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by nickik 5y ago
Random fun fact 2: They even removed that piano because it was to heavy.
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And they also remove far more problems. In fact they are far simpler then PWRs. It is far, far, far easier to design a reactor to withstand high temperature and corrosion then operating a reactor under gigantic amount of pressure.
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Most next generation reactors already are high temperature. All the major companies at the forefront of reactor commercialization have high temperature reactors. The optimal today for a reactor is having one reactor with output X and then a
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I actually think this technology can be perfect in combination with new nuclear power. FlibeEnergy hopes to use it, and I know the other vendors are not planning to use it, but if it came about they would love it.
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Fighting in the Middle East is not great power conflict. Fighting in the Middle East is evidence of a broken political process, not an inevitable outcome of Offensive Realism.
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That logic doesn't work with current court interpretation of Anti-Trust. Read Judge Richard Posner on modern Anti-Trust law. Its not the late 1800s where it was basically politicians driving Anti-Trust train.
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> Chinese manned missions to Mars in 2030 have long been announced Total nonsense. They wont even make it to the moon by then. Their Long March 9 rocket need for Mars will barley even fly before 2030, let alone will they make a Mars miss
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by nickik 5y ago
SpaceX destroyed the main funding for their space agency. Raptor 1 is already better then any Russian engine along most metrics. And Rogozin is a journalist made oligarch, he doesn't know shit. Accusing Elon of not being an expert is q
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by nickik 5y ago
I have long argued that dropping the Russians from this program is the only way to go. The Russians have turned into a hindrance. Every error that happens is a conspiracy. When one of their workers drilled a whole into their spacecraft they
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by nickik 5y ago
No, because that what he actually think the right answer is, he views these things at the fundamental constraint. He is perfectly able to answer in detail when that the questions as he multiple times did in this video.
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by nickik 5y ago
Fighting in the Middle East is literally the exact opposite of what Neorealists believe. John Mearsheimer opposed to these idiotic middle east wars and has been for a long time.
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I think its kind of like when in Clojure, you only activate validation on the boundaries of your program in production, and disable the validation in the internals of the program. Because a factory would still test its input, or the input w
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Hopeful they at least dont want make endless war in the middle east.
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He does not like the Howard Hughes comparison. He wants his inventions to actually change the way thins are done in everyday live. Watch this interview with a former Astronaut who worked with SpaceX for Crew Dragon. He made this comparison
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For sure, it also has to do with vertical integration. If you don't have that, then you need to ask every one of your suppliers to take the approach you do. In a risky venture this is very hard to achieve. SpaceX can just say 'we
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by nickik 5y ago
This the same as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078158
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> BE-4 is hydrogen BE-4 and Raptor are both Methalox: A type of binary rocket fuel composed of liquid oxygen (lox) oxidizer and liquid methane combustible. > which really has never been executed successfully before A staged combusti
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SpaceX does produce an engine in 48 hours. This is nonsense. If anything their goal is to have a production line that finishes an engine every 48 hours. The engine from start to finish still takes month to produce. ULA would not have wanted
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by nickik 5y ago
Wow, what an incredible bunch of nonsense. SpaceX and Tesla were mostly funded by him because he couldn't find investors. Literally nobody wanted to touch electric cars or rockets. Pretty strange for a guy who is supposedly some master
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> When in actuality, all of these stories seem to indicate that he's incompetent at it. Total nonsense. Multiple engineers from inside and outside his companies have talked highly of him as an engineer. > But Elon Musk's dec
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I'm only 10 minutes in and this is already amazing. They will defiantly need batteries optimized for the booster. They are basically caring a bunch of car batteries around.
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The problems is other who are standing on the same shoulder of the same giants, even the original giants themselves fail to turn this theoretical advantage into actually being > better/faster/cheaper than everything So do talki
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Repairs in space with humans never actually make sense. For the price of those missions you could have simply built a better sat in the first place.
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> the Russians did a much better job in recent decades The they didn't. What nonsense. They just keep flying the same old stuff as the quality gets worse and they don't do anything new.
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by nickik 5y ago
Yes and in billion years the sun will expand, but we don't bring that up in every discussion. Its not actually practically relevant and every-time people used it as an argument it has been proven in terms of practical impact.
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> Flag wavers think it's all about building giant rockets, planting a flag - and boom. Colony! Asteroid mining! Etc! Nobody actually interested in space believes this. > So until that changes It wont change unless you try to chan
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Musk always gets unreasonable angry if he feels something slows him down. They have really not been slowed down that much FAA. So everybody should just chill out. Btw, for people interest, this interview with Ken Davidian FAA's Office
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Watch 'Mars Industrialization Roadmap' by Casey Handmer. That is exactly what he is addressing. He literally mentions the 'I, Pencil'. And btw a million people is the goal, not 1000. See here: https://www.you
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The failure to properly use nuclear power might be the single saddest thing about modern technology use by humanity. In a 100 years you will look back and write Hacker News comments and say 'but they had the technology in the 60s, why
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If Bezos had been clever he would have just said 'oh you have rockets covered, amazing, let me invest any my company faces on in space infrastructure'. With the billions and billions BlueOrigin spend they could have done amazing t

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