could get a spre
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by bdamm 6y ago
It turns out that intuitive reasoning for orbital mechanics is not easy. Two satellites having a head on collision become space junk because now you have many fragments that themselves can't control their altitude or deorbit. Fragments
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by bdamm 6y ago
Your point is true, except that you will go electric, whether you do it for dopamine hit or not. The technology is strongly pointing to the complete and utter obsolescence of gasoline in a matter of only a few more years. Arguably gasolin
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by bdamm 6y ago
In addition to radar, gps, gyro.. they likely also have terminal guidance radio very similar to what airports use for guiding airplanes to the runway in fog/cloud. See Instrument Landing System. They may use active radar reflectors, an
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by bdamm 6y ago
To build something new, first clean your working place.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Partly I'd say it's about real estate ownership. In the US, living in a city means either spending enormous sums on real estate (suffocatingly so) or renting. But in the US, real estate ownership is incentivized as a primary way t
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by bdamm 6y ago
Quantum computers exist today, they're just very low power, low gate counts, and extremely expensive. Don't discount it as magic just because of the claims. Scaling up QC would be like bringing mathematics to Mesopotamia. But it i
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by bdamm 6y ago
Liability guidance is effective at being clear about who needs to pay for security. An example of where this is effective is the rollout of chip-and-pin credit cards. Only when retailers became liable for forgery due to the "weakest li
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by bdamm 6y ago
Normal EVs can sit for a week and not have a dead battery. There is some value to having that trickle charge but not a ton. IIRC there was a solar powered Prius where the panel powered a cabin fan and that kinda makes sense.
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by bdamm 6y ago
In the United States, aviation mechanics are trained primarily to be generalists who can safely operate on any aircraft. Airline regulation may create specializations. The manufacturer needs to provide parts and certain highly specialized s
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by bdamm 6y ago
Besides, it's the regulatory environment and the reputation of the airline that provides most of the actual safety. Aircraft failures are in fact very rare. Even the 737 MAX is a profoundly safe aircraft compared to almost any car bran
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by bdamm 6y ago
There are dozens of small airplane manufacturers. Cessna nearly failed in the '90s, but they're doing fine today. They're still small enough to fail. Also there are bizjet manufacturers that could fail. Aircraft producers usu
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by bdamm 6y ago
IIRC they were unable to shut down the outboard engine after landing, and had to get the fire department to shoot water into the engine. They did not have control over the engine the entire flight, nor did they have full control over the ai
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by bdamm 6y ago
It's possible they would build the "integration tower" first, perfect the catch, and only then build the launch mount.
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by bdamm 6y ago
As a Canadian that is also a US permanent resident, yes, ICE and CBP have broad authority to set up checkpoints pretty much wherever they please. "100 miles" includes the coastline. They also can do warrant-free detention, and the
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by bdamm 6y ago
There is the "Integration Tower" structure at the south side next to the new orbital launch pad. If the plan is to catch and re-fly then that would make sense.
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by bdamm 6y ago
If Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, then gold must be as well.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Bitcoin definitely includes more than just the ledger. Without the miners, there would be no transactions, and without the intermediate processors, there would be no transaction intake. Without exchanges, there would be no value. Bitcoin is

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