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by cfraenkel 3y ago
also, in this case (as with all 'debris'), one of the vehicles is dead, so you can't do active ranging on it, just passive radar. Much less accurate. Active rangefinding is good to ~ meter accuracy at geosynch, passive rad
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
Pennys - cheapest tiling material you can buy.
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
It's not a model that is poorly calibrated - you seem to be taking a software-centric concept far away from where it's useful. The uncertainty at initial observation is because when you first observe an object, you only have obser
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
Thats only because coal (and oil/gas) have gotten a bye on their externalized societal costs. If you held them to the same standards, the insurance companies would shut them down tomorrow.
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
What's with everyone feeling a need to shoehorn every possible issue into an either this or that frame? The world is not made of binary yes/no questions - it feels like it says something about the limitations of the person askin
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
4 minutes??? Not even close. Each eclipse varies from a few seconds for the first one to practically an hour in the middle, then gets shorter again, over roughly 30 eclipses each season (2 per year)
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
No need to waste the water. Melt the regolith scilicate in a vacuum and it forms anhydrous glass. (As strong as steel)
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
It's not "web search", it's 'web search ADVERTISING'. There's definitely NOT a trivial way to switch to another provider, there isn't one (of equivalent scale, of course.)
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by cfraenkel 3y ago
It's seen as a step up in quality, but almost entirely because you're self selecting into the pool of parents who are more invested into improved education. There's also a sense that the "problem" kids are going to
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
FYI - if you make another iteration (or build it into your keyboard), strongly recommend moving the sensor away from directly below the ball. For reasonable ergonomics - you want the top of the ball as close to the desk surface as possib
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
The Expert Mouse scroll ring originally was designed with a neodynium magnet and a steel slotted ring to provide the detents. The two I currently have don't have a scroll ring detent, so presumably the magnet was removed as a cost sav
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
It's a different mindset. When you're in uniform, under oath, you don't speak out, you salute and do what you're ordered to. When you retire, you take the uniform off and are your own man again.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Replace 'harm' with 'evil' and I thing you've got something there....
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
That's implied in the "your". Go ahead and be happy in your garden. But don't expect anyone else to follow along.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Adam Smith's free markets weren't about not having regulations. He was talking about markets free from the extractive rents going to the landed aristocracy. Rents on the farms meant workers food was more expensive so factories h
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
You're conveniently moving the goalposts when the original premise no longer passes the smell test. I'm old enough to remember the original talking points selling 'self-regulating markets. "A rising sea raises all boa
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
That could be really good. There's a Mexican salsa that's just habanero and red onion, either finely diced or pureed. Surprisingly tasty and not nearly as fire-y as you'd expect. (I think traditional? Learned it from som
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
If you're expecting English words to have a single meaning, you're in for a rough time.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Did you not read the parent comment? Literally the next words after your pull quote was "Heat avoidance I can understand". The comment was about non-heat generating spices.... you know, the things that add flavor without heat
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Too true. "Do as I say, not as I do." also comes to mind.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
More valuable, in any rational sense of the term. Having them without anyone believing that you have them is more or less useless. Their only purpose is deterrence (unless you have a death wish for your population, and there are easier me
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
And what's to keep the other side from lobbing another dozen missiles every 47 hours?
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Have you compared the range of the naval F35s to the stand off range needed to keep the CVNs floating? (it's not even close, & there aren't enough tankers to keep the F35s in the air as CAP. Single deep strike, maybe. But
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Duh - it's going to come down in one place. The odds of "any" one individual being in that exact place is negligible. On the other hand, where it comes down is under it's flight path, which is a predictable series of po
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
ALL shuttle missions were more expensive than launching 3 separate expendable missions. (on top of the launch costs themselves, the payload had to be 'upgraded' to human safety requirements. So things like deployment squibs ha
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Access for learning and education isn't going to ever pay for engineering and launch costs. Plus, if you're really interested in actual science, there's 30 years of Hubble images available to work through. Crowd-sourced sci
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
For all practical purposes, the parent comment is describing at a gross level the design of the Webb : ) (not much cost savings in that direction...)
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
False, though common, misunderstanding of responsibilities. The NRO is the operator/owner of the space asset. The NSA is (one of) the customer getting data from the NRO space asset. (along with many other sources)
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
The engineering & tolerances to make a typical microswitch (what makes the pushbutton actually do anything) would make most peoples eyes water. (from boredom, perhaps...) Fun fact - if you engineer the people facing mechanism to keep t
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Seconded. But I'm afraid RPN is an endangered species. Who's learning it anymore?

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