spaceheretostay

15 ms·

61.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Definitely phones can't replace all weather satellites and things - not yet anyway! But for many severe weather events that actively harm property and life, such as severe thunderstorms, can be aided with smartphone sensors. For exampl
62.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
I should defer to the experts here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8070024 The part I'm working on currently is a privacy-aware implementation of recording useful signal strength from user's phones, tha
63.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Well, signal strength yes - it does have those limits. But pressure data from the barometers can describe some higher altitude conditions (if you can map pressure at the surface over a large geography with decent density, you can infer metr
64.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
That's interesting - I'm working on using cell signal strength as an indicator for live weather features! There's a simple relationship between signal strength and clearness of weather - light rain has a distortion signal, he
65.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Yeah, I guess that's where Elon ended up! SpaceX will do it in the extreme then, without batteries and with just rocket engines.
66.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
These are small, low-altitude, low-capacity planes - because this is a hard problem and you have to start small. I wonder though - does Bye have ambitions in creating larger ones that fly at higher altitudes? I've thought about this ev
67.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
I'm not making fun of anyone! To me it sounds like the poster is making fun of all of us fools who have repetitive tasks in our lives. > 'What repetitive tasks do you do?' > 'None. I'm in pure math ' ...
68.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Maybe you don't want such a machine, but I sure do! And I consider all of those things tedious, and repetitive. I get that not every startup idea or problem-solution set is for everyone - but come on, I'm out here pitching dozens
69.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Sure. I don't see why not? Peeing is an enormous time sink on humanity and would be absolutely ground-breaking if a startup could make signifiant progress there. If you were being sarcastic and intentionally telling me to stop being cr
70.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
So the commenter is on HN, but has literally zero (0) things that could be automated through software in their life? I just don't believe it's true. Sorry if some of my guesses were not in line with the question directly.
71.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Oh I'm still adding. I consider them all repetitive, but it's okay to debate some or most. The point is I'm guessing about a stranger's life and I'm bound to hit on some repetitive tasks they do. The answer 'no
72.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Not sure if serious or joking. You don't stand up every now and then to stretch your legs? You don't take a sip of coffee or tea or water periodically? You don't ever run out of ink or pens or paper and have to get new ones?
73.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
All this fancy stuff, but where's my Sets at? Google took down the website like 15 years ago. I used that thing daily . Then they put it into Google Sheets. You could type "apple" then "pear" then "orange&quot
74.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Given that cannabis is far less dangerous than alcohol, both to the person having cannabis and to those nearby them, I think it should be treated very differently indeed! Alcohol use is responsible for like 90,000 deaths per year in the USA
75.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Sure, not my intention - I think most people don't care. It's not a judgement about them. I just think they don't grasp it because they don't care and that's okay.
76.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
It is extremely short-sighted, how we have treated our planet. With oil and gas companies lying to the public about their research for 50 years, and politicians intentionally taking stances that we should pollute more (just because we can),
77.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
Oh I agree, it won't be soon! But that's the real goal of today's launch: to learn more about the technology that will enable the technology to terraform Mars (and to bank money to fund it). I think that is lost on most peo
78.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
> people are amazed by it. Being 'amazed by it' isn't equivalent to fully realizing what SpaceX's achievements imply: specifically tracking the progress of SpaceX means counting down the years until you can buy a tick
79.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
At least initially, I think ticket sales will do. With ticket prices floated for like 20 years before any go on sale, the target price is like $200,000 or so and the idea is that many people will be both willing and able to sell their Earth
80.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
FH is reliably going up and coming down, which is incredible: my attention is barely here since they are building multiple Starship Hopper test articles in the open fields of south Texas. [1, 2] The increasingly most likely scenario with Sp
81.
by spaceheretostay 8y ago
SpaceX's goals of creating a Mars colony with millions of people moving there in 20-60 years andreducing most long-distance travel on Earth to ~40 minutes create much wider audiences with huge excitement attached to every move. Also, E