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by zardo 4y ago
In a perfect (space policy) world, SLS wouldn't have had major components determined by the legislature. It's extremely expensive because that's what the legislature asked for, a single use rocket built using super expensive
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by zardo 4y ago
I don't know if the whole company was a scam, but they did do 'a' scam, pretending they had a functioning truck when they didn't by rolling it down a hill.
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by zardo 4y ago
Why did you decide to stop eating plants? Or were you raised as a carnivore?
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by zardo 4y ago
> Better materials? It's possible there is a lot of low hanging fruit here, as tire particulate emission is not regulated.
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by zardo 4y ago
That wouldn't matter, in a comparable case the fraud victims are Tesla investors who lose out when the faked tech is revealed as such.
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by zardo 4y ago
> Lake Union, which is not nearly as cold as Puget Sound Lake Union is colder from ~October through April. But yeah, you should be dressed for immersion, in July, that might be a PFD and swimsuit.
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by zardo 4y ago
Isn't the moon going to be lacking in all sorts of minerals and ores that form in contact with a water?
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by zardo 4y ago
What's so nice about having low capacity oil wells operating inside city limits?
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by zardo 4y ago
Fire has been used by people to do some pretty awful things.
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by zardo 4y ago
> This is nonsense: that the oil industry knew about climate change but that the academic world and government scientists didn't. That is nonsense, but I don't see it in the article.
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by zardo 4y ago
They were all cold war economic influence battle grounds that saw huge investment from the US.
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by zardo 4y ago
And it comes down to, utilities didn't spring for the cold weather package on their turbines. Effectively deciding that during extreme cold snaps they would rely on natural gas power plants. Which were also brought down by the cold sna
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by zardo 4y ago
Now that we have 10, will the next set just repeat? E.g. kiloquettagrams, megaquettameters
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by zardo 4y ago
I don't think it is an absolute monarchy, my understanding is the Saudi state is a web of fiefdoms of individual members of the royal family. The right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing, e.g. the 9/11 attac
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by zardo 4y ago
> You can also think of it as a 'rotation' operation - a change of basis into the frequency domain. Is this only a rotation between two discrete states, or do intermediate angles exist?
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by zardo 4y ago
Not having a night shift is a very different thing than not having a winter shift.
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by zardo 4y ago
> Also, recognize that lots of grid load is more flexible than you think. Running smelters and foundries preferentially in the summer is a very doable thing. It's doable, but it requires that production capacity has been overbuilt a
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by zardo 4y ago
Settling deep into the Pacific required pretty advanced sailing technology. Hawaii was only settled in ~1100 CE. I don't think anyone else managed to build a ship that could sail within 50 degrees of the wind direction untill the 1600&
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by zardo 4y ago
Different application and price point. This doesn't operate at a high enough temperature to make generating electricity back from it feasible, so it's only good for heating. But, you can build big and cheap for seasonal scale stor
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by zardo 4y ago
I don't think the weapons people like liquid cryogenic fuels. They want propellent that is easy to store for years in a vehicle that's ready to launch in minutes or less.
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by zardo 4y ago
Motorsports generally have a rule like, "safety violation deemed at official's discretion". The wikipage on NASCAR rules looks like it has just such a rule.
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by zardo 4y ago
I'm surprised they don't just DQ him under an intentionally vague rule on reckless maneuvers.
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by zardo 4y ago
I would bet in both the suspension and tire non-compliances are labeling. That's mostly what federal vehicle regulations deal with. I would say it's a massive failure of the Tesla compliance team to miss that, but I suspect Elon l
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by zardo 4y ago
Why the headline change? A population decline is not the same thing as a biodiversity decline.
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by zardo 4y ago
By motionless they mean something other than "no moving parts" as it has a turbine connected to a generator.
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by zardo 4y ago
Those aren't the rapid climate interventions this seems to be about. This about injecting massive amounts of material into the atmosphere and/or ocean.
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by zardo 4y ago
And yet they still run freight trains that are too long to use the sidings available on the route.
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by zardo 4y ago
It would be pretty simple if they could be unmanned, fly them.
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by zardo 4y ago
Seeing the rotating cube and glancing over the code, it looks like ray tracing to me.
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by zardo 4y ago
What about riders with an extra 25lbs?

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