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by jjk166 1y ago
Prior to the citywide election there are primary elections where the major parties pick their candidates. Normally the winner of the democratic primary would only have the republican candidate as a serious opponent. Republican candidates ha
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But some are selfish assholes; and if you find yourself agreeing with the selfish asshole rich people when it comes to economics, it might be worth double-checking their claims that a policy is supposedly better for everyone. Much hooplah i
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"The beatings will continue until morale improves"
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The claim that everything is there does not imply infinite, or even large capacity. Consider an exponentially weighted moving average - you can just keep putting more data in forever and the memory requirement is constant. The brain stores
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The onus of proof lies on those making a claim. If you're unwilling to back up what you say, don't say it.
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Nuclear simulation codes have been rewritten to run in more modern languages.[0] Not only is the DOE not required by law to detonate a nuke to make non-technical changes to their codes, they have invested many billions of dollars into progr
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https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/resources/articles/dry...
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People tend to avoid casually tunneling under nuclear pools.
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> That views laws as self-executing abstractions, which they are not. Laws necessarily are enforced by people. No it doesn't. The laws are statements of what people in power will do under particular circumstances. This view only mak
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Big difference between "some organisms hitched a ride and didn't immediately die" and "we created a self sustaining ecosystem that will spread across a wide area in a human relevant period of time." The venn diagram
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> Fact is he was democratically elected Mussolini was democratically elected; the Nazis were democratically elected; Caesar was elected; Putin was elected. Currently 56 out of 91 autocracies are electoral autocracies. Being democraticall
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Trump was impeached twice.
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Because the whole point of laws is that they are not merely the whims of whoever currently sits on the throne. They provide guidance to people as to what they can reasonably expect will and will not be permitted, and the obligations of vari
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No, JFK consulted extensively with the engineers beforehand. The end of the decade timeframe first came from a NASA study published February 7, 1961. Kennedy's budget had actually rejected the initial proposal from Webb to fund the moo
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Spend $257 billion dollars on powerball tickets and yeah, winning the powerball is quite realistic. Indeed you have better than a 95% chance of winning at least 300 times.
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And before the fact it looked realistic. Everyone on the first manned Saturn test died. Do you know why people got into the second manned test? It was not that they knew with certainty it would be safe, but because they thought it was reali
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> ot really, no. When SpaceX switched to stainless steel in 2019, Musk simultaneously described using ceramic hex tiles on the windward side. They showed hex-tile testing publicly in March 2019. Tiles were not an afterthought added later
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> But you should then have known that Tesla/SpaceX is very well known to remove stupid requirements or solutions if there is much better alternative. And they don't leave stupid decisions there. I've worked directly with b
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And they abandoned it to try to eliminate the need for a heat shield. This plan did not pan out. The whole point of a reusable launch system is the cost of the vehicle is amortized over many launches, so you can use expensive, high performa
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I am not a supermodel, I don't have the looks for it. But for everyone who has become a supermodel, it was most certainly realistic that they could become supermodels. If you have what it takes to accomplish a task, accomplishing the t
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Well for starters, this was the 70s - the space shuttle's development started in 1968 and its maiden flight was in 1981. The last spy satellite program to use film ran from 1971 to 1986. Further, the issue wasn't a lack of knowled
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And most of those people are famous and influential because of their accomplishments in engineering, which it is an honor society for.
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And was the guy who took over after his assassination, and then won the next election, president during the moon landings?
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I don't know how you can claim a deadline that was achieved was not realistic. Full stack testing was not cutting corners. After ground testing it was deemed that incremental testing would not be beneficial. Doing tasks in parallel ins
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Well in the drawing analogy, they picked stainless steel while they were still trying to draw a sparrow. Stainless steel was specifically chosen so that starship wouldn't need a heat shield and would survive re-entry with transpiration
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> Keeping multiple companies capable of building it alive is essential. Companies and the capability of building are two separate things. It is not at all a desirable thing to keep a company alive which refuses to develop and implement t
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The issue with the shuttle wasn't the material science. It was designed around a mission profile of servicing spy satellites, which at the time had film which needed to be developed. The defense department gave NASA requirements which
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Stainless steel was a questionable choice for starship. If the pros outweigh the cons, which is yet to be seen, it will be mostly due to the peculiarities of Starship's other design choices. In general it's a terrible choice for r
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Which is kind of the key point - Kennedy's deadline was a realistic one based on the technical difficulty of the challenge.
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Who was president during the moonlanding?

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