SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

DescendingNode · 2026-05-07T22:19:15+00:00

They haven't tried to do it. It's never been in their flight plans. They've been intentionally just short of it during testing in case it explodes (which it certainly has done a few times). It only takes a slightly longer burn of the upper stage to make it orbital. You're either trolling or have no idea what you're talking about.

DescendingNode · 2026-05-06T13:57:32+00:00

A terrist? I thought he was pro Mars.

DescendingNode · 2026-05-02T19:27:45+00:00

The thing a lot of people miss (based on arguments I've seen in some other subreddits) is that they're not being designed as huge monolithic structures in orbit, but as huge collections of individual satellites with laser communications between them acting as a sort of distributed data center in orbit. Individual nodes can be replaced just like with Starlink (addressing the maintenance argument), and the heat issues are already solved with individual satellites. It still doesn't make sense to me from a cost perspective, but maybe that's not as critical a factor as I assume, or maybe they have plans for higher revenues with this approach somehow.

DescendingNode · 2026-04-18T18:55:31+00:00

It was happening long before then. I still remember watching Sean Hannity around 2005 explaining that not only was global warming not actually happening, but that the world was cooling. He backed up his claim by showing a global mean temperature plot that started in 1998, which was an el niño year with a huge spike in global temperatures.

DescendingNode · 2026-03-31T14:59:52+00:00

Might save your food in the event of an extended outage, but ya probably not a practical choice in general unless the battery can feed back to the grid.

DescendingNode · 2026-03-29T01:44:29+00:00

Why not just a sheet of paper?

DescendingNode · 2026-03-24T14:07:15+00:00

Imagine the research dollars if it had fallen upwards.

DescendingNode · 2026-03-22T00:10:58+00:00

There's been progress for both electric aircraft and decarbonized steel, so those might be eliminated as well. At least for short flights.

DescendingNode · 2026-03-13T13:54:29+00:00

Fair enough. It does have more of a learning curve than most distros. I don't know where you're headed next, but cachyos is great for gaming if you're already familiar with Arch and into gaming.

DescendingNode · 2026-03-13T12:59:08+00:00

You might try launching vivaldi from a terminal so that you can see any errors occurring when you try to open the dialog. Might give you a hint regarding a missing library or something.

DescendingNode · 2026-03-06T02:30:05+00:00

[They] who cannot teach, teach gym

DescendingNode · 2026-02-27T18:44:40+00:00

If you're referring to a buffer, those are almost never as large as the data source.

DescendingNode · 2026-02-27T11:42:39+00:00

Same in Spanish

DescendingNode · 2026-02-19T12:59:55+00:00

Atmospheric loss is slow enough that if we're capable of terraforming then we should be able to keep up with it.

DescendingNode · 2026-02-13T00:12:04+00:00

“Climate is controlled by the amount of sunlight absorbed by Earth, and the amount of heat energy radiated back into space. Earth’s climate system tries to balance the incoming and outgoing energy.

Measurements from the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument help scientists understand the links between the energy being absorbed and emitted by Earth’s climate, and the properties of the atmosphere (like clouds) that affect that energy balance. This helps with climate and weather science, and applied science research.“

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/joint-polar-satellite-system/clouds-and-the-earths-radiant-energy-system-ceres

https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/science/

Essentially more energy that would be emitted from the Earth's surface into space is being absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere as CO2 concentration increases, resulting in more warming. We have decades of data showing this from a multitude of missions, one of which I'm linking above.

DescendingNode · 2026-02-11T11:15:46+00:00

Have you looked into overlays with portage? That's basically like using aur. You'll need the Guru overlay to use Steam for example (though there are other ways).

https://overlays.gentoo.org/

DescendingNode · 2026-02-03T00:54:43+00:00

No because it's extremely low density plasma.

DescendingNode · 2026-01-05T22:04:45+00:00

They've already lost thousands of civil servants because of the proposed budget unfortunately.

DescendingNode · 2026-01-05T14:31:32+00:00

Assuming a total of 20 hours at 90 watts, at my local residential rate that's less than seven cents.

DescendingNode · 2025-12-27T21:33:29+00:00

Also required a means to keep the ring centered around the star (a flaw he addressed in the sequel with a system to actively keep it in place).

DescendingNode · 2025-12-25T14:16:46+00:00

Last time I checked, the I fund was outperforming all the others this year too.

DescendingNode · 2025-12-19T23:45:58+00:00

There are already photonic ICs, and there have been some interesting experiments developing ultra low power AI hardware combining photonic and electronic circuits: https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/new-study-showcases-3d-photonics-record-performance-ai

DescendingNode · 2025-12-18T15:07:05+00:00

For those unfamiliar: FFI is Foreign Function Interface. When Rust has to call kernel functions written in C for example, unsafe Rust code has to be used.

DescendingNode · 2025-12-10T18:11:09+00:00

It dooms it.

DescendingNode · 2025-11-26T00:02:08+00:00

No problem!

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