@StormSilvawalk1 The belief was that they chose to place the sat in a low otbit so they could deprbit the second stage
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Hexhawk2
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@Lib_Development Fix rushing with more service. Then raise fares a bit to close the spending gap on budget
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> If you literally can’t board the MTA bus or subway in rush hour, price is too low. Raise fares to $4 (~with fare fares low-income relief)
WRONG! This is a coward’s position. If you’re raising fares to destroy demand (make trains emptier) rather than raise revenue, that is successful by chasing away people who decide they cannot afford the train. If you do low-income relief, then you *undo* the effect of the fare hike and the train stays full. Unless your position is an explicit fuck-you to first year analysts too rich to qualify for low income programs yet too poor to call an Uber, that doesn’t make any sense.
If you are trying to chase people off the trains through high fares, you should be trying to chase the poor off of the trains (that is, after all, how all other forms of price sorting work).
I’ll note that different logic applies when the purpose of the fare hike is to raise revenue, which I do support.
Phil BuildTheFutureNow 🇺🇸🦅🌲💙@PhilSustainable
If you literally can’t board the MTA bus or subway in rush hour, price is too low. Raise fares to $4 (~with fare fares low-income relief), offer a annual subscription at discounted prices, enforce payment, and use revenue to automate & boost frequency. Packed means under-priced
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@TheYonkk @sachasayan @Keller Jag stopped making the EV they used. The generation after ohaj is Toyota
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@sachasayan @Keller This is the first time I’m hearing of Toyota. Jag and Stellantis are out IIRC.
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Wow, I just learned that Waymo's next-gen robotaxi is built on top of a Chinese vehicle platform. Is Google's vision really to build a national autonomous rideshare across the US on top of a Chinese car? This seems insane. Is this common knowledge?
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@PolicyEngineer @DudleyNYC -engineer
-studies energy policy
-doesn’t understand that arbitrage exists bc of power supply imbalance
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@DudleyNYC This isn't upstate generation trying to get downstate. This is arbitrage.
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Folks, this is bonkers: Hydro-Quebec, the Canadian utility, is simultaneously buying electricity from upstate NY and then delivering it (seemingly at a profit) to NYC—on a state-subsidized transmission line.
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This is somewhat mistaken. It's true that the public price will not fall as fast as the cost to SpaceX. But the capacity coming online is so huge, the R&D investment so large, and the marginal cost so low that it will be rational for SpaceX to lower costs to drive utilization.
Molly O’Shea@MollySOShea
BREAKING: Eric Romo (@_Eric_Romo), President & COO of Impulse Space (@GoToImpulse) says: "The idea that launch prices are going to fall significantly in the next 5 years is nonsense." "I think there are an awful lot of business models that are predicated on “when Starship allows me to launch for $200 a kilogram…” I think they’re all broken, & all those companies are going to fail." "I think we’ve seen this play out already with Falcon 9 & the pricing around it, where the costs of Falcon 9 allowed SpaceX to deliver the Starlink constellation at a cost per CapEx that made them profitable. But they set the price in the market at something that just barely made it an okay investment to think about OneWeb or Kuiper or anything like that. So they ran that playbook exactly on Falcon 9, & they had their gross margins on Falcon 9—people think we’ll see when the S1 comes out—are like 50% plus. So they could have dropped the price, & they didn’t. They’re going to do the same thing on Starship, because why wouldn’t they? Their internal costs on Starship are going to be whatever they need to be to deploy Starlink & orbital data centers, but they’re going to set the price so that anybody trying to do comms, anybody trying to do orbital data centers—the price is going to be too high. So if you’re a third party relying on them for a lower price of access to space, I think you’re hosed." 00:20 Hot Take Launch Prices 01:41 SpaceX Market Power 02:23 Impulse Space Overview 02:54 Mira For GEO Defense 03:45 Helios Direct To GEO 05:19 Caravan Rideshare To GEO 06:42 Space Economy Reality Check 08:46 Tom Mueller Legends 10:54 SpaceX IPO 13:42 Investor Frenzy & Broomstick 14:05 Alien Eyeballs Outro @elonmusk Recorded at @NYSE x @payloadspace Space Summit
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@HalenMattison The next generation of space companies (after newspace) will be ones that can’t find their innovation in NTRS
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@CJHandmer @Robotbeat Or just shut down the ethanol farms and then we have way too much farmland anyway.
We can pick the unproductive farms to replace (water limited farms in areas with high sun)
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The only reason solar is going onto farmland is that farmland is privately owned and easier to permit for solar construction. There's no shortage of unconstructable, unfarmable land that is perfect for solar but it's locked up behind layers of regulation. If you want to preserve farmland, let solar build in deserts.
American Conservation Coalition@ACC_National
People say solar takes land out of farmers’ hands, but what if it didn’t have to? Solar grazing keeps land for agriculture, with livestock instead of machines managing vegetation beneath the panels. Latest for The Bully Pulpit by Chad Raines on how solar saved his family farm:
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alright suggest really good monitors under 500 bucks with good color pls
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@JoshuaKDominic All but 3.
Autonomous already reduces injury rate, and are more predictable in motion. Add car to car communication and they can probably go even faster than now
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I see a few possible structural shifts because Autonomous vehicles:
1. Private car ownership goes down, Fleet usage goes up. Large portion if not all cars on road will be empty (freight movement & pax fleet repositioning) Insurance premiums skyrocket for driving yourself.
2. Congestion taxes for high traffic corridors highway use (e.g. NYC)
3. Speed limit of 55 mph for Autonomous Vehicles (Safest speed for mass adoption)
4. Reduction of % of land dedicated to car based infrastructure (less parking spaces & lots) opening up space for other uses (recreational or commercial) - thing rails to trails but for car based infra
What shifts do you suspect nobody sees coming?
Joshua | Building Trains 🚆@JoshuaKDominic
“Autonomous Vehicles will make trains irrelevant” is backwards. They fix the last mile, one of rail’s biggest demand bottlenecks. They don’t fix: • how long people want to sit in a car • the fact that roads don’t scale And they add something new: cars that drive without people Repositioning. Circling. Empty miles. That’s more traffic on the same roads. Which makes trains more valuable where congestion is highest.
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@Brolic_slope @itskyleconner The company that bought all of them to lease as taxis
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@itskyleconner This is where they have come to die. Seriously who provides maintenance for all of these fiskers getting heavy usage from being used as Ubers all around nyc
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@ScottLikedSLS Insufficient thrust means bad gnc.
Engine not performing? Keep burning longer until you get to the right spot
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insufficient thrust but a normal burn rate? or insufficient thrust -> shutdown to prevent over attitude drifting
space force still havent tracked GS2 in orbit so its possible it somehow still performed its de-orbit burn which could possibly point to a sole issue occuring during only the insertion burn
Dave Limp@davill
Now that we have a more complete view, we wanted to provide an update on our NG-3 mission. While we are pleased with the nominal booster recovery, we clearly didn't deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects. Early data suggest that on our second GS2 burn, one of the BE-3U engines didn’t produce sufficient thrust to reach our target orbit. Blue Origin is leading the anomaly investigation with FAA oversight to learn from the data and implement the improvements needed to quickly return to flight operations. We have been in steady communication with the team at AST SpaceMobile, we appreciate their partnership, and we’re looking forward to many flights together.
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@BellikOzan How could a 265 km perigee not be high enough? I mean something like 265x270 km is essentially Starlink's main parking orbit
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Okay that's a much better insertion than originally thought.
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589
A second orbit dataset from SpaceForce for the BlueBird-7 sat shows it in a 265 x 485 km x 43.0 deg orbit, indicating that the upper stage delivered about 1000 m/s, mostly changing orbital inclination. This is about half the dV that would have been needed for the target orbit
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does anyone know of any structures or systems that have components that are only there to throw people off about how said system or mechanism does ?
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Macona@macona
@Xaraphim They are there to make people ask why they are there.
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@ashleevance And then they put in their will that the houses be torn down when they died. Such a shame. They left behind incredible institutions though!
The museums are world-class
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I'm sorry. What? Cleveland had a street called Millionaire's Row that Europeans boated over to see
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@StormSilvawalk1 Ok so when is New Glenn's extremely large kaboom going to happen? 😅
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Every launcher got the:
-arguably successful partial failure
-extremely large kaboom
-untouchable period of reliability
Blue Origin@blueorigin
NG-3 Update: We have confirmed payload separation. AST SpaceMobile has confirmed the satellite has powered on. The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit. We are currently assessing and will update when we have more detailed information.
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Trader Joe’s reputation is totally misunderstood.
Despite the crunchy-sounding name, Trader Joe’s sells CHEAP, EASY food. Lots of snacks and frozen stuff at low prices. It’s basically a college freshman’s ideal.
It’s not, like, a fair trade-ethical-organic specialty grocer.
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@Cdyrud1 @jimbelosic They dont have any manual ops in their machining, as i understand. They use a standard size of stock and set up automatcially. If they still have the code to run it, it should be no different
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@Hexhawk_2 @jimbelosic There'd still be higher costs than buying the same amount in one purchase. Even if everything's been left in the system you would have to set it back up.
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CNC machined parts are now 40% off for qty two, 78% off qty 10, and almost 90% off as you approach 250-500 units. The new robots are hauling ass so I can lower prices a bit
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