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by zardo 4y ago
> It's not as simple as v^2, you have to consider the compressibility effects (wave drag where the pressure wave moves along with the plane, like a bow wave on a ship). I think it is that simple. Those effects are the reason the dra
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by zardo 4y ago
> One design, for example, had two twitching leglike stumps on the bottom for pushing itself along. Looking forward to seeing the horror movies this technology inspires.
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by zardo 4y ago
> Once you've gone supersonic the drag actually drops a lot. Certainly the drag coefficient drops, does it actually drop fast enough to counter the v^2 and see total drag drop as velocity increases?
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by zardo 4y ago
They should partner with a jet engine startup that has produced nothing but renders to match their business model.
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by zardo 4y ago
> Things can happen quickly if there is very obviously lots of money to be made. There is not obviously lots of money to be made in rapidly building out fusion power plants.
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by zardo 4y ago
Because going from the science project has finally worked to supplying 10% of the worlds electricity in just 20 years would be a truly incredible pace progress.
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by zardo 4y ago
Those two predictions don't seem to fit together.
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by zardo 4y ago
You also need transformers and batteries and power lines.
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by zardo 4y ago
Are these solar panels orbiting Jupiter? Why only 150W/m^2?
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by zardo 4y ago
> Eventually, the locals start getting unhappy with you. Pretty sure the locals are unhappy from the start of the foraging process, with all the stealing, murdering, and raping.
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by zardo 4y ago
It's actually Megawatt-hours per hour.
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by zardo 4y ago
Taking Crimea and supporting separatists was more than enough to guarantee Ukraine could not join NATO though.
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by zardo 4y ago
To make this map to the real world, terrain must be taken into account. Obviously donkeys can haul more weight over more distance on flat ground than climbing a mountain pass. What's the approach to doing that? Make the delta and v ter
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by zardo 4y ago
That would certainly extend your range, but it would be very costly in donkeys. Instead of needing 1000 donkeys to sustain a siege, you now need say 100 donkeys/day.
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by zardo 4y ago
Is it normal for Google to relocate employees from San Francisco to Sao Paulo?
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by zardo 4y ago
Play 2001 A Space Odyssey, make it a tight 90 minutes, directed by Michael Bay.
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by zardo 4y ago
This. I don't think you can just assume that the Earth based industry supporting industrizing the moon would be less impactful than sea floor mining.
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by zardo 4y ago
Reflected light. The environmental concerns of lunar mining would be dominated by the effects of massively scaling up the space industry on Earth. Distantly behind that would be the potential for changing how reflective the moon is. Changin
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by zardo 4y ago
Russia's space fairing capability has been holding steady (if not declining). China has been making steady progress at expanding capability. But either way, no one is any where near economically viable lunar mining.
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by zardo 4y ago
The upper limit, with the assumption they don't lose money on the contract.
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by zardo 4y ago
> More debugging being done on the pad (not defueling yet), but no going to space today. Does that mean they sent people out to the pad while it was still fueled?
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by zardo 4y ago
> No. "Water power is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines" Which is what powered most factories throughout the industrial revolution. Not using electricity obviously, machines wo
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by zardo 4y ago
And buyers that do want heated seats, do need to waste money on them. Or more realistically, pay the one time fee to an independent shop to fix the problem.
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by zardo 4y ago
> This also isn't true. You can't heat your cookware above 500F / 260C, that's it. Which obviously no one does since everything would be burned black. People do badly burn their food and ruin their pans.
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by zardo 4y ago
What's a fratzon?
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by zardo 4y ago
If you're single you can just choose which side of your body you will use for lifting, and which for lowering.
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by zardo 4y ago
> So, at least in theory, you could induce an infinite current into it, Superconductors stop superconducting at very high B field strengths, which limits them to carrying less than an infinite current.
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by zardo 4y ago
Cheaper than the current options for transporting 80 people via supersonic aircraft.
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by zardo 4y ago
> But a lot of the coastline is tall enough that you can usually find a safe place nearby if a tsunami warning sounds. On the bright side, you won't need a siren, If the ground drops by 10 meters over the course of 5 minutes and you
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by zardo 4y ago
> Or life is so exquisitely tuned to optimize for earth’s conditions It seems that it would have to be. If a planet has had life for a large number of generations, that life will have evolved to fit the conditions.

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