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by m4rtink 6mo ago
Japan is also mostly mountains and is prone to natural disasters like earthquakes and Typhoon induced floods. Sonce our first trip in 2017 at least two railways we rode have been damaged enough to be partially inoperable and under lengthy r
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
I would actually phrase is a "fossil fuels are an existential threat" - regardless on how climmate change will impact us, it is IMHO enough to see the destructions people are capable due to fossil fuel money & it makes 100% se
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
I think a launch loop would still work, even on a Super Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop Or potentially beamed power for launch, so you don't kug a power source. But in any case, indeed much harder
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
IIRC reentry plasma is actually highly radar reflective - so it is not hard to track, just hard to hit due to the speed, as there is limited time to do it.
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
Just another monday in any big old company adjecent to finance or airline industry ? ;-)
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
I blame the "space race" narrative - it made everything unsustainably expensive just to beat the goal of landing on the Moon by the end of the decade and before the Soviets. That also made the program even more dependant on politi
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
On the press conference they mentioned the RCS was used to orient the craft with the most sturdy part facing down for the ocean impact. Otherwise I would also just bet on RCS venting like in Apollo.
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
Lot of the world is ocean & they basically decided the landing point the moment they entered the free return trajectory, 9 days prior - easier to shift the landing point a little to a different place in the ocean place with better weath
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
Well, provided you had a 30 MW microwave transmitter on board, you could punch through the plasma just fine, it has been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) "Sprint accelerated at 100 g, reachin
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure it did not stick anything through the plasma sheet- that is impossible. You would eithe melt the thing or just shift the plasma sheet a bit. It forms as air is compressed on contact, simple as that. What IIRC was actual
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
I always feel like these analogies don't really fit the real space flight as you quite often have a lot of time to correct the trajectory if you get it roughly right during launch and even that takes a couple minutes. You also have clo
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by m4rtink 6mo ago
NERVA as envisioned had terrible thrust to weight ratio, not really usable to launch from a Super Earth. Nuclear lightbulb, orion or heck NSWR would likely work though. And bonus points for not having to think about landing systems for the
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
I find it interesting how a lot of cyberpunk does not really include AI or does not present it in transformative way. There is a lot of mind uploading, implants, corpo fun and overall technology permeating all aspects of life, but often AI
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
I should have been more precise - I don't want to depend on paying to a third party to be able to do meaningful coding. They cane take that away from you at any time for any reason, make it too expensive, etc. A working PC with a Linux
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Old is new again! :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon Next stop - defending the base with claymore sticks! :-) https://www.sandboxx.us/news/featured/project-horizon-nukes-...
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Not impending innovation is IMHO debatable - Artemis has definitely potential to motivate a lot of lay population & young people to go do space stuff and tech in general. On the other hand SLS and Orion have gobbled insane amount of mon
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
IIRC there are some hydrogen powered APUs on the SLS core stage, replacing the Hydrazine powered ones used on Shuttle (both on orbiter & SRBs). The solar panel control on the Orion also seems coo and useful, not to mention having camera
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Yeah, some bits (parts of the GUI & some of the default apps) are still closed. But I think there is a good chance they will finally open those now - never really made any sense to keep them closed and preventing the community from cont
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Taking aside you certainly can do radiative cooling in desert at night just fine - you have air, which even if hot to desert standards during the day is still by magnitudes more effective for cooling via direct heat transfer than radiating
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Sailfish OS - they even run a device preorder right now.
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
And the GPL makes it all work - as no single gigacorp can just take the whole and legally run with it for their gain, like they could if it was say MIT or BSD licensed. So you have direct competitors all contributing to a common project in
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Yeah, turns out if you want to train a model without scrapping and overloading the whole of Internet while ignoring all the licenses and basic decency is actually hard & expensive!
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Yeah, I find this super rude - in this example, the author distributed the code under a very permissive license, basically just wanting you to cite him as an author. BAM, the LLM just strips all that out, basically pretending it just conjur
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Yes. ;-)
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
A subscription for coding - no thanks.
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Looks like your device is supported & has been for a while ? https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/nwr4kd/best_d...
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Yeah, everyone is talking about it here - especially how Death must have screwed up to get Chuck Norrissed.
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
I'm really glad they did no do that! That would be the end of VRChat & big damage for the community, basically requiring a migration to to inevitable replacement. Just see what Facebook did to BeatSabre and other VR games and Game
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
You can buy avatars now from the VRChat marketplace for VRChat credits (that yre essentially Japanese Yen in value :D). It is progress but wit the unfortunate bad practices of the platform reportedly taking a sizeable cut. In that regard th
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
With modern inside out tracking headsets (basically camera based SLAM) the setup us none to minimal (clear up some space on the ground so you don't trip over things if not playing seated).

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