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by verzali 1y ago
Hard to justify that they can't afford to pay when they have multi-billion dollar valuations and are apparently paying hundreds of millions to get a single engineer.
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by verzali 1y ago
That name translates as "Donkey Man" btw :D
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by verzali 1y ago
What does it mean £1.50 per person for Reddit? Can I bankrupt them by spamming them with a billion fake accounts in the UK?
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by verzali 1y ago
Plenty of other places have figured it out. There's nothing so special about America that it can't work there too.
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by verzali 1y ago
IRIS2 is a European Union project, not an ESA project. Different organisations, purposes, and countries.
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by verzali 1y ago
Sorry to tell you, but it isn't going to work on those things either. It appears to be spending all its cash on a pale imitation of Apollo 11.
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by verzali 1y ago
Gold or other commodities would be the standard asset to go for if you expect dramatic inflation.
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by verzali 1y ago
If you want to have people you need to add in a whole lot of life support and additional safety to keep people alive. Robots are easier, since they don't die so easily. If you can get them to work at all, that is.
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by verzali 1y ago
It is really hard, and it is something you need to take into careful consideration when designing a satellite. It is really fucking hard when you have 40MW of heat being generated that you somehow have to get rid of.
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by verzali 1y ago
Those rogue worlds are frozen though, the only source they have is from radioactive decay in their cores. And eternally dark, since they have no Sun to light them. It would make more sense to use fusion reactors to power colonies in the out
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by verzali 1y ago
> The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public. Good thing I have no interest in visiting the land of the "free" anytime soon.
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by verzali 1y ago
I find it hard to believe foreign intervention can do anything other than rally support. A lot of Americans deeply oppose Trump, but how many of them would support a Chinese invasion with the express objective of overthrowing him and instal
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by verzali 1y ago
But not necessarily with rabbits. Can easily end up with dozens of 'em when you ony started out with two.
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by verzali 1y ago
Information does not flow as freely as it seems to today. Those in power have found new and more subtle ways to control its flow.
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by verzali 1y ago
Doesn't mean much if there's a design or production flaw. Having lots of flawed Starships on standby isn't really useful.
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by verzali 1y ago
No Saturn V ever blew up on the pad.
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by verzali 1y ago
It's more that reusable rockets don't make sense unless you have a lot to launch. SpaceX had to find some a way to make cash from mass in orbit, and telecom is one of the few ways to actually do that. It's rather telling that
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by verzali 1y ago
It's going to be fun watching this guy melt down over the next four years or so.
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by verzali 1y ago
SpaceX didn't invent Starlink, they just had the capital to get past the initial high expediture beforw the project becomes viable. Many other people attempted to build a Starlink-like constellation before SpaceX. They failed because t
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by verzali 1y ago
So then the 5% increase is on the order of a watt, which is really not a lot.
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by verzali 1y ago
One day I'm going to write an article headlined "Is Betteridge's Law Correct?" and watch the heads of people like you explode.
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by verzali 1y ago
It would be a lot faster to buy a lot of lottery tickets, or become a professional gambler. Once you've done that you'd have enough to make meaningful investments for long term returns. Or to short the stock market before certain
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by verzali 1y ago
This is incredibly stupid, self defeating, and above all sad.
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by verzali 1y ago
The people wearing the shiny new running shoes at the start of the race rarely finish anywhere close to the front.
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by verzali 1y ago
Saturn V development started in January 1962. Starship development started sometime before 2018. Generously, we can say SpaceX has been developing it for at least 6 years at this point. By the same point, January 1968, the Saturn V had laun
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by verzali 1y ago
Yeah, the video doesn't show it hitting the water at all. It looks like it exploded earlier on in the descent.
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by verzali 1y ago
"This novel could have been a prompt"
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by verzali 1y ago
Yeah, I'm not really familiar with sound engineering, so I don't know how valid his points are. But I'm fully on board with the complaints about notation, there must be a better way to do it than the current way.
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by verzali 1y ago
Probably easier at some point to simply target the primary ground stations and operations rooms.
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by verzali 1y ago
Its all models in the end. Half of physics is just putting things in the easiest frame or model to solve the problem you want to solve. And the other half is often simplifying things down to the proverbial spherical cow in a vacuum.

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