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by java-man 6y ago
Now, imagine the thrill of holding an original Intel 8080 data book behind the Iron Curtain. With impeccably drawn diagrams, on high quality paper, in stark contrast with anything produced by the Soviet industry.
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by java-man 6y ago
I think you basically identified the root cause of the issue. We are, unfortunately, only slightly evolved chimpanzees; We would gladly form groups to fight another group when bananas grow sparse. Had we evolved from bonobos, things might
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by java-man 6y ago
How many?
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by java-man 6y ago
And I really fail to see why we build ONE James Webb. What of there is anomaly at launch? Why not build two? If one fails, we have another. If both launch, we have two telescopes! (Well, I don't know how difficult to have to instr
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by java-man 6y ago
I do not disagree with this. I wanted to point out an order of magnitude difference between science, and politics (of fear?). We built nuclear power plants not because we needed electricity, but because we needed plutonium for the bomb. W
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by java-man 6y ago
For one Hubble, something like a dozen of Keyhole spy telescopes have been launched [0]. Just imagine the kind of science we would have gotten if we launched a dozen of Hubbles instead... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by java-man 6y ago
I am surprised there are any fines at all...
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by java-man 6y ago
Is the t-SNE the best algorithm for this task?
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by java-man 6y ago
Alexa, do you work for NSA?
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by java-man 6y ago
That's a good question, though I don't think it's exactly far beyond our technological means. May be a bunch of solar-powered rail guns ([0]) to fling a fraction of the Phobos mass into space. Now, to feel the need to install
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by java-man 6y ago
Do both! I think the magnetic shield is an excellent idea.
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by java-man 6y ago
I wonder if it makes sense also to deorbit Phobos (instead of exploding a thermonuclear device on the surface per Elon Musk suggestion). The resulting series of collisions might release enough CO2 to create a denser atmosphere.
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by java-man 6y ago
Depending on the circumstances, a robotic system might offer a better response than the humans: it does not have emotions. If anything, robotic systems might be more predictable.
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by java-man 6y ago
One side benefit of using robotic planes (in theory) is that the fleet can be OTA'd to include emergency water landings, once the models are updated.
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by java-man 6y ago
Right, but that requires a fairly reliable radio link (that we don't have, e.g. MH370). Or perhaps a set of dedicated routes, with ATC actively routing other traffic around the robots?
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by java-man 6y ago
It's only a matter of time. However, how will the robotic plances integrate with existing voice-based air traffic control? Would there be a new digital channel, or the planes would it use an on-board voice recognition and synthesizer?
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by java-man 6y ago
I cannot even find words how revolting this is. As we develop various technical solutions, and keep discussing merits of this or that javascript framework, let's keep in mind that the technology we develop may end up in the hands of th
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by java-man 6y ago
It's a pity we seem to be losing knowledge from time to time. Like Antikythera mechanism, representing technology that was developed and lost for 1,500 years. The little bits of information - that are currently scattered across hundre
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by java-man 6y ago
Thank you! Very interesting read and solid work. Any plans to publish a book?
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by java-man 6y ago
ORNL flew in and built a small reactor at the Geneva conference in 1955. wow.
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by java-man 6y ago
Hand-soldered BGA chip, wow.
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by java-man 6y ago
What is the standard procedure to identify the leak location? From the outside? From the inside? Can one inspect the outer panels from the inside?
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by java-man 6y ago
"At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years." Hilarious. Ended up selling it to everybody. But seriously, given the long history of failures (i.e. search C
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by java-man 6y ago
Did Microsoft credit Open Street Map?
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by java-man 6y ago
"Citing U.S. national security interests, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe granted the Pentagon a temporary waiver to further assess a broader waiver request from DoD." Wait, what? If the stated reason for the ban
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by java-man 6y ago
Back when the drives were manufactured by IBM?
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by java-man 6y ago
Interesting how HGST has consistently low failure rates [0]. What makes these drives so reliable? Japanese fixation on quality? Specifics of Hitachi design? [0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads&
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by java-man 6y ago
Also, we don't have to limit ourselves to lithium. Li makes sense in vahicular applications, but the grid storage could be perfectly fine with Na or any other technology. Here is, for example, a sodium ion chemistry based on prussian
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by java-man 6y ago
Does not have to be one giant storage plant. The installation could be decentralized: [0] https://phys.org/news/2018-02-tesla-australia-homes-power.ht...
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by java-man 6y ago
I doubt it: Musk installed 129MWh battery plant in Australia that already saved the consumers over $100M. There must be another reason. [0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8082841/Elon...

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