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by nickik 6y ago
That SLS program was terrible was clear before it started. It actually lost NASA own internal evaluation by a large margin but because of how the requirements from congress were designed, NASA couldn't not do it. https://www
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Mars soil is usable for plants. Or should be at least. So no need to bring soil from earth.
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All of those things need to be launched from earth, that is still expensive. Then transported to Mars, expensive. Then landed on Mars, expensive. And then you land your digger, at a cost of at least a couple 100 million, and you have a dumb
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I agree with you overall. There are some really interesting things you can do on the moon. Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RTBGnzNks
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So we have $2.4 billion, but we don't know what this includes. This is likely for all the development, setting up the production system and so on. It could include a number of things. To just take that number an convert it unit cost li
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The article doesn't prove anything other then that the Russian are scared about free access to information and hate SpaceX in particular because SpaceX is basically destroying Russian space flight. And we do actually have sources that
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Please provide actual sources to these claims. SpaceX has made roll out of consumer terminals a priority and started basically as early as it was possible. If the military was really the primary target, why would they do it like that? Not l
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We don't actually know that. There was one unknown source who once said it was some number X but the reliability of that claim is highly questionable.
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They are orbiting at 550 km, 1200km was the original constellation plan that was later changed.
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That already works fine, the dish is switching sats incredibly fast and is tracking multiple sats at a time. The limitation with the cells is that currently not all cells have the same amount of sats above them so they will not claim that g
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Good internet, is not about how rich the country is, but how the regulatory system is set up.
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Starlink is for everybody that is not happy with their current providers. He can expect what he likes, maybe he will get it, maybe not.
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Starlink is for you.
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I think that is a fair assessment. Many in the rocket industry, believe Starship could work reasonably well. If any other company even country had announced Starship, nobody would take it seriously. History of success gives credibility for
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P/E has been so consistently been horrible indicators for the stock market that it is actually mind blowing that people still use them. Most analyst that relies on them has among the worst rating on Wallstreet. The same logic was appli
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Maybe a few years ago this was true. Now it is certainty not. Tesla cash on hand and free cashflow numbers mean they can be cashflow positive and continue to grow. I didn't invest in Tesla years ago, because of mythology, but because t
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by nickik 6y ago
> It's volatile because deflationary currencies are inherently volatile. That is wrong. Maybe you mean 'fixed supply currency'. There is nothing inherent in deflation, defined as 'general decline in general price lev
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Accusing Tesla of not investing enough is pretty rich.
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I didn't like Bitcoin when it came out and I still don't get it. I used it for a while for the only thing it seems possible useful for, but I don't have saving of it (to bad I guess). - It uses to much energy. - Its simply a
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Look at how amazing and simply the Mirai 2 is: https://global.toyota/pages/news/images/2020/12/09/1200/005.... compared to: https://468y981o84o43v2wo2600a0gcj-wpengine.netdna-ss
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The waste majority of trucking is not actually super long range. So the waste majority trucking can be done perfectly fine even with current generation EV that are starting to come out this year. There is a small amount of very long range t
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Its a a series of pumps, filter and tubes, and that is if we don't consider the tank. All of that is IN ADDITION to everything a normal EV also has. Look at this simple design, I'm sure they can't wait until they can finally
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Nobody is preventing anything. Starlink went threw all the process to get regulated and now wants to slightly lower in the range they can operate in. It does not inherently prevent anybody else from operating. In every orbit their are many
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That's not that they are doing. That is what Amazon claims they are doing with no prove. SpaceX is slightly changing it system (non of its hardware). Amazon reserving an a huge orbit and without real data claiming anybody else that wan
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They are. Every sat launched needs to have a plan for decommissioning. You need to have enough fuel at to de-orbit the sat at the end of life. The problem is what happens if your sat breaks and you can't de-orbit it. I'm not sure
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And no Hacker News comment about a Musk company is not filled with wild accusation accusing Musk of playing 4D Chess in 3D dimension, lying about literally everything and generally being a Bond villain. The guy literally invested huge amoun
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People make the argument that this is not a bad thing because these loans are backed. In my opinion this is crazy. With EV at an inflection point, the value of used ICE cars will totally collapse and newly produced ICE cars will lose massiv
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I think you are completely wrong, let me make the argument. As a whole, H2 cars are also quite heavy. You literally require everything that is in an EV plus multiple extra subsystems that are incredibly complex and not light by any means. T
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I was just explaining why Tesla will not buy other car makers in the US.
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That is about business model, not about the car. Saying the car is not made for repairs is inaccurate. And for a lot of repairs the Tesla model is actually great, the mobile service will go to where your car is and fix most things. The prob

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