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721.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Below market pay, long hours, high stress, you can be fired anytime with no advance notice, so... just like the majority of research that isn't about amplifying doom scrolling. Yet people do it for the satisfaction of creating things n
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SpaceX reveals EVA suit design as Polaris Dawn mission approaches(spacenews.com)
3 points by dotnet00 2y ago|0 comments
723.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Feels a bit absurd to try to lay the blame at the feet of 11 year olds, when adults routinely demonstrate the same behavior. The latest example of KSP2 is imo a great example, announced in 2019 for release in 2020, delayed several times to
724.
by dotnet00 2y ago
That's already the case with existing resume parsers and evaluators. LLMs might at least broaden the monoculture somewhat.
725.
by dotnet00 2y ago
And similarly it's interesting to wonder if we'd have been as fascinated with the stars and the Moon if we didn't have the unusual characteristics of our Moon.
726.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Would punch too many holes in the argument :)
727.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Apollo was designed when safety requirements were much more lax than they are now. Plus, Orion is much heavier.
728.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Enough of the plans of the Shuttle were public that the Soviets had managed to build an improved copy ( https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)?&useskin=v... ), so it wouldn't really be theft if C
729.
China unveils video of its moon base plans, which includes a NASA space shuttle(space.com)
7 points by dotnet00 2y ago|4 comments
730.
by dotnet00 2y ago
My point is that text doesn't necessarily convey how they meant it. Their experience of the advisor's passing was indirect, so it isn't all that crazy that what stands out to them is how it affected their SO and the obvious e
731.
by dotnet00 2y ago
I don't think they meant it in a negative way. The last line makes me think they mean it in a sort of self-reflective butterfly effect way. Similar to how anyone might reflect on how the death of a relative or friend ultimately led the
732.
by dotnet00 2y ago
IIRC a big part of Perseverance's mission is to stash away pristine, provably untouched samples of Mars, because NASA sees a human landing on Mars in the nearish (ie 20-30 years) as an inevitability. I don't think they'd quar
733.
by dotnet00 2y ago
That's a good point, although lonely people are also easily cheated by real people who aren't relying on fakery.
734.
by dotnet00 2y ago
I think those are just the sites oriented more towards people looking for serious relationships rather than a hookup, eg religion/culture/status-targeted matrimonial sites. Since people are far more likely to think with their brai
735.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Yeah that's fair, particularly considering that signing up to a cheating site is even more deliberate than the usual "it just happened" type of cheating.
736.
by dotnet00 2y ago
I feel like if life was definitively detected on Mars, it'd kick off a serious new space race for sending crew there. The prestige of either potentially studying alien life, or of having the ability to set foot on the fundamental origi
737.
by dotnet00 2y ago
I wonder why anyone would bother with it after all the lives that reportedly blew up in the aftermath of the big leak
738.
by dotnet00 2y ago
"Messed up Mars" = Rendered into a dry wasteland where maybe there might be fossils of microscopic life "Messed up Earth" = Making it very uncomfortable for Humans, causing large losses of life in poorer parts of the wor
739.
by dotnet00 2y ago
There are meteorites on Earth which very likely originated from Mars. They're believed to have been launched into space by an impact, eventually finding their way onto Earth. If we're looking for the most realistic options for pan
740.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Yep, BASIC bootstrapped my programming interest even as late as the late 2000s. School library was ancient, the only programming books were on BASIC and internet access was limited. So I got started trying to use those to learn this: https
741.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Is it a fascism every time someone (who you disagree with) talks about some way they think society has gotten worse?
742.
by dotnet00 2y ago
It's the current HN culture to whine about all technology, especially if it isn't impossibly perfect.
743.
by dotnet00 2y ago
It's a "the facts are so blatantly obvious that you'd have to be intentionally ignoring them to be suggesting they're bullshit" reply.
744.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Are you arguing in good faith, or are you proudly showing off ignorance fueled by Musk derangement syndrome?
745.
by dotnet00 2y ago
By 'giving his opinion a weirdly large amount of attention relative to its value' I'm not saying that his opinion has little value due to his lack of specific space credentials (else my opinion wouldn't matter either lol
746.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Although the comment by comment aspect is new to me, I did see a lot of blatant bot posting/repost karma farming that slid under the table back when I was an active user. I remember several times when I happened to be looking up a post
747.
by dotnet00 2y ago
To an extent I concur that people are giving his opinion a weirdly large amount of attention relative to its value. They're all worn out arguments in rocketry circles, very reminiscent of all the dumb claims Blue Origin made when they
748.
by dotnet00 2y ago
100lbs is obviously not a lot of mass for refueling to mean much. But, if Apollo needed to launch 3000t to land 16t on the Moon, a Starship with 100t of payload and say, 300t of propellant, would need a ~75000t rocket from Earth. Efficiency
749.
by dotnet00 2y ago
It's a different style of development. SLS burned an absurd amount of money and spent over a decade making sure that the first launch went relatively well, because they can't afford to have visible failures, in part because people
750.
by dotnet00 2y ago
Ah I see, I was reading through the wikipedia page and misinterpreted a line about updates being free during alpha/beta to be implying that the game itself was free.

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