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by m4rtink 10d ago
ehm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Yeah, but I think it is all related - there were various programs to reuse the Saturn and other rockets, there are pictures of them dunking engines in the sea & studying what it does to them or even the rather insane concept for a giant
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Yeah, if you read a bit into the the pre-lunar-Apollo era, the plans were sensible - LEO space stations, space shipyards and orbital assembly, lunar space stations, eventually a landing and a surface stations & resource usage. All gradu
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Because instead of a gradual progression and space infrastructure building (as was the original plan before Kennedy set the goal to Lunar landing before 1960s are over, its well documented in NASA history pages). As a result a space race wi
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Yeah, the moment propellant drives your launch costs, you have effectively won the chemical rocket launch game. And can then transition to more advanced stuff, like space resource extraction (so you can only launch important bits), launch l
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Bah, this is the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... (Unfortunately if you do launch from Earth, neighbors will likely by a bit annoyed).
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by m4rtink 10d ago
The Soviets scrapped their N1 after multiple launch failures & then pretended they never were in the race. You can argue if US won, but the Soviets definitely lost the race.
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by m4rtink 10d ago
The Appolo Guidance Computer was one of the first applications of silicone integrated circuits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Logic... "Following the use of integrated circuit (IC) chips i
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Also mass drivers so you can ship ridiculous amount of lunar oxygen, aluminium & even general dirt for shielding into the cislunar space. Not to mention any materials processed by high energy industrial processed provered by solar forge
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by m4rtink 10d ago
You have to starting somewhere.
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Would not surprise me if people & robots did end up merging together in the long term for easier living in space.
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Well, the nothing part is an often forgotten selling point - that makes it possible to go really far, to send signals long distances & for the light of the sun to reach quite a large distance unobstructed. You don't get any benefit
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Why not both ?
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Not to mention that it seems more healthy to have a far off frontier for a human civilization. It makes it possible for people to try something new, something different, brings innovation, etc. Without it, some people might just be too unha
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by m4rtink 10d ago
I think there are quite a few people would build a hotel on top if the respective nations controlling the area let them. ;-) For the record, I would definitely visit such a hotel, even better if it included a super high altitude railway, Ju
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Well, the solar system itself is ridiculously huge - saying "lets don't bother" because interstellar flight looks cumbersome with current technology ? Seems like quite the premature optimization.
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by m4rtink 10d ago
Well, we had people swing by the moon for the first in decades this April, with a robotic mission planned for November & about 7 more robotic missions planned for next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mis
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by m4rtink 11d ago
So what is it, just kill sats, or something more interesting like rods-from-god, briliant pebbles, orbit to ground laser cannon or somethong else entirely ? Inquiring minds want to know! :-)
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by m4rtink 11d ago
I am sure more communities do it, but I mostly know it from VRChat. For some examples I have visited: Scan of a park in Japan with a steam locomotive on static display: https://vrclist.com/world/1191265 Scan of a park
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by m4rtink 11d ago
Yeah! Got some nice and very cheep GPUs back then. :)
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by m4rtink 11d ago
IIRC VRchat is usually CPU limited in practice.
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by m4rtink 11d ago
Does not seems like a very realistic simulation if you basically give both the pilot and operators their own home office. In reality that does not fit into a fighter jet & the idea being to simulate that experience as realistically as p
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by m4rtink 11d ago
What is the thing with Komodo having exclusivity for Valve hardware in Japan by the way ? We wanted to buy a SteamDeck OLED in Japan last year and it all the big department stores in Akiba it was sold out - kinda indicating Komodo is not re
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by m4rtink 11d ago
There is much more - people use it to communicate (VRchat), visit 3D scans of real places (3D Gaussian splatting) or see future concepts, like space colonies or massive starship concepts from their won PoV. Really, a lot of stuff is happeni
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by m4rtink 11d ago
I don't think using a display when walking around is a good idea or even just safe to do. On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to have something a like a fighter jet HUD - important information in static places (time/
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by m4rtink 11d ago
I have a dedicated Wifi 6 (not 6e, so just miss/using the 5 GHz band) AP just for VR, directly connected to my PC and it works well Virtual Desktop & Quest 3. Have done quite a lot of quite active stuff (exploration, driving, flyin
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by m4rtink 11d ago
At least right now, the "mobile" version of VRChat is not that impressive (well, its impressive what can even run when you cut it down this much). All the really impressive Worlds and avatars are still PC only. Ideally, there woul
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by m4rtink 11d ago
Which is why it is in the back part, balancing out the frot part.
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by m4rtink 11d ago
Yeah, can't wait for the AI hype bubble to finally end. Hey, we might even get some nice fast repurposed HBM from the scrappers reusing stuff from the bankruptcy auctions. :)
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by m4rtink 11d ago
Well, there are already devices like that (Big Screen Beyond), Valve has a wired headset (Valve Index) - so it makes perfect sense to do something more modern and future proof.

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