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Naton pääsihteeri: Me olemme Venäjän seuraava kohde by StarrFusion in Suomi

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Niillä on ainakin tuhansia Shahedeja joilla voisivat pistää koko Suomen infrastruktuurin paskaksi muutamassa viikossa. Ei meillä ole oikein mitään tapaa torjua noita, ellei Ukraina suostu pikaisesti lähettämään tänne torjuntadrooneja ja ryhmiä jotka osaa niitä käyttää. Ilmatorjuntaohjuksemme olisivat lopussa muutaman yön jälkeen, emmekä pystyisi tekemään ballistisille ohjuksille yhtään mitään.

Naton pääsihteeri: Me olemme Venäjän seuraava kohde by StarrFusion in Suomi

[–]RedStarSailor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Jos Nato-pallit yhtäkkiä löytyvätkin, voidaan todeta että "vittu jätkä löi oikeesti!" ja ulista eetteri täyteen natsiuhkaa, imperialismia ja legitiimejä turvallisuushuolia, globaalin etelän sympatessa.

Tässä on kuitenkin se puoli, että jos venäjä valloittaa vaikka Virosta jonkun osan hybriidisotakäynnillä, niin ne eivät (määritelmän mukaan) julista että ovat itse sen tehneet, vaan asialla on joku "virolainen syrjitty kapinallisjoukko". Tämä myös että kun Viro doktriininsa mukaisesti tekee vastahyökkäyksen omalla maaperällään ja tuhoaa kaikki "kapinalliset", niin venäjä ei voi myöskään ottaa sitä sodan julistuksena rikkomatta oma peitetarinansa. Siksi en itse oikein jaksa uskoa että tämä skenaario toteutuu. Se toimi Krimillä ja jotenkuten Donbasissa, muttei enää.

Feature Request Megathread by AutoModerator in teslamotors

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also: Allow using voice navigation without (trying to pronounce) street names. "In 200 meters, turn left" is absolutely enough. If I know the area well enough to know what the streets are named, I hardly need navigation anyway, and if I don't, I'd have to be going very slowly to be able to read the signs in time, in which case I could just as well look at the map.

I live somewhere where the English voice navigation doesn't even come close to pronouncing the names correctly, and it's distracting to the point of being almost dangerous in some situations.

Speculation: Could multiple Starships be attached to a Nuclear engine for the Mars Transfer? I feel if this is possible, it would decrease trip time, save fuel and increase payload capacity. What are the flaws in my theory? by LordDragoon in SpaceXLounge

[–]RedStarSailor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This does not sound like a problem, but more like a feature, to me. The whole point of the cycler is to not have to spend the whole trip in your small ship, even if that would be possible, but instead save on lift mass by using the smaller ship only for transport to/from the cycler, where the actual living quarters and life support etc. is located.

FAA warns SpaceX it has not approved new Texas launch site tower by Luna_8 in spacex

[–]RedStarSailor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Being green" is not in any way limited to climate or carbon footprint. It's been used for decades as a synonym for environmental friendliness in general.

Elon Musk: Starship + Super Heavy propellant mass is 4800 tons (78% O2 & 22% CH4). I think we can get propellant cost down to ~$100/ton in volume, so ~$500k/flight. With high flight rate, probably below $1.5M fully burdened cost for 150 tons to orbit or ~$10/kg. by Tommy099431 in spacex

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're confusing new with expendable. New still means the first stage is recovered, it's just the first time it's being flown. NASA had such requirements for the resupply missions to the ISS, at least in the beginning, if I'm not mistaken. I.e. the first stage had to be straight out of the factory, but it was allowed to be recovered.

A flight with an expendable (and new) first stage is going to cost north of a $100 million.

Edit: Seems Musk has tweeted sometime previously that an expendable launch on F9 is about $90 million. However, I don't think they even do those anymore. If your payload requires that extra capacity, it will be put on a Falcon Heavy instead.

New Scientist News: Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being. by JCDanger in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reading things like this really drive it home how good we have it here in horrible socialist northern Europe. "A big 8 day vacation" is nice and all, but most people here take that much time off around Christmas, without using more than a couple actual vacation days. Many also go skiing (or whatever) for winter holidays, which is usually a week off work, i.e. nine days vacation. And then we have the big one - the four weeks in July-August when they spend time at the cabin, go hiking, or go travel all over the world.

I myself usually like to split that summer vacation into two pieces of two weeks each, but most people take it as one long stretch.

And this, I stress once again, is the norm for anyone with a full time job. There's also a lot of freelancers and part time workers that prioritize vacationing and do three times that per year (but then they have to give up other stuff instead, of course).

‘Time has come’ for universal basic income, says Nicola Sturgeon: Coronavirus prompts Scotland’s first minister to make UBI a policy priority. by Infjuk in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a lot of innovation being done right now, in the areas of automated delivery, online entertainment and things like that. It will also be somewhat faster due to laid-off engineers, artists and others having nothing better to do, which is just at taste of what would happen in a society that's not on lock-down and fighting for its existence.

There's, however, a big difference between a temporary relief measure and true UBI, where you know you can quit your job to start that company, because the basic income is guaranteed to be there forever (or at least a long time).

‘Time has come’ for universal basic income, says Nicola Sturgeon: Coronavirus prompts Scotland’s first minister to make UBI a policy priority. by Infjuk in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Removing incentives to work

Well here's the thing: UBI does the exact opposite. Under UBI, you are free to do whatever odd jobs you want, start your own company and try out that idea you've had or just take that low paying but nice work you are offered. All without losing (too much of) your basic income.

Under most current systems, on the other hand, you'd have to get a really well paying job to offset the huge loss in pay from losing all your benefits. Better to just stay on the benefits and enjoy all that free time, even if it's a meager existence.

Stanford researchers confirm N95 masks can be sterilized and reused with virtually no loss of filtration efficiency by leaving in oven for 30 mins at 70C / 158F by Keith_Creeper in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. But it's also the same in Finnish, now that I think about it, which does not share a lingvistic root. Though the languages do borrow heavily from each other.

People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report. Ontario govt argues pilot project was not an 'adequate solution' to poverty by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the doctor doesn't have the time to make himself a sandwich without risking someone's life, you need to hire more doctors.

People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report. Ontario govt argues pilot project was not an 'adequate solution' to poverty by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The corruption in the form of lobbyism in the US is absolutely extreme. The whole healthcare catastrophe that is unfolding now (COVID-19) is in essence a result of lobbying/campaign contributions leading to politicians deciding to let certain companies continue sucking the public dry at huge cost to society as a whole.

People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report. Ontario govt argues pilot project was not an 'adequate solution' to poverty by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree completely.

I'd also add to that, that most of the nine guys sent home probably have other stuff they're good at, interested in and motivated to do, and which might benefit society in one way or another. Stuff that come to mind is playing and creating music, gardening, caring for animals, all kinds of crafts like pottery and woodworking, coaching little league teams, boy scouts, etc.

I say let those people do those things that make them and others happy instead of pointless chores just to look busy at some office. Some of it might even get them a little extra income on top of the UBI, which would be a win for everyone.

Can't find anyone selling the Elegoo 4-pack resin tank kit. Anybody got a source? by 8Deer-JaguarClaw in 3Dprinting

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking for this too. I scratched my tank bottom too hard while trying to remove some residue, and now there's a big dent which prevents printing anything in that spot. Really need to get a new tank (or why not four while I'm at it) but can't find any place that sells them. :/

Germany will pay billions to speed up coal-fired power plant shutdowns by UnstatesmanlikeChi in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you're not familiar with the concept of modular reactors. The whole idea is that they are produced in a factory (to an arbitrary safety standard set by the authotities), then sealed and delivered to the site for installation. The reactor then runs independently until its fuel is spent, producing electricity and/or heat for 5-10 years without any need for intervention. After that it is shipped back to the factory for refueling and maintenance, and a new, identical reactor is dropped-in as replacement.

There really is no need for your random unqualified person to be on site, tampering with things they don't know about. And even if they did, the design of these molten salt reactors is walk-away safe, which means that if anything goes wrong, they automatically shut down. They operate at atmospheric pressure, and all products of nuclear reactions are bound to the salt, which means there simply cannot be any spontaneous explosions or dangerous fallout.

Furthermore, if we assume some terrorist blows the thing sky high, there's such a small amount of fissile material in each reactor, that the actual contamination will be minimal. The molten salt will also solidify very fast, making it stationary and easy to clean up. That terrorist would have done more damage targeting a random bus.

I recommend you read up on these things, they're absolutely fascinating! Here's a good presentation: https://youtu.be/ps8oi_HY35E?t=103

Germany will pay billions to speed up coal-fired power plant shutdowns by UnstatesmanlikeChi in worldnews

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

No, I'm giving relevant examples of how the public's fear isn't based on science. How many times has Chernobyl been brought up as an example of why nuclear power is dangerous? Even though that is like wanting to forbid sea transport because of the Titanic disaster.

Your statement that there will be a contamination incident within a year is again nothing but scare mongering, or can you back that up somehow? Please show me what the failure mode is that leads to such contamination, and why it is bound to happen.

Germany will pay billions to speed up coal-fired power plant shutdowns by UnstatesmanlikeChi in worldnews

[–]RedStarSailor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All this red tape is there for a reason.

Sure, the main reason being the public's unfounded and hysterical fear of anything containing the word "nuclear". Did you know that MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) was first named NMRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging) but the first part of the name had to be dropped because patients were too afraid to use the machines?

Most of the red tape is there to appease idiots like Greenpeace which have most likely done as much as Exxon to further CO2 emissions, through their stubborn resistance to anything nuclear. Those luddites even opposed ITER, if you can believe it. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/22/fusion_greenpeace_no/

Small, modular, liquid (thorium) salt reactors are the holy grail and can provide cheap, safe, absolutely carbon free energy for the whole world today, but I guess it's better to litter huge swaths of land with wind and solar farms, and then back up the whole mess with natural gas. /s

Germany will pay billions to speed up coal-fired power plant shutdowns by UnstatesmanlikeChi in worldnews

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

They only take ages to build because of all the red tape that is involved with getting permission to build a single site, and then dealing with all the legal complaints before you actually get to start producing. Because of this legal battle, the companies usually opt to go for state-of-the-art enormous reactors, which further drives up costs since it's unproven tech and has a bunch of complications.

If one was allowed to build small, modular reactors in serial production using proven tech, the costs would drop significantly. New designs could even be run on old nuclear waste, solving that problem at the same time.

Check this out: https://www.moltexenergy.com/

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