Try being a diabetic with such a diet. You won't live long. There is no high-carb no-sugar. Carbs are sugar. The only difference is if its a slow absorbed sugar vs a fast absorbed sugar.
That SpaceX failure happened during the hold down phase. In any decent manned booster you only put people on the rocket after the wet dress rehearsal and the hold down test. Plus, solids can't be throttled.
You don't need one. Even Proton could do a lunar flyby and it has a lot less payload than a Falcon 9 Heavy will have. There's basically no inner solar system mission you can't do with a Falcon 9 Heavy and multiple launches with in-orbit assembly.
Solids have horrible failure modes for a manned space flight platform. Not to mention they are inefficient like heck. The only reason to use solids is because you're indirectly funding ICBM tech. I'm not sure I agree with the LOX/H2 thing though. It kind of depends on the vehicle and engine design. But it is true hydrocarbons are a lot more dense and hence result in less vehicle manufacturing costs.
180. That's as long as Adam was supposed to have lived according to the Bible. If you believe that sort of thing. I think the modern recorded limit is like 122.
No shit. Take this quote from Dostoyevsky: “The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov z
...have the potential for the most devastating effects of accidents... Hardly. More people have died out of hydropower accidents. As for slow deaths coal emissions like carbon monoxide are one of big factors behind heart diseases. Which are a leading cause of death worldwide.
...produces the most toxic waste in both terms of preparation of the fuel and the fuel itself after it's been "spent"... There are plenty of other toxic human activities like gold mining. Ever heard of leeching with cyanide? Neither of the toxic products need to be stored close to places where human activity occurs.
...something which produces tons and tons of weapons grade waste which needs to be kept safe for thousands of years is "clean". It is clean in terms of air pollution. As for the waste the volume could be minimized significantly if the fuel cycle was closed. The technology exists.
...Nuclear power is a leftover from the utopian dreams people had in the 50's before they knew what they were dealing with. It's not cheap, not safe and definitely not clean. It's one of the cheapest forms of grid connected power. If it's the cheapest or not depends on the local conditions.
And yet a continent that's larger than Europe, has more people than Europe, etc did not manage to either fight the Europeans off or hold its own. A place where humanity came from so it's not like the issue was they weren't there long enough to develop. Compare Sub-Saharan Africa to China or to even the Americas. It's all kind of lame really.
I don't blame the Europeans for Africa's backwardness. I think it's more due to parasites like malaria and sleeping sickness sapping people's productivity overall.
I think it's more like they have nothing new to announce with their constant respins of the same shit over and over. Heck NVIDIA still has their own event.
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Try being a diabetic with such a diet. You won't live long. There is no high-carb no-sugar. Carbs are sugar. The only difference is if its a slow absorbed sugar vs a fast absorbed sugar.
I wonder why UHT milk imitation products still exist...
Because they last a long time without a refrigerator. Not everyone may have a refrigerator or they may only drink milk occasionally.
The only other alternative is dried milk.
Indeed. Human level face recognition software already exists and it has replaced approximately zero jobs.
I guess you've never used an airport's automated check-in service.
At least OS/2 has preemptive multitasking and memory protection. I think.
You think that's bad? They still use 8" floppies to control the Minuteman nuclear missiles.
That SpaceX failure happened during the hold down phase. In any decent manned booster you only put people on the rocket after the wet dress rehearsal and the hold down test. Plus, solids can't be throttled.
FWIW SpaceX uses TEA-TEB for the LOX/Kerosene rocket ignition. A teensy amount of it but still.
Only issue is it has corrosion and toxicity issues that make NERVA seem clean in comparison.
Remember Challenger? When solids fail the possibility of vehicle loss is quite high.
You don't need one. Even Proton could do a lunar flyby and it has a lot less payload than a Falcon 9 Heavy will have. There's basically no inner solar system mission you can't do with a Falcon 9 Heavy and multiple launches with in-orbit assembly.
Solids have horrible failure modes for a manned space flight platform. Not to mention they are inefficient like heck. The only reason to use solids is because you're indirectly funding ICBM tech. I'm not sure I agree with the LOX/H2 thing though. It kind of depends on the vehicle and engine design. But it is true hydrocarbons are a lot more dense and hence result in less vehicle manufacturing costs.
Actually the limit was 110 supposedly. It's probably stored as a base 10 decimal number. Maybe in BCD format. This being a stodgy financial database.
180. That's as long as Adam was supposed to have lived according to the Bible. If you believe that sort of thing. I think the modern recorded limit is like 122.
From what I've read about him so far. Unlike Bill Gates.
He's also the one who invested in Alibaba in the first place though.
No shit. Take this quote from Dostoyevsky:
“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov z
Wood burning causes shittons of air pollution. It's even worse than coal. Anthracite coal, for example, is marvelously clean in comparison.
It's rather bogus to ship wood pellets across the Atlantic to burn when there's anthracite coal in England.
Solar? Water pollution with solvents on silicon wafer manufacturing.
Geothermal? Earthquakes induced by water injection.
Wind? Need rare-earth electromagnets.
Dams? Think of the fish.
Like you said everything has drawbacks. It's a matter of choosing the best solution for the case in question.
...have the potential for the most devastating effects of accidents...
Hardly. More people have died out of hydropower accidents. As for slow deaths coal emissions like carbon monoxide are one of big factors behind heart diseases. Which are a leading cause of death worldwide.
There are plenty of other toxic human activities like gold mining. Ever heard of leeching with cyanide? Neither of the toxic products need to be stored close to places where human activity occurs.
It is clean in terms of air pollution. As for the waste the volume could be minimized significantly if the fuel cycle was closed. The technology exists.
It's one of the cheapest forms of grid connected power. If it's the cheapest or not depends on the local conditions.
And yet a continent that's larger than Europe, has more people than Europe, etc did not manage to either fight the Europeans off or hold its own. A place where humanity came from so it's not like the issue was they weren't there long enough to develop. Compare Sub-Saharan Africa to China or to even the Americas. It's all kind of lame really.
I don't blame the Europeans for Africa's backwardness. I think it's more due to parasites like malaria and sleeping sickness sapping people's productivity overall.
You don't know what you're talking about as usual. It was the Note that had the battery issue. The regular S7 worked perfectly fine.
Whatever. Dune II predates it.
I think it's more like they have nothing new to announce with their constant respins of the same shit over and over. Heck NVIDIA still has their own event.
How the mighty stumble.
Ever heard of Inditex? Ortega is the richest person in Europe.
Same thing here. Stupid interface is just asking for trouble. But this does kind of remind me of the Captain Crunch episode.