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by nickik 6y ago
My point is that with New Shepard they have an intention to be something commercial. As I said, I'm unsure about this market. The of course also have contract to sell BE-4 to ULA but they have not yet delivered a flight engine. However
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by nickik 6y ago
I wouldn't say that is the case. So BlueOrigin is basically a self funded research shop. They built many experimental vehicles of increasing size. This end up with their suborbital New Shepard. This was to be their first commercial veh
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by nickik 6y ago
Its direct competition to Rocket Labs, it really has little to do with Blue Origin. Blue Origin is interested in big rockets and sub orbital. SpaceX doesn't even play the same sport. Virgin Orbit has an interesting concept but they hav
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by nickik 6y ago
The point here being that it was not bureaucracy or the government that trapped NASA in LEO. It was NASA own design process. Blaming everything always on the congress/president is a way for NASA to never take responsibility. All the su
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by nickik 6y ago
Its actually much worse then that. These are not the 'cost' for F9/FH, that is the price. The cost of these launch is like 1/2 to 1/3. Part of the price is also amortizing past development cost. In the SLS launch no
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by nickik 6y ago
Its actually wasn't. If you actually look at the cost involved. Putting all the funding into Shuttle simply made the Apollo architecture to expensive. A much, much, much, much better strategy would have been to keep the Appollo hardwar
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by nickik 6y ago
What a bunch of nonsense. Please actually inform yourself before just saying things. NASA budget has actually gone up over the last couple of years. SpaceX got funding from NASA. So literally part of the funding NASA got was from the NASA b
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by nickik 6y ago
Had NASA engineers actually build a better design for Space Shuttle, lots of budget would have been available to do more. The Space shuttle could have done much more much better things if it was designed differently.
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by nickik 6y ago
Difference is SpaceX welded some tanks on a field. This program spend 20 billion over 10 years designing the whole system on paper with very little iterative testing. This not a prototype, this is the actual rocket that should fly. It has a
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by nickik 6y ago
Matrix basically does everything you would possibly want from such a system and it does much more on top of it, like e2e encryption. Its based around the simple HTTP and JSON transports and its well standardized. What am I missing?
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by nickik 6y ago
The only thing I would want for it is to have a desktop version and syncing between devices.
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by nickik 6y ago
You can't really have direct democracy, specially not in a country with millions of people. I'm from Switzerland and we have probably the most direct democracy in the world and we do have parties (many in fact) and representatives
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by nickik 6y ago
The whole concept of 'neoliberalism' is simply the far left being angry at literally everybody to the right of them. People from right wing nationalists, libertarians, center leftists all with diverse opinions were all simply call
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by nickik 6y ago
> Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Spends considerable time in a topless pancake restaurant if I remember correctly.
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by nickik 6y ago
I'm not aware of a lithium mine in California. North Carolina was where most of the world's lithium was mined and refined. Pretty much all mines for lithium closed in the US because it was simply cheaper to get from either South A
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by nickik 6y ago
WD has their own cores and they are OpenSource. Very nice designs. They also spend a lot of money on the open source ecosystem for chip development. See: - https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovations/risc-v
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by nickik 6y ago
Many codes can be expressed much better with Vectors and there is also much ability to further extend it in the future. You can do short vectors with the RISC-V Vector extension and you can implement them in a simply way as well. Have you w
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by nickik 6y ago
Its not as simple. The political transitions are part of it. However the politics of NASA are complicated. One of the major issues is simply that NASA for human-space flight could in the past not build on top of commercial rockets and NASA
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by nickik 6y ago
You would need to remove the Solid Boosters first to make it worth it. If you do that hydrogen becomes a bad choice. So you should have built an RP-1 or Methane single booster without solids and then you could have done it.
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by nickik 6y ago
The whole shuttle designs was simply not a good one, it has a lot of compromises and false assumptions. The Soviet version where you simply have a space plane on the side of a independent booster was much better design that had much broader
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by nickik 6y ago
DC-X was not an orbital reentry booster. The problems are quite different.
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by nickik 6y ago
> Keep the ISS of course, as a relatively less expensive way of studying the effects of low-G on the human body The ISS is actually very expensive. > If NASA had an unlimited budget, then by all means do it all. NASA is not free to de
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by nickik 6y ago
Trillion doller defense budget and then unarmed morrons simply walk into the office of the most powerful individuals in the country and take stuff and walk out. The level of stupidity and incompetence for this to happen is breath taking.
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by nickik 6y ago
Performance is not one thing, we have processors from so small they can almost not be seen to gigantic AI chips. RISC-V made some design choices and some people like some of them and some people don't like others, just like with anythi
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by nickik 6y ago
A RISC-V CPU is inherently more open even from an end user perspective. That is not practically relevant for end-users if you consider somebody using for example a USB stick an enduser. However you could take the code on your device and run
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by nickik 6y ago
Nr.1 reason is that you need a open ISA in order to have an open processor. Therefore you can only have proper OpenHardware movement with an open processor. The RISC-V foundation was only created in 2015 before that it was basically a resea
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by nickik 6y ago
Enemies of Iran want the US tax payers to fund their own political project so they can spend their money on Swiss watches, German cars, American technology and imported woman from all over the world? Shocking that this would be the case. Yo
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by nickik 6y ago
The reality is that the US does about a 1000x more to hurt Iran then the other way around. Iran threatens your 'allies' in a minimal way as they have basically no real military. Iran supports material support to some organizations
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by nickik 6y ago
An overall negative view of democracy. If you actually pool people on most issues, the outcome of politics is not so far off from what people want. The reality is that people simply don't care about Iran or know where it even is. Forei
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by nickik 6y ago
Why? If a person from Iran comments and says, I don't actually want to destroy the US but I can't really change it because XYZ. Granted the post is a bit thin and doesn't go beyond the surface level of the issue, but its is r

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