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  1. Re:This could pay for desalination on Researchers Fish Yellowcake Uranium From the Sea With a Piece of Yarn (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    exactly right. We need to move to desalinating ocean water, esp for those within 50-150 miles of the coast.
    By separating things like U, Li, Au, Ni, etc from the sea waters, we can help pay for desalination.
    Even smarter yet, would be to build a number of SMALL nuclear power plants around the coastal region, and use these as well.
    Nuscale is perfect with some 60 MW / reactor. Put in 10 of these / site and you have 600 MW.

  2. Re:Once they have the industry, they want to push on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    While I suspect that Taiwan does NOT have bio-chem weapons, most nations around the globe do in fact have these. They are very cheap to make, effective, and most of all, untraceable if you know what you are doing. If fact, if you really know what you are doing, you can point the path at another nation.

  3. No TGV accidents?
    I will take hyperloop over TGV or any twin rail system.

  4. ULA STILL charges a lot more. Even with these atlas at 177M, that does not include their yearly ~1B subsidy.

  5. which actually, they pretty much used to do. They have gotten ~1B/year subsidy since their inception. To that, they were launch Atlas 5s/Deltas at around 200-350M. Add in that subsidy and adds about ~100M / launch.

  6. Re:Compared to... on SpaceX Wins $130 Million Air Force Launch Contract, Marking a First For Falcon Heavy (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ULA USED to charge over 300M per launch. SX has forced it way down and they are still too expensive. That $354M does not include the 1B yearly subsidy .

  7. Not really. He is really an idiot. Who else should pay to launch our military sats? Obviously it is going to be tax-payers.
    The real issue is that /. is now loaded with trolls. /. needs to decide if they are going to clean up this crap or simply allow /. to die.

  8. LOL.
    SX launches for a fraction of what ULA does and you accuse SX of leeching tax dollars.
    Gads, I miss when the FUD was off-site and trolls were stopped quickly. Now, /. is nothing but a troll base and being destroyed. Sad.

  9. Right now, China is trying hard to control Cobalt by buying up mines all over (like they did with REMs) and spreading lots of lies.
    BUT, The Phillipines, along with Canada and Australia, all have plenty of Cobalt to last another decade for all batteries. IOW, if they took over 100% of all cobalt mining, they would still have an easy 10+ years. So, even with China trying to control this, they really can not. What is HAPPENING is that China is manipulating the stock prices and only idiots will buy into this garbage.

  10. Now, fries, drinks, shakes, etc on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Should all be automated. I'm amazed that drinks still have not been automated. So much wasted labor on that. Even fries can be easily automated.

  11. Re: So what, who cares? on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    The fact that you had to get msce training speaks why you have no understanding or appreciation for what they did. You still have another 20 years of education to go before you get it.

  12. Re: Cost twice as much as In-N-Out on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They use top ingredients such as hormone-free, pasture fed beef with decent cuts( brisket/Chuck ). In/out probably has feed-lot full of hormones/antibiotics with pure Chuck. In addition, they are paying 16/he, while your help was likely paid minimum along with food stamps, WIC, etc. I hope this place makes it to Colorado.

  13. Re: That long? on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Kind of weird to bring up humans when talking about burgers. Are yours made with Soylent green?

  14. Re: Playing the patriotism card ... on US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, the reason is simple. Until you see REALLY see things, you do not know WHAT to believe. The fact is, our gov lies as much as any others. As such, it becomes difficult. If you read carefully what I wrote, you will see that back on the biological work under reagan, I was disillusioned with what our gov was doing. I knew what USSR was up to, but we also knew that USSR was finished in early 80s. Basically, all the presidents PRIOR to regan took out the USSR. He prolonged USSR's life by 10 years. Of course to be fair, it is very possible that he kept us out of a hot war. When gov are collapsing, they tend to bring up other things to pay attention to (trump should come to mind; do not pay attention to Mueller ). I really was surprised that the Soviets did not attack beyond Afghanistan. But,I quit doing that because of it. Now, I see that Russia comes up again, and is just the same with putin in control. Sad.

    My twin had an interesting observation. He was stationed in S. Korea back when the Koreans were all protesting against their ongoing war. One thing he commented on, was that before doing military duty, the Koreans protested. However,once they were in the military and saw what was going on in the DMZ as well as off-shore, few would protest again. Same thing here.
    Personally, I do not have a big issue with Dork. He is understandable.

  15. Re:in other words on US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    damn it. He did switch citizenship. I thought he was still Indian.

  16. Re:Playing the patriotism card ... on US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lol. We obviously grew up at the same time, but obviously we see things differently. See, my father sat on a runway with a single payload for a week in Oct 1962. Likewise, I worked for the DOD doing bio-chemical warfare research and became well aware of how much work the Soviet was doing with biologicals (esp anthrax and small pox), along with Chemicals( esp Novichok ). None of this was horseshit.

    However, I will say that I got out of that because I felt that USSR was gone clear back in early 80s and reagan was simply delaying things. So I went into coding. Of course, in the 00s, I ended up working again with gov agencies. In this case, I was working on PAT act. Considering the equipment was so cool, I stayed with it. However, testing means that you see/listen to things. Even Samples. And one of the things you find out, is that America is under a massive threat from a number of parties. That includes China most of all. In fact, I dealt with 2 CHinese spies. One was sent to the mainland (though he came from Taiwan, he wanted mainland upon being booted). But others were also in the mix.

    The point is, this was not horseshit again. ANd that was about 10 years ago.

    Just because you want to either close your eyes to it, or think of yourself as a peacenik, or are actually working for the Russian/Chinese/etc, does not mean that it does not exist.

  17. Re:in other words on US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sundar Pichai is NOT American. He is Tamilian Indian from Tamil Nadu and choose to not get his American Citizenship.

  18. These GOP are against Google working with a company that is spying on the west (which they are right to do), BUT, they support Trump's backing of ZTE who was caught not only spying, but selling off intelligence to other groups.

    And Americans wonder why we are in such a fucked up state.

  19. Re:Again with the baseless accusations (and lies) on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is 10s of millions asshole. You continue to lie over and over.

  20. ONLY way this happens is if fossil fuel is stopped on World Trending To Hit 50% Renewables, 11% Coal By 2050: Report (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, we need to stop building fossil fuel plants, esp. coal. These are going to kill this.

  21. Re: Far more concerned about CHina's dumping on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1
  22. And ppl want Tesla to go to CHina? LOL on Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This will be common amongst the employees there. Of course, I would like to know who this data went to. Tesla's REAL IP has never been about the car, but how to get their manufacturing costs way down.
    And considering that only Ford has grown this fast, they have been amazing.

  23. Re:Limitations of deadly viruses / deadly bacteria on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, porky/red tide. You are fucking LOADED with Virus. A large chunk of our DNA is nothing BUT VIRUS. The only reason that we know a number of the other virus is that they produce symptoms, such as sneezing, or death, so then we look for these virus.
    Chances are good that you have Herpes and simply do not show it. Just like Genital warts. Heck, the vast majority of STI were asymptomatic (Im sure new ones have been discovered but they are likely asymptomatic, otherwise, you would hear about it in the press).

  24. The same is true of Wyoming.

  25. Far more concerned about CHina's dumping on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Look at the MONSTER plastic reef in the oceans. China is #1 nation with tagged plastic in it. IOW, they continue to dump their plastics into the ocean. Like CO2 and air pollution, this needs to stop. Hopefully, we will see china dumping less plastics into the oceans, while the other nations (dominantly western nations) clean up their own act.