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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
to be fair it is weird that Castelion is all Starshield guys and Mike Griffin and his SDI deputy Lisa Porter are advisors.
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
Unfortunately the Pandora's box has already been opened.., we are going to have to get better at thinking critically and judging evidence if we are to survive into in the sea of LLM generated content.
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
After COVID, I had an epiphany. Or maybe it was just caffeine deprivation. I thought, "Why not start a book club?" Now, the first challenge was finding fellow enthusiasts among my software engineering colleagues, who seemed to com
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
That study said 1600 satellites are needed in a Delta Walker configuration (same as Starlink, but Starlink has more satellites already). The number of interceptors per satellite was unclear but this USAF captain said "composite rocket
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
"The data reveal other important aspects of this astonishing galaxy. We see that the color of the galaxy is not as blue as it could be, indicating that some of the light is reddened by dust, even at these very early times." We con
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
As an aspiring actor in 1990, mastering the art of memorizing lines accurately has been a journey of both discipline and discovery. Initially, I struggled with the sheer volume of text, often feeling overwhelmed by the task. However, I soon
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
This shows you don't need a very complicated Algorithm to produce passable sentences. I suspect it's similar to simple autonomous car algorithms that can start as simple lane following feedback loops. The question is how performan
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
Yes DC-X was the first reusable rocket booster, it was cancelled about 5 years before SpaceX carried the torch.
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
Has anyone publicly confronted/asked Elon about Strategic Defense Initiative? I can't find him _ever_ touching the subject, which is strange given it's huge significance.
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
All those Mars Colony leaders were SDI people. Take a look at the latest stuff written by Zubrin.
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by forgot-im-old 2y ago
I've noticed Mike Griffin's goals have been pretty consistent since he led the SDI (and conceived COTS). Follow the man's actions not what's written on the tin. SpaceX's development has wed closely to the SDI requir
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
One solution is to keep these organizations so lean and understaffed that they would love to eliminate tasks and reduce the scope of their responsibilities.
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
There was another HackerNews story about smelling diseases. I have the rare ability to smell coronavirus, (I've diagnosed probably a dozen people correctly.) That said, if I'm wearing an n95 mask it's harder for me to detect
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
I like how this approach trusts your future self to look back at these files, while the other methods implicitly distrust the future self motivation to look back at your present self. Can we deeply trust the concept of our future self as be
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
"remotecall"?
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
It's already been bent towards missile defense https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Let's remember Elon was not a founder of Tesla, just an early investor, and had no say in where it was registered.
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Yes that works for me in Chrome / Android.
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Good for hypersonic missiles reentering from staging in low Earth orbit.
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
We agree actually. SpaceX is not doing this for some research project, or for a commercial internet service. It's a military project-- see the Wikipedia link.
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Those charts show each of the newest satellites buys ~400 paying subscribers (per additional satellite). Build, launch, operating for one satellite--while low for SpaceX--is too expensive for that to make sense. If they try to do more than
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Apparently you didn't read the link.
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Starlink performance trends have shown it is not viable alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Subscribers
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Space Solar is really coming from a DARPA initiative to build microwave beams from space as a weapon system to intercept missiles and other targets. The idea of selling solar power from space is another contrived commercial dual-use applica
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Build stuff for the military but say its for Mars to hire eager college students at half price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Anywhere with Liechtenstein's population density would already have cell service, so this wouldn't get used there anyway. This is for the 0.1-0.2% of the US population that doesn't have cell service at all (still prestigious
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
13km diameter.. which is about 133km².
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
>> It can supposedly work from a pocket or inside a car. False
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by forgot-im-old 3y ago
Musk doesn't innovate per-se, he just dusts off old DARPA projects and convinced young engineers to work on them. Autonomous cars, reusable rockets, neuralink, Strategic Defense Initiative... Musks genius is making it seem like these a