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by nickik 5y ago
The not having a magnetic field is a smaller problem then people think. The rate of reduction in the atmosphere is not very large. If you manged to create the atmosphere the radiation on the surface would already be reduced. The extra dista
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> You can have a space elevator on the moon today with a titanium cable. A space elevator makes no sense on the moon. First of all the orbit is unstable and you would need constant station keeping. Also, it turns out that if there is no
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by nickik 5y ago
Pretty much everything you said is wrong. Tesla and Amazon have nothing to do with it. BlueOrigin has the money to do what SpaceX does, in fact they are spending just as much or more. Go look at the launch pad BlueOrigin build in Florida an
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They started development in 2012. It was planned to be 2020 and it has already been delayed to Q4 of 2022 and that actually means 2023. And the timeline slide could very easily continue. But the thing is that BlueOrigin has spend a gigantic
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No one person solves climate change. Climate change is solved by multiple industries 100000s of researchers, engineers, business people and politicians all working on different aspects. Giving the credit to one person (who has yet to do any
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I can answer some of that, 2024 is the current limit. But 2028 is being considered and I think its politically likely. It could probably be extend even further but it would require incensing maintenance and expensive re-qualification. NASA
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Russia defeated Napoleon more then anybody else. Yes Britain did a lot and helped with money, but fundamentally, just as in WW2 Russia defeated Napoleon. This gets lost in the nationalist history that were written in the next 100 years. Mon
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The French revolutionary regime started the wars and literally expend in all direction and were absorbing country after county. Instead of negotiation an end to war they attempted to take much of Europe and Napoleon continued that. Peace wa
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He didn't actually. Feudalism had ended long before. Feudalism is usually consider for early to high middle ages, by the late middle ages and early modern period the social structure had already changed considerably.
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> Napoleon also is one the most successful, "best", military leaders in history. The "best" most successful leaders don't get soundly beaten over and over again and eventually lose everything. > Right up there
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Tesla has version of map data, if they did their job they used the same version for both. Also, I don't think this feature actually uses map data.
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They continuously raise funds not because the product they sell are losing money because they are making money and they want to make more of them. How is this hard to understand I don't understand. Go and compare Amazon and Tesla in te
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> The original plan for recovering the F9 first stage was to use parachutes and this was tried with the first couple of launches That wrong. They tried this on the Falcon 9, not the Falcon 9. Re-usability was their goal early on and and
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Thunderf00t is pretty much a hack and about the least reliable source for anything.
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That people still make this asinine argument shows that it has nothing to do with evidence and everything to do with people not liking the person and not wanting to give him credit because they don't like him.
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These sorts of articles are just terrible journalism. There are two different programs to help make transport more green. Tax credits for EV, Tesla took advantage of them and so did other companies. These credits clearly had the effect desi
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> It’s really cool, but no one reasonable said you cannot land rockets. People questioned if it’s worth it. Not true. > And this question still remains - they massively overestimated size of the market (they were planning to have lau
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Its not that technological progress has stalled but that the outlook of people has stalled.
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This so incredibly wrong and un-informed its mind blowing. SpaceX has been profitable from pretty early on in its history and were until they need massive cash for the Starlink project. Tesla is a attempting to get into a very, very capital
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> You do realize that tsarist Russia was largely an agrarian society that was lagging far behind industrialized nations of the time, yes? Russia did better then literally every other empire. Yes it lagged behind Britain, France, Germany
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> Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possilbe: > * https://citeseerx.ist.psu.e
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> Richard Wolff explains different approaches here very eloquently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ywyLiNT3Cs Richard Wolff is total hack and the fringe of fringe fringe economics. Economic study of cooperative model wi
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> Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life MMhh OK, lets not ignore the fordable settlement that literally wiped out the majority of the wealth of the steppe and and killed o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Revolution:_A_New_... It's Sean McMeekin. He spends time on some things that are often missed. But the Revolution is of course a huge topic.
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I have been studying WW1 for a long time so its kind difficult. A lot of new stuff, specially because of the 100 year just happened. Some revisionist stuff that was good, some that was less good. Some was just rewriting the old narrative an
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That's exactly the thing. I will take more launches. So overall its still true. If you did the exact same flights, overall you would end up with many fewer kg landed on Mars. But of course that inefficiency is gone be buffered by more
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> Starcraft 2 is basically dead I just started playing. Awesome game.
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> The economy vs economy aspect was not recognized by anyone until the 1930s as far as I can tell. In addition to my other comment, this is also totally wrong. Both Civilian and military leaders were very much thinking about this. Go for
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> The Europeans mostly ignored it because it was far away This is totally wrong. A myth made up by nationalist American historians. This played into larger 'military all idiots' narrative that was popularized after WW1. However
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Its a tradeoff between complexity and results. Think of it like this, every kg added to Starship is one kg less to Orbit. And maybe like 10-30kg less to Mars. For what you are talking about you likely need 16-32 SuperDracos, you need massiv

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