Adaptive cruise control in particular (where you set a desired speed - and a desired follow distance if you come up on another car) is a godsend on long trips.
I had a rental car with that feature. It was nice for some cases, but too often it was getting confused by slow cars in other lines (especially in a curve), and would suddenly brake.
Fresh water production? Sewage treatment? I'm sure they've thought of these things right?
How about other materials ? Glass, steel, copper, plastics, wood, plastics,... the list is endless. And for everything they obtain from the mainland in trade, they need to produce something useful in return.
Not just fuel, also fuel tanks, extra staging, and assorted mass. But yeah, in my book that counts as a "problem".
Plus, our biggest telescope array is still only measured in miles
A telescope array is only useful to increase its resolving power, because that only depends on maximum distance. It doesn't help much with sensitivity, because that's related to total area, which only modestly increases with extra telescopes. The biggest single dish in the Deep Space Network is only 70 meter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You could of course use a bigger dish on the probe, but that would require more mass, and/or a really flimsy structure. And every ton of mass would require another billion tons of fuel, per your estimate.
But the internet is much, much more than these few sites and just like you can still download any show, movie or program you want even today, you will always be able to do what you want to do online.
But it will be a lot harder to find other people that have what you want. If it were easy, government could simply use the same path to find and block your activity.
If the Sun is inbetween Earth and and the starship, then that'd make telemetry a problem
Not talking about the Sun, but rather the problem of the distance and the inverse square law. The closest star is 5000 times as far as Pluto, which means that any signal is 25 million times weaker. We're already using the biggest dish antennas on Earth to get a trickle of data from outer solar system missions.
just save ~1/3 of your fuel for slowing at the destination.
If you need to keep 1/3 of the fuel, your other 2/3 is not enough to bring it up to speed. The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation is not your friend.
If you want to cause self-driving carmageddon, attach a radio to a Raspberry Pi with four D cells, program it to transmit a signal that says "Speed limit 90 MPH", and toss it out on the side of the road right before a hairpin turn. Good freaking luck catching the person who does something like that.
If the rules are too ambiguous we can always make them clearer until say a lane merger is properly described and you can put a car's behavior into "at fault" or "not at fault".
Properly describing a lane merger is already impossible. If you put all the responsibility for safety on the merging car, it becomes impossible to merge in busy traffic. The only solution is to become more aggressive in merging, and force traffic to brake for you.
I think people are attracted to the idea of feeling special because they "know". Also, the idea that there's an invisible cabal of elite that's shaping the world may be more palatable than the idea that it's nothing but chaotic forces of nature. At least if somebody is in control, there's perpetual hope of a simple fix.
The labor theory of value (the price of a good or service should be equal to the total amount of labor value required to produce it) doesn't reward increase in efficiency. Why should I invest in a method to produce the same goods twice as fast, if that requires halving the price ? Without any effort to maximize efficiency, you'll quickly lose against competing communitities, and that's one reason it's unstable. Also, without a free market with independent agents settling on a mutually agreed price, you'll need an authority to set prices for you, which introduces a target point for corruption, and power struggles.
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It's just a correlation, and on top of that, the numbers are distorted by amount of medical care.
I really doubt that high sodium is the biggest killer, for example.
Nobody is going to be using coal at all.
People won't stop using coal until it's all gone.
$100 per ton would mean $200 per ton of coal, which sells for around $50. Nobody's going to pay a 5-fold premium on coal.
A couple of anecdotes do not change overall statistics.
Adaptive cruise control in particular (where you set a desired speed - and a desired follow distance if you come up on another car) is a godsend on long trips.
I had a rental car with that feature. It was nice for some cases, but too often it was getting confused by slow cars in other lines (especially in a curve), and would suddenly brake.
Not feeding the poor would make more sense if you want to slow down climate change.
It's a service economy
So what services will the islanders be delivering to the mainland ?
Fresh water production? Sewage treatment? I'm sure they've thought of these things right?
How about other materials ? Glass, steel, copper, plastics, wood, plastics, ... the list is endless. And for everything they obtain from the mainland in trade, they need to produce something useful in return.
b) What's reasonable about plans that make floating Floridas for the rich
According to the visionary himself, the houses will be affordable for the poor.
Right, it's also called diabetes type 3. Cutting down carbs (especially refined) should be first step in treatment and avoidance.
Rail is very expensive. An autonomous bus in a dedicated lane would be a much cheaper alternative.
Just use a billion times as much fuel
Not just fuel, also fuel tanks, extra staging, and assorted mass. But yeah, in my book that counts as a "problem".
Plus, our biggest telescope array is still only measured in miles
A telescope array is only useful to increase its resolving power, because that only depends on maximum distance. It doesn't help much with sensitivity, because that's related to total area, which only modestly increases with extra telescopes. The biggest single dish in the Deep Space Network is only 70 meter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You could of course use a bigger dish on the probe, but that would require more mass, and/or a really flimsy structure. And every ton of mass would require another billion tons of fuel, per your estimate.
For self driving cars, the highway code simply needs to be turned into computer code.
That's far from simple, as you explain in your next sentence. A common set of safety standards would help to make sure they all do this correctly.
But the internet is much, much more than these few sites and just like you can still download any show, movie or program you want even today, you will always be able to do what you want to do online.
But it will be a lot harder to find other people that have what you want. If it were easy, government could simply use the same path to find and block your activity.
Almost everything native to Australia is poisonous and deadly, and they have nonsense like this now?
Videos of the outdoors in Australia are banned from now on.
If the Sun is inbetween Earth and and the starship, then that'd make telemetry a problem
Not talking about the Sun, but rather the problem of the distance and the inverse square law. The closest star is 5000 times as far as Pluto, which means that any signal is 25 million times weaker. We're already using the biggest dish antennas on Earth to get a trickle of data from outer solar system missions.
just save ~1/3 of your fuel for slowing at the destination.
If you need to keep 1/3 of the fuel, your other 2/3 is not enough to bring it up to speed. The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation is not your friend.
If you want to cause self-driving carmageddon, attach a radio to a Raspberry Pi with four D cells, program it to transmit a signal that says "Speed limit 90 MPH", and toss it out on the side of the road right before a hairpin turn. Good freaking luck catching the person who does something like that.
Where do you get the key to sign the message ?
If the rules are too ambiguous we can always make them clearer until say a lane merger is properly described and you can put a car's behavior into "at fault" or "not at fault".
Properly describing a lane merger is already impossible. If you put all the responsibility for safety on the merging car, it becomes impossible to merge in busy traffic. The only solution is to become more aggressive in merging, and force traffic to brake for you.
Starships have two additional problems: getting telemetry back, and slowing down at the destination.
You don't want to spend a huge budget on a starship to get a 100 pixel image of a distant planet.
Start with rosemary, much easier to keep alive (plenty of sun, let it dry before watering). Then try thyme and oregano.
I think people are attracted to the idea of feeling special because they "know". Also, the idea that there's an invisible cabal of elite that's shaping the world may be more palatable than the idea that it's nothing but chaotic forces of nature. At least if somebody is in control, there's perpetual hope of a simple fix.
1 death every 3 years on average from 387 reported measles cases per year
And how would that number change with reduced levels of vaccination ?
So let's not overreact quite yet
Suppose your car is parked next to the river, and you notice it ever so slowly rolling towards the edge. What would be a good time to start reacting ?
In Marxism, the labor theory of value rules.
The labor theory of value (the price of a good or service should be equal to the total amount of labor value required to produce it) doesn't reward increase in efficiency. Why should I invest in a method to produce the same goods twice as fast, if that requires halving the price ? Without any effort to maximize efficiency, you'll quickly lose against competing communitities, and that's one reason it's unstable. Also, without a free market with independent agents settling on a mutually agreed price, you'll need an authority to set prices for you, which introduces a target point for corruption, and power struggles.
A locked cockpit door is much more deterrent than a flunky with a metal detector.
A locked cockpit door isn't very effective against someone who just wants to bring a bomb on board.
ALL that is happening is a human is taking time to review what they have, and talk to you very briefly in person.
And a brief talk guarantees that you will not smuggle a bomb or weapon on board next time you fly ?