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by gjem97 11y ago
I understand the technical limitations, but it appears that you have an axe to grind: sounding the alarm about space debris. In that context it seems disingenuous to show space as more crowded than it is.
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by gjem97 11y ago
It's a bit surprising to me that it's not made more clear that the individual pieces of debris are not to scale. That is, just glancing at the visualization (especially the early ones in the presentation that focus on low Earth o
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by gjem97 11y ago
The internal resistance of a battery limits the amount of current that it can produce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_resistance
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by gjem97 11y ago
The funny thing about nuclear waste is that it's not the "hottest stuff" you have to worry about. The hottest stuff has a very short half life and disappears relatively quickly. On the other side things like Carbon 14 that
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by gjem97 11y ago
The wikipedia article linked in another comment has an animated 2d graph that gets you part of the way there.
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by gjem97 12y ago
This article is completely missing the point. These valuation numbers are made up. Say you have a basket of ten oranges, ten apples and ten pears. Someone comes along and says, "I'll give you $20 for your oranges." You giv
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by gjem97 12y ago
When the probability describes the likelihood of our data matching a particular theory, there is only "seems improbable". E.g. it seems improbable that there are other yet undetected Pluto-sized objects in the solar system. Is i
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by gjem97 12y ago
There's no discussion here of survivorship bias [1]. Without a discussion of how it is addressed, these results are highly suspect. Specifically, the benchmark takes into account those companies that lost enough value to fall out of