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by dotnet00 2y ago
Starship could give a single telescope a stronger boost than an FH could, and depending on the mass of one telescope (along with all the redundancies, power sources and transmitters such a long term mission would need), the telescope could
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by dotnet00 2y ago
This is why I mentioned 'reliable'. People love to whine about how extreme they perceive Musk to be, but SpaceX has continued to be as reliable as ever and hasn't shown any of the urges conspiracy theorists love to imagine th
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If you can measure the speed of light extremely precisely, you can measure a lot of constants extremely precisely.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y IIRC it had a pretty big thread here a few weeks ago
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>Okay.. then how do they connect that back to specific senators in the minds of the voters to help them get elected? I feel like this should be obvious? The work is distributed across the country, but a state like New York or California
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That's a meaningless distinction though. What's the logic of not choosing the most reliable supplier in the industry just because the owner is rich?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
So, if AI trained on AI generated data tend to perform worse, and you're trying to have AI generate the data that ultimately props up our civilization... Clearly this can only end well
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Where's the strawman? You're whining about giving money to SpaceX in exchange for asking SpaceX to build something to the specifications of the program. That's not redistributing wealth to the top, that's purchasing a se
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think another big reason why Apple users are more willing to spend money is because they haven't normalized providing 'free' services the way Google has. But, I think Apple's gradually starting to encroach into pushing
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The topic buying the votes isn't moon policy, it's that they're creating jobs. SLS was being given absurd sums of money for development well before Artemis was a thing. Canceling SLS would mean losing jobs, yes. But that&#x27
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by dotnet00 2y ago
"This service is awful, let's switch to the better one" You: "and give them money in exchange for services rendered?!!?"
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If you mean human spaceflight, current Boeing has less experience flying humans to anywhere in space than SpaceX, let alone beyond low earth orbit. If you mean general spaceflight, SpaceX has launched more lunar and interplanetary payloads
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Because Congress critters use it as a means to spend taxpayer money on purchasing votes. They'll do pretty much anything to avoid having to admit that SLS was a mistake.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
YouTube has very much been resting on its laurels, they were innovative 20 years ago when they started. For the past decade or so they have mostly just rested on their laurels allowing the auto-moderation to rampage and destroy people'
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There's an implied "reasonable chance" in there.
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Agreed, I don't get it either. I also wonder how many people saying this sort of thing expressed the same sentiment when someone they had a strong dislike of passed or had a close brush with death. We've had many such incidents ov
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by dotnet00 2y ago
For a while it was like that, but after the ex-Honeywell CEO was replaced, and with New Glenn flight hardware becoming increasingly more common to see being moved around and tested, they do seem to be approaching being a serious space compa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Usually on SpaceX's X or Musk's X, for example: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1762237289231757406 https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798692089766805813 https://x.com/el
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by dotnet00 2y ago
IIRC it was Kapton tape, technically what they did was fine, Kapton tape is commonly used for things like that. The problem was that they used it in places that might get hotter than the tape was rated for. Edit: Actually, looking around a
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That feels completely like an excuse used after the fact to justify keeping Boeing around rather than a principled stance, considering that NASA and Congress were pretty set on just giving Boeing the sole source contract for crew transport
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You follow the news and the public statements on the goals of the test? SpaceX isn't exactly tight lipped about their philosophy and what they hope to learn from each test.
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That makes no sense. The meaning of the very large amount of money being spent on the mission is of accomplishing the mission. Starliner is doing nothing innovative, and dying with it would not be accomplishing the mission or adding anythin
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There's a massive difference between astronauts dying in the process of testing something innovative and risky that pushes the envelope, and astronauts dying because a company has let its engineering deteriorate. In the latter case, we
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I'm fairly certain that sources from NASA have said the opposite regarding scrutiny. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/science/boeing-starliner-... As it turns out, the official that admitted this
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The hilarity of this conspiracy is the simple fact that smart dust wouldn't offer any more surveillance benefit than the much easier task of just backdooring our devices.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It'd depend on what software is under consideration. IIRC the UI in Crew Dragon is using more contemporary stuff, Node.js I think. This is fine because they have redundancy, there's minimal crew control anyway, and there are manua
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Are you seriously implying that the gallium inside a laptop, sandwiched between the CPU and heatsink, is going to not only leak out of the laptop (most likely rendering the laptop nonfunctional in the process), but also manage to find its w
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Ah right, forgot about that one, thought you were referring to some issue with the Insight lander.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
What's the Mars lander issue?
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New theoretical calculation solves the 'muon g-2' puzzle(bigthink.com)
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