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by zardo 5y ago
Spinlaunch is one of the examples of mass drivers on that page.
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by zardo 5y ago
I recall excitement that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_carbon_tube were just the ticket. But since there has been zilch published on them in the last 14 years, I'm guessing the original work couldn&#x27
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by zardo 5y ago
It's certainly true that different energy storage technologies have different strengths and weaknesses. An electric car is very different from a grid battery for hour-scale cycles, which is very different from a grid battery for day c
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by zardo 5y ago
It mentions mobile applications. At ~100 Wh/kg, mobile uses are conceivable, but it's still far short of a good battery.
635.
by zardo 5y ago
Taste sensitivity tends to decrease with age. It could be the exact same beverage, and taste different to you because you're 30 years older.
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by zardo 5y ago
You put the TPV on the wall of the insulated container behind a mirror that can be slid out of the way.
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by zardo 5y ago
They are more like blockades, they just use diplomacy and legal systems instead of parking ships with big guns outside the harbor. And I suppose the difference between a siege and a blockade is pretty much whether or not you fire those big
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by zardo 5y ago
> Unless you call shell a city to the ground a "plan". And now that is being abandoned. Shelling cities to the ground is absolutely a plan A tactic. Armor can't return fire at high azimuthal angles, to move it through a ci
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by zardo 5y ago
That would be someone in a position of power in an oligarchy. If "Russian Oligarchs" aren't directing policy, they aren't oligarchs.
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by zardo 5y ago
Wouldn't that make Musk the oligarch and the Russian counterpart more like a vassal?
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by zardo 5y ago
> 6 August 1945 changed the world forever. After Hiroshima global politics, national identities and the arms industry changed. Are we actually dealing with a new weapon? I'm sure banks were not neutral during WWII. If you were a US
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by zardo 5y ago
> What do the actual numbers look like for ethanol? Well that's the issue, disagreement over the numbers. The USDA says it's net positive, other estimates say it's net negative. http://www.mathproinc.com/pd
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by zardo 5y ago
I mean that's a technology that could be used, but I don't see mention of it in the article. Is it in the law?
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by zardo 5y ago
"Good job taking out the trash from the restroom when the janitorial staff was out getting the vaccine!" "Good job taking out the *** from the ****** when the janitorial staff was out getting the ******!"
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by zardo 5y ago
Presumably because the work chat app is something that every worker has.
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by zardo 5y ago
I would think flying RC devices is the place to start if you want to scale up quickly. Passenger aircraft is going to require years of testing with no guarantee the plane goes into production.
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by zardo 5y ago
They'd probably have been mostly concerned with how to avoid radiation poisoning, and which of their friends and family survived the nuclear exchange.
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by zardo 5y ago
Here's another use. I'm a cop and I want to know where my ex-wife is.
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by zardo 5y ago
Scientists are what 1% of the population? I doubt even children of scientists mostly become scientists.
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by zardo 5y ago
Why would you not just decline any request for customer data from any source? Turn that emergency request into an emergency warrant.
651.
by zardo 5y ago
The 911 call, "I think I had an allergic reaction, my breathing is so slow I'm going to pass out and suffocate!" While loudly hyperventilating into the phone.
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by zardo 5y ago
The point of the singularity isn't that technological growth will accelerate to cause some inevitable future, but that the rate of change will get so high, that 'minor' differences between how two technologies progress would
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by zardo 5y ago
Good propaganda relies on emphasis, not falsehoods. It's not about telling lies, it's about telling only the truths that back up your point of view.
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by zardo 5y ago
(Too late to edit this, but chair got autocorrected from fusor)
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by zardo 5y ago
> Maybe "commercial entity whose goal is to generate positive-yield fusion" is what they mean.. That could be, they don't want to deal with neutron flux for no reason. It's definitely not true that no commercial entit
656.
by zardo 5y ago
It's a human level mathematics student problem. If it can't determine that's it's proof is nonsense here there's little hope it could produce any worthwhile original work.
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by zardo 5y ago
$400k seems to be around what the helium recovery and liquidation to support medical imaging costs, but presumably at a far higher power than a $400k .1Kelvin cryostat.
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by zardo 5y ago
Do we still have 1km NEOs left to discover?
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by zardo 5y ago
"A hypothetical scenario" is a fiction.
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by zardo 5y ago
It's not a huge engineering problem. But it is a huge problem, lower the rates when you have excess power and we will have more uses for the energy. But if the rates are low the revenue is low. (This would not be so significant a pro

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