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Comment Blue Origin? (Score 4, Insightful) 51

I'm still puzzled that Blue Origin is being selected for anything more than a carnival ride. They can't seem to much more than fly rich people 66 miles up and do a less than soft landing (looking at the videos).

I recognize that BE-4 had one flight with a payload but damn at this rate I can't see them doing much to impact actual space activities.

What am I missing here?

Comment Re:Must a turbine blade be INSIDE a cargo hold (Score 1) 184

So don't 3d print it. They are fiberglass and you should be able to setup a portable factory where you build the blades onsite. It's probably cheaper then this airplane with all the certifications, etc as well as finding runways that will support it.

The easiest thing (IMHO) would be to make the blades in sections with the joints being attached on site. While the blades might be slightly heavier the process of joining 2 pieces of fiberglass is an already solved problem.

Comment Re:End of the road for Intel OCLP too (Score 1) 67

I'm typing this on my 2012 11" Air, it just won't die and I am holding out for a hopeful 11" size system this fall, but I have no idea if that will come out.

I even run VMware Fusion on it (i7/8g ram) and it's ok for simple work tasks.

I have a few Intel Mini's running Esxi and that is a really impressive platform for a home lab.

Comment Audible is trying as well. (Score 1) 57

I've listened to a couple of the Audible audio books and it's not terrible.

Issues -
  no inflection. It's not reading ahead to get the question mark so sentences are flat.

not able to handle some of the strange English pronunciations - example: live (not dead) vs live (like where you reside).

Other than that for a simple audio book it's not that bad.

                     

Comment Re:Take that ya bitches (Score 1) 130

You said:
      Food safety regarding milk and pasteurization: is an only american thing.

No one ever got a sickness in Europe form unpasteurized milk.

This week I learned from a French cooking class I took that the French don't sell 'raw' milk but it's either pasteurized OR filtered (think reverse osmosis ) So when people in France say unpasteurized they mean it's been filtered. This is a lot different from just walking up to a cow and drinking.

We had a great discussion on food safety during the class and a lot of people are just misinformed.

Comment Re:SpaceX is a definite maybe. Blue Origin? (Score 2) 81

Yeah, I came here to say the same. Shouldn't we first require that they get a couple things in LEO first?

It's puzzling since all the videos and shots show a lot of building of space craft going on but they just seem to stop short of actually launching anything.

I expected at least a few launchs even if they blowup.

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