There's no 'push back against commercial space exploration' from NASA, they're the ones mandating programs like 'Commercial Resupply Services' and 'Commercial Crew Program' . SpaceX officials thank NASA at every opportunity for the funding and support without which they might not have survived the early years.
If anything, more research like this is possible because commercial companies can provide the more routine services at lower costs, allowing NASA to concentrate on the science.
It's not just the magic spore drive, everything about the writing is sloppy techno-babble and stupid character decisions.
Look at the groundhog's day episode, some two bit smuggler manages to get his hands on time-travel tech that everyone seems to know about but no one is going to ever use again because it's 'illegal' or something, so we're going to see entire spaceships destroyed in the war when this thing could easily resolve battles in the favor of any side that uses it? So he murders the crew, what, 50 times, but it's ok, the timeline resets, it's not like there's a possibility of 50 alternate timelines where the survivors just have to go on from that point, no, har har, we'll punish him by making him go back to his girlfriend.
Oh, you've been having trouble maintaining your magical telepathic link to the Vulcan guy? I'll just replicate this device I've been working on in two minutes.
Oh, I got to the rank of a security officer on this special ops starship but I'll just open the cage for this large creature with giant claws and impervious skin and attack it to do what exactly, besides getting killed and clearing a spot for the next guy?
I could probably go on, but the whole thing is not really that memorable and is starting to fade for me.
I was looking forward to seeing what a continuous plotline would look like in the Star Trek universe, or what happens when the reality of war sets in and the Federation can't hold on to its rules and ideals. I think television writing in general has evolved past the trope of the week thing, but I could probably live with it if it wasn't so fucking sloppy.
I suspect pants are not even crapped to a sufficient capacity yet.
Roscosmos recently announced they're going to design a simpler to manufacture, expendable Soyuz 5 rocket that would match SpaceX's current launch prices, in 5 years.
Ariane is going to bring the Ariane 6 to market in 2-3 years without consideration to reusability, and if I remember correctly, their CEO said it would take on the order of 10 years to develop anything reusable.
ULA haven't even selected an engine for their next rocket yet, and any reusability considerations are an afterthought years down the line from when the rocket actually flies.
At this point the best any of the major players are aiming for is to try matching last year's prices 3-4-5 years down the line, as if SpaceX is just going to sit there and wait, and a 10 year development cycle is still a reasonable expectation.
And by then they'll be bringing out a new unproven design, while Flacon 9 will have a history of 100 flights, 900 operational engine fires. SpaceX will have the economy of scale in pad operations of launching every other week or even more rapidly than that. SpaceX will have a profit margin to fall back on from their reused rockets that they're currently using to pay off the R&D, to lower prices even futher. And they'll have rockets sitting there waiting to match a customer with a free launch slot while their competitors will require ordering a new rocket built a year or so in advance.
SpaceX is going to eat up the commercial launch sector, and all these companies are going to get are subsidized scraps from their respective governments, and demand for specialized features like ULA's longer lifespan second stage.
Of course there's still room for Blue Origin to grow into, as well companies that aim to sell cheaper rockets for smaller payloads, and presumably China and India.
The orbiter is reused as well, it just took NASA some time agree to it. They've already reflown one Dragon, and I believe the plan is to use all refurbished ones from this point on.
They're also working on recovering payload fairings, and an attempt to recover the second stage next year.
I assume Microsoft can't offer support for this software, and I very much doubt Russian authorities would crack down on the copyright infringement, so what's the point of paying for a license that holds no legal significance to anyone involved?
According to this aticle, which, sure, is from a biased source, a researcher funded by Tesla is able to get only 5% decrease in capacity over 1200 cycles, and some of the research is already going into production.
Tesla already uses different chemistry optimized for stationary storage than they do for cars or you see in other applications like phones and laptops.
They're also planning large scale battery recycling at the factory that produces them. And I'm not sure about the Powerpacks, but the Powerwalls seem to have a 10 year warranty to stay within 70% capacity.
Presumably because he's a busy man with at least three companies to run and he can't be made aware of and try to solve every possibly problem on earth. But when large highly talked about events happen people tend to learn new information about them and act on it.
Ok, I'm a designer, I work at a studio where I get paid a salary, and sometimes I do freelance work in which case I get paid for the amount of work I did. Do you think I should get paid every time something I worked on gets published or aired? Because I certainly don't feel entitled to it. And I fail to see how me spending a day in front of a computer and a Wacom tablet is different from a drummer in a recording studio.
Another method that I've... err.. come across: Since stock photographers try to maximize their exposure (pun not intended, but noted), the put up their images on a bunch of stock photo sites, each site has its own watermark, usually in a different location, so if you google image search the watermarked image, you can fill in the watermarked areas from those other images.
If you watch the video that's basically what it does. It goes through a bunch of images with the same type of watermark and isolates it, to be later used as a mask for the removal.
I wanted to open an account to follow some people whose work I'm interested in. An hour after creating the account, having done nothing with it, It's been locked and I've been told that it looks like I'm a bot registering multiple accounts and the only way to unlock it is to authenticate though my phone number. So I wrote to support that it seems like a pretty scammy way to get my phone number, and I'd be happy to talk to them, but I'm not interested in handing out that sort of information. Never heard back from them.
Are you intentionally lying or just bad at putting across that you're pulling information out of your ass?
From Tesla's site: "Eight surround cameras provide 360 degrees of visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range. Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system. A forward-facing radar with enhanced processing provides additional data about the world on a redundant wavelength that is able to see through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the car ahead."
Yeah, Slashdot, that bastion of Microsoft fanboyism, where's the outrage at the product that started shipping two days ago and no one has has a chance to interact with?
If the payload is so critical they can't afford to lose it, they'd better build a backup. Just because you launch 100 times without a problem doesn't guarantee the 101st will be a success.
Now, to some extent SpaceX is the insurance because there is a requirement of having two launch providers for assured access to space. Up until now ULA provided both rocket families, but with Delta IV headed for retirement and Atlas V planned to be replaced by Vulcan, the Falcon family may very well be the safer choice with a longer track record of success in a few years. Which is why SpaceX was handed the next X-37B launch without ULA even being allowed to bid.
According to the author of the article, the $422m figure is the average estimated cost per launch, figuring all the cost-plus, launch-readiness extra costs, with one Delta Heavy and several Atlas Vs. https://www.reddit.com/r/space...
Also, SpaceX are giving launch cost figures for the Falcon Heavy, which are listed on the site as $90m for 8mT to GTO. Of course it hasn't launched yet so things may change, but you can't say they're not giving these figures.
Of course for a one-off satellite that costs several billion some extra margin of safety might be worth the cost, but when we're talking about something multiple identical units like GPS, it might be cost effective to just build a few extra ones.
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There's no 'push back against commercial space exploration' from NASA, they're the ones mandating programs like 'Commercial Resupply Services' and 'Commercial Crew Program' .
SpaceX officials thank NASA at every opportunity for the funding and support without which they might not have survived the early years.
If anything, more research like this is possible because commercial companies can provide the more routine services at lower costs, allowing NASA to concentrate on the science.
It's not just the magic spore drive, everything about the writing is sloppy techno-babble and stupid character decisions.
Look at the groundhog's day episode, some two bit smuggler manages to get his hands on time-travel tech that everyone seems to know about but no one is going to ever use again because it's 'illegal' or something, so we're going to see entire spaceships destroyed in the war when this thing could easily resolve battles in the favor of any side that uses it?
So he murders the crew, what, 50 times, but it's ok, the timeline resets, it's not like there's a possibility of 50 alternate timelines where the survivors just have to go on from that point, no, har har, we'll punish him by making him go back to his girlfriend.
Oh, you've been having trouble maintaining your magical telepathic link to the Vulcan guy? I'll just replicate this device I've been working on in two minutes.
Oh, I got to the rank of a security officer on this special ops starship but I'll just open the cage for this large creature with giant claws and impervious skin and attack it to do what exactly, besides getting killed and clearing a spot for the next guy?
I could probably go on, but the whole thing is not really that memorable and is starting to fade for me.
I was looking forward to seeing what a continuous plotline would look like in the Star Trek universe, or what happens when the reality of war sets in and the Federation can't hold on to its rules and ideals.
I think television writing in general has evolved past the trope of the week thing, but I could probably live with it if it wasn't so fucking sloppy.
I suspect pants are not even crapped to a sufficient capacity yet.
Roscosmos recently announced they're going to design a simpler to manufacture, expendable Soyuz 5 rocket that would match SpaceX's current launch prices, in 5 years.
Ariane is going to bring the Ariane 6 to market in 2-3 years without consideration to reusability, and if I remember correctly, their CEO said it would take on the order of 10 years to develop anything reusable.
ULA haven't even selected an engine for their next rocket yet, and any reusability considerations are an afterthought years down the line from when the rocket actually flies.
At this point the best any of the major players are aiming for is to try matching last year's prices 3-4-5 years down the line, as if SpaceX is just going to sit there and wait, and a 10 year development cycle is still a reasonable expectation.
And by then they'll be bringing out a new unproven design, while Flacon 9 will have a history of 100 flights, 900 operational engine fires.
SpaceX will have the economy of scale in pad operations of launching every other week or even more rapidly than that.
SpaceX will have a profit margin to fall back on from their reused rockets that they're currently using to pay off the R&D, to lower prices even futher.
And they'll have rockets sitting there waiting to match a customer with a free launch slot while their competitors will require ordering a new rocket built a year or so in advance.
SpaceX is going to eat up the commercial launch sector, and all these companies are going to get are subsidized scraps from their respective governments, and demand for specialized features like ULA's longer lifespan second stage.
Of course there's still room for Blue Origin to grow into, as well companies that aim to sell cheaper rockets for smaller payloads, and presumably China and India.
Boeing and Airbus didn't lose a rocket due to substandard steel from a supplier, SpaceX did.
So about a 3x capacity in 7 years?
Doesn't sound particularly ambitious, nor 'in the near future'.
The orbiter is reused as well, it just took NASA some time agree to it.
They've already reflown one Dragon, and I believe the plan is to use all refurbished ones from this point on.
They're also working on recovering payload fairings, and an attempt to recover the second stage next year.
I assume Microsoft can't offer support for this software, and I very much doubt Russian authorities would crack down on the copyright infringement, so what's the point of paying for a license that holds no legal significance to anyone involved?
And Tesla is getting this data from every car they sell, for free.
According to this aticle, which, sure, is from a biased source, a researcher funded by Tesla is able to get only 5% decrease in capacity over 1200 cycles, and some of the research is already going into production.
Tesla already uses different chemistry optimized for stationary storage than they do for cars or you see in other applications like phones and laptops.
They're also planning large scale battery recycling at the factory that produces them.
And I'm not sure about the Powerpacks, but the Powerwalls seem to have a 10 year warranty to stay within 70% capacity.
Presumably because he's a busy man with at least three companies to run and he can't be made aware of and try to solve every possibly problem on earth.
But when large highly talked about events happen people tend to learn new information about them and act on it.
No way, an XBOX controller might work for those amateurs in the navy, but the Airforce master race will accept no substitute to keyboard and mouse.
If he's so interested in developments in Linux, could he maybe have a word or two with other VPs in his own company?
Adobe software is the only thing keeping me on Windows, all other software I use professionally has Linux versions.
Ok, I'm a designer, I work at a studio where I get paid a salary, and sometimes I do freelance work in which case I get paid for the amount of work I did.
Do you think I should get paid every time something I worked on gets published or aired?
Because I certainly don't feel entitled to it.
And I fail to see how me spending a day in front of a computer and a Wacom tablet is different from a drummer in a recording studio.
I believe they already have that technology in Hawaii.
I ditched it around the time they decided it needed to play video, burn CDs and have a fucking integrated browser.
Another method that I've... err.. come across:
Since stock photographers try to maximize their exposure (pun not intended, but noted), the put up their images on a bunch of stock photo sites, each site has its own watermark, usually in a different location, so if you google image search the watermarked image, you can fill in the watermarked areas from those other images.
If you watch the video that's basically what it does.
It goes through a bunch of images with the same type of watermark and isolates it, to be later used as a mask for the removal.
The just got back from swimming in the pool, and the water was cold...
I wanted to open an account to follow some people whose work I'm interested in.
An hour after creating the account, having done nothing with it, It's been locked and I've been told that it looks like I'm a bot registering multiple accounts and the only way to unlock it is to authenticate though my phone number.
So I wrote to support that it seems like a pretty scammy way to get my phone number, and I'd be happy to talk to them, but I'm not interested in handing out that sort of information.
Never heard back from them.
You can find more details and a video Q&A here:
http://www.teslarati.com/tesla...
It's 100-megawatt, 129 megawatt hour.
Heh, wait till you hear about their rocket engines...
Are you intentionally lying or just bad at putting across that you're pulling information out of your ass?
From Tesla's site:
"Eight surround cameras provide 360 degrees of visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range. Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system. A forward-facing radar with enhanced processing provides additional data about the world on a redundant wavelength that is able to see through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the car ahead."
Yeah, Slashdot, that bastion of Microsoft fanboyism, where's the outrage at the product that started shipping two days ago and no one has has a chance to interact with?
If the payload is so critical they can't afford to lose it, they'd better build a backup.
Just because you launch 100 times without a problem doesn't guarantee the 101st will be a success.
Now, to some extent SpaceX is the insurance because there is a requirement of having two launch providers for assured access to space.
Up until now ULA provided both rocket families, but with Delta IV headed for retirement and Atlas V planned to be replaced by Vulcan, the Falcon family may very well be the safer choice with a longer track record of success in a few years.
Which is why SpaceX was handed the next X-37B launch without ULA even being allowed to bid.
According to the author of the article, the $422m figure is the average estimated cost per launch, figuring all the cost-plus, launch-readiness extra costs, with one Delta Heavy and several Atlas Vs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space...
Also, SpaceX are giving launch cost figures for the Falcon Heavy, which are listed on the site as $90m for 8mT to GTO.
Of course it hasn't launched yet so things may change, but you can't say they're not giving these figures.
Of course for a one-off satellite that costs several billion some extra margin of safety might be worth the cost, but when we're talking about something multiple identical units like GPS, it might be cost effective to just build a few extra ones.