Some of this is big businesses' reaction to the antisemitic disruptions in the so-called "top schools". A number of companies have decided to no longer hire the graduates of many of the ivy league schools which have condoned or even supported the anti-jewish intimidation and violence of the allegedly pro-palestinian protests.
You can "save" a lot of money by eliminating the "waste" of paying your mortgage.
BOS (Background-Oriented Schlieren) wasn't invented until AFAIK 2015, and it's taken time to mature.
These are not the first BOS photos, but it is a new technique that postdates the Concord.
Two comments back to back on pollution.
New Shepherd runs off hydrogen and oxygen. Two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen.
There are valid reasons to call water vapor in the upper atmosphere pollution, but it's water vapor.
Self inflected scarcity: the real austerity suffered by the non-rich.
"Midnight on the Firing Line" was awesome. First episode of the series (after "The Gathering").
Yea but could you imagine even doing this 20 years ago imagine the cost being close to just over a million?
Yes?
What they're doing is VASTLY easier than orbital spaceflight, so it SHOULD be vastly cheaper.
This has nothing to do with the ACTUAL challenges of orbital spaceflight. When your energy and thermal requirements are so low, you can basically make a water tower fly. You have zero actual mass budget concerns. You can be as inefficient, overbuilt, overly redundant, and cheaply made as you want, and still hit the goal. It does absolutely zip to actually advance orbital rocketry technology.
Asking ChatGPT (assuming 4o) took maybe the energy of 15-30 seconds of video gaming. Such "destroying the world" :
A US "crypto reserve" is really the final stage of the zero-sum game. Every person who comes later bails out those who came earlier, a "greater fool". The US government is the ultimate "greater fool" possible.
they are essentially large databases with a weird compression unit.
So are you.
There is certainly chaos in international trade but I see more than a "political shit show" in the USA as a cause. I see COVID-19 as something that caused a considerable disruption in trade, which was then further disrupted with Russia invading Ukraine. I believe that things are getting more chaotic now because it's finally dawning on people that there isn't going to be an easy fix for all the smaller disruptions that have piled up. Maybe the war in Ukraine and drought in Panama will end in the next year, but that still leaves us with trade issues from Suez Canal, Strait of Malacca, and other routes.
There are lots of minor disruptions in this market, some of which are outside the POTUS' control, but he and his clown car aren't helping one bit. I was ready to upgrade my 5yo PC in the last few months, this idea has been shelved now. My potential 4 digit purchases by themselves probably won't matter much to Intel, AMD and the others, but I somehow have the impression, that I'm not the only one
Actually it would be cool to calculate how many cars worth of greenhouse gases the trip produces.
Not sure how you get CO2 out of a hydrogen and oxygen mix, but ok. Calculate away.
The exhaust from New Shepherd is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom. Sometimes called H20. Otherwise known as water.
Can they just stay there?
No.
Explanation: Gravity
**space
All they're doing is going high up in the atmosphere and then falling. It's not even remotely close to orbit. They're going to about 1/4th the altitude and 1/8th the peak velocity of orbit, so it's just a joy ride for a couple minute fall. I don't get why we're making news stories about people taking joy rides.
Once it hits the fan, the only rational choice is to sweep it up, package it, and sell it as fertilizer.
