njarboe

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by njarboe 7y ago
Spacecraft are on the edge of known technology. New components, materials, designs, computer simulations, etc., are being created all the time. What we know is constantly changing so "safer before a long time" does not really appl
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by njarboe 7y ago
Someone dying is devastating if you have a connection to that person. People die every second and if everyone was devastated by every death then the world would grind to a halt. The first people going into deep space dying would be devastat
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by njarboe 7y ago
'"I am more interested in maximizing the odds of success for this bold undertaking and making it as safe as any human journey into the deep space can be, than I am in having NASA meet arbitrary deadlines," Rep. Eddie Bernice
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by njarboe 7y ago
You can have stations underground where the automatic cars/busses stop and drop off people and then the people exit to the surface.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Tunneling could let nonstop car trips scale. If the Boring company can produce a similar improvement in tunneling costs that SpaceX is on launch costs, it could be a reality.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Poe's law in action[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by njarboe 7y ago
Not just certain populations, but each individual is likely to have different nutritional needs for different desired outcomes. Hard to study that though.
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by njarboe 7y ago
I think point-to-point launches with people could be happening much quicker than 100,000 launches. He already has a billionaire paying for a moon flyby. Maybe launch 25? People were signing up to pay $200,000k to go into space on spaceship
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by njarboe 7y ago
It is just a novel. His ideas on ecosystems are as much science fiction as traveling to other solar systems. Not scientific truth. We really will have to try living on other planets before we know how it works.
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by njarboe 7y ago
The US also had lower denomination bills like the $500 and $1000 until 1969. They were not in much use then but I think that they could have useful legal uses today considering all of the inflation that happened since 1969. The $500 now wou
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by njarboe 7y ago
The SpaceX landing pads at Cape Canaveral are 10 miles from populated areas and 50 miles from the large city of Orlando. So we are already landing them near population centers. With fully reusable rockets, one gets to the point where they a
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by njarboe 7y ago
If you spend time in casinos, $100 notes flow around like water.
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by njarboe 7y ago
People in the US don't trust cashier's checks. For good reason. They are easily forged.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Interesting, I don't see any mention retiring the note because of criminal use or anything about the 500 note at all. Is Bloomberb A/B testing the content of articles now? Would not be surprised, but it would be a disturbing trend
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by njarboe 7y ago
True. But it is nice to have large bills when buying something that costs a lot, like a used car. I recently did that in the US and if I had some $500 or $1000 bill things would have went a bit smoother at that nervous time in the transacti
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by njarboe 7y ago
This problem has probably been exacerbated by the fact the the $500 euro note has not been issued since 27 April 2019[1]. I wonder if making storing euros in cash 2.5 times harder (500 versus 200 euro notes) was part of the reason the 500 e
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by njarboe 7y ago
Yea, there is this company called Google. Stanford licensed them the PageRank algorithm for stock and later sold it for a total of $336 million in the mid 00's. Check out this for info[1] [1] https://matr.net/news/w
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by njarboe 7y ago
This is an unfortunate result of how California deals with property tax. In many places the property taxes go mostly/all to the school district and the city/county. When property values go up a lot there is no reason that they hav
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by njarboe 7y ago
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Prop 13 and rent control both highly encourage NIMBYism and I would say are more important factors than property values. If a large apartment is built next to your house and you don't like the extra noise, the big shadow, and lots of p
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by njarboe 7y ago
Progressives now desire to live in the urban cores of large cities. It make sense for them to have their various political views reinforce each other.
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by njarboe 7y ago
SpaceX also has a contract with NASA to build a rocket and spaceship for astronauts to get to the space station. It has passed its last big test recently. If there are no further delays, NASA will be using it in a few months.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Yes. It is great that NASA is trying to get away from this model with the Commercial Crew Program. Boeing would eat this cost, just like SpaceX does when it has problems. Cost plus contracts, while maybe necessary in some situations, evolve
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by njarboe 7y ago
The upper-middle class people that mostly run the Democratic party and vote progressive are also voting against "their best interest". How do you define interest? Many people don't think that getting more resources from the g
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by njarboe 7y ago
You really need a road to every building for moving stuff to and from the building. Maybe one could put them all underground? Support the Boring company idea?
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by njarboe 7y ago
Human scale cities are nice to visit, but if you think you are breathing cleaner air in Europe, with their focus on diesel cars for decades, you are mistaken. The air is much dirtier than in US cities. The Volkswagen scandal might change th
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by njarboe 7y ago
I don't think there is a treaty about it. These satellites are in space, not in the air. Around 100km usually is used as the boundary or, more practically, as high as your anti-aircraft missiles can go. It does not really make sense to
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by njarboe 7y ago
And unfortunately the US took the stance that airbag design should take into account that a seat belt will not be worn. US airbags explode with much more force and cause many more injuries than European ones.
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$300 per year per house, I believe.
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I also think people underestimate the desire of men to have their wives and childern living in the suburbs that would survive if a nuclear bomb hit the downtown. By the mid 60's there were so many bombs that this did not make much sens

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