I owned a Volt for two years and Monday through Friday I drive to and from work 31 miles each way. I have a charger at my house and one at work. During the week, I don't use a drop of gas. I also live in New England where the temperature's this week have been in the high 90's, but in February we went a week where at the average temp was -10 with a low of -22. I've seen zero degradation of my battery life.
Now on the weekends I drive the car out of the range of the battery and need to use gas. For my needs and that of my family it's a great car.
As for hydrogen... Most hydrogen generation starts with a fossil fuel.
How is this NOT going to cause massive amounts of confusion.
I pity the first person who buys a piece of property that had a popular establishment that's long gone except for it's archived page... who gets subjected to an endless barrage of:
Person: "Where's wacky world? Owner: "Wacky world burned to the ground with no survivors in 2011... Sorry man" Person: "But I was just on their website!" Owner: "Yeah, your browser just skull fucked you."
What that said the launch was by the numbers and was awesome. I've got friends in FL who heard the sonic boom of the first stage reentering.
Since they were only boosting Dragon to LEO they didn't have to deploy the drone ship. I watched it online last night. I did notice the feed started with only a few minutes before launch which saddened me because I like to listen in on the launch coordinator loop while they're going through all the preflight checks.
Hopefully SpaceX will expose the audio feed so those of us who are nerds about this can listen in for the whole thing.
Poorly created comments are the work of the devil, plan and simple. Imagine working on a piece of software after it's been in active development for 10 years. Some libraries just work and nobody's even looked at the code for 1/2 a decade. Shitty comments will kill you, or worse others...
Linus can be a needlessly pretentious ass about things, but I agree with him on this one.
I think the term RUD is an old school engineering/rocketeering term. It's actually the complete opposite of a corporate-speak term imaginable.
Now if Musk had said: "Upon reentry the first stage suffered a propulsion anomaly that cased a loss of the vehicle." and then dropped the mike and walked off stage... that would be corporate speak.
I want more of these. I want them to understand every shortcoming of their system possible. Every failure means they (hopefully) make it more reliable.
Do understand that a while ago Telsa said publically that they were opening all the Telsa patents for the super charging stuff and that they wouldn't be defending those patents.
Sounds like a business opportunity to me! In the next ~5 years, tens of thousands of cars that need charging infrastructure are going to be hitting the road. I couldn't sell infinite space heaters to Eskimos and even I see this as obvious. Which means either I suck at stuff like this and there's something really obvious about the economics I'm missing or there's plans for this.
Either way though, supply and demand dictates someone will see a need and fill it, with electrons.
The next question is what are you going to building in these industrial zones in space? Let's imagine for a moment that you decided that making CPUs was just too dirty for Earth and you were going to instead build a chip fab in space.
The first question is, are you going to use existing fab technology or invent zero-g chip fab tech?
Let's imagine you go the latter route first... That's going to be a huge chunk of change... And we haven't even started to talk about the facility in space you're going to be using this fab in... Which logically means unless you're up for lots and lots of F9 and BO launches, you're backing on serious LEO heavy lift capability coming online that's not 400M per launch...
I'm not saying you can't do it... I'm just saying... you're liking starting to talk some number of billions of dollars and you haven't even got a CPU to earth yet.
Though with that all said, I've always mused that at some point we're going to run out of aritable land and our only option is going to be to start building O'Neil cylinders and growing food in space.
That's something that once you got the structure built, and you've figured out the plan/grow/harvest cycles such that different chunks of the cylinder were always in some phase you'd be shipping food back to Earth in very regular intervals.
Listen if you write a windows app it has to adhere to all kind of HCI standards where shit like the red X actually means cancel...but Microsoft can simply violate all their rules for there underhanded tactics.
My wifes computer kept threating to upgrade to windows 10, we skipped right to Ubuntu.
Yes, because he's intimately involved in the day to day running of SpaceX, Telsa and Solar City. He can't be in every place all the time. I imagine he delegates a shitload. I bet he didn't know much about it until his attorney showed up in his office to explain why they were getting sued.
He in turn called the operations manager for the plant and shit started rolling down hill.
Warning: Conjecture and air chair engineering here at it's finest...
SpaceX generally builds one thing and then keeps improving on it. I suspect when they built the flight computers and avionics the intention is for them to be common across both platforms. Likewise I would argue that from an engineering point of view they've tried to keep Dragon and Dragon V2 as common as possible.
Hence, lots of lessons learned from Dragon can be applied directly to Dragon V2.
I read books on my kindle and PDF's and technical stuff on my iPad. I'd also argue that baring a color kindle, the iPad is great for graphical novel reading.
Yes that does mean that when I'm traveling for business I'm carrying a laptop, kindle and Ipad.
We've heard these noises from Russia before. I can't help but think at this point the Russians are just shouting whatever they think might sound the most appealing into the microphone. In the near (~5 years) the US is going to stop relying on Russia to get Astronauts to the ISS. Once that happens hundreds of millions of dollars are suddenly going to stop going into Russian coffers.
This combined with a much more robust and inexpensive launch options (Space X, ULA, Blue Origin, Skylon?, etc) is going to further squeeze the already cash strapped Russia Space Agency/Industry.
I'll be happy to see them do it, but at this point it's just talk. Once I get past my budgetary issues, I'm going to be setting up a colony on Ganymede. All I need is to develop a launch vehicle, a survivable transit vehicle and a viable habitat...
That actually would be cool... if they could use it as a garbage scow... fill it with trash, close the hatch and then see if the escaping air could be used to propel it into a decaying orbit.
I suspect they'll keep it closed, with a pressure sensor connected to the ISS network. They'll use it as a spot to store things they don't care that much about in case it was to depressurize.
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I owned a Volt for two years and Monday through Friday I drive to and from work 31 miles each way. I have a charger at my house and one at work. During the week, I don't use a drop of gas. I also live in New England where the temperature's this week have been in the high 90's, but in February we went a week where at the average temp was -10 with a low of -22. I've seen zero degradation of my battery life.
Now on the weekends I drive the car out of the range of the battery and need to use gas. For my needs and that of my family it's a great car.
As for hydrogen... Most hydrogen generation starts with a fossil fuel.
How is this NOT going to cause massive amounts of confusion.
I pity the first person who buys a piece of property that had a popular establishment that's long gone except for it's archived page... who gets subjected to an endless barrage of:
Person: "Where's wacky world?
Owner: "Wacky world burned to the ground with no survivors in 2011... Sorry man"
Person: "But I was just on their website!"
Owner: "Yeah, your browser just skull fucked you."
My cousins all have New Holland equipment for this reason. They're easy to repair, all the engine codes are published and parts are easily orderable.
It'll be cool to watch... I'm sure they'll be some RUD's until they get the whole thing perfected.
So when they start landing Falcon Heavy boosters are the two side boosters going to be landing there and the 3rd out at the drone ship?
What that said the launch was by the numbers and was awesome. I've got friends in FL who heard the sonic boom of the first stage reentering.
Since they were only boosting Dragon to LEO they didn't have to deploy the drone ship. I watched it online last night. I did notice the feed started with only a few minutes before launch which saddened me because I like to listen in on the launch coordinator loop while they're going through all the preflight checks.
Hopefully SpaceX will expose the audio feed so those of us who are nerds about this can listen in for the whole thing.
Poorly created comments are the work of the devil, plan and simple. Imagine working on a piece of software after it's been in active development for 10 years.
Some libraries just work and nobody's even looked at the code for 1/2 a decade. Shitty comments will kill you, or worse others...
Linus can be a needlessly pretentious ass about things, but I agree with him on this one.
I think the term RUD is an old school engineering/rocketeering term. It's actually the complete opposite of a corporate-speak term imaginable.
Now if Musk had said: "Upon reentry the first stage suffered a propulsion anomaly that cased a loss of the vehicle." and then dropped the mike and walked off stage... that would be corporate speak.
I want more of these. I want them to understand every shortcoming of their system possible. Every failure means they (hopefully) make it more reliable.
The function could have been "windows_10_forced_install"
Right in the middle of your COD match, the box will decide to upgrade itself to windows 10...
Do understand that a while ago Telsa said publically that they were opening all the Telsa patents for the super charging stuff and that they wouldn't be defending those patents.
Sounds like a business opportunity to me! In the next ~5 years, tens of thousands of cars that need charging infrastructure are going to be hitting the road. I couldn't sell infinite space heaters to Eskimos and even I see this as obvious. Which means either I suck at stuff like this and there's something really obvious about the economics I'm missing or there's plans for this.
Either way though, supply and demand dictates someone will see a need and fill it, with electrons.
The next question is what are you going to building in these industrial zones in space? Let's imagine for a moment that you decided that making CPUs was just too dirty for Earth and you were going to instead build a chip fab in space.
The first question is, are you going to use existing fab technology or invent zero-g chip fab tech?
Let's imagine you go the latter route first... That's going to be a huge chunk of change... And we haven't even started to talk about the facility in space you're going to be using this fab in... Which logically means unless you're up for lots and lots of F9 and BO launches, you're backing on serious LEO heavy lift capability coming online that's not 400M per launch...
I'm not saying you can't do it... I'm just saying... you're liking starting to talk some number of billions of dollars and you haven't even got a CPU to earth yet.
Though with that all said, I've always mused that at some point we're going to run out of aritable land and our only option is going to be to start building O'Neil cylinders and growing food in space.
That's something that once you got the structure built, and you've figured out the plan/grow/harvest cycles such that different chunks of the cylinder were always in some phase you'd be shipping food back to Earth in very regular intervals.
Like the guy whose got a reusable rocket...
This is how I solved my Smart TV problem... Honestly I find the interface better
Listen if you write a windows app it has to adhere to all kind of HCI standards where shit like the red X actually means cancel...but Microsoft can simply violate all their rules for there underhanded tactics.
My wifes computer kept threating to upgrade to windows 10, we skipped right to Ubuntu.
What would you expect from a Tesla executive?!? They're in the business of selling cars that use a technology that competes with fuel cells!
I would LOVE to listen to NPR in the morning while at the gym... via FM. My gym does have wifi but it kills your connection after 30 minutes!
Yes, because he's intimately involved in the day to day running of SpaceX, Telsa and Solar City. He can't be in every place all the time. I imagine he delegates a shitload. I bet he didn't know much about it until his attorney showed up in his office to explain why they were getting sued.
He in turn called the operations manager for the plant and shit started rolling down hill.
Warning: Conjecture and air chair engineering here at it's finest...
SpaceX generally builds one thing and then keeps improving on it. I suspect when they built the flight computers and avionics the intention is for them to be common across both platforms. Likewise I would argue that from an engineering point of view they've tried to keep Dragon and Dragon V2 as common as possible.
Hence, lots of lessons learned from Dragon can be applied directly to Dragon V2.
I read books on my kindle and PDF's and technical stuff on my iPad.
I'd also argue that baring a color kindle, the iPad is great for graphical novel reading.
Yes that does mean that when I'm traveling for business I'm carrying a laptop, kindle and Ipad.
We've heard these noises from Russia before. I can't help but think at this point the Russians are just shouting whatever they think might sound the most appealing into the microphone. In the near (~5 years) the US is going to stop relying on Russia to get Astronauts to the ISS. Once that happens hundreds of millions of dollars are suddenly going to stop going into Russian coffers.
This combined with a much more robust and inexpensive launch options (Space X, ULA, Blue Origin, Skylon?, etc) is going to further squeeze the already cash strapped Russia Space Agency/Industry.
I'll be happy to see them do it, but at this point it's just talk. Once I get past my budgetary issues, I'm going to be setting up a colony on Ganymede. All I need is to develop a launch vehicle, a survivable transit vehicle and a viable habitat...
Specific to the thread, I'm speaking about ocean acidification, rising atmospheric CO2 levels, sea level and ocean temperature.
These are things that there is conclusive proof are being caused by human activity.
That actually would be cool... if they could use it as a garbage scow... fill it with trash, close the hatch and then see if the escaping air could be used to propel it into a decaying orbit.
I suspect they'll keep it closed, with a pressure sensor connected to the ISS network. They'll use it as a spot to store things they don't care that much about in case it was to depressurize.
Do understand that Bigelow has Genesis 1 and 2 which are currently in orbit.
They've launched stuff before and (as far as they're saying) it's held up.