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by dotnet00 2y ago
Why wouldn't I downplay the Starlink Ukraine thing, when everything about it from the media has been at best misleading? The usage of Starlink to control drones wasn't allowed because that is not a civilian-style use case and thus
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by dotnet00 2y ago
What exactly has Musk actually done that goes so far beyond the pale of typical corporate shenanigans that it would register as not being trustworthy to governments? At most he has had overly optimistic timelines, overly optimistic social m
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If they were actually stranded, the Crew Dragon being prepared for a private flight in August would probably be in the process of being prepared for heading to the ISS instead. They are not stranded. They are staying because this Starliner
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by dotnet00 2y ago
*auxiliary propulsion unit :) It isn't the same thing as the APU in a plane (where I think most people are getting the 'auxiliary power unit'). The APU here is a secondary thruster which ensures proper pressure (and likely ul
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They're only incremental improvements in the sense that developing LLMs is an incremental improvement on stuff that basically worked in the 60s.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Software engineers are not stupid, but in other STEM disciplines they have a reputation of making themselves look stupid because of beliefs like "it's just newtonian physics".
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by dotnet00 2y ago
SpaceX is the only medium-heavy lift provider in the West with free space on their manifest right now. Sure they're constantly launching Starlink, but their entire offering is that if someone else needs to launch a payload, they'l
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Well, right now they lack that capability and don't show any interest in it, so why would anyone in the EU even bother working on the things that would use it, like, LEO megaconstellations (ie Starlink or Starshield alternatives)? They
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Falcon 9 is 'subsidized' by the USA in the way that businesses 'subsidize' development of new products and services through profit from selling products, getting investors and completing contracts at fixed cost to the cu
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Next time SpaceX should simply refuse to provide aid until countries requesting aid get everything approved through the US government first. Otherwise people like you will continue to act like it was unreasonable that SpaceX wouldn't a
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Airbus hasn't been making excuses about how they don't need to compete with Boeing for a decade. They've been focusing on being actually competitive.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's a tired ad hominem, all the evidence shows that SpaceX is by far the most reliable operator in the space industry right now.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's sad seeing this delusional take despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Which tbf has been an apt description of AMD GPUs for the better part of a decade. Great hardware, god awful software and even worse long term software strategy. It's why the 'fine wine' spin on the long term performance of A
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Seems like the second stage is having some APU trouble that has caused it to not reach the right orbit...
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Hell, even jokes that have been properly marked get downvoted and flagged here.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think a launch this year for New Glenn is pretty much entirely off the table now (or might just barely make it in by the end of the year), they haven't even gotten to static firing the rocket yet, let alone all the work after that ne
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yeah that's what I mean, Ariane isn't just standing in for something the market has no solution for, they're actively trying to stifle the solutions the market is working on. By gap in domestic capability I'm referring t
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by dotnet00 2y ago
These arguments about not risking losing capability and training a workforce are worn out, ArianeSpace's insistence on not earnestly working to innovate led to them already having had a gap in domestic capability. Similarly, they'
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think currently most of these things are dominated by other sources of noise such that a more precise clock isn't that big of an improvement, but the article claims these kinds of clocks could also be smaller than an atomic one, whic
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by dotnet00 2y ago
To be fair, China is testing new designs far more often than India, so that alone increases the chances of seeing accidents. But also, India isn't afraid of building near the coast.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
How is it worse that now they need to lobby Congress instead of just getting the FAA to say that they can certify their planes themselves?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Good thing Boeing hasn't already been doing that /s
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I usually just pick it up from X, following a couple of good, space focused journalists helps push most space news up to me. Adding to the Mars Sample Return thing, apparently China just recently announced their intention to do it ~2030.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yeah, if you're doing detailed prints often, especially decorative stuff, resin can't be beat by standard fdm.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yeah, I suppose it depends heavily on the kind of detail. I was mostly thinking along the lines of printing lithophanes or hueforge prints. With lithophones it's typically recommended to print upright so the image is formed by stacking
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If you need detail in more than one axis, you should use a smaller nozzle and lower speed. Along z-axis, the feature size limit is layer height, and along XY it's linewidth. Layer height can be very small with any nozzle (I've see
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by dotnet00 2y ago
A kalman filter wouldn't account for say, the issue that hit the HAKUTO-R lander, where because the reading on the radar altimeter changed too rapidly, the computer assumed it was faulty, or the IM-1 lander, where they initially had a
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by dotnet00 2y ago
China as far I'm aware doesn't have any solid plans on the books yet. NASA has been working on planning out a Mars sample return for a few years now, part of the Perseverance rover's job is to collect samples, store them in c
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yes, what I mean is that theoretically you could do something like have a very very wide base to passively dump heat into the ground (since we're still only looking at kW scale reactors in space), or actively cycle large amounts of reg

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