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Comment Re:They will have to or will go bankrupt (Score 0) 30

This. This is a legal earthquake and existing law firms will pivot and new law firms will be created to dive into Big Tech social media settlement money. Plaintiffs will be groomed, "expert" witnesses will be retained for years, judges will get cushy property deals and non-show non-profit jobs for their clans.... the whole shebang is spinning up right now.

And "changes" will only mitigate (no preclude) future cases. This is all unprovable mental health stuff and "harm" can be attributed to anyone that's seen a post since facebook et al. was founded.

Comment $1B? (Score 1) 34

Altman and co. are dealing in investments of 10s and 100s of billions of dollars. Disney comes to the table with $1B and expects what, exactly? That OpenAI will be the firewall that protects Disney from AI predation? LOL. Disney will need to 10x or 100x that number at least, and they're still going to lose.

Comment Re: Lol (Score 2) 22

The first fission reactor in space, the American SNAP-10A had an experimental ion thruster.
The Soviets launched dozens of nuclear powered satellites, but again, thrusters were only used experimentally.

So while not actually "the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft" (RTGs win that) it is the first nuclear-powered rocket in space, aside from small experiments.
With only 2N thrust, it is no use below LEO, and solar power is plenty good enough for ion-drives in earthly satellites. So nuclear-powered rockets are only useful for interplanetary missions, for now.

Comment Re:All for it, but would like to know the launch r (Score 1) 22

If the launch fails at a point where it is say 50 miles up, and the reactor has been turned on prior to launch so that the core is now highly radioactive

You've answered your own question. Don't turn it on until safely in orbit.
  Usually that sort of question comes from people who don't understand that reactor fuel is barely radioactive (only the waste).

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