Tar_alcaran

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This is totally missing the point. What happened is the equivalent of the bus company calling the supermarket and saying “hey, I’ve noticed a lot of people going to your store. If you want to keep that, you’ve got to pay extra so I don’t drop half the busses from your route”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I prefer single origin, not a blend, so I order my coffee and my roaches from the same region in colombiay
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I dunno, I’ve seen a few bears in forests, and mostly they wandered off annoyed that they couldn’t reach the food, or just sat around minding their own business.

I’ve had zero issues with every bear I’ve ever seen.

Obviously, I’ve seen more humans than bears, but the score is wildly in the bears favour.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
As a happily married woman in her mid-30s, let me explain.

1 in 3 women are victims of violence, and I’m pretty sure the number is actually quite a bit higher. Only a few hundred women have ever been mauled by bears.

As a woman, there are very few certain methods to avoid being assaulted or harassed by humans. But bears are relatively uncomplicated and there are simple steps to avoid getting mauled that almost always work.

Now, let me get this really really clear. The question is “if you have to be in a forest with a random man or a bear”. The bear is predictable, the man is not. The bear will always mind its own business and will almost always avoid you. The man might not. The man might be super nice, quite a lot of men are, but you can’t know that, it’s a random man. The bear is a bear, a known factor.

Almost every woman will have a story, first or second hand, where an otherwise good and trustworthy man suddenly does something unwanted. Again, most men won’t, but you can’t know that in advance. The bear, on the other hand, will remain a bear in all cases.

The question is not “would you prefer to be locked in a tiny cell with a man or a hungry bear”. It’s not “who would you rather fight?”. The question is, “do you prefer a known-but-dangerous animal, or an unknown man?”. And women are choosing a known and controllable quantity, over a human male they don’t know and can’t control for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risk your life with this one easy trick!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s more of a “die slowly from heavy metal toxicity” thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
On whose ground exactly?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Heh, just you wait
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the latter, but you risk the game you previously bought and played getting blocked together with your PSN account.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a trap!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
PubChem has uranium dioxideperoxide, uranyl hydroxide, uranylhydroxyd, and the most cursed one which only has an IUPAC name: oxygen(2-);uranium;hydrate
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ologies don't like to talk about theo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And so is my cat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does color change how hot a laser can get something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Basically, a material can be more or less “translucent” in certain frequencies. I’d like to look lead up for you, but Google isn’t cooperating today. But basically, there are frequencies that lead will be more and less susceptible to.

For macroscopic objects, there really isn’t a single answer. Something as generic as “a plate of lead(oxide)” can be all over the spectrum depending on texture, exact composition, oxidation levels, etc etc. there’s a reason why lab-grade filters and mirrors cost so much money, it’s hard to get a narrow frequency range.

It also rapidly changes as the material heats up, melts, breaks down, reacts with the air, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨youth risky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think the problem is the labcoat
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ologies don't like to talk about theo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Also theologians: A=B and A=C, but B≠C.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨youth risky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Spill something acidic on yourself and come back to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨madlad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Or in case of a faster centrifuge, it will shatter into jagged metal shards and imbed itself in the next few walls
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wave Particle Duality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This is not how the double slit experiment works though. “Observe”, in quantum physics should be read as “interacts with a thing”, it doesn’t require a conscious observer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Exodus Continues As Top HR Exec Leaves After Brutal Job Cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
But we don’t need LIDAR! Humans don’t have lidar, and they can drive! All you need to do is replicate millions of years of evolution in a few years and you’re done!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Exodus Continues As Top HR Exec Leaves After Brutal Job Cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

There’s zero “fanboys” posting articles about Elon or Tesla here.

Granted, it’s much worse on Reddit, but there are plenty of fanboys around here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Reminder that 55billion is 10k per Tesla sold, ever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨histories mysteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Kinda like the little nib on top of old saw blades. It doesn’t really do anything, but if they can make that complex little nib, then they can probably make pretty decent sawblades too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨histories mysteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I 3D printed her a model of one and it’s sitting on the mantle over her fireplace.

That kinda hints to it not being very useful then…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If you want to annoy a historian, tell them that the year 0 is 1BC
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, I call BS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I want to read more papers titled “8 ways not to [thing]”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
3 billion is a lot of money to pay for getting nothing, so yeah. I’ll change my tune when I actually see HLS, instead of the money being spent on developing another LEO lifter
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretical Physics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Visualizing for me breaks down as soon as we get smaller than grains of sand. And even grains of sand have some really weird and freaky effects that my brain just won’t process well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretical Physics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just tell them “weeeeeeeee”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Blue Origin: “Here’s renders and a papier-mâchė model of what our lander will look like. It’s assembled together in lunar orbit, from an automated cargo ship, our own lander and another Orion.” Note that this isn’t what they won the option b proposal with.

Tell you what: Here’s the mockup BO delivered to NASA: aviationweek.com/…/nasa-evaluate-blue-origin-huma…

SpaceX: “Here’s renders of what our lander will look like.

Wow, renders! They even have renders of Starship on Mars, it must be true!

We have a full scale prototype out in Boca and we’re blowing it up to see if our math and simulations are right on how much pressure the tanks can take.

No they don’t. Not of HLS, and also not of “Starship as needed for HLS”. Musk’s latest speech at SpaceX said the IFT-3 version of starship, that is now called “Starship 1”, can only lift 40 tons to LEO. And that makes it incapable of doing Artemis, and thus incapable of being HLS. He promised “Starship 2” will lift the promised 100 tons to LEO, but that hasn’t flown yet. So they don’t even have a full-scale prototype, but they have scale-models that kinda-sort-look-like-it, and one of them even flew half a mission without a single gram of cargo.

It’ll require some modifications, such as larger landing legs and dedicated landing engines.”

Look, there’s apparently a major gap in your knowledge. Starship+Superheavy is big cargo truck that can haul a load or cargo into orbit and come back. What NASA paid for is a trailer-RV that will let you camp out in death valley for a couple of months. And what you’re saying is “Well, SpaceX has got an empty trailer and something to pull it, which is basically the same thing as a full house-on-wheels, because they look the same from the outside.”

I don’t know how to explain that a lunar lander is very much not the same thing as a rocket with an empty shell on top. SpaceX has the latter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

SpaceX didn’t need a mockup to present. They had prototypes of the base vehicle

No they didn’t. They had, a mockup of an empty shell into which they might eventually fit the vehicle. And they still have that.

And remember, BO is developing a lander. SpaceX is developing a fully reusable super heavy lift rocket, an interplanetary transport craft and a lunar lander as part of the same package.

NASA isn’t paying SpaceX for the rocket or transport though, they’re paying for a lander and getting it on and off the moon. But I fully agree that SpaceX developing a booster and LEO-transport is exactly why the lander doesn’t exist yet.

Finish reading my post. SpaceX’s initial bid was 2.94 billion

I did read your post, but what you’re failing to understand is that this 2.94 billion dollar bid was already AFTER they were informed of the budget changes.

And sure, BO got the secondary contract for 3.4 billion, after rethinking their entire proposal. So why did they not submit that one in the first place? If they had, they might have gotten a similar call.

I doubt minimizing corporate loss was Lueder’s motivation there. Presumably neither Steve Cook or Jeff Bezos offered Lueders a ~~large enough bribe~~ job matching her qualifications.

Ugh, you had me defending the ethical sense of Jeff Bezos. I need to go rinse my mouth now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As I say elsewhere, Starship is a scale model of an empty shell into which the HLS might one day be built. HLS has not been built. HLS doesn’t even exist as a non-functioning mockup. HLS has not even been designed. The vehicle to carry HLS into space has not been built. The vehicle that will refuel HLS when it eventually has been built, has not been built.

HLS has so far cost 3 billion, and doesn’t exist even slightly. All that exists is a scaled down model of an empty shell and a scaled down model of the booster that has not lifted even a single pound of simulated cargo off the ground.

I’m not saying Starship won’t be a great heavy-lift craft for LEO or maybe GEO cargo one day, but HLS does not exist in any way other than CGI renders, and it has cost 3 billion government dollars so far, and many more other funds.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Meanwhile, SpaceX proposed a derivative of what they were already working on. Blue and Dynetics had no practical development done on their landers, they would’ve relied on the HLS award to even get started on actual development.

Seeing how SpaceX had neither a design or a mockup, they had no development done on their lander. Their lander STILL does not exist, not even as a mockup. They are STILL behind Blue Origin today when it comes to the lander. Blue Origin entered the HLS bid with a full mockup, that was compatible with existing technology. SpaceX entered with no mockup and entirely undeveloped technology, but was somehow judged equal (By Lueders) to Blue Origin based on

SpaceX’s bid was just under 3B.

AFTER being told to do so. That’s the entire problem. Blue Origin and Dynetics both came forward and said they’d gladly match that bid, but since they didn’t get the special information that was only given to SpaceX, they couldn’t know this. BO also clearly said they would gladly develop out of pocket, but they weren’t given the special info. Because, again, the lady currently enjoying a cushy, well-paid contract at SpaceX, only gave new information to SpaceX.