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by unchocked 5y ago
Yes - order of $30B / yr, larger than NASA budget.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Including the crime of running from your tyrannical father... https://thewire.in/world/dubai-princess-sheikh-latifa-pegasu...
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by unchocked 5y ago
Way to go MAPS. I’m continually impressed by the standard of ethical care and compassion they represent - and the effectiveness of their political advocacy.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Because Starlink finances the development of cheap launch, a demand driver NASA can’t replicate.
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by unchocked 5y ago
The O’Neillian movement is predicated on the answer to “is a planetary surface the best place for an expanding technological civilization” being no. Long run, this view will be most influential.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Exactly. Consider the prevalence of wolves vs. dogs.
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by unchocked 5y ago
I'm most hopeful about the carbon border tariff. People, and by extension political communities are more willing to take action when they feel able to pass costs onto others vs. feeling like they have to bear it themselves. If leading
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by unchocked 5y ago
I think it's important to consider climate restoration. Future people likely won't appreciate the climate they'll inherit, and will deserve the technologies to remediate our poor choices.
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by unchocked 5y ago
A similar argument could have been made for solar power in the 1980s - just a PR tool distracting from the only economically viable energy choices of nuclear or oil. But we have cheap and viable solar energy today because of decades of work
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by unchocked 5y ago
What’s dangerous is attacking any idea that attempts to manage climate risks in light of humanity’s continuing use of carbon fuels. The anthropocene is as it is, not as it should be. Emissions reduction, carbon removal, and solar radiation
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by unchocked 5y ago
I'm excited about anything in electrolysis/fuel cell development, but the figure of merit is efficiency. It's neat to use sulphuric acid to reduce the freezing point of your electrolyte solution, but if it's not efficien
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by unchocked 5y ago
Given that tariffs seem more popular than domestic taxes these days, carbon border adjustments might be a politically feasible way to get a price on carbon.
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by unchocked 5y ago
People aren't wired to protect against future threats. Adaptation is going to be a whopper.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Note that these are surface temperatures, while weather is usually reported as air temperatures. The air temperatures were around 30C, per the article. Surface temperatures vary a great deal, asphalt in the sun for instance can be 30C+ hott
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by unchocked 5y ago
> Making human clinical trials cheaper and quicker is probably one of the biggest opportunities for improving U.S. healthcare both during and beyond pandemics. The failure to accelerate vaccine development through challenge testing is a
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by unchocked 5y ago
It’s a real word, but inappropriate in this context. Liquefaction is what the article describes, liquification would be actual melting of the cargo.
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by unchocked 5y ago
I'm dismayed at how little we seem to know about pesticides, neonicotinoids for example but probably a host of other types. It certainly stands to reason that industrial application of poisons is going to kill a lot of species and dest
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by unchocked 5y ago
We could engineer out global warming, but that's just one part of climate change. It might need to be an all-of-the-above type response, including decarbonization, negative emissions, geoengineering and adaptation.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Kid in high school did this - called in a bomb threat _after_ getting his parents to excuse him from school for the bomb threat. Cheeseball dictators end up like disturbed high school boys.
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by unchocked 5y ago
... which of course requires hydrogen.
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by unchocked 5y ago
It's amusing to watch folks bend over backwards to propose workarounds for the hard thing that solves the problem: developing a sustainable, energy dense fuel.
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by unchocked 5y ago
I'm excited about this - we need to invest in different energy storage solutions; as promising as batteries are they may not be the global optimum for all things as the common woo tells us. For long haul trucking, battery mass eats sub
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by unchocked 5y ago
Those are wonderfully constructed definitions. Thank you.
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by unchocked 5y ago
So, a very limited state of emergency which allows fuel that is ordinarily piped to be transported by truck. Ancillarily, It's not evident this cyberattack actually compromised the industrial controls, but rather trashed the administra
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by unchocked 5y ago
A simple answer with strong explanatory power: because we are competing for status (increasing subjective marginal returns) instead of working for money (decreasing subjective marginal returns).
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by unchocked 5y ago
Might as well introduce this project here: https://planetarysunshade.org We are domain experts, and are developing the support of domain eminences. It's an umbrella organization for anyone working on space-based climate int
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by unchocked 5y ago
Clear skies and tailwinds. Can't get back to the Moon fast enough, while we still have living continuity to Apollo. Can't believe how low the low in our space program has been.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Lighter materials, revised batteries, adjusted suspension, different wheels, space-buggy interior. Similar terrain relative navigation, charge control system, motors, etc.
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by unchocked 5y ago
There's an excellent typewriter repair shop in LA called Rees Electronics (a misnomer for this application). Fixed up a 90 year old typewriter for me - priceless service.
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by unchocked 5y ago
The lunar tollbooth? Hope so. https://spacenews.com/op-ed-lunar-gateway-or-moon-direct/

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