Wanderer
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- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 1 day ago:
If these are “intentionally obtuse” points, well then welcome to aerospace engineering, its called rocket science for a reason.
Haha lol you are being intentionally obtuse again. I never said anything bad about NASA I never said they was being obtuse and I never said they were being cringe. You are arguing at a wall because I never made those points.
A lot of people say a lot of stupid things about Elon and SpaceX and that vastly out weighs the actual issues with this project. Of which there are real issues. Everything NASA says is assumed to be a valid issue. Again intentionally obtuse because I’m not arguing anything else
I watched that video when it came out and I can’t really be bothered watching it again.
Haha good day mate. You are trying to make a conversation out of something I’m not saying, you’re not worth talking to. If you want an imaginary conversation please have it with yourself.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 1 day ago:
If NASA is to a point healthy critique is considered cringe, then I doubt we’ll be on the moon for long.
You’re being intentionally obtuse. I’m obviously not calling NASA cringe and that’s not even remotely implied.
NASA is running the project, set the tenders and observing the suppliers. No one would expect anything else. Smartereveryday was largely on about culture at NASA from what I remember from that video. That and the lack of hypergolics. If NASA wanted hypergolics on the moon they could have put a requirement “must use hypergolics on the moon”. But they didn’t. That’s why all the relighting tests are being done. If the engines relight to the needed reliability then everything is fine, they have set the standards.
The Apollo project was tested live. They did all the lab tests but the real world tests were largely done with people in them. Apollo was risky as fuck and would never ever be allowed to happen now. I think some of the astronauts thought there was as high as a 50% of death. The fact you don’t know how risky Apollo was to the astronauts shows you don’t know much about this because you are using the safety of Apollo as a benchmark. Look I love Apollo but it wasn’t a high benchmark of safety.
With things like this. Testing to failure is pretty norm. NASA uses falcon 9 rockers for crew which was largely tested the same way. They obviously have faith in SpaceX because they out humans in their rockets.
- Comment on Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas 2 days ago:
There is a slight problem with this and it depends on how you view the world.
If only things that are profitable should be built then great.
But things like railways are built and effectively the most profitable lines subsidise the least profitable. But the system as a whole is more profitable because it is larger. But if companies come in and take all the icing off the cake for themselves. The rest of the cake looks a lot less interesting and might not get developed.
I do think a couple of lines that go directly past cars stuck in traffic are going to blow peoples minds and can be good PR though.
I was amazed at the trains in Chicago, the railway capital of America, probably the world at one point. The train was cruising along and I kept looking at cars and saying “the bloody cars are going faster than us! What kind of train is this?” The answer I got was “A good one, at least for America”
- Comment on Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas 2 days ago:
The $140BN Race to Build America’s First High-Speed Railway
Well to the future of the 20th century.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 days ago:
NASA was also different in 1960’s.
People said they could have meeting with supplies and make changes in the meeting. Now it seems like everything is a huge ballache to change anything.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 days ago:
Apollo was a huge government project. It was affectively a military, science, geopolitical and political project that had a lot of backing by the public.
I would argue Apollo is the great project ever and it’s kind of unfair to compare anything to it.
But the real crux of this matter here is if you get your info from Lemmy or reddit (and not one of the places filled by experts). It’s full of “Lol Elon bad” circlejerking. “Haha the rocket blew up they so stupid”. It’s really cringe. In fact SpaceX, NASA, the FAA, astronauts who will go on the ships, other space companies, experts they all expected this to happen. This is the plan. (Though the FAA did have some issues).
Ignore the “Elon is an idiot” memes and what you actually find is SpaceX is probably the greatest rocket company in the world and all rocket agencies including governmental ones though that SpaceX has already achieved was impossible.
Anything could go wrong with this project but I don’t think people would be overly concerned if rockets failed all throughout this year. (But it is expected to be better than that.)
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 3 days ago:
Investment is good. Public policy is usually designed to encourage it that’s why investment has good tax avoidance that is exactly what the government wants.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 3 days ago:
Its not just YouTube. Pleant of companies lose money on their product Loss leader
- Comment on Rwanda bill set to become law after protracted stand-off with Lords 5 days ago:
International law needs changing.
It’s being horrifically exploited.
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- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 6 days ago:
How is capitalism the problem?
Capitalism is the solution, it’s the cause of this huge deployment of solar.
Market forces have chosen the cheapest cost and that has been deployed. That itself through supply and demand and impaced the price of electricity. This has caused low and even negative prices in the day.
Denholm says that as solar continues to drop in price, installing solar that is curtailed regularly can still be cost-effective. “Throwing away some amount of renewable energy can absolutely make economic sense,” he said.
Those same market forces and causing the huge development of batteries as people can make money buying low selling high in the evening. The issue is that solar is causing excess costs to the grid, as such that cost needs to be recouped or the grid will fail and people won’t have power at all.
This website is very capitalism is bad propaganda and gives no reasoning. I’m surprised you have so many upvotes without explaining your position. Why is capitalism the problem here?
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 6 days ago:
The only problem is they need more of it. Some cost needs to be put onto solar to fix the grid. It needs upgrading because solar is making more work for the grid.
Solar is absoultely good, but it doesn’t come without costs to the grid and that money needs to be raised to upgrade it.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 6 days ago:
People don’t seem to have read the article or seem to understand anything at all.
“These are not insurmountable challenges,” said Michelle Davis, head of global solar at the energy research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables. “But they are challenges that a lot of grid operators have never had to deal with.”
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Solar can still grow in California. In the summer, when high air conditioning use strains the grid, solar can be useful even in the middle of the day. Denholm says that as solar continues to drop in price, installing solar that is curtailed regularly can still be cost-effective. “Throwing away some amount of renewable energy can absolutely make economic sense,” he said.
People want their cake and to eat it too. The grid is old as fuck and is build for a easy system where plants can reliably come online and run all day. They have inertia ans can balance the grid. The value of a traditional plant is higher than that of a solar plant. Solar absolutely has additional costs to the grid and that shouldn’t be ignored. So the only way for solar to compete is to be cheaper, which it is. But those added costs need to be recouped. That’s all that the article is saying.
This about of solar is absoultely causing the grid problems that no grid in the world has ever seen before solar became a thing. But it can be fixed, it just takes investment.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 1 week ago:
This is really cool and you’re all sad wankers.
Oh it doesn’t work in all these conditions.
Well it went from not working at all to a completely self driving car in certain situations. That’s great. It’s the future. We are living in the future
- Comment on Scottish gender clinic pauses prescribing puberty blockers to under-18s 1 week ago:
Good job they actually did a review into this. Rather than just setting a narrative and going with it, even silencing doctors that have alternative views.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 1 week ago:
I think it will.
Depends what they see as the issue though.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 1 week ago:
I should have been more clear. Some Jews are exploiting the situation.
Any race has people that would do that, but there is only one race allowed to get away with it and that need is what needs fixing. It is our reaction to it.
The same as “the man” its not all men that are bastards. But there is no issue calling out white guys for only hiring other white guys. Calling out a Jew for only hiring Jews is “racist”.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 1 week ago:
America is run by Jews.
Any other group that racistly protects their own like this would get called out. But they can hide behind a wall of “that’s anti-semitic”.
It’s not anti semitic if it’s true. If a load of British guys did something like this because someone called out the UK. Everyone would be up in arms.
The world needs to stop being so scared of being called racist for something that isn’t.
- Comment on Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry 1 week ago:
Really excited for Waymo to change the world.
Going to free up so much labour. Although I haven’t had too many issues with Uber, taxi drivers can be an absolute disgrace can’t wait for a few of those people to be out of a job where they exploit people.
- Comment on NASA 1 week ago:
Cheaper isn’t always better no.
Which is why it is so impressive that the Falcon 9 is cheaper than the competition and more reliable.
SLS is still in early days so it’s hard to compare as it lacks numbers of reluability. But any rocket that has flown a lot whether it be the shuttle or even the might Soyuz. Falcon 9 is the most reliably rocket in the world and the cheapest.
If NASA can’t build rockets as cheap or as reliable as space X then I think the argument is that the SLS is a waste of money.
- Comment on NASA 1 week ago:
Starship is coming in a lot cheaper than SLS and SlS had a lot of legacy projects already paid for.
The fact of the matter is the real brainwashed people here are the ones that think Elon Musks Spacex isn’t a revolutionary company. People are talking about rocketry like they are experts but don’t know anything about it.
Giving up on Shuttle and switching to Falcon 9 instead of developing something new was the best use of money Nasa could have done.
Just yea keep circle jerking how Musk is the worst person in every possible way, at least you’re cool!
- Comment on House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel 1 week ago:
None of the fuckers want to change the voting system either. They just blame the other guys.
Wish someone would take STV and everyone woukd follow
- Comment on Making deepfake porn without consent could soon be a crime in England 1 week ago:
You need a TV licence to watch TV. But that’s a law for the UK not England.
- Comment on California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 1 week ago:
The power plant itself will shift from an 800-megawatt combined cycle plant, installed by GE in 2008 as a model of efficiency, only to languish when its 12-hour startup time made it a poor fit for the era of cheap gas and weather-dependent renewable production.
Think this just goes to show how fast things are changing.
Federal analysts predict 2024 will be the biggest-ever year for grid battery installations across the U.S., and they highlighted Calpine’s project as one of the single largest projects. The 620 megawatts the company plans to energize this year represent more than 4% of the industry’s total expected new additions.
Good that it’s a small piece of the pie.
- Comment on California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 1 week ago:
Goes to show the government should have mandated a VTG system.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 1 week ago:
I didn’t say I was superior.
Of course countries are constructed. By people with shared views and common goals. Countries have been formed over a long period of time with a lot of struggle.
It’s not luck that I live in my country. I was born from my parents, there was no chance I could have been born elsewhere. I came into a country hard won by my ancestors, some fought and some died making my country what it is. So don’t shit on their legacy. The worked hard for a future for me to inherit.
Immigrants don’t form countries, the countries were always there. Sure if you think America is the world you might believe that. But short of thinking America is the whole world that is obviously not true.
that’s basically replacement theory right there, which is just plain horrific
What? Lol. What are you actually saying here? Because it sounds like you are saying areas that were previously entirely white now still are? Like you don’t accept that non white people live in areas where whites used to live?
That’s a new level of woke if you believe that. That’s arguing with basic census statistics.
- Comment on Progress! 1 week ago:
I’m sure the cartel would like this technology. Or their big brother the US government.
The potential future horrors of the world can make suicide seem like a good idea.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 2 weeks ago:
That’s not it at all.
I love travelling and I love going to see other cultures. But I also love my own country and I love how other countries are also their own.
The question is what do you want for your country. Do you care more about big business, increasing GDP growth, lower wages for more competitive industry? Or do you want that’s best for the people of that country. I care more about the people.
Immigrations isn’t and hasn’t been good for the UK. If you actually travel if you actually move around the country or move around other countries it becomes blindly apparent there are some really unfortunate truths about immigration. I don’t want a Muslim influence in cities I’ve live in, that’s not my culture, I am atheist anyway so I don’t like anything like that. And I have done that. Lived in places where people look at your like you don’t belong because you are white. But if other people want to have that culture they can feel free, but why should I be happy about them coming to my country and changing things about my country that isn’t my country? That’s not to say I’m against immigration but the reason is why? We need to talk clearly about the type of immigration that is good and they type that is bad. Similar cultures like the EU with the back and forth good. Third world immigration where wages are kept low, population increasing and isolated communities that don’t integrate? Not good.
I got nothing against these people I wish them all the best. But I think we should be making a better country for the people, they should work on the same. We haven’t got to set ourselves on fire to keep others warm.
- Comment on A Roman Review of the British 2 weeks ago:
I think it was far more political at that point. Simple orbital rocketry like sputnik, or Gargin is all that is needed to prove you can direct a ballistic missle anywhere. That’s what scared the shit out of the Americans and they needed to do the same. Apollo was all for show, pure politics.
- Comment on A Roman Review of the British 2 weeks ago:
The moon? What a waste of money that expedition was. You didn’t even come back with a turtle or a even a cool fern.
Good luck setting up some trade between the moon. Worse idea than when the Americans tried to colonise Brazil to make cars.
It’s just barren desolate rock, at least Australia got Kanagroos and sheep can live there. You need to up your desolate findings.