@CJHandmer As a driver, who moves…mass, I’d like to know the 0-60 on the moon of say a lunar rated Tesla vs this other mass driver.
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Jon Gould
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Jon Gould
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Startups: ScanBeep, SantaCruise, BarCodesTalk, CoinStart. ❤️ God, Joy & all things piloted.
Santa Cruz Katılım Kasım 2010
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Writing about lunar mass drivers - what do you want to know?
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We have completed the (1:200 scale) test site. Now just need to finish building the real thing!
Casey Handmer@CJHandmer
A fine morning for the reactor assembly bay.
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@larspetrus @Chris_arnade @paulg Ah yes, trapped with a psycho just sitting calmly until they’re delivered to the police station. If buses were a collection of small isolated pods maybe.
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@Chris_arnade @paulg Full camera coverage is cheap, and probably already standard. So any crimes can be prosecuted.
I guess the bus could quickly meet up with a police car whenever a crime is detected.
But maybe this is why we finally build a RoboCop.
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The future is already here, but thanks to unions it's not evenly distributed.
Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺@joakial_
For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel. The first pilot without a safety driver was tested Friday, and if all goes as planned, anyone can ride driverless buses starting in May.
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@Chris_arnade @paulg This. What little bit an occupied driver does to quell riders worst instincts/thoughts will be gone.
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Regardless of unions, no way a driver-less public bus will work in most of the US, given safety issues from the riders. Will be trashed/vandalized, and far too dangerous for most people to want to ride. Maybe you can replace the driver with a security guard, but not sure that really saves anything
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Actually got to walk for the first time since 2022, with a robotic exoskeleton. Was waiting for this for a long time. Even better than I expected.
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Jesus.
>Produce ad arguing human drivers should be protected from safer autonomous vehicle competition.
>First human driver they show is using iMessage while driving.
You can't make this up.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.
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@BoosterTribe Really regretting not posting short clips of this on my feed
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How you catch a 71 meter (233 ft) tall Super Heavy Booster. 🚀
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Engineering is real magic
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For space lovers. Some interesting space movies you can see this weekend:
1. Apollo 11
2. Apollo 13
3. First man
4. Martian
5. Interstellar
Any other recommendations?
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The point of Brutalist architecture, such as the gulag-themed Obama Center for Quality Learing, is to demoralize
They know that beauty is inspiring and uplifting, and so wish to replace it with these ugly, lurking behemoths that destroy one's spirit and blight the cityscape
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@GurneyJourney I love the realism. Diesel mechanic, meets future F1 pit crew.
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Thanks for talking about this old painting I did in 1982, more than 40 years ago, before any of us had desktop computers, laptops, cellphones, or any digital options. All I had was a fire-burned memory of seeing Blade Runner, a piece of board, and a drawer full of gouache paints.
Wetterschneider@Stretchedwiener
I don't know this artist but this image is a great example of how to tell when something is or isn't AI generated, because finger weirdness will not always be around. What jumps out in this image that makes it feel (because it is) human made? cont...
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@AJManaseer What’s to stop a “landlord” from simply doing a name change to how hotel guests can’t overstay their booking?
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The reason you see dorms or co-living arrangements only in college or the military is because colleges and the military have the ability to summarily evict a troublemaker without going through the 9 month eviction process ordeal that progressives have inflicted on the rest of society.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
This is the canonically correct form of housing for a young, single person in a superstar city. Essentially the modern version of the boarding house.
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I just found out Sonex aircraft are shutting down, they offered some affordable kit plane options and designed a rare affordable jet you could build yourself sonexaircraft.com/sonex-closure/
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most people have no idea the amount of engineering that has went into their "natural" food. You think your costco zuchini is normal? 99% of the apples that you consume were genetically engineered at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station's Horticultural Research Center
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When water flash evaporates in space, about half the water evaporates taking almost all the heat so the other half of the water freezes to ice. The fraction of it that evaporates probably travels in all directions equally because it is a molecular level process. The velocities of those molecules will have a Boltzmann distribution, depending on the temperature of the water at each moment that the evaporation is occurring, so at first, the temperature will be warmer, but it will steadily cool as it evaporates. This will cause the velocities in the water vapor to become smaller and smaller. However, because the bolts in distribution has a very long tail, there will probably be molecules at velocities high enough to reach the moon. So some of those molecules would end up on the moon.
However, the ultraviolet light is able to break molecular bonds, and the probability of a molecule flying all the way to the lunar surface before photolysis is vanishing small. Therefore, what reaches the lunar surface will be individual atoms. These same atomic species are in the solar wind, so it will just be an in distinguishable, tiny addition to the solar wind.
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@AJA_Cortes I notice it everywhere and all of the time. It’s just comical when in CA.
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The American economy is such a Behemoth that we can somehow absorb hundreds of billions in fraud a year across state after state
And barely notice it.
Imagine what we could unlock if we cut this down by even 50%
CBS News@CBSNews
A CBS News Investigation found that a California hospice doctor is linked to 20 times the average number of terminally ill patients in a single year. cbsn.ws/3NS0EBP
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@kane @_KarenHao There’s a lesson here about shipping ideology in non editable physical medium.
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The source of the data center water psychosis is @_KarenHao, whose book Empire of AI was a NYT best seller but overestimated water use by 100,000% (lol).
The response was just “oopsies” and all the incorrect books were kept in circulation 🤷🏻♂️
Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉@jmhorp
A typical data center uses about the same amount of water as a golf course, and the same amount of electricity as a steel plant. Yet for some people, they have become The Worst Thing In The World. Where does this motivation come from?
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So is anyone developing space toilets that actually work? Seems like a business opportunity.
Ryan Caton@dpoddolphinpro
TOILET UPDATE: Orion's toilet is NO-GO for use. Houston has requested all Artemis II crew members to use their Collapsible Contingency Urinals (CCUs) in the meantime.
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@roddreher He’s just distilling the lesson that the book of revelation talks about. Remove true Christians, all of them, and the result will not be wholesome.
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