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by mixmax 15y ago
There has been successful liftoff and supersonic flight at 16.36 local time. Congratulations to copenhagen suborbitals.
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by mixmax 15y ago
Thats the livestream fro a danish broadcaster that has a helicopter in the area. The link is elsewhere in this thread.
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by mixmax 15y ago
This is one of the problems with a sealaunch. Its really hard to get internet connection, much less a broadband connection when youre 30 kilometers from the nearest land.
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by mixmax 15y ago
Theoretically it should be able to dive to 400 meters though. Pretty impressive for a few guys welding it together themsellves.
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by mixmax 15y ago
Please donate, or become a member of the support organization (it,s 20 dollars a month) if you think this is a cool project. this is a private noncommercial opensource project, and the whole thing is built on donations and people working in
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by mixmax 15y ago
Last year they ran into some problems when they called the danish navy and asked 'is it ok with you guys if we tow our 115000 horsepower rocket through danish territorial waters using the largest homebuilt submarine ever built?' unsurprisin
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by mixmax 15y ago
Yes it is.
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Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour(raketvenner.dk)
240 points by mixmax 15y ago|57 comments
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Human cannonball astronaut: My rocket is my clothes(newscientist.com)
1 points by mixmax 15y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 15y ago
The reason we only see the unsophisticated attacks might well be that the ones that are carried out professionally are never caught. If I was China and intent on this kind of cybercrime I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket, but would tr
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by mixmax 15y ago
The e-mail regex needs some work - sdfg+sdf@sdff.de, which is a valid e-mail address, doesn't validate to true.
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by mixmax 15y ago
I think the most important thing is missing: Selling the product! The notion that you can't sell a product you haven't created yet is prevalent in tech circles, but it isn't true. I did a startup some years ago where we got around $10.000 w
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by mixmax 15y ago
Very interesting article. Unfortunately there's usually a long way from the lab to industrial production, but of course if you don't try you won't succeed.
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by mixmax 15y ago
The problem with wind and solar energy is that you can't plan for when you need power, and you can't feasibly store large amounts of electricity. This means that wind and solar can't be the primary powersource, at least until the storage pr
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by mixmax 15y ago
yes they are, but that doesn't mean that you as a user can extract any meaningful information from them. Where comments show up on a page is a function of time, scores and average karma per post of the poster. The main trunk of a debate wil
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by mixmax 15y ago
Hiding scores to reduce arguments seems like a very crude and inelegant way of solving the problem. You solve one problem but effectively render the scoring system useless in the process. Surely there is a better way of solving this particu
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by mixmax 15y ago
I agree entirely, but capability and usability are unrelated concepts. I don't doubt for a moment that emacs is immensely capable, which is why it has a large following. Usability is, according to wikipedia "the ease of use and learnabilit
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by mixmax 15y ago
Then you're talking more usability than design. In that regard emacs doesn't exactly rate well.
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by mixmax 15y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but if you change the font and turn the toolbar off what's left of the design?
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by mixmax 15y ago
and without the addressbar how will you navigate to news.ycombinator.com? How will you know what site you're on? How will you prevent me from doing some clever SEO to turn up in a google search for your bank before their own website so I ca
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by mixmax 15y ago
here's another point to consider, since the debate is open again. I just counted how many replies there are to each comment on this page and this is the result: 21 replies: 1 thread (main thread) 13 replies: 1 thread 6 replies: 1 thread 5 r
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by mixmax 15y ago
I don't think that's accurate - I want points back because it allows me to see what other people have voted. Because I trust this community I'll be fairly certain these ar ethe comments that will hold the most value for me.
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by mixmax 15y ago
Design tasks can look really easy too. It cuts both ways.
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by mixmax 15y ago
let's just hope none of them come our way
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by mixmax 15y ago
It takes years to build an overnight success.
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by mixmax 15y ago
presumably because this is a crowd effort. It'll take a little while and a few users to make it work.
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by mixmax 15y ago
Great to see something happening in Copenhagen - I'll be there.
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by mixmax 15y ago
It's not about how many people you've got in your R&D labs, it's about which people you have in your R&D labs.
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by mixmax 15y ago
A few reasons: - They only make liveburns a few times a year. - They experiment with different cheap fuels. One rocket ran on rubber and actually worked quite well. - They're quite known around Denmark, so they get unbelievable prices on fu
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by mixmax 15y ago
We've thought about that, but the support organization is only a few months old, so we haven't quite gotten around to it yet.

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