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Comment Re:Different worlds (Score 1) 410

The problem is that China has subsidized these vehicles to produce them below cost.

No, this is an amazing advantage for everyone, just maybe not so good for a few people who take the work of millions as their own. The simple fix is to properly subsidize American products, not necessarily even tariffs as they make everything more expensive. Right now cars and vehicles are in an affordability crisis and vastly dropping the price would be amazing for sales. We can easily afford to subsidize companies in a responsible way, it’s money better spent on strategic defense than hundreds of billions into overinflated missile and drone costs that make the military no longer viable in modern warfare.

Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 1) 410

The US produces more manufacturing output than every other country on earth other than China.

While it’s true that only 15% - 50% of components or base materials are sourced from foreign sources, only 10-15% of products in general rely solely on American manufacturing. No cars or vehicles are 100% American made. No laptops or computers either. In the case of another world war, we wouldn’t fare anything like the last time where we were far more self sufficient.

Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 3, Insightful) 410

It's reasonable for security reasons to have vehicle manufacturing capability remaining in the country.

Wrong. It’s necessary for national security to have all manufacturing of critical gear and components, including fuel, chips, and vehicles in the country but exclusivity isn’t needed nor is it a good thing. America is screwed because we offshored all products for modest short term gain and now we have no capacity without other countries assisting us.

Comment Re:How about lining the planes? (Score 1) 90

They don’t because increasing the cost of fuel by flying through denser less fuel efficient air increases costs even if the time remains largely unchanged. Arguably this is in the category of being diverted around them by using a more expensive and different flight path. If the costs of radiation exposure were baked in and mandated payouts by law then thr most cost effective route wouldn’t solely revolve around gas mileage.

Comment Re:How about lining the planes? (Score 3, Interesting) 90

The highest radiation exposure takes place when the plane flies near magnetic north where there is less protection from the field and where charged particles are funneled, at high altitude where there isn’t atmosphere to act as a shield, and during solar storms where massive amounts of extra charged particles are being hurled at the earth. Planes just fly through the worst case scenarios instead of simply increasing the cost and time by diverting around them which actually would reduce exposure and with no shielding and no equipment needed. Further, actually having at least one dosimeter on board when they are so cheap, light, and compact would go a long way to actually showing what exposures happen, but that would simply create liabilities so it doesn’t happen.

Comment Re:Over the top corporate speak parody (Score 2) 19

I never had a post with so much engagement.

People who adopt those concepts into their worldview are famously blind to parody, they cannot tell it apart from reality. When your worldview is a broken pile of anecdotes that can’t be simultaneously true, reality is a nebulous thing that’s anything you believe it to be instead of a cohesive coherent system with little room for interpretation when it’s fact and science based. It’s a fundamental concept of parody news shows, and why people believed Stephen Colbert was serious and not acting parody on the Colbert Report.

Comment Re:No, I don't. (Score 1) 245

yep even for ICE vehicles they can do the same. The Tesla model of everything as touch controls is fundamentally flawed and dangerous, most manufacturers are realising their is very good reasons to have physical buttons be it an EV or ICE or something in between.

The electric controls instead of a physical mechanical lever for the rear inside door latches should be a criminal matter. The idea that people unfamiliar with the car should just know to pull off a panel, dig inside for a cable, then pull to open the door when its life and death panic in a wreck is truly insane.

Comment Missing mass (Score 3, Informative) 18

What’s left off these articles is the scope. The central black hole in these red dots are super massive at approximately 100k the mass of the sun. The most plausible mechanism suggested so far is direct collapse from significant density differences in the early universe where too much stuff wound up being in too small a place and it directly formed a black hole without forming a conventional star.

A solar mass scale black hole would be unable to grow that quickly, even if surrounded by gas. It differs from a quasar, some of the brightest objects in the visible universe created by a feeding black hole and studied for decades, mostly from the surrounding gas being spherical and acting as a radiator of the internal heat as opposed to an accretion disk and relatively open space otherwise.

Comment Re:Noah, and family [Re:NOAA will be defunded] (Score 2) 116

It’s all funny because genetic evidence exists for the breeding population sizes of any animal and humans never got below a few tens of thousands. We have multiple lines of direct proof that the genesis and flood stories are myth, but at the same time thats a relief because the myth is we are all inbreds.

Comment Re:NOAA will be defunded (Score 2) 116

And that crowd ignores that the other Noah was involved in the biggest climate / sea-level change event in "history." :-)

Not to mention he was a stable genius, able to somehow collect and pack two of all the species on earth into a small (by modern standards) ship, then feed and transport them all around the world without mishap.

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