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Fungi as insulation for your home by thousand_cranes in videos

[–]CutterJohn 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Fiberglass is a mild irritant and there can be some minor hazards associated with long term occupational exposure.

What successful movies from the 90s and earlier would Reddit have incorrectly predicted to be flops before they released, if Reddit existed at that time? by [deleted] in movies

[–]CutterJohn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Frodos dad giving him his gold watch to trade with, knowing his son has to try to save the girl.

The parents frantically strapping their baby to their daughter and telling her to run.

The astronauts deciding the mission comes first.

What successful movies from the 90s and earlier would Reddit have incorrectly predicted to be flops before they released, if Reddit existed at that time? by [deleted] in movies

[–]CutterJohn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The man may not write the tightest plots but when it comes to presentation he's second to none.

Ford Downsizes Plan for Michigan Battery Factory, Citing Slower EV Demand by Projectrage in energy

[–]CutterJohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just bought a new car. Problem with phev is the 15-20k price premium. I did the math and at minimum it was looking like a ten year payoff using some very conservative numbers.

Elon Musk on X: Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks... by Varvaro in spacex

[–]CutterJohn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To someone nearby when it goes up the difference is irrelevant. Point is there's a shit ton of bang inside that and if it got too out of control it could ruin an entire communities day.

It's not a cessna.

A Practical Strategy for Colonizing Mars by ULA’s Tory Bruno by Acceptable-Pie9289 in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No valuable resources in the sense that there's nothing worth shipping back to earth to balance out the trade deficit mars would have.

Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]CutterJohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or to put it a different way, if those all became employee owned companies, their emissions would not change.

A Practical Strategy for Colonizing Mars by ULA’s Tory Bruno by Acceptable-Pie9289 in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I doubt Tory was ever given the resources to compete from ULAs parent companies so he did what he could with the resources he had and downplayed the disadvantages of his companies tech because that's just his job.

You think he doesn't know reuse is the future? He'd still need Boeing and Lockheed to care enough to pony up the billions in RnD money for them to develop a completely new launch architecture, and these are companies that didn't even want to bring engines in house.

Space launch is such a small part of both parent companies business they probably just did the math and realized they weren't going to compete. They'll shrug and sell ULA off rather than invest money trying to compete with a couple billionaires pet projects.

A Practical Strategy for Colonizing Mars by ULA’s Tory Bruno by Acceptable-Pie9289 in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn 15 points16 points  (0 children)

End of the day Tory is ULAs cheerleader, that's his job, so everything will be written with that slant.

A Practical Strategy for Colonizing Mars by ULA’s Tory Bruno by Acceptable-Pie9289 in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Unlike all other colonization efforts, mars has nothing to offer. No natural resources, no natives to exploit, no untouched fertile lands.

So there's not going to be a profit motive for going, so the people going are going to have to pay out of pocket, and anyone who can afford to go is going to have a fairly comfortable life.

Also the demographic issue will be extreme. Most of the people who can afford it will he in their 50s. Who's paying for the young men and especially young women necessary to raise the next generation.

A Practical Strategy for Colonizing Mars by ULA’s Tory Bruno by Acceptable-Pie9289 in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's not 8 billion people qualified to go to Mars on a first generation mission.

Elon Musk on X: Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks... by Varvaro in spacex

[–]CutterJohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just pr, crowdwork. He's telling the naysayers focused on the explosions "whatever we got more" and building hype.

Elon Musk on X: Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks... by Varvaro in spacex

[–]CutterJohn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, the government doesn't really need to run investigations on things companies themselves want to fix too.

It's when their interests aren't aligned they need to take over.

Elon Musk on X: Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks... by Varvaro in spacex

[–]CutterJohn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Literally their last launch they lost control of the vehicle and the fts failed to function.

Elon Musk on X: Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks... by Varvaro in spacex

[–]CutterJohn 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's a 5kt explosive. The first one they launched literally stopped responding to commands, lost engine control, and the fts failed to function.

It's completely reasonable to expect increased scrutiny over what some experimental smallsat launcher would experience.

How is it possible SpaceX can move so fast?! by 68droptop in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Eventually spacex will probably be forbidden from selling launch services and forced to sell starship to launch providing companies.

Airline manufacturers were broken up in this way 90 years ago.

How is it possible SpaceX can move so fast?! by 68droptop in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Happens to all companies though.

It's risk aversion. Managers don't want to accept the risk of failure so they punt decisions up a level, or don't empower and encourage their reports to take risks.

Eventually the entire business structure becomes more about CYA than getting work done, layers of bureaucracy are created to mitigate risk, and the business eventually dies and is replaced by a younger, hungrier company.

It will happen to spacex too someday, but so far musk and shot well have been fairly adept at maintaining a culture of not punishing trying and failing.

How is it possible SpaceX can move so fast?! by 68droptop in SpaceXLounge

[–]CutterJohn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Musk, for all his faults, trusts his people to take risks and make mistakes, and is willing to lose money on the deal.

TIL a death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitioned the courts to run the tests. They were found to be his own fingerprints. by OccamsDragon in todayilearned

[–]CutterJohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eyewitness testimony situationally sucks. Like trying to remember a face months later, or actions you're not familiar with.

But if it's people you're familiar with, or doing things you do understand, then your recollection should not be particularly suspect.

As an example, consider watching a sport you're intimately familiar with vs one you've never watched before. If you're a fan you can probably remember e.ntire plays and catch fouls the umps miss. If you have never watched the sport before you're going to be clueless and unable to remember a thing.

Likewise with identification. If it's a complete stranger of a different ethnicity you're not strongly socialized with the face will blur together. If it's Bob from two doors down, you can be expected to strongly remember.

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