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by nickik 6y ago
One simple manufacturing mistake can delay your launch by a huge amount. One technical software problem can do so too. The fact is, Arianespace just had massive month long delays because of production issues. While SpaceX has 5 flight prove
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by nickik 6y ago
> I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but both Tesla and SpaceX only exist because of government policy. This is not true. > Elon Musk himself said This is wrong. You are remembering this wrong, Musk has corrected thi
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by nickik 6y ago
You are directly repeating the propaganda Arianespace and Russia has been pushing about SpaceX since the beginning. I would honestly advice you to rethink this before repeating stuff that is pushed by lots of Russian government channels. Fi
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by nickik 6y ago
Great way to never be competitive in rocket launch. Huge investment required for little benefit. The Skylon people (who emerged out of the largely unsuccessful British government rocket program) basically invested this concept that was supp
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by nickik 6y ago
Health care has been incredibly regulated in the US for a long time, from local to the federal level harmful regulation are enforced. In fact it is horribly regulated by any rational logic. But instead of looking at that and seeing the iss
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by nickik 6y ago
Lets relax. RocketLab is a nice company, and I like them but they are playing in a different failed. They have not 'gone reusable' they have slowly started to work on re-usability. And a rocket that remotely competes in the area t
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by nickik 6y ago
Happiness research is a total crap-shot. Depending on methodology you get totally different answers.
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by nickik 6y ago
That's just one example. The evidence of this has long been clear to anybody watching the space. While they usually try to pretend everything is awesome in public, they are clearly in a shit position. Arianespace has already publicly s
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by nickik 6y ago
Well, SpaceX Falcon 1 started with private money. However their first 'test' costumers was a DoD student project. However then they did got significant (200-300M) in funding because of the effort around commercial resupply of ISS
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by nickik 6y ago
If you are honest with yourself, the JPL missions are often insanely expensive. The Curiosity rover was supposed to be 1.5 billion, but ended up 2.5 billion, and the main explanation of that was 'to develop a new landing mechanism&#x27
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by nickik 6y ago
This would make (some) sense if otherwise these skills were going away, but they very much are not. If NASA budget were used effectively you would create tons of jobs at the private contractors. SpaceX and to a lesser extent BO, RelativityS
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by nickik 6y ago
Actually the NASA Act in 2010 required them to build a 130 ton rocket by 2016. However SLS was not planned to fly even with a 70-90 ton in 2017.
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Government funded is not over, but government building rockets and working with specific contractors on Cost-Plus contracting is over.
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by nickik 6y ago
A textbook Pyrrhic Victory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory As even the current NASA Administrator said: > If we can't do a rocket for $11.5 billion, we ought to close up shop. It took 2x as long
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by nickik 6y ago
Its not that much faster but Tesla claimed it removes 100s of robots and an incredibly long error prone assembly line. Also, when you weld lots of parts together you have tolerances stack up. Tesla developed its own aluminum that does not n
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by nickik 6y ago
This is just bad naming by the company (and or Tesla). This is 100% sure a molten aluminum die casting machine. This company already makes such machines for Tesla and this is the newest one. You can find videos of machines like that being a
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by nickik 6y ago
So because his predictions were wrong they should just stop and give up? Its not FSD because its beta of the software that will enable that. That's the point, your training the network. The hardware does not seem to be the constraint h
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by nickik 6y ago
Sandy Munro (former Chief Engineer at Ford and worked on lots of Aerospace projects) was invited to SpaceX design review session (@6:17): https://youtu.be/S1nc_chrNQk?t=377
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by nickik 6y ago
DC-X was nowhere near to being a reusable first stage. The X-33 was a suborbital prototype. And innovation when you have many, many billions is one thing, if you have to operate in a commercial market but still find a way to innovate at tha
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by nickik 6y ago
Neat. I have been a fan of Keyword arguments for a long time. Dylan does it well too. I mostly didn't do this for my Clojure code, because I didn't want to use any of the libraries that do it. Simply because to many times there is
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by nickik 6y ago
I don't think this is actually true. IF you go threw all the history of development economics, sure its easy to point out 'X government did X and look at that, now they are successful at X'. However that is selection bias, go
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by nickik 6y ago
The Hongguang Mini is basically a better bicycle. In terms of revenue generated overall Tesla easily beats everybody else. And Tesla just added the Model Y and they will likely be 1&2 on the market. Of course only since 2020 as that is
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by nickik 6y ago
Its amazing to me how people always want to analyze everything in terms of the Smartphone market. This is nonsense. It simply doesn't make sense. They are completely different industries, completely different players and very different
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by nickik 6y ago
Toyota strategy is basically a) be big b) hint at having amazing technology that literally blows everybody away but never show it or put a timeline on it c) bash EV in public as much as possible and lobby against them.
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by nickik 6y ago
Disagree. VW and Tesla have been doing EV for almost as long or longer. And since then have made far, far more investment into it then Nissan. Just doing basically 1 car not updating it much and then not doing anything for many years while
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by nickik 6y ago
The libertarian way to is to use what-ever you feel like.
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I mean that you are listing to half of the night sky at once. At least that what I understood from the wikipedia page.
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by nickik 6y ago
> But Elon is not that sort of person, which is the great tragedy in all this. If he was, SpaceX and Starlink wouldn't exist. Have you ever tried to handle anything at UN level? That a 10-20 year discussion and even then must likely
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by nickik 6y ago
I don't have a question, to late to think of something smart. but look super cool and I will read some more about it. Didn't know you could do passive measurements like that.
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by nickik 6y ago
Its not 'junk'. The sats are all under control, do active avoidance of SpaceX works with other sat providers (ESA, NASA and so on) to avoid crashes. Each sat is designed at end of live to have enough fuel on board to deorbit itsel

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