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You may be extremely lucky, but these detectors come from everywhere, even could be from exactly some nuclear facility like Chernobyl, so contaminated with radioactive dust. But, for Russian electronics exists good rule - handle in gloves a
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2y ago
> nuclear Navy does today which is directly mechanically link the steam turbine to the propeller Not exactly, but very close to true. As I hear, newest Virginia class of US submarines are planned to be all-electric, but rumors said, they
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Because nobody predict so large grow of space industry, which could make fusion profitable. Second problem, for space weight is so expensive, that it made fission viable, and solve proliferation problem (very little risk, somebody will stea
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2y ago
Things are even worse for intelligent life. Because we only could understand et with similar to our level of sci/tech development, but what if we encounter civilization, even one magnitude older than our? For example, now our science h
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2y ago
Right answer is - we don't know. Unfortunately, Drake equation now is just estimate, without any real data, as humanity just don't know example of any extraterrestrial life at all. And what even more sad, our empty knowledge is no
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2y ago
As people already said, ca problem is complex problem, and need to resolve at simplest consideration, few simpler problems. I will list some of simpler problems: 1. Some sort of reliable screen read, capable for all sorts of screen output (
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It depends on scale need to achieve. 1000 beacons easier for one town scale, but train model for each airfield is Earth scale(in 1990 in US was ~6000 airfields, whole Europe have less number of airfields). Also exist some nuances, as some c
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I wonder, when people will begin read books (or at least learn documentation). > OpenAI burned more than $5 billion last year. Well, this is semi-true. When speaking about LLM technology, must be honest, and make difference of base (or f
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What I also remember, market professionals usually name big holes as red oceans, mean, they are red from blood of huge players, battling there.
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> My thinking around that is it's pretty much the same effort to build something small or something big Your thinking have huge mistake, because you thinking about money, without considering market. What I mean, market is not a sing
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> The original clearly describes that the coding rules primarily target C Yes, this is because space engineers don't like so much unpredictable things as Garbage Collectors, which used on nearly all functional languages by definitio
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That's why SL used most sophisticated rocket of time - Zenit, which was by definition extremely tolerant to platform instability (most other space rockets was not so tolerant).
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Sea Launch was born dead, because huge share own by Russians (in reality, Russian gov), and they are inexperienced on market economy. Final end of company become, when Russians pushed Boeing to quit company and after that transaction, non-R
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This is not simple to answer, because exist at least two grades of sound - for median people, and for professionals and sensitive people. It's easy to see difference - median cards stopped at level of "SB Live!" (yes, exclama
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To change orbit of so large asteroid, need huge amount of energy. Unfortunately, humanity now have only small power ready, for such far things just about 50kW, it will need decades to transfer so large energy. Russians claimed to create nuc
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Yes, deep underground shelter planned for nuclear attack will be enough to survive, as damaging mechanisms, are mostly same - short but very powerful infrared flash and deadly shockwave (better to consider it as very fast pressure grow and
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It depends, on where exactly will hit. Similar to nuclear explosions, if one happen over sea or ocean near coast, it will cause extremely large wave, which will be similar to tsunami. If it will hit land, will be small earthquake. This is w
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> Fluorinert was absolutely something the USSR could produce May be. But in fact - not produced. And Soviet Elbrus computers used water cooling with extreme problems. - I'm 100% sure, if it was possible for Elbrus designers to use F
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Exists sea grade of electronics, which are covered by thick coating layer, but it is also non-ideal solution, could become fractured, and you cannot make coating on dip switches or on connectors.
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> would distilled water work? Unfortunately, not, because water is very corrosive, and easy gather many non-inert substances just from air. This is very serious problem. I once talked with old support engineer from USSR, who have some ex
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> We're tracking billions[0] of asteroids This is exaggeration. Really, this type of astronomy is very underfunded, so we're just approach state, when will track just most dangerous objects, which number is just about thousand,
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To determine object, in most cases need and enough, to determine it's orbit. In case of Near Earth Object, most interest parameters, when it was near Earth and period to next approach. Looks like, astronomer calculated from single poin
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> does not accurately describe how large the ipv6 It is not the limitation, but router hardware is. Now problem mostly eased, thanks to Moore law, but 20 years ago router memory need to store prefixes-routes graph was very expensive and
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BTW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellianism_(politics)
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BTW, important that Sevastopol is not random choice, but it is strategical point to control Crimea. Control Crimea and coast of azov sea is important, because Russia have powerful internal water routes via azov sea. For example, when Russia
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> harbours at Novorossiysk and Sochi I must admit harbour at Novorossiysk, but not Sochi, because it is where putin like to spent time on sea coast, so there economy activity is severe limited for safety. Second, only far east harbours a
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> ICBMs are not meant to go East or West, they go over the pole Yes and No. Most effective trajectory to reach Russia from US (or vice versa) is really over Arctic region. But in USSR created ICBMs with capabilities to reach US over Anta
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Easy. Amount of Arctic (shelf) belong to country calculated from coast length. And any adequate person will agree, in modern world countries need access to sea, not to ice. Ukraine have strategy geography to limit access of Russia to black
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You just don't know, how work defense of internal market in typical country. 1. Organizations listed in subject (NIST, FCC, deputies from tech companies) constantly create or even invent methods to check products quality and to enforce
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2y ago
For all things you buy in local shop, responsible owners of shop. If you buy anything abroad, this is your own problem and it is not relevant to subject.
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