What if you are a small three person non software business startup with a budget of $350k. How do you can compete against the marketing of samsung or intel?
I work in a high tech, non-IT field. Most innovation is done by small companies who are more nimble and can afford the r&d. These then get bought up by large corporations for hundreds of millions out of their "r&d budget". Most r&d is failure and this allow corporations to buy proven new technology.
I bet large corporations would love to see patents go away, that way they can copy something for a million dollars vs having to buy out the startup.
1/3 of the us live in fully paid off houses. Based on personal experience and many people I know, it's very inexpensive to live when you're not paying rent or mortgage.
Yes, they seriously thought they could do it. In reality it turned out to be a more difficult job than they expected. They had to remove and inspect every heat shield tile after every flight as well as complete disassembly, retest and re-validation of each engine. They were high after their success with Apollo. They didn't fantasize about they schedule, they just mis-judged it.
True. I don't know why you got labeled as a troll. OTOH, it's good to see someone doing something that should have been done long ago. I was part of the space industry industry for a few decades and it was too frustrating to watch what people were (or were not doing). The whole goal AFAICT was to see how much money a contractor could extract from NASA. They would do the minimal amount of work necessary to get thd job done, which was all that NASA seemed to care about, while at the same time using up every cent NASA had allocated to the task. Get it done 2 years ahead of schedule and at 1/10th the price? We'll see about that. How about proposing some 'rework' to make it better. Whoops, rework didn't work. Sorry about that, we'll need some more m oney to get it back t the working state. Rinse and repeat until money is all spent.
I was literally told that coming in ahead of schedule and under budget was far worse than the opposite. No wonder the US hasn't done anything notable in space in 40 years other than a few probes that could have been built with 60's technology. (One of the Voyagers was originally going to swing past Pluto, but it was nixed for a closer view of Titan). Yes, I'm bitter.
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Skepticism is a central tenet of science.
The earth is still in an ice age.
And a ton is 1,000kg. Also, ice is the solid form of water that occurs below 273.15K and standard pressure.
Easy to say for someone who's never had an original idea.
What if you are a small three person non software business startup with a budget of $350k. How do you can compete against the marketing of samsung or intel?
I bet large corporations would love to see patents go away, that way they can copy something for a million dollars vs having to buy out the startup.
It's the child's responsibility.
I love it that few people ever get this.
1/3 of the us live in fully paid off houses. Based on personal experience and many people I know, it's very inexpensive to live when you're not paying rent or mortgage.
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AI has been writing code for decades. I was writing code to put engineers out of work in the 1980's.
software destrots job
cars destroy jobs
electricity destroys jobs
lights destroy jobs
fire destroys jobs
farming destroys jobs
weaving destroys jobs
They'll be safe. They're already deep in the mines.
Space suits
Most milk comes from Holstein cows, ~7% of which are brown.
My parents stopped caring about me when I was 18. HS grades, maybe. 18, you're an adult now. Deal with your own problems.
until Space X, was sci fi movie stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, they seriously thought they could do it. In reality it turned out to be a more difficult job than they expected. They had to remove and inspect every heat shield tile after every flight as well as complete disassembly, retest and re-validation of each engine. They were high after their success with Apollo. They didn't fantasize about they schedule, they just mis-judged it.
It's the economics, stupid. To paraphrase Bill Clinton.
I was literally told that coming in ahead of schedule and under budget was far worse than the opposite. No wonder the US hasn't done anything notable in space in 40 years other than a few probes that could have been built with 60's technology. (One of the Voyagers was originally going to swing past Pluto, but it was nixed for a closer view of Titan). Yes, I'm bitter.
Dashboard of the Tesla!
The primary purpose of a college education is to teach you what you should have learned in high school.Fix the high schools.Not gonna happen.
Not as good as Europeans by a factor of 100 or more.
How much money do you have that not having to walk through some snow is worth half a delivery cost?
I did. For the experience, and it sucked big time. Never again unless I get a sleeper car.