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by venusenvy47 3y ago
Maybe the article will refresh automatically with the actual distance when you visit the page. That would be a cool science website.
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Aside from the mining difficulties, I think the transportation costs of bringing large quantities of metal back to Earth would be expensive. Even if there were pallets of gold bars stacked neatly on the surface of the asteroid, it would be
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Wouldn't Earth's even bigger gravity well be a problem for getting asteroid metal to the surface of Earth? I think you would need a tremendous amount of rocket fuel to bring back large quantities of asteroid gold. I don't t
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
I disagree a little with the first item. Copper has a higher conductivity than gold, so there isn't an advantage in electrical performance to use all gold conductors. It's only used in specific portions of a circuit board that y
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
It's common to use a conversion rate of 1.4 kW for a home, so that's really close to the 1MW == 750 homes equation.
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This is what I understand is the drawback of a Fresnel lense. The article is written in first person, but I can't find the name of the author anywhere around the article.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
I use https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... running on my NAS to regularly download photos from my wife's iCloud account. The photos are stored in full resolution on iCloud with the EXIF
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
Do you lose the EXIF data in the photos when storing on Google Photos? That's my biggest annoyance.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
Does Threads/Instagram have verification of notable accounts? That seemed like the most useful aspect of old Twitter - to know a comment was being made by a real person.
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I thought there was more to the calculation of N's complement. Something about adding one to the result. It doesn't seem like something you can easily perform using inspection.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
Isn't this the normal cycle of money? Continuing the example, the recipient spends some of this dividend money at Starbucks and pays sales tax. Then Starbucks pays income tax on the money and the cycle repeats.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
What is the mechanicism that drops the price? Does the market automatically adjust the ask price? Or do buyers instantly start offering a lower price at that moment?
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
Did you calculate the 9's complement of 4583 in your head? I see that 5416 has individual digits that line up with 4583 to each equal 9, but I'm not clear if this is a coincidence that happens to work for this number, or if this
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
From the article it seems like this ROV doesn't have sonar, and can only search visually at a short distance. They claim a distance of around 20 feet. I'm surprised they could find a debris field so fast with such a small range
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
I guess I was thinking about the licensing requirements in the US. It seems like you need a license for any powered watercraft. https://www.boatus.org/study-guide/boat/registration/
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
I don't have information about the type of communication link. I shouldn't have called it a radio link. Acoustic probably makes more sense. It was something very slow, so that sounds right.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
It's also a little annoying to hear their lead adviser, David Concannon, complain about government moving too slowly: https://youtu.be/nW3r01_ZWmY https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/amer
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
I'm a little confused by his video. He says that it has never been tested at depth, but I thought this contraption had already made Titanic visits the last two years.
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It doesn't even look remotely comfortable for more than a few few minutes - they seem to be sitting crosslegged on a metal floor. Couldn't they spend a few dollars to put a padded seat cushion on the floor?
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That's cool. I had no idea there was a symbol for the floor function.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
All those items you list are operated inside national boundaries and can be regulated. I think they only operate in international waters specifically to avoid regulations.
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I'm also annoyed at the company for all the public emergency resources being forced to help rescue this contraption.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
They probably aren't allowed to put this in the water of any country that has watercraft rules. The reporter from CBS reads the form he had to sign, at 2:40 in this video: https://youtu.be/29co_Hksk6o It says somethin
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
They have some type of radio link that works at depth for simple texts messages, but they have to be right above it.
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by venusenvy47 3y ago
And literally steered with a cheap game controller. There's a YouTube video from CBS of their reporter taking a trip on this thing. It's almost comical how cheap it seems.
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I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to aggregate all the programming forums into a single view. Does anyone know if that is possible? I think the first app that implements this will be a leader in the "Lemmy Revolution&qu
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Kaczynski didn't feel that the sessions were abusive in any way. Whether he is telling the truth can be debated, but he himself doesn't claim he went through anything more than simple written tests. There's a quote on this