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Comment Think BIGGER. (Score 1) 360

Who the fuck cares about space tourism. It's the wrong model. Re-useable launch vehicles are the first step to space colonization. Thinking in terms individuals having to pay the hefty $200k price tag is the wrong way to conceive of the possiblities here. Think more in terms of groups of people forming small companies and finding seed capital (or mortgaging their houses, etc.) in order to get into space to form burgeoning economies.
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I've been spending alot of time recently bootstrapping my knowledge of computer graphics. My attack vector of choice is focussed on Peter Shroeder's "Hacking the GPU" course at CalTech. It's quite fascinating. The central idea is that the modern "next-gen" GPU (eg ATI 9700, NV30) is in fact a stream or SIMD computer and fully programmable at that. So, We have the ability to program this class of GPUs (as well as slightly older ancestors thereof) to to scientific computations. Physically-based

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