clans

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The Energy Requirements and Feasibility of Off-World Mining(locationtbd.home.blog)
2 points by clans 4y ago|1 comments
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by clans 4y ago
Space prospecting has been an enticing subject for more than half a century now and continues to capture the imaginations of extremely ambitious engineers and powerful capital allocators alike. It’s also somewhat viable: although most aster
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How Much Time is Wasted at Traffic Lights in the US?(locationtbd.home.blog)
3 points by clans 4y ago|3 comments
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by clans 4y ago
I wrote a bit on traffic in the US and some more efficient systems after demonstrating the issue with some simple monte carlos. There are a lot of ways traffic could be better, and I think there is lower hanging fruit than "full self d
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by clans 4y ago
The ISS (which always has 3+ humans on it) pretty regularly has to maneuver to avoid debris nowadays (NASA is conservative and will do so if a big window has a ~.01% chance of seeing debris). You can count on your hands the number of times
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by clans 4y ago
Your math gets you within an order of magnitude or so, check out NASA's work on ORDEM to predict this with Monte Carlos. Two things: 1) The probability is very sensitive to # of objects and size assumptions. If you decrease the area o
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by clans 4y ago
This is a good point, and I definitely did a poor job addressing the fit for the flashiness of the title. The understanding that I have is that the SSN does a pretty poor job cataloguing re-entry phenomena and current models for predicting
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The risk of orbital debris and one cheap way to mitigate it(locationtbd.home.blog)
53 points by clans 4y ago|24 comments
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by clans 4y ago
I worked as a researcher on orbital debris during university and now work full time on this and adjacent problems. My full write-up on the approach for using cheap radar data to assess orbital debris is here on my blog.
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by clans 4y ago
Are you referring to the IPCC chart in the post? Or another chart? If so, maybe shoot me a link? The chart in the post starts at 1850.
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How to think about the future of climate models(locationtbd.home.blog)
1 points by clans 4y ago|3 comments
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by clans 4y ago
I wrote about the analysis of past models and how they can take advantage of data and markets to be better.