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by rory096 8y ago
>While self-driving cars are cool, I’d imagine self-driving subways would be easier. In New York, the f train in Queens hits a standstill because of problems in the d line. The air train at JFK has no driver. Why can’t we do this for MTA
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by rory096 8y ago
Do you mean originally? ULA is a 50/50 joint venture that Boeing and Lockheed Martin were forced into after almost corporate-espionaging themselves into oblivion. It owns, operates, and manufactures the factories and rockets that each
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by rory096 8y ago
>€45 million is over $52 million. The Falcon 9, in re-usable mode, is cheaper and, in non-reusable mode, requires you find a buddy who will pay at least $10 million for 2 metric tonnes of launch capacity. F9 reusable is about the same. F
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by rory096 8y ago
>The Atlas family has 100% mission sucess since 1957. Huh? Atlas I had failures in 1991, 1992, and 1993. Atlas G failed in 1984 and 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_I https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by rory096 8y ago
>Why would someone pay €75 million to launch 5 tonnes to GTO on the Ariane 6 when they can spend $62 million and get an extra 3.3 tonnes of capacity on the Falcon 9? Because their satellite is, perhaps, 3 tonnes, allowing them to fly in
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by rory096 8y ago
>The planned Ariane 6 is cost uncompetitive with the Falcon 9 This isn't really true. Ariane 6 is expected to cost €75 million for 5 tonnes to GTO and €90 million for 11.5 tonnes. Falcon 9 costs $50 million for 5.5 tonnes to GTO (re
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by rory096 8y ago
Stéphane Israël has repeatedly called for European governments to stop competing any satellite launches and guarantee them all for Arianespace, as well as to increase direct subsidies. http://www.france24.com/en/2015062
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by rory096 8y ago
Presumably GRU was using its mined coins to spend on things like hosting for shady sites. The idea isn't to cash it out for rubles.
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How do you trace mined coins?
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by rory096 8y ago
Oh? >It was formerly operated by Lockheed Martin and is now operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture with Boeing. https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/580076118339756034 https://twit
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by rory096 8y ago
Even the initial price is not far from the credit card limits middle class people with good credit can obtain unsecured. Obviously the interest rate on that would be usurious, but Blue Origin has enough marginal profit margin (and cash) tha
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by rory096 8y ago
At first this will be true, as with many new products. But as hardware and development costs are amortized over time and competitors enter the market, we can expect prices to drop to marginal cost. That could easily be in reach of ordinary
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by rory096 8y ago
Did you miss the part where his goal is to have millions of people living and working in space, both in orbit and on the moon? Bezos certainly has a vision, it's just a different one than Musk's.
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by rory096 8y ago
The eight examples mentioned in the Wikipedia page are far from an exhaustive list. They don't include many examples from the original Frank White book, to start. (White also defines it quite broadly, to include the feeling you get in
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by rory096 8y ago
>Nit pick: The point of the ride isn't to get 0 gravity. IT IS TO GO TO SPACE! This is an incredibly important and underrated point. People aren't going (just) for the roller coaster ride. They're chasing the overview effe
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by rory096 8y ago
>Altas V (actually built by Lockheed Martin, not ULA) Er, what? (Missed this before.)
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(ATLAS ORBITAL 325(46) .86 .86) (ALL ATLAS 582(116) .80 .80) Ouch.
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by rory096 8y ago
That table doesn't show success/failures...
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by rory096 8y ago
This is true, of course, but I think the grandparent is talking about the far future. Eventually, if Musk's and/or Bezos' visions are to be realized, the average person will be a consumer — whether for space tourism, earth-to
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by rory096 8y ago
>SpaceX's 93% launch success rate is still below average for ALL launches (94-95%), and has a higher incident rate than its "competitors" in any form. That's what was asked. You don't need to apologize for SpaceX
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by rory096 8y ago
>I really appreciate Blue Origin's methodical approach to building this system. I note that they are closer to being operational than Virgin Galactic who I consider their primary competitor. It's also worth mentioning that Virg
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by rory096 8y ago
>Are you maybe confusing launch failures with landing failures? I don't think they're confusing them, but rather they're worried that consumers might confuse them. SpaceX's videos of their landing experiments got
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by rory096 8y ago
It's a valid point. Even though we informed spaceflight observers know that these explosions were experimental (and would've happened anyway, more violently even, when boosters were expended), the average member of the public may
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by rory096 8y ago
That's the booster landing pad. Round parachutes have little control authority — I doubt the capsule steers them at all.
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by rory096 8y ago
ULA is indeed remarkably reliable — that is its main advantage, given its high prices. However, ULA is only the sole competitor to SpaceX in military launch — for commercial and NASA launches several other alternatives exist. Let's t
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by rory096 8y ago
Zuma was not a SpaceX failure. This article is FUD by the COO of a think tank linked to the defense industry. https://twitter.com/lthompsonlex http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/boeing-meant-america-cente...
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by rory096 8y ago
This comment does not deserve to be downvoted so far. SpaceX's policy is absolutely to move fast and iterate constantly instead of relying on hardware 'legacy' and keeping designs static. This is a stark break from the way
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No, you can't. You'll feel the force of air resistance (drag) as soon as you exit the plane, increasing until you hit terminal velocity and 1g.
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by rory096 8y ago
This is false. Space begins at 100km, the Karman line. New Shepard's typical apogee is about 107km, while this flight reached nearly 119km. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
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by rory096 8y ago
Note that New Glenn, like Falcon 9, is only partially reusable — the booster is recovered but the second stage is expended. Both companies have aspirations to reuse the second stage, but few tangible plans so far. New Shepard is in some way

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