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by nickik 5y ago
Telga, one of my favorite battery supply companies is up there too. They will be locally mining, refining and coat graphite in the same area. Its a really cool company, I recommend people check them out.
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by nickik 5y ago
These kinds of bills are so popular because every single person in the senate can put his own hobby horses into it. BO additional money, money for Boeing in Mississippi and so on.
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by nickik 5y ago
I don't really like it either but calling it a 'bail out' is just nonsense. Its not like BO is going bankrupt. NASA had initially requested the money for two landers anyway.
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by nickik 5y ago
IPod with a 40G disk was the only Apple product I ever liked.
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by nickik 5y ago
The Soviet Union practically operated at one entity controlled by the party, but had multiple Soviet Socialist Republics inside it. And of course, before the Soviet Union existed, Ukraine was not a state of any kind, it was simply part of R
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by nickik 5y ago
You can't just forward project like that. The question is what people are working on. So far people main concern has been reduction in price. This has reshaped and is reshaping the supply chain, has localized production and has massive
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by nickik 5y ago
> Is there any chance they would cede Crimea back at this point? There is a literal 0% chance that Crimea will ever go back to Ukraine unless there is a major collapse of the political power of Russia. It would have to be a collapse wors
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by nickik 5y ago
Ok, thanks bye. Have a good time. The US needs to move beyond ISS, embrace the new technology that SpaceX is offering and build a station that is 4x the size while being cheaper to maintain and supply. Drop the ISS by 2024 and reallocate th
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Relativity Space announces 650M in funding and new Terran R rocket(nasaspaceflight.com)
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by nickik 5y ago
> Elon wields a powerful influence, a cult following. And a just as powerful influential anti-cult. You even used Thunderfood, the hero priest of Elon Haters as your source. Funny how a guy with no experience in public transport, rocketr
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by nickik 5y ago
Yes the world would be free of climate change if there were again only 100 million people. However that isn't a solution I would advocate. > Perhaps the most cost efficient way to combat global warming is lifting the world's po
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by nickik 5y ago
I saw some research to back this up but I don't remember where. Its not like zero in other places but a far, far lesser extent.
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by nickik 5y ago
Apparently this particular conspiracy theory (or whatever you want to call it) is only really a thing in the US and Brazil (or some country in South America) and the rest of the world is like 'probably not a alien spacecraft'.
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by nickik 5y ago
It has been a long time since I have researched this topic and I don't have all the links to hand. First of all, nuclear waste are actually a future resource. It makes very little sense to put a resource under the ground. It kind of li
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by nickik 5y ago
In fact, more humans now then ever and we have more resources then we ever had. > Did we have global climate change, ecosystems extinction and resource depletion 200 years ago? lt Yes. In fact some of the smartest economists and intellec
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by nickik 5y ago
I don't really like 'Component'. I seems very clunky and we had a lot of issues with it and a lot incidental complexity in our codebase (now converted to Java). It was the first real system that did these sort of things but i
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by nickik 5y ago
What I wonder is about the engines. It seems they are not building them. And they seem to make optimistic claims about them. Say what you want about SpaceX but they developed their own engines and brought real innovation to the table. I&#x2
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by nickik 5y ago
Jesus, that after 200 years this same argument is still used is incredible. But I guess some things never die.
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by nickik 5y ago
Questionable. Going to a company that had experience with car body designs and getting an in-house designer would likely have been a better plan for them.
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by nickik 5y ago
As somebody pointed out, all nuclear reactors built of a long time have been build to defend against that. But with modern GenIV reactors it wouldn't actually do what you think it would do. I would recommend you actually read about how
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by nickik 5y ago
> On one hand, there are a lot of folks who are quite sure they've settled on a set of good techniques to manage nuclear waste. Who in the world believes that? Nuclear waste management in the US has been the biggest shitshow ever. &
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by nickik 5y ago
Overall you are correct. The only major thing Thorium has that Uranium doesn't is the ability to do a thermal breeder, thanks the Thorium cycle releasing 2.1 neutrons. If you are not doing thermal breeder uranium is better at most thin
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by nickik 5y ago
All kinds of companies do the same thing, Moltex Energy, Terrestrial Energy as well. Its clearly the way to go for nuclear, otherwise you can't compete against intermittent.
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by nickik 5y ago
This has literally nothing to do with Elon. Did you even read the article? Somebody paid SpaceX to transport something from A to B, that all.
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by nickik 5y ago
Space explorations problem was that it had little to be exited about, not the other way around.
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by nickik 5y ago
These kind of headlines are so terrible. This is like saying UPS launches new server because they delivered it. SpaceX is literally a transportation company. The title is nothing other then trying to clickbait of the popularity of SpaceX.
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by nickik 5y ago
This is far to simplistic. The danger of different sat depends on a huge number of factors. A hard limit is nonsense proposal. There are tons of ideas and plans that have been put forward there is no lack of those. There is a lack of intern
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by nickik 5y ago
> I have seen a handful of launch start-ups trying to create lower cost launching to get into low-orbit. My concern is that by lowering the bar to entry we will be putting up lower quality products and also increase the magnitude of obj
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by nickik 5y ago
By far the most common solution for tragedy of the commons is property rights and that also what works the best in most cases. Solving tragedy of the commons in Britain is literally a major step in development of capitalism. Modern economis
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by nickik 5y ago
Its an international issue. And after the Outer space treaty getting more space legislation threw any sort of international organization has turned out to be impossible. The nations are afraid of adding more regulation for sat de-orbiting.

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