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by verzali 10mo ago
Me too and I was wondering what I did!
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by verzali 10mo ago
The atmosphere is still thick enough to drag you down at 500km. You would last typically last a few years before burning up - the rate of fall is pretty low at 500km. But you do need fuel to do collision avoidance manoeuvres and for attitud
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by verzali 10mo ago
You are just launching computers, with no propulsion, no attitude control, no solar panels, no radio/laser systems, no radiators. So all of that will take mass away from the computing power. A starlink satellite already weighs about 10
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by verzali 10mo ago
It could be a hard problem, no?
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by verzali 10mo ago
Even the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
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by verzali 10mo ago
That would certainly explain the Loop UI
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by verzali 10mo ago
What purpose does a bitcoin strategic reserve serve?
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by verzali 11mo ago
Is this something that you have generated with Grok? Have you spent some time yourself to study the math and physics of vibrations and waves before publishing this?
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by verzali 11mo ago
But ground support will not be cheap. You need to transfer a huge amount of data, which means you need to run and maintain a network of ground stations. And satellite operations are not as cheap as people like to think either.
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by verzali 11mo ago
You only need to destroy a few. Then you have a cloud of debris that will take down the rest or at the very least force them to use all their fuel making evasive manoeuvres.
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by verzali 11mo ago
Starlink solar panels generate at best 200 W/sqm on average. Even with 2.5 million square metres, that is a total of half a gigawatt. And the cost is not to be ignored! Most of the cost of these data centres is in the GPUs themselves,
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Terraform Industries' Business Case Doesn't Add Up(klaasnotfound.com)
3 points by verzali 11mo ago|0 comments
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by verzali 11mo ago
No
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by verzali 11mo ago
I've been involved in enough futile in-orbit demonstrations to say everything here is absolutely correct.
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by verzali 11mo ago
Alessandro Volta was from Como, the same place as this. He invented the electric battery.
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by verzali 11mo ago
I think you are right. Either they have accidentally used the Earth's field somehow, or they are mistaking other effects (drag, perturbations...) for a thrust.
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by verzali 11mo ago
Maybe its possible to generate motion using the Earth's magnetic field under the right circumstances, though I'm not sure if that's really feasible. Or they might be able to create a very small thrust by emitting photons, but
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by verzali 11mo ago
So SpaceX hasn't launched anything that has actually gone to Mars? Weird.
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by verzali 11mo ago
Nope: >“No, you don’t,” the president replied. “No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn.”
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by verzali 11mo ago
What's the benefit of getting paid for your work? We'll only get the work people really want to do? Great!
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by verzali 11mo ago
Mostly on Elon Musk though. Which supports the comment above, he's a spacex fanboy.
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by verzali 11mo ago
Yes, even most days in the week if you want.
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by verzali 11mo ago
>A Chinese rescue mission is improbable as the Shenzhou-20 crew faces no immediate danger and China could simply launch Shenzhou-22 earlier as a replacement, if needed. This is just clickbait. There's no one seriously calling for th
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The False Colours of Astronomy(thequantumcat.space)
2 points by verzali 11mo ago|0 comments
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by verzali 11mo ago
Trump seems to be trying to suppress free speech in the UK now, which is deeply ironic given how upset the right wing was about alleged British attempts to control speech in the US.
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What Lies Beyond: Exploring Interstellar Space(thequantumcat.space)
5 points by verzali 11mo ago|0 comments
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by verzali 11mo ago
The US is quite literally killing people outside its borders every day. It even ran a program of kidnapping and torturing people from foreign countries for years, and still maintains a network of prisions outside America. The US very much t
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by verzali 1y ago
Mercury really is the closest planet to us right now - it is 129 millon km away. Venus is 245 million and Mars is 361 million. From December the Sun will be closer than Mercury (147 million) but it won't be until August next year that
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The Myth and Mystery of the Tunguska Impact(thequantumcat.space)
3 points by verzali 1y ago|0 comments
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by verzali 1y ago
Is it a coincidence that 3 of 5 are so close?

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