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by jccooper 6y ago
> I don't believe the state is requiring Uber to pay hourly and Uber almost certainly doesn't want to pay people hourly either so none of this is relevant. Pay may be calculated based on metrics other than time, but must be at
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Shuttle tank and S-I body were built at NASA Michoud, but by contractors (Boeing and Martin, respectively.) Boeing today is building the SLS first stage there, as a variant of the Shuttle ET.
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Until a third competitor is flying reliably it remains prudent to overpay for ULA. Even commercial satellite operators don't sole-source to the cheapest option because they want to keep other operators available. Space launch is a brit
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It's not far off. Vandy's built for Falcon Heavy, and was at one time slated to host its debut flight. That got changed to the Cape during development, so it may at this point be a few hardware revisions behind, but that's no
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by jccooper 6y ago
ULA has designed and is building the Vulkan rocket now. Presumably they have some staff that were involved with the Atlas V and Delta IV back when they were with their parent companies.
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by jccooper 6y ago
It's a bit more than cubesats. Nearly every satellite is or can be fine with horizontal integration. Witness every SpaceX and Russian payload ever launched. Only exotic (presumably optical) sats from three-letter agencies really demand
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by jccooper 6y ago
ULA maintains a couple of technological advantages; they have some unique insertion steering and their hydrogen upper stage is particularly well-suited for Earth-escape missions. However, SpaceX insertion is good enough for nearly every mis
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by jccooper 6y ago
There was such a world. Travel back to 1990, and NASA is selling launch services to DoD via Shuttle. In fact, every other domestic launcher had been shut down to reduce competition on NASA. It worked out so well (read: sarcasm) that DoD cre
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by jccooper 6y ago
NASA has always used private firms to design and build practically everything. SpaceX will be constrained by the same things as all the other private aerospace and defense contractors: export control restrictions, domestic production laws,
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by jccooper 6y ago
Elemental mercury is kind of in the same boat as elemental lead. It's poorly absorbed dermally and GI, so you need continuous exposure to be a real problem. It's worst when you're inhaling it, which is bad news because mercur
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by jccooper 6y ago
There's no legal basis for that outside territorial waters. Which is why that was not done this time.
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I also did that once, about the same timeframe, specifically to preserve an uptime. I think the cult of runtime came about simply because it was impressive that a personal computer could stay running for more than a few days when most of th
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I'm sure it works for conversions of people already there. I do wonder how it affects traffic long-term because the store feels annoying. That's harder to measure.
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Good news is, this is next on the test program. They'll be testing the "belly flop" with this vehicle in the next few flights. So they'll see any problems with it before they get too far. I don't see much reason to
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by jccooper 6y ago
There is a "short stay" option, where you return on the same synod. This requires a higher-energy transfer, involving Venus on at least one leg, to get there early enough to hit the return window and also have enough time to actua
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by jccooper 6y ago
Most big HVAC systems have this ability. On a rooftop unit usually it's as simple as a hatch that you slide; a split system would have to have a separate fresh air duct you can control with a damper. Newer systems typically have explic
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by jccooper 6y ago
True, though they could publish several zones and not announce which will be used. Though the transponders from various ships would eventually give that away. But even if it's not technically secret there's a big difference betwee
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by jccooper 6y ago
Musk doesn't have a particularly compassionate sense of humor, nor much restraint on Twitter. It's cost him a lot of money in the past. But my guess is that he knows very few details about that coup, which allows him to joke about
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by jccooper 6y ago
That tweet was a very typical Muskian joke, goading the supporters of what he sees as an obviously crazy conspiracy theory. (See "Tesla bankwupt" for a more developed version.) It's probably the best indication he doesn'
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by jccooper 6y ago
It allows them to go straight to the airfield, where a jet will be waiting to take them immediately to Houston. They have facilities as JSC specifically for evaluating and managing returning astronauts.
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All previous splashdowns have been much further from shore and, moreover, done by squadrons of US Navy ships, so this really hasn't come up before. You don't really take your bass boat up to an aircraft carrier a few hundred miles
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by jccooper 6y ago
I believe it to be no negative impact with one parachute failure and survivable with up to two parachutes of four failing. Down to just one parachute is probably bad news, and if they all fail then you die. Just like every other capsule. Pr
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by jccooper 6y ago
Google search is basically all "news" now for way too many keywords, due to their high rankings for "fresh content". I really wouldn't mind if that disappeared entirely. The product would be better. Facebook would a
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by jccooper 6y ago
Yes. The USAF has already tested it successfully on several aircraft. A Starlink receiver always has the satellite(s) in fairly fast motion, and phased array antennas can "move" quite quickly, so it's possible that there&#x27
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by jccooper 6y ago
USPS has a legal monopoly on letter service, save for "extremely urgent material". All private document delivery must therefore be Express-class. It's not reasonable to compare FexEx Express to USPS First Class. USPS Express
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They're still growing the first batch, apparently, and still taking pre-orders. https://fullgrown.co.uk/ And apparently investors (with some sales numbers): https://www.shadowfoundr.com/investments&#x2F
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All of the above. Any of those layers could have fixed the problem, and should have.
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Keeping one's name secret is not the same as restricting login access; it's more akin to restricting knowledge of your password. If you know a way to keep a password secret while also publishing it, let me know. Yes, it's fra
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Further, this behavior is quite common. Pretty much every mental health professional I know who engages in social media does so under a (light) pseudonym. Its their solution for maintaining a professional relationship with people who may no
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Stores are unable to handle cash transactions because they can't make change, because they can't get enough from their banks, because the banks aren't getting enough supply, apparently.

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