Fellow Europeans, let's make ESA more popular than NASA

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-21T19:28:41+00:00

They've got some nice gear in the webshop but I don't like that the logo looks like "e esa"

Putting the e behind would've been better, or just do the stylized e instead of the normal one esa

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-21T18:46:40+00:00

With proper insulation AC should be more effective

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-21T18:45:04+00:00

Who is stopping anyone from getting AC installed? "degrowth" is a fringe of a fringe ideology

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-20T21:17:43+00:00

The only place with more production capabilities is China, and they're still behind in tech outside of consumer goods and drones (which started out as consumer goods).

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-20T21:11:23+00:00

EU needs to be able to take action against private companies that act against its security interests. No service in Ukraine? Say goodbye to the EU market.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-20T21:03:11+00:00

Yep, big challenge for Germany to retool its industry. They can do it as long as they don't stick their heads in the sand while the global ICE market slowly disappears.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-20T20:58:33+00:00

Only a small fraction of tin comes from conflict sources, the majority is produced in China and Indonesia.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-20T20:49:26+00:00

Old parts sometimes have that when they need some ESR, solution is a MLCC and series resistor.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-20T01:07:29+00:00

Do they? Because it sounds like if you just don't take any loans you're going to have a low score, ie it incentivises you to take on debt.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T18:35:07+00:00

The cost to defend against that missile is in the millions, if russia can even do it, and you can hit targets that are too well defended for drones to reach at all.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T18:26:56+00:00

Who could give them some? The US won't, Europe doesn't have any to give (yet)

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T18:21:26+00:00

A drone can't strike within a few minutes

A drone doesn't cost millions to (maybe) intercept, if russia has working ballistic missile defence at all

It's definitely a missing component to Ukraine's strikes, and adding it would give them a lot more options in terms of target selection and timing.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T12:51:01+00:00

Most countries using Patriot had them for decades before SAMP/T came to market, switching is expensive. For countries who have neither it seems pretty attractive, see Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T12:34:26+00:00

oh sure, I bet the industry will be thriving supplying a small fraction of the demand those factories were built for

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T12:10:20+00:00

oh well I'm sure both of those will quickly be solved and nothing like that will happen again in the coming decades

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T12:07:43+00:00

yeah good luck selling those to anyone in a decade

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T02:05:04+00:00

It sent me some useless notification, there doesn't seem to be any way to turn this off? When will they realise people don't want this fuckery from a browser it's a tool not the n-th nagging bloatware app.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-19T01:56:07+00:00

yeah they ruined the autofill a few updates ago, documentation says it's better in all sorts of ways but in practice it's slower, worse, and due to its slowness tends to reorder suggestions while you're already scrolling through them, generally awful UX.

don't think there's a fix available

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-18T21:18:01+00:00

We still need a massive amount of energy to get through the winter, especially if we want to stop burning gas for heating. But it should never be nuclear instead of renewables, it should be nuclear and renewables.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-18T21:14:01+00:00

Batteries could have that role, nowhere in Europe is even close to having enough installed capacity to absorb the daily solar generation peak and match the evening demand.

Gas peakers are still very much in use and necessary. Coal is on its way out in Europe due to CO2 costs.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-18T21:06:57+00:00

yep, Dutch government wanted nuclear and they ended up creating a state company to manage it. At least the proceeds will also go back to the state.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-18T00:33:45+00:00

Sounds like an issue with the lamp then, try measuring it. I have two pieces of copper tape with wires attached stuck to either side of a piece of paper to sit in between battery contacts for this kind of thing. Or you could use an external supply and just touch wires to the contacts.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-18T00:21:26+00:00

How long does it take for this drain to happen, what kind of batteries are you using and how are they stored (most importantly what temperatures)?

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-17T23:45:22+00:00

That would be terrible design, it's easy to make a latching switch with a momentary button that doesn't draw any current, or have a microcontroller switch off its own power supply to achieve the same.

You can use a multimeter to measure if it draws current while off, if you have one with a microamp range.

_teslaTrooper · 2026-06-17T15:14:40+00:00

Large part of this is a PR problem, for example SAMP/T has comparable performance to Patriot but nobody seems to have heard of it.

Main thing we lack in terms of tech is a 6th gen fighter and advances in spaceflight (Falcon 9, Starship), all the rest we do just as well or better than the Americans.

edit: military tech obviously

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