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by kobeya 9y ago
Edit: I should’ve said I know it is possible, as I have done it before, and that I believe there is a wiki page explaining how.
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by kobeya 9y ago
While you’re simultaneously launching a competing altcoin? That’s a little weird.
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by kobeya 9y ago
On mobile, but I believe there is a wiki page describing how to do cross chain atomic swaps using bitcoin script.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Atomic swaps have worked from day one, if people would just use them.
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by kobeya 9y ago
He IS s2x.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Not inside the frost line.
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by kobeya 9y ago
If you think getting to the Moon is hard, where many resources are surface extractable, look into what it takes to mine certain ores on Earth kilometers below ground in remote regions.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The most common elements, sure. It's the rare elements that are more interesting. Many of these are rare on both Earth and the Moon because they are iron soluble and sank to the core. On Earth they get replenished from either asteroid
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes, and it's one of the oldest and seriously touted plans for lunar settlement. Apollo 15 landed next to and studied a collapsed lava tube, so we even have ground truth here.
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by kobeya 9y ago
There's actually a lot of water in the mantle of the Earth. There's something like 3x the current ocean volume trapped in the mantle, and there are theories that pressure differentials cause this water to escape as gaseous water e
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by kobeya 9y ago
There is a "frost line" in the middle of the asteroid belt where you see rocky objects closer and icy objects further. The reason is that closer the Sun has enough energy to sublimate the icy objects into a comet with a tail, wher
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by kobeya 9y ago
I've been in planetary science and never encountered this theory. I have a default position of skepticism towards it for that reason, but I don't have a reason to object on the face of it. The question is not where the oceans came
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by kobeya 9y ago
That's about ~250x the JWST. Given that we're talking about a society that has developed far enough to be sending people to Mars and terraforming the landscape, I don't think that 8 doublings would be an unreasonable multipli
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by kobeya 9y ago
Also many thermoforming efforts consider adding an artificial dynamo (using, say, superconducting rings) to protect both the atmosphere and life on the surface. The energy cost of maintaining an artificial dynamo would be less than the incr
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by kobeya 9y ago
Planes don't go BOOM when they crash. I think you're overreacting.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It's pretty much a solved problem for the last two decades. You can use the shape of the wing and fuselage to broaden sound wave, and go supersonic at an angle of attack that sends the brunt of the transition sonic boom above the horiz
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by kobeya 9y ago
You were swindled.
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by kobeya 9y ago
No one does according to the Outer Space Treaty. No one can according to the Moon Treaty. (Thankfully the major powers didn’t ratify that one.) In practice, common law has ruled that physical possession constitutes ownership with the preced
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by kobeya 9y ago
As someone whose job was once to work with that data, yes. It’s a tremendous amount of data and the resources allocated is often a half dozen grad students with a copy of MATLAB. The big iron is only really applied to create the official ma
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by kobeya 9y ago
Different fields define the EM energy spectrum differently based on use. You can either argue that "microwave" is one end of the "RF spectrum", or that "microwave" and "radio" are two separate sub-cat
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by kobeya 9y ago
I have reasonable models for how my machine works, verified by my knowledge of physics and engineering which I have sought to acquire even though it is not my field of study. More to the point, if someone makes a claim about the electrical
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by kobeya 9y ago
Your link takes an award for missing the point. There is a resonant frequency of liquid water in the microwave range which is why tabletop microwaves use that range. They don’t emit a single frequency, no, but I don’t know anyone who claims
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is simply not true. Once literate it often takes a minimal amount of effort — back of the envelope calculation or google search— to do a first pass test of the veracity of a source.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Speak for yourself. I seem to have no problem verifying my beliefs.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Microwaves aren’t RF. The frequency has a very specific interaction with water.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Why should people trust someone else instead of using their own brain to evaluate arguments?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Except that the WOW signal is fully explained now as due to a hydrogen gas halo around a solar system local source that the dish was pointed at at the time.
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That’s called “getting cooked”. If you stand under a heat lamp many multiples higher in energy than direct sunlight, bad things happen. News at 11.
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How? “Into the blood” isn’t a mechanism. When was the last time you saw a lump of meat arc and spark? This is fear mongering.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> There won't be a civil war (we are peaceful people and have no guns) Myanmar has gun controls too. That’s really working out for its populace /s The ignorance and naïveté in this statement is astounding.

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