Hate to break it to you guys, but reusable rockets were demonstrated over 25 years ago. Yeah, I know, amazing stuff.
A solid-fuel booster that splashes down in seawater so it takes months of replacing corroded parts to ready it for a new duty cycle is not "reusable" in any modern sense.
Projects like ITER exist primarily as a bypass of NPT restrictions. They were never about producing electric power or seriously advancing technology to eventually enable that outcome. It's an expensive tax payer funded scam.
Because the people who dispense multibillion dollar research grants are more easily scammed than some random Internet AC.
Until someone actually builds the first fusion plant. Then the flat-earth lobby will find reasons why this tech is the most horrible idea since Jenner invented vaccines.
Fortunately these will be built in China, so there will be nothing the hippies can do about them.
Then let's put an end to the groupthink by which today's version of the Party That Used To Build Stuff rubber-stamps every antiscience cause the hippies come up with. If they wanted to, Democrats could become popular again by building again.
The leading hypothesis for the Biblical flood is the inundation of the Black Sea basin as interglacial rising sea levels caused the Mediterranean to spill over through the Bosphorus. The timing would have been about right for the Old Testament.
We could trawl Viking sagas for traces of the Greenland impact.
Disincorporate Comcast in the entirety and execute the stockholders.
For that you'll have to wait until January, when the new Congress gets seated. But for now it's amazing that a state government actually sided with consumers against a such a House Major of Harkonnen nobility as Comcast. Can the rabble already dream of generic epinephrine injectors now?
I for one am looking forward to the coming mosquito genocide.
There are over 3000 species of mosquito. Out of these, only 200 even bite humans, and only a small fraction of these spread disease. Eliminating even the 200 would have no effect on ecosystems.
Gene drives are a powerful new technology which needs to be deployed with caution and respect, with review by peer biologists who are as fully informed as possible about the effect they are having on ecosystems. But when "environmental groups" get involved, the usual suspects will insist on banning any tech that didn't exist in their great-grammaw's time.
Furthermore, note the shift going on here from opposing an implementation of technology to opposing basic scientific research in a field. When we look more closely into who's behind this, we will undoubtedly find the grimy fingerprints of the same thugs who tried to kill off research astronomy, a pure science, in Arizona during the Nineties and today in Hawaii.
That would be a good argument if I were commenting about, say, an ethnicity. But this is about the standards practiced by people in an occupation, as shown by numerous recent examples of unprofessional behavior which have been covered up by their peers on the job and in many cases protected by local prosecutors. I'm not bitching about traffic tickets, either, but about case after case of unnecessary civilian deaths. It's a systemic problem.
To earn back the respect of the public, basic reforms will be needed.
Because any field where a large part of the training is rote memorization is ripe for AI assistants which can thrash through vast amounts of sensor and scan data to support human professionals in making inferences.
The death is the SWAT team's fault, but if you invoke SWAT activity for no reason, the chances increase that one of the teams is going the bunch of amateur idiots who were called upon in Wichita.
The EU is in the process of strangling its own economy with rules that the rest of the world would go broke trying to comply with. Enjoy your GMO-free, music-free, Internet-free existence. We will gladly honor your right to be forgotten.
In general I trust science in evaluating technical news, the more well-established the better. And by not denying science, I emphasize not denying anyof the sciences, and their known-good implementations in engineering. For non-technical news, I go with sources that have proven accurate in the past.
Media has been devolving into internet clickbait for some time. There is little trust left.
Its methods of presentation, not just its politics, are a good part of the problem. Once we were able to read transcripts of most news videos. Now they stick us with videos that no longer show raw on-scene information at all, but are nothing but text scrolling over a generic musical bed. Who in hell decided that such abominations are 'news' today?
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Is this device subject to the same problem, which is that at any moment half your vanes are moving INTO the wind?
Hate to break it to you guys, but reusable rockets were demonstrated over 25 years ago. Yeah, I know, amazing stuff.
A solid-fuel booster that splashes down in seawater so it takes months of replacing corroded parts to ready it for a new duty cycle is not "reusable" in any modern sense.
My point is that if there is no legend of a fall of great fire, wecan exclude Viking historical times from that rather broad date range.
How does putting export restrictions on nuclear technology to China prevent China from stealing it?
It'a not stealing if they use technology that we have no interest in developing.
This would also keep thallium out of the hands of serial killers:
https://www.theledger.com/arti...
Projects like ITER exist primarily as a bypass of NPT restrictions. They were never about producing electric power or seriously advancing technology to eventually enable that outcome. It's an expensive tax payer funded scam.
Because the people who dispense multibillion dollar research grants are more easily scammed than some random Internet AC.
Until someone actually builds the first fusion plant. Then the flat-earth lobby will find reasons why this tech is the most horrible idea since Jenner invented vaccines.
Fortunately these will be built in China, so there will be nothing the hippies can do about them.
Most structural parts exposed to thermal neutrons are made of zirconium
I couldn't find anything: do you have any info on that (the structural metal part)? Zirconium isn't a common structural metal.
Zr is currently used as the cladding on fission fuel rods because it lets most of the neutrons through.
Then let's put an end to the groupthink by which today's version of the Party That Used To Build Stuff rubber-stamps every antiscience cause the hippies come up with. If they wanted to, Democrats could become popular again by building again.
The leading hypothesis for the Biblical flood is the inundation of the Black Sea basin as interglacial rising sea levels caused the Mediterranean to spill over through the Bosphorus. The timing would have been about right for the Old Testament.
We could trawl Viking sagas for traces of the Greenland impact.
Disincorporate Comcast in the entirety and execute the stockholders.
For that you'll have to wait until January, when the new Congress gets seated. But for now it's amazing that a state government actually sided with consumers against a such a House Major of Harkonnen nobility as Comcast. Can the rabble already dream of generic epinephrine injectors now?
Dunning krugerrand
This one's my favorite.
The hard limit on Bitcoin money supply will be the temperature at which ASICs melt.
I for one am looking forward to the coming mosquito genocide.
There are over 3000 species of mosquito. Out of these, only 200 even bite humans, and only a small fraction of these spread disease. Eliminating even the 200 would have no effect on ecosystems.
Just a bunch of politicians playing pretend. Ignore them.
As it stands now, this isn't about the UN. It's about activists who are haranguing a conference to get the UN to do its bidding.
Gene drives are a powerful new technology which needs to be deployed with caution and respect, with review by peer biologists who are as fully informed as possible about the effect they are having on ecosystems. But when "environmental groups" get involved, the usual suspects will insist on banning any tech that didn't exist in their great-grammaw's time.
Furthermore, note the shift going on here from opposing an implementation of technology to opposing basic scientific research in a field. When we look more closely into who's behind this, we will undoubtedly find the grimy fingerprints of the same thugs who tried to kill off research astronomy, a pure science, in Arizona during the Nineties and today in Hawaii.
That would be a good argument if I were commenting about, say, an ethnicity. But this is about the standards practiced by people in an occupation, as shown by numerous recent examples of unprofessional behavior which have been covered up by their peers on the job and in many cases protected by local prosecutors. I'm not bitching about traffic tickets, either, but about case after case of unnecessary civilian deaths. It's a systemic problem.
To earn back the respect of the public, basic reforms will be needed.
Because any field where a large part of the training is rote memorization is ripe for AI assistants which can thrash through vast amounts of sensor and scan data to support human professionals in making inferences.
You're fucked
Sorry folks, but the Brailsford case caused me lose every scrap of respect I once had for the police.
The death is the SWAT team's fault, but if you invoke SWAT activity for no reason, the chances increase that one of the teams is going the bunch of amateur idiots who were called upon in Wichita.
The main issue was that the right holders of GMO didn't sit in the EU, but in the US.
Then why do you luddite wackjobs rip up fields of Golden Rice, which is open source and has nothing to do with Monsanto or any other Evil Corporation?
Please, please, be as antivax as you are anti-GMO. Then in the next big epidemic we will all be rid of you.
The EU is in the process of strangling its own economy with rules that the rest of the world would go broke trying to comply with. Enjoy your GMO-free, music-free, Internet-free existence. We will gladly honor your right to be forgotten.
In general I trust science in evaluating technical news, the more well-established the better. And by not denying science, I emphasize not denying anyof the sciences, and their known-good implementations in engineering. For non-technical news, I go with sources that have proven accurate in the past.
I have my own standards, not based on political tribalism, for deciding which sources consistently provide the most reliable information.
Right now they are, but look at the rate of change.
Media has been devolving into internet clickbait for some time. There is little trust left.
Its methods of presentation, not just its politics, are a good part of the problem. Once we were able to read transcripts of most news videos. Now they stick us with videos that no longer show raw on-scene information at all, but are nothing but text scrolling over a generic musical bed. Who in hell decided that such abominations are 'news' today?