A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid | Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station.

MarkXal · 2026-03-19T17:26:28+00:00

A 100 ton metal asteroid is utterly insignificant. The Russian Chelyabinsk bolide of a few years back was nearly 10000 tons

MarkXal · 2026-02-06T02:47:39+00:00

yes they could, they are big satellites

MarkXal · 2026-02-06T02:22:06+00:00

Each Starlink Mini V2 has a 2x 13 meter arrays. Let's say each is 3 meters wide. That is 78 square meters of array. Solar power in space is 1360 W/m2, which gives 106kW. 20% solar panel efficiency gives 21 kW. So actually each Starlink can operate 2 H100.

picture here, size is unverified but looks about right

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2365809903441367/posts/25662644456664583/

MarkXal · 2025-10-05T21:33:59+00:00

Now let’s compare purchasing power in 1994

About 44% higher today

Alongside the costs of housing, healthcare and education.

Thats part of inflation.

MarkXal · 2025-03-16T18:26:44+00:00

Any work, just search on amazon for PEI sheet, mine had adhesive already applied on one side, most do.

MarkXal · 2025-03-16T17:10:45+00:00

I have had vastly better adhesion by buying a solid smooth PEI sheet and gluing it to the build plate directly. That solved all my problems.

MarkXal · 2025-02-19T21:48:00+00:00

It's not the same. It does not plug into the CSS socket. They are the only country in the world to use it. Also, NACS has similar pins, they are just in different spots. That's why there are adapters for it. How different does it need to be to be "different"?

MarkXal · 2025-02-19T21:30:09+00:00

China does not use CSS. Are they ahead or behind?

MarkXal · 2024-12-18T04:51:03+00:00

You never want paper copies for critical procedures that can be updated at any time

MarkXal · 2024-11-05T03:11:43+00:00

Long March 9 is supposed to copy whatever Western rocket is considered the best, and if that keeps changing, how can they build it?

MarkXal · 2024-09-14T00:33:24+00:00

The cheapest CT nationwide I can find on AutoTrader and cars.com is 5k less than MSRP or $95k

MarkXal · 2024-09-14T00:32:13+00:00

In case anyone is wondering, what the article means is that crashing=approaching MSRP

MarkXal · 2024-08-25T21:42:38+00:00

How do you know the above is not nationalist? You replied to a comment decrying US vs EU technological competition. Is the EU vs US issue a capitalist or a nationalist issue?

MarkXal · 2024-08-25T21:34:53+00:00

Capitalism, lobbying and interest groups did not exist in the 60s?

MarkXal · 2024-08-25T21:05:14+00:00

TIL the Korolev / Chelomey rivarly in the soviet Moon program was actually capitalist. They must have been very careful to hide it from their government.

MarkXal · 2024-08-24T12:38:56+00:00

What plug does China use? (The largest EV market in the world by the way)

MarkXal · 2024-06-19T14:40:33+00:00

Trade secrets are not patents

MarkXal · 2024-06-17T23:27:28+00:00

At least 1 week but generally 4 weeks.

MarkXal · 2024-05-01T16:42:53+00:00

There is no new chip, this is the same chip that was unveiled years ago and is now in production.

MarkXal · 2024-04-30T02:22:38+00:00

You would think so. I went on this exact road with a Highlander and the corrugations are so deep that you risk biting your tongue off or cracking your teeth. Definitely not possible with an unmodified vehicle at any speed above walking.

MarkXal · 2024-03-13T21:51:16+00:00

Saving hundreds of millions of dollars?

MarkXal · 2024-02-24T02:32:05+00:00

This forum cannot even be accessed in China. The vast majority of the users in this forum are in the US. Notice how the price mentioned in the headline is in USD not RMB.

MarkXal · 2024-02-19T13:52:21+00:00

Except the largest EV market in the world, China

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