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901.
by zardo 5y ago
With 1/6 g, no wind, and no quakes, I'm not sure you can rule out building a 3km tall tower without actually doing a design study.
902.
by zardo 5y ago
Sure but give it a few thousand years
903.
by zardo 5y ago
> Did I mention there was a large civil war next door, and one side is a significant Russian ally? Doesn't Russia just provide it's allies with military equipment? I don't see why they would execute this strange plan to ge
904.
by zardo 5y ago
> Now throw some modern encrypted traffic back at them, would they even understand there's signal in there? Definitely yeah
905.
by zardo 5y ago
It didn't need to be open source for a DX11 graphics client to be developed. https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/d3d11client-download-a...
906.
by zardo 5y ago
The contract is to build and operate a manned lunar lander, not a launch vehicle.
907.
by zardo 5y ago
That sort of thing (all terrain porter) could be a compelling use case, but with such a short range and payload, probably not for very many people.
908.
by zardo 5y ago
The majority of people from a polygon drawn to ensure his victory.
909.
by zardo 5y ago
Well not necessarily fake. They're officials in the press office doing the "leaking".
910.
by zardo 5y ago
Have you ever bought milk in a town where it comes in by airplane?
911.
by zardo 5y ago
Are there any options besides lifting the entire city or abandoning it.
912.
by zardo 5y ago
>Clipboards are perishable, can be lost, tampered with, etc. They sure are easy to set up and use though. >Don't know what you mean by Siemens, Microsoft & PTC I mean the corporations that already sell software licenses to fa
913.
by zardo 5y ago
Pretty stiff competition from attaching a clipboard to the machine. Also Siemens, Microsoft, and PTC.
914.
by zardo 5y ago
In this case, energy density refers to the energy per unit mass, not volume. But your point still applies, for application in a vehicle you need to compare the mass of the complete battery systems, not just the cells in isolation.
915.
by zardo 5y ago
> Why wouldn't you want facial recognition software to identify them? Why would I want it?
916.
by zardo 5y ago
IIRC their development cycle for a ground up design is about 30 years.
917.
by zardo 5y ago
Turning the permafrost to mud is definitely not helpful.
918.
by zardo 5y ago
I don't understand why it would be called a warp drive then. If it doesn't cause movement it's not driving anything.
919.
by zardo 5y ago
If the alternative is starting house fires that sounds pretty reasonable.
920.
by zardo 5y ago
I don't think anyone is going to argue that "supply-chain issues" don't cause price inflation. If less stuff is available the price of stuff goes up.
921.
by zardo 5y ago
I think the real question is could tardigrades (or anything else) survive the ride up from Earth on ejecta.
922.
by zardo 5y ago
In Seattle, there's a good chance it takes an hour to go pick up your friend's pickup.
923.
by zardo 5y ago
Is there a working EM theory where div B != 0
924.
by zardo 5y ago
Building at the molecular scale you can achieve extremely low friction coefficients in the moving parts. Inertia also gets extremely low, and material strengths tend toward their theoretical values. Of course electronics aren't standin
925.
by zardo 5y ago
They don't emit light, they are bright when the satellite is sunlit against the night sky.
926.
by zardo 5y ago
I don't understand how suffocating animals to prove they will die can pass an ethics review.
927.
by zardo 5y ago
There's a fundamental difference between balancing a rocket on its thrust, and an object on a surface. The surface pushes up, the rocket thrusts along its axis. When the pencil strays from the balance point, the normal force of the sup
928.
by zardo 5y ago
Just considering the orbital heights, they fudged it a bit. What makes it laughable is the inclination, the ISS is ~51 degrees and the Hubble is ~29. That's something like a 3500m/s burn.
929.
by zardo 5y ago
You're describing an 'infinite energy' device. The Cummins link does not support your claim, no credible firm or engineer will claim to be able to do this. The maximum amount of energy you can get out of combining hydrogen an
930.
by zardo 5y ago
I'm pretty skeptical you could get approval to do daily launch service anywhere near most major cities. Especially in a world where super sonic passenger aircraft are flying. If Starship does suborbital passenger service, I expect it

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