Comment Re:Killer app (Score 1) 139
So this paint is useful only for realistic spacecraft, that not only have to operate in sunlight but also may depend on sunlight for e.g. solar power.
So this paint is useful only for realistic spacecraft, that not only have to operate in sunlight but also may depend on sunlight for e.g. solar power.
Blue Origin has not failed to reach orbit. Blue Origin has yet to attempt to reach orbit.
Where do you find the ones that are intelligent straight away?
Alia Atreides, maybe?
These Starships are extraordinarily cheap to build, that was (is) a design requirement. My guess would be to salvage the Raptors (250,000 USD each, and these suborbital Starships will likely have three Raptors, or at most six) with trucks and scrap the vehicle.
Assuming that you are correct, then what is the benefit of this technology? We're taking an unskilled labour job and replacing it with a new technology chain that requires education. And the whole new parts supply chain likely makes this a net lose for the environment, not a net benefit.
New Sheppard is suborbital. It will never be on any course other than an Earth-intercept course.
Day 782. Finished the upgraded trebuchet: First test hit the next island over with a Hyundai.
But the _other_ billionaire hit Mars with a car. The next island over just won't cut it.
And in Australia it is of course illegal to ask for a criminal background unless it directly relates to the job. We want our criminals reformed, not back in prison.
Well, you are aware of how European descendants made their way to Australia in the first place, yes?
I think companies are beginning to see that the value of ads, even targeted ads, is far less than what they are paying.
Quite the opposite. Targeted advertising is lucrative precisely because it reliably, demonstrably leads to increased sales or other KPIs. Furthermore, the increase is sales (or other KPIs) is far more predictable than many other forms of traditional advertising.
This is the most insightful comment on the subject of electronic privacy that I've ever seen. What the hell is it doing on a thread about the 737?
The correlations between the start of the effect with the start of human dumping increased levels of CO2 into the atmosphere are very strong. Furthermore, the mechanism behind how increased atmospheric CO2 increases global temperature (energy stored) is rather simple.
> Climate change has been happening for billions of years.
At the rate of 0.1 degrees per thousand years. This past ten years saw 0.2 - 0.7 degrees depending if you go with the conservative or panicy estimates. Yes, the conservative estimates put the 2010-2019 change in average world temperature at 0.2 degrees Celsius.
That would be the Russian Naval Jack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The volume of these satellites is on the order of a cubic meter, actually less. These are not traditional comms sats, they go up sixty at a time in a single launch.
They do have a single large solar cell that takes up about 3/4 the area swept by its trajectory through space, so that is the part most likely to collide. If the whole sat deorbits naturally in about a decade, solar panel debris will deorbit in a year. It is far, far unlikely that this would lead to a secondary collision, even ignoring the fact that SpaceX could mostly maneuver around the contaminated orbit. And as you probably know, all collision debris has a perigee at or below the collision altitude. Perigee is the significant component affecting deorbit time, so most of the debris will deorbit even faster than what I've described.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
