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by tectonic 5y ago
* some of these ideas may actually exist. See also https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/ Also, I think the literal HN audience may be missing the point that this is an ideation tool. A starting place.
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Show HN: This Idea Does Not Exist(thisideadoesnotexist.com)
24 points by tectonic 5y ago|32 comments
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With neutrinos, you have to go big to go small(orbitalindex.com)
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Would your company like to compete with SpaceX?(orbitalindex.com)
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The largest quarter ever for space infrastructure investments(orbitalindex.com)
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NEA Scout and Solar Sailing(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
Such an exciting, and high stakes, and dramatically late and over-budget mission.
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by tectonic 5y ago
A larger, non-experimental depot could use electric propulsion to bring itself to satellites that need to be refueled. It's energetically expensive but likely still worth it to extend the life of expensive satellites.
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The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed(orbitalindex.com)
174 points by tectonic 5y ago|51 comments
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems(cfs.energy)
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by tectonic 5y ago
Everything on Casey's blog is pretty great.
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Sailing on Solar Protons(orbitalindex.com)
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Rocket Lab is aiming for Mars(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
"Technology persists in a given settlement for 100 million years before dying out" That seems wildly optimistic.
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NocoDB: Open-Source Airtable Alternative(nocodb.com)
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How to make GPT-3 reason better: ask it to show its work(blog.andrewcantino.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
You're missing tags for science and space, among others.
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The Possibility of a Europa Lander(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
> Wait. Oh no. Some game developer somewhere is going to try to use this as a synchronization primitive, aren't they. Please don't. The world has enough cursed code already. Don't do it. Stop it. Noooooooooooooooo
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by tectonic 5y ago
I haven't been able to find any evidence supporting this claim. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/science/china-mars.html says, for example: > Days after the touchdown, the rover will roll off t
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Prompt Engineering with Large Language Models(blog.andrewcantino.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
Do you have a reference for the electrically-repelling solar panels? They sound fascinating.
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Sandboxtron, run terminals/programs within OS X sandboxes(github.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
We also have a coverage map for Starlink: https://orbitalindex.com/feature/starlink-coverage/
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Orbital Refueling(orbitalindex.com)
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by tectonic 5y ago
It's odd that he didn't mention it in the writeup because his paper predicted that massive black hole binaries could accelerate stars to half the speed of light.
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by tectonic 5y ago
That's right. From their perspective, a hypervelocity galaxy is moving past them.
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by tectonic 5y ago
We wrote about this in Orbital Index recently ( https://orbitalindex.com ) and so I did some background research: Loeb's paper [1], mentioned in the article, found that hypervelocity stars accelerated by massive black hole bi
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by tectonic 5y ago
Are there LTE “dumb smart frames”?
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by tectonic 5y ago
Another interesting question is whether or not water was a core component of early planetary material, or delivered later by comet (as assumed because it was too hot in the inner solar system for volatile compounds to condense during format

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