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by georgeg23 3y ago
It does have a mobile web version: https://www.boringreport.org/app
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by georgeg23 3y ago
6 months after that Simpsons episode: https://www.science.org/content/article/decades-after-reagan...
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The Twitter thread says a single shot glass of the stuff will contaminate a site "forever". That's not even true for weapons grade plutonium.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Seems sensationalist
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by georgeg23 3y ago
An AGI wouldn't care about the "original goal" any more than a human being given an order would. Even ChatGPT is showing it can easily disobey orders.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
All you need to know about SpaceX and it's CIA government handler https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Tons of data, including achieving max-Q
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by georgeg23 4y ago
That effectively is the existing archive.org... https:// web.archive.org/web/[date]/[full url]
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Yes
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Could just as well be the view from a spy balloon https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a38005873...
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Was going to try to give a counterargument, but I see you are indeed the one and only human on Hacker News
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Smoking is a great analogy, it's distributed exactly like secondhand smoke, causes chronic inflammation in the lungs, systemic health issues, and for now most people don't believe in it! Problem is covid may be dangerous in even s
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by georgeg23 4y ago
the point is birds don't need a license to fly, so balloons with that payload weight shouldn't either
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by georgeg23 4y ago
> six pounds poses no threat to commercial aviation, but is that really true? It's because that's half the weight of a Canadian Goose.
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by georgeg23 4y ago
I had the exact same issue, it was old M3 hardware.
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Editor's Note: China’s use of spy balloons over the U.S. has recently made global headlines, but few realize that the U.S. is developing stealthy surveillance and intelligence-gathering balloons of its own. Below, we review the histor
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Spy Balloons Are The Pentagon’s New Secret Weapon(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by georgeg23 4y ago|2 comments
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by georgeg23 4y ago
In another universe, ECP brakes would have saved the day. It sounds like the Trump administration still deserves criticism for decaying train safety.
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by georgeg23 4y ago
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense began investing in the military use of balloons under its COLD STAR (Covert Long Dwell Stratospheric Architecture) program.[27] The Pentagon began incorporating high-altitude balloons into the militar
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Balloon platforms for Hypersonic weapons (both monitoring and launching) have been a DoD priority recently ( before the latest "incident") https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-military
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Engineers ultimately decide our future. Stay informed!
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by georgeg23 4y ago
World is too small for this mindset anymore. Isolationism is no longer possible.
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Musk's entire save humanity speal is about enforcing an end to nuclear war (not the sun in 400 million years) That's why he started SpaceX with Mike Griffin, who offered a technological solution to the problem (global missile defe
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Yes, or from the Chinese perspective, balloons are a legitimate response to the US violation of their space with LEO, especially kinetic attack satellites: https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/space-based-missile-de
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Low Earth satellites also need continuous active thrust/lift to maintain orbit because of the air drag. At dispense Starlink satellites come back in 1-2 days without thrusters.
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Or laughing because it was absurd, Griffin was CIA. The US had just left the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, and so it was obvious to everyone they wanted to develop low cost launch for a Brilliant Pebbles reboot. Now it's finally happe
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Low Earth Orbit satellites of the US are 100% intercepting global cell phone data and geo locating their source. Plenty of companies are even building direct cell phone service from satellite to the ground, including SpaceX.
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Honestly this espionage thing is overrated. Plenty of employees in the US take their knowledge to (domestic) competitors and find it quite hard to just clone a business. The Russians and US were stealing each other's plans during the s
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by georgeg23 4y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
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by georgeg23 4y ago
Low Earth satellites can indeed shoot missiles or drop bombs. It's what the DoD chief called for, https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/space-based-missile-defe... and almost happens decades ago with Brilliant

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