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by handol 6y ago
1800 kJ > 100 kJ Even if they achieve 'burning plasma', it's still like a 100hp engine using an 1800hp spark plug.
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by handol 6y ago
> Thus indeed if you have basically any heavy freight at all on a road, the rest is negligible. Racetracks don't carry freight, but the surface does goes bad in a couple decades.
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by handol 6y ago
You don't strictly need one. There are designs that rely on exhaust pulse resonance for pressure. There are designs that use various kinds of mechanical valves. It looks like (propane fuel) tesla valve pulse jets have been built, but I
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by handol 6y ago
It's on the internet forever now. If there's a balance to strike it would have had to have been done in 2007 when the court digitized their records and put them online. A search for "minor consuming" reveals a few hundre
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by handol 6y ago
Found an assault charge on my Mom from '92.
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by handol 6y ago
>It would still require moving parts though (unless it's only used as a ramjet), since a jet engine has to compress the air before heating it. You could use a tesla valve for an electric pulse jet, that would make for no moving part
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by handol 6y ago
You can't really get away with just knowing del from vector calculus, as this is the geometric-calculus del. ∇F = ∇ . F + ∇ /\ F But for defining the terms you're going to need a couple paragraphs to go along with the on
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by handol 6y ago
I expect it would be much harder to put a mirror factory in orbit than a mirror.
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by handol 6y ago
> “There’s the physical black hole and then there’s the simulated one in the quantum computer, and there can be a replica wormhole connecting those,” said Douglas Stanford, a theoretical physicist at Stanford and a member of the West Coa
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by handol 6y ago
I think they call them phase addressable full spectrum electromagnetic field emitters in Star Trek.
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by handol 6y ago
Not especially, but certainly more money than I would light on fire. That would actually be an even more abstract extensions of the self though, incorporating the bike by way of my finances.
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by handol 6y ago
When my bicycle is subjected to hard bump, even if no part of my body experienced much acceleration, I'll make the same sort of sharp inhale I do if my elbow is subjected to a hard bump. You really do develop the sensation of feeling
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by handol 6y ago
They work well for what seems to be their intended purpose. Providing fodder for political entertainment to the 24hr news networks.
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by handol 6y ago
Specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphoton_lithography
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by handol 6y ago
A part can have features much smaller than it's total size. One way to think of it is, a part is nanoscale if you would choose nanometers as the length unit on the drawing.
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by handol 6y ago
Quibi seemed to do a lot wrong. But when it comes to how bad their content was, I've seen some writers say Quibi produced first draft scripts other studios had passed on without a re-write. They thought they could run with proof-of-con
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by handol 6y ago
Not in general, but when you do it by writing articles, or posting on message boards, yes absolutely. Advocating for or against a cause by disseminating media is the definition of propaganda.
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by handol 6y ago
Powering those ion thrusters is a bit of a problem at the mass ranges you need for peopled interplanetary flight. Either you have an absolutely enormous solar array, or an absolutely enormous radiator array for your nuclear reactor.
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by handol 6y ago
Is this missile guidance system a weapon in the eyes of the law? The feds haven't busted down my friends door for contributing yet. https://github.com/MuMech/MechJeb2
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by handol 6y ago
> Ffmpegs documentation ffplay --help 8826 lines
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by handol 6y ago
I think he says early on that the archive trap doesn't have self-awareness, except for a few subroutines that need to be self-aware like the simulations of the researchers which facilitate the escape. Even the name blight evokes a fung
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by handol 6y ago
Awesome! It looks like some files are missing from the photos directory, or maybe the index is just wrong.
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by handol 6y ago
Interesting, though it appears EFF no longer has a comments field on their donation form.
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by handol 6y ago
It's probably also up to a publisher.
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by handol 6y ago
The other post Brad made that day he references: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/pbuT5Xty9Q...
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by handol 6y ago
The CD-ROM is available in two libraries https://www.worldcat.org/title/hugo-and-nebula-anthology-199... but cannot be checked out.
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The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1993)(groups.google.com)
99 points by handol 6y ago|108 comments
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by handol 6y ago
Because there is something about the Apple product they want, that they can't get somewhere else.
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by handol 6y ago
I meant in the 1860s.
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by handol 6y ago
Automated switching wouldn't even be needed , router could have been a job title.

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