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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
I was under the impression that the aero braking greatly reduces the amount of fuel required to land on mars vs the moon, and due to this the Saturn V had enough lift to put a crew on mars. If Apollo-era hardware can get to mars, why rendez
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
It isn’t clear to me. One is not a prerequisite for the other, they can be done independently. Am I missing something?
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
The fallacy here is that we don't need a Moon base to make a Mars base in terms of infrastructure. It won't make sense to launch a mission from the Moon to Mars until the Moon has Earth-equivalent industry, and refueling a rocket
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
He clearly implies that politically-driven contracts have made the launch system overly complex, and that SpaceX could do the job for a fraction of the cost with better results compared to the old aerospace giants. He paused on slide showin
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
The big picture is that instead of sending 16 moon-capable rockets to refuel one moon-capable rocket, just send 16 rockets to the moon. You can build a lot of infrastructure with 16 rockets to the moon.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
Horizontally opposed engines are inherently less reliable due to the increase in components, an H-4 has two heads and all that entails, an I-4 has one. CVTs are inherently more fragile than a geared transmission, they simply cannot hold as
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
It's absolutely incredible how Subaru can be so high on this list with their choice of engine style and transmission. With that sort of handicap it's either a testament to how great Subaru is or how terrible every other automaker
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
The same article notes that they are using an engine by GE/Safran, and that there was espionage involved in the development of the C919.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
We are a few wars in the Middle East and a wet bulb event or two away from this type of argument falling into the “get a horse” bin.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
This person got Overwatch 2 working at a decent framerate(100+FPS) on an M1 Pro: https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/129jzv4/overwatc... Starfield should be barely playable if someone manages to
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
This is where close partnering helps. Microsoft can lead the way in building all their games(a considerable library, especially after the Activision acquisition) with universal binaries, and provide great tools to third parties to build gam
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
Liquid fuel is inherently unscalable, it is a finite resource.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
The exploration of truth is anathema to those who claim to already have the truth.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
Using a cluster bomb against a political rival has a lot more friction than using an autonomous drone.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
They want a shorter revenue cycle via recurring services. What they're missing is that I don't stream my music from GMTunes, I don't store my photos on GMPhotos, I don't have my files on GMCloud, and I don't have ea
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
Find a sysadmin and point them at FPM: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
The existing sample return mission to mars is already getting budgetary pushback. I am willing to wager a human mission will not receive the same pushback, even if it's 10x the price. The human angle here cannot be ignored.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
Apollo 17 brought back 200 pounds of lunar material, including the deepest core samples we have of a planetary body, but you characterize that as “souvenirs”. Name a robotic mission that has brought back more than 200 pounds of “souvenirs”
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
The curiosity rover took about 4 years to cover 10 miles. The Apollo 17 rover covered 20 miles in 4 hours. Ego and the human spirit aside, humans are better at exploring than robots, even with 50 years of advances in robotics.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
There was a corn variety that was semi-recently discovered to have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria which provides nitrogen to the corn plant, thus eliminating the need to use nitrogen fertilizer. It's currently in development to
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
I’d wager the amount of livable and arable land we’ll lose due to continued fossil fuel usage would be greater than having a Fukushima every year.
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by elsonrodriguez 3y ago
Subaru's system has been using stereoscopic cameras for years.
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
The similarities between DS9 and B5 are not accidental. The creator of B5 pitched it to Paramount first as a trek series. They rejected the pitch, but did use some elements for DS9.
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
Youtube Premium used to be called Youtube Red. "It's a good change..."
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
I've seen skepticism about GCP and AWS availability from people with a single 2U in a closet somewhere. I know it's just a psychological thing about giving up "control", but I have to stifle a chuckle every time.
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
Taiwan has enough missiles to sink and shoot down a significant portion of China's navy and air-force. This would then open them up to attacks from India or Vietnam to claim territory currently under dispute, and create openings for Ch
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
> It's worth noting that AT&T was the exclusive carrier for the first iPhone. That was a happy accident due to the acquisition of Cingular by AT&T
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
There's at least one study indicating reduced spread in households that are vaccinated. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...
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by elsonrodriguez 4y ago
Star Trek is basically space communism, and their skies are filled with megastructures that put our current dilemma to shame. It’s not about siding with industry or some economic philosophy. It’s that humanity, on a long enough timeframe, i

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