Yes, 3000 tons is the fully fuelled mass.
I don't think they have publicly stated the dry mass, but it will be a small fraction of that. Falcon 9 first stage dry mass is only 5% of the fuelled mass. Its mostly fuel tanks.
So I'm guessing 100 to 150 tons. You could probably strap that on top of a 747, like they did with the shuttle orbiter. Or the An-225.
Not a coincidence, Beavis. Musk has said that the BFR name is derived from the BFG weapon in Doom. The humour lies in implying (but not saying) Big Fucking Rocket. The "falcon" version came later.
Lead is but one of the heavy metals that coal fired plants spew into the environment, in massive amounts. Compared to them, nuclear plants are decidedly clean.
This is all true, but lead is a very small part of that problem. Only 41 tonnes of lead from coal in 2014, compared to around 100 tonnes from leaded avgas, and over 100,000 tonnes/year back when cars used leaded gasoline.
I don't want to victim blame, but I'm not going to AI blame for something
It is very common for serious accidents to be caused by more than one thing going wrong at the same time. And courts routinely split the blame by some percentage for liability insurance purposes.
Even if the victim wandered in front of the car, you'd expect a self driving car to avoid her or at least hit the brakes. Whatever the liability, there are sure to be lessons to learn here.
I hope this inevitable event does not slow development, because I'm convinced that AI can be better than human drivers, you and I excluded of course.
Verge says: "Early reports suggested that she may have been a bicyclist, but that was not the case."
The road has a hard shoulder, and cycle lane at the nearby intersection. It sounds like the woman was jaywalking at night, pushing a loaded bike across a major road with no lights next to a park, instead of crossing at the nearby traffic light intersection. Does not make much sense. I'd wait for more info before blaming Uber on this one.
Neither. Just the sort of boring coincidence you expect to find if you throw enough variables on the table. Do you find horoscopes spookily accurate too?
Chongqing is perhaps better known as Chungking (in the old Wade-Giles system). And the name is clearly a reference to the legendary Chungking Mansions" in Hong Kong. What better metaphor for the Gnome code-base?
Eyesore, ghetto, jungle, goldmine, little United Nations. These are all words that have been used to describe Chungking Mansions, a building complex that is seen as both a foreign island in Hong Kong and an important part of the Chinese city's identity.
From the outside, Chungking Mansions looks like a single, imposing concrete block - 15 identical residential floors on top of a neon-lit, two-storey mall.
Past the front, it is like a maze - there are in fact five separate blocks, 10 lifts and multiple old, twisting stairwells filled with swathes of electrical cable, crumbling concrete and graffiti in multiple languages.
The complex began life as an upmarket residential estate in the 1960s, but has since become a hub for traders from developing countries, backpackers and asylum seekers in Hong Kong.
Of course, this means you have to guess what kind of thing will be valuable enough 100 or 1000 years from now for someone to extract your consciousness.
One bitcoin should be worth a few trillion dollars by then.
Sadly, due to the hyperinflation initiated by Donald “First of all, you never have to default because you print the money” Trump, that won't get you a cup of coffee.
They'd already fail the background check and would be undeterred by ANY law that would limit their access to guns (because they've already made the decision to criminally acquire and carry and use them)
Sorry, you'll have to explain this. Are you trying to say that it is impossible to implement gun-control in Baltimore? The point of gun control is to make it harder for people to get guns, not just tell them they are not allowed. That would be silly.
Especially, make it hard to obtain the most deadly weapons in the heat of the moment. It is not going to stop organised gangs, but that doesn't mean we give up.
Are you thinking that this is not possible in Baltimore? Too many illegal guns in circulation already? Too easy to steal them? Why could it not be enforced?
We had a lone-nutter Islamic terrorist take hostages in Sydney a while back. The best he could obtain was an ordinary shotgun. If it was the US, he would have had an assault rifle, semi-automatic pistol, pump-action shot gun, and a lot more people would have died.
AC still does not get it. A microorganism might be harmless in one population, and deadly in another. Whether it is a pathogen or not is determined by its effects, and varies by context. You cannot "science" it in isolation.
The problems ARE concentrated in specific places.... that they throw the entire nation's stats way off.
The "If you remove four or five specific urban areas... the US is one of the lowest murder rate countries" is a total fabrication. Don't pat yourself on the back for being better than Mexico. Given that not a single state has a low homicide rate, you'd have to be removing an awful lot of "specific" areas.
And the mass-shootings are almost always in the US. Given this problem, it is crazy that a lone nutter can so easily obtain multiple semi-automatic weapons. What is so wrong with background checks and waiting periods? Why should a gun license be easier to get than a driving license?
What science? The causes of homosexuality, and evolutionary advantages (if any) remain a mystery, the subject of mere speculation.
We all love to say how tolerant we are, but if science tomorrow found that homosexuality was a result of a deficiency of a particular mineral at a critical stage of development, almost every mother would be popping it down with the folic acid. (and not talking about it.) And the world might be all the poorer for it.
Isn't Elon one of those people from shithole countries? that Trump wants banned?
Nope. South Africa, and some neighbouring countries, as well as North African countries, are far better places than El Salvador and Haiti. Not saying everything is awesome in SA, but there is really no comparison.
After all the bullshit the Donald has said, why so much fuss over one of his more accurate observations? Importantly, he said it in private, not in public.
If you remove four or five specific urban areas... the US is one of the lowest murder rate countries in the developed world. But sure, it's the guns.
That is way overstating your case. Removing poor black urban areas with high homicide rates will help, but even New Hampshire, the state with the lowest homicide rate, is around 1 per 100,000, comparable to big cities with visible crime problems in Australia or Europe, and far from "the lowest murder rate countries".
Yes, fear of guns in the US is greatly exaggerated. I've tried to persuade people that the US is quite safe to visit. But twisting the truth like that to say there is no gun problem... its just incomprehensible to us outsiders.
The mistaken idea that a rocket flew by pushing against the air behind it was a common one that many scientists of the era believed, even when Goddard had demonstrated by experiment
Really? I thought Newtonian physics was widely accepted by then.
Anyway, Goddard was in no position to laugh at them. He built the first liquid rocket with the engine at the top, thinking this would make it more stable, when basic Newtownian laws said no. He had to learn the hard way.
homosexuality was Scientifically acknowledged by Scientific experts to be a disorder.
Not to contradict the point you are awkwardly trying to make, but this part is wrong. Whether or not homosexuality is classified as a disorder, or a benign variation, has little to do with science. Like the medical definition of addiction, it depends on how it affects your life. If you live in a society where sodomy is frequently punished by death, but you keep doing it, you have an illness. Societies fault perhaps, but an illness still. Social context can change the medical classification, without any changes in the hard science.
You know how many toxic chemicals and bad vibes go into making those solar panels man? Natures solar panels are called trees, and that's all we need. Wood still burns when the sun does not shine, no need for toxic batteries.
There is nothing inhernetly superior with the metric system over the US customary system.
You've clearly never done any science or engineering. Even social scientists can appreciate the benefits of the decimal system, and avoiding conversion factors. Not to mention the ongoing problems in the US with two standards running at once. [cough] Mars Climate Orbiter [/cough]
The French really screwed up by not switching to a metric second (1/100,000 of a day) along with the kg and metre. So we are a bit stuck with non-decimal calendar/clocks, but that's no excuse for persisting with hour-based non-SI units such as km/hr and kWhrs.
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Yes, 3000 tons is the fully fuelled mass.
I don't think they have publicly stated the dry mass, but it will be a small fraction of that.
Falcon 9 first stage dry mass is only 5% of the fuelled mass. Its mostly fuel tanks.
So I'm guessing 100 to 150 tons. You could probably strap that on top of a 747, like they did with the shuttle orbiter. Or the An-225.
Not a coincidence, Beavis.
Musk has said that the BFR name is derived from the BFG weapon in Doom.
The humour lies in implying (but not saying) Big Fucking Rocket. The "falcon" version came later.
Lead is but one of the heavy metals that coal fired plants spew into the environment, in massive amounts. Compared to them, nuclear plants are decidedly clean.
This is all true, but lead is a very small part of that problem. Only 41 tonnes of lead from coal in 2014, compared to around 100 tonnes from leaded avgas, and over 100,000 tonnes/year back when cars used leaded gasoline.
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-e...
I don't need the karma whoring, but why not. Here I think, is the actual article in the Lancet by Lanphear et al.
abstract: http://www.thelancet.com/journ...
full text: http://www.thelancet.com/journ...
I don't want to victim blame, but I'm not going to AI blame for something
It is very common for serious accidents to be caused by more than one thing going wrong at the same time.
And courts routinely split the blame by some percentage for liability insurance purposes.
Even if the victim wandered in front of the car, you'd expect a self driving car to avoid her or at least hit the brakes.
Whatever the liability, there are sure to be lessons to learn here.
I hope this inevitable event does not slow development, because I'm convinced that AI can be better than human drivers, you and I excluded of course.
Verge says: "Early reports suggested that she may have been a bicyclist, but that was not the case."
The road has a hard shoulder, and cycle lane at the nearby intersection.
It sounds like the woman was jaywalking at night, pushing a loaded bike across a major road with no lights next to a park, instead of crossing at the nearby traffic light intersection. Does not make much sense. I'd wait for more info before blaming Uber on this one.
Highly probable or just a freaky coincidence?
Neither. Just the sort of boring coincidence you expect to find if you throw enough variables on the table.
Do you find horoscopes spookily accurate too?
Chongqing is perhaps better known as Chungking (in the old Wade-Giles system).
And the name is clearly a reference to the legendary Chungking Mansions " in Hong Kong.
What better metaphor for the Gnome code-base?
Eyesore, ghetto, jungle, goldmine, little United Nations. These are all words that have been used to describe Chungking Mansions, a building complex that is seen as both a foreign island in Hong Kong and an important part of the Chinese city's identity.
From the outside, Chungking Mansions looks like a single, imposing concrete block - 15 identical residential floors on top of a neon-lit, two-storey mall.
Past the front, it is like a maze - there are in fact five separate blocks, 10 lifts and multiple old, twisting stairwells filled with swathes of electrical cable, crumbling concrete and graffiti in multiple languages.
The complex began life as an upmarket residential estate in the 1960s, but has since become a hub for traders from developing countries, backpackers and asylum seekers in Hong Kong.
Not posthumously, BUT, if we do a wick rotation, he may be able to get an imaginary Nobel Prize before he dies.
Of course, this means you have to guess what kind of thing will be valuable enough 100 or 1000 years from now for someone to extract your consciousness.
One bitcoin should be worth a few trillion dollars by then.
Sadly, due to the hyperinflation initiated by Donald “First of all, you never have to default because you print the money” Trump, that won't get you a cup of coffee.
No, I'm saying that they've already implemented very stringent gun control in Baltimore.
Isn't the problem with local control totally obvious? They just drive to the next town. Its embarrassing having to say that.
Such laws only impact the law-abiding.
Catchy slogan, but simply is empirically not true. Take a look at the world.
Or, he could have spent $50 on stuff from the kitchen and hardware stores, and easily killed dozens of people if he could read.
You really think so? And yet, that does not happen.
They'd already fail the background check and would be undeterred by ANY law that would limit their access to guns (because they've already made the decision to criminally acquire and carry and use them)
Sorry, you'll have to explain this. Are you trying to say that it is impossible to implement gun-control in Baltimore?
The point of gun control is to make it harder for people to get guns, not just tell them they are not allowed. That would be silly.
Especially, make it hard to obtain the most deadly weapons in the heat of the moment. It is not going to stop organised gangs, but that doesn't mean we give up.
Are you thinking that this is not possible in Baltimore? Too many illegal guns in circulation already? Too easy to steal them? Why could it not be enforced?
We had a lone-nutter Islamic terrorist take hostages in Sydney a while back. The best he could obtain was an ordinary shotgun. If it was the US, he would have had an assault rifle, semi-automatic pistol, pump-action shot gun, and a lot more people would have died.
AC still does not get it. A microorganism might be harmless in one population, and deadly in another. Whether it is a pathogen or not is determined by its effects, and varies by context. You cannot "science" it in isolation.
paralyzed by political correctness and afraid of SJWs
I loathe those as much as the average NRA member, but what is the connection?
Which is why we usually prefer that medical definitions follow science, rather than fashion.
You seem to be confusing medicine with medical science. Medicine is applied science that exists in a social context.
The problems ARE concentrated in specific places. ... that they throw the entire nation's stats way off.
The "If you remove four or five specific urban areas ... the US is one of the lowest murder rate countries" is a total fabrication.
Don't pat yourself on the back for being better than Mexico. Given that not a single state has a low homicide rate, you'd have to be removing an awful lot of "specific" areas.
And the mass-shootings are almost always in the US. Given this problem, it is crazy that a lone nutter can so easily obtain multiple semi-automatic weapons.
What is so wrong with background checks and waiting periods? Why should a gun license be easier to get than a driving license?
What science? The causes of homosexuality, and evolutionary advantages (if any) remain a mystery, the subject of mere speculation.
We all love to say how tolerant we are, but if science tomorrow found that homosexuality was a result of a deficiency of a particular mineral at a critical stage of development, almost every mother would be popping it down with the folic acid. (and not talking about it.) And the world might be all the poorer for it.
Isn't Elon one of those people from shithole countries? that Trump wants banned?
Nope. South Africa, and some neighbouring countries, as well as North African countries, are far better places than El Salvador and Haiti.
Not saying everything is awesome in SA, but there is really no comparison.
After all the bullshit the Donald has said, why so much fuss over one of his more accurate observations? Importantly, he said it in private, not in public.
If you remove four or five specific urban areas ... the US is one of the lowest murder rate countries in the developed world. But sure, it's the guns.
That is way overstating your case. Removing poor black urban areas with high homicide rates will help, but even New Hampshire, the state with the lowest homicide rate, is around 1 per 100,000, comparable to big cities with visible crime problems in Australia or Europe, and far from "the lowest murder rate countries".
Yes, fear of guns in the US is greatly exaggerated. I've tried to persuade people that the US is quite safe to visit. But twisting the truth like that to say there is no gun problem ... its just incomprehensible to us outsiders.
The mistaken idea that a rocket flew by pushing against the air behind it was a common one that many scientists of the era believed, even when Goddard had demonstrated by experiment
Really? I thought Newtonian physics was widely accepted by then.
Anyway, Goddard was in no position to laugh at them. He built the first liquid rocket with the engine at the top, thinking this would make it more stable, when basic Newtownian laws said no. He had to learn the hard way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
homosexuality was Scientifically acknowledged by Scientific experts to be a disorder.
Not to contradict the point you are awkwardly trying to make, but this part is wrong.
Whether or not homosexuality is classified as a disorder, or a benign variation, has little to do with science. Like the medical definition of addiction, it depends on how it affects your life.
If you live in a society where sodomy is frequently punished by death, but you keep doing it, you have an illness.
Societies fault perhaps, but an illness still. Social context can change the medical classification, without any changes in the hard science.
You know how many toxic chemicals and bad vibes go into making those solar panels man?
Natures solar panels are called trees, and that's all we need.
Wood still burns when the sun does not shine, no need for toxic batteries.
They could have gone with milli-day as the standard unit, call it the chron. Then a metric second would be an informal name for the centi-chron.
There is nothing inhernetly superior with the metric system over the US customary system.
You've clearly never done any science or engineering. Even social scientists can appreciate the benefits of the decimal system, and avoiding conversion factors.
Not to mention the ongoing problems in the US with two standards running at once. [cough] Mars Climate Orbiter [/cough]
The French really screwed up by not switching to a metric second (1/100,000 of a day) along with the kg and metre.
So we are a bit stuck with non-decimal calendar/clocks, but that's no excuse for persisting with hour-based non-SI units such as km/hr and kWhrs.