Fictional scenarios? You're doing more to prove that you don't understand what's going on in your own backyard, let alone what's going on in your own universities. Pick your poison of speakers: political correctness, Israel, deportation of illegals. Those are all cases from Germany in the last 6 months where speakers have been deplatformed.
"My own universities?" There's no German universities in my country.
In the part where you believe that universities are apolitical, they're not.
People may not be apolitical, but institutions can. It's actually codified in our law, at least to the extent that political organizations are banned from universities. That doesn't of course prevent students from organizing outside universities, or participating in politics, but universities pushing for political positions would likely get in deep shit.
Never mind that you can find the stories if you dig hard enough.
Beam divergence kills you. However, it's quite possible that very lightweight reflectors (~10 grams per square meter) could make at least stationary solar power viable to significant distances in the outer solar system.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the limitations of space travel.
No, I don't.
Let's say I'm on Triton.
Good luck trying not to sink into all that nitrogen ice.
Solar panels provides 0.1% of the energy than it does near Earth. How am I going to turn all that water I mine into hydrolox fuel?
You use a nuclear power plant (before it sinks into all that nitrogen ice). Then you pump it into a non-nuclear rocket. Did you notice how bad servicing nuclear devices is once they fired even once? It sucks.
And just for the record, all nuclear engines have extremely high Isp.
The ones we have an idea how to actually build don't. They're also too heavy. They also have very limited lifetime. You can prolong it by running them a bit cooler, but then they suck even more.
Any space transportation infrastructure is going to use local resources for both cislunar and interplanetary travel. Nuclear propulsion would massively suck at mined mass usage since hydrolox propulsion can use about seven times more of mined mass of water than nuclear engines. Only theoretical nuclear engines with extremely high specific impulse would compensate for that drawback.
Why exactly does a city bus require an autonomous drive system?
It doesn't, but it might work even better, economy wise. Plus autonomous systems might allow for smaller, more personal vehicles operated by the city.
why you lefties are so enamored with pointless job killing technologies
1) Not a leftie. 2) "Pointless job killing technologies" have always been very popular with righties, too. Didn't you notice the relatively extremely rightie United States becoming a world leader in automation in the second part of the 20th century?
why all those universities go out of their way to remove speakers they disagree with.
Because UK is a crazyland, just like the US. Fortunately I don't have to suffer living in either, and I was most not certainly having UK in mind when I wrote "in large parts of Europe". Hell, the UK isn't apparently even considered Europe by many Brits.
Universities in Europe are, have, and do actively remove/revoke speakers from speaking at their universities. Whether they're old school feminists who's view points no longer "fit" with the new feminist order. Or speakers who argue for more free speech in Europe.
As I said, luckily we don't have this problem. Hell, your fictional scenarios look ridiculous from where I stand.
You seem to fail to understand that universities are the place where your views should be tested...
Of course, that's a major part of their purpose. Why would I fail to see that?
... and in European countries your views aren't being tested because they're banning people who would challenge them. European universities have been doing this since the 1970's
Possibly, but I don't even see any evidence that this particular car was build in a tent. It could have easily come from the older production lines as well. It's not like those haven't had any manufacturing problems on their own.
The 2010 Nissan Leaf with 70 miles of range sold for $25,000. Buying 3 of them and strapping them together will get you the same 200 miles of range for the same price as a Tesla.
Only until their batteries break in a few years. Tesla may be somewhat more expensive but it is likely to have significantly higher lifetime quality. As we're saying in my country, I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things.
despite being told by the rescue chief in charge that it wouldn’t work
Then it's a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, considering that some other people in charge were apparently of a different opinion.
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If you're of them theist crazies, do that.
Education has never been 100% vaccination against stupid. Just look at Nobel prize winners...then extrapolate down to your dad.
There's some things that Javascript does better than anything else. Like asynchronous IO.
...what? If they're so good at that, why are they hiding it and forcing you into shitty half-baked hand-written continuations instead?
Just let about a dozen cats loose in the building
Cats?
"All I can say is, they don't make 'em like they used to." - Scotty (Star Trek 5)
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Fortunately for him, he's not attacking free speech.
The news banning him avoided showing any video
Gee, serious news organizations not wanting to expose people to total garbage? Must be a conspiracy or something.
Conservatism as a political philosophy isn't bigoted at all. It's skeptical.
If only that were the case... Judging by the number of conservatives believing in things that don't exist, it's not so hot.
Fictional scenarios? You're doing more to prove that you don't understand what's going on in your own backyard, let alone what's going on in your own universities. Pick your poison of speakers: political correctness, Israel, deportation of illegals. Those are all cases from Germany in the last 6 months where speakers have been deplatformed.
"My own universities?" There's no German universities in my country.
In the part where you believe that universities are apolitical, they're not.
People may not be apolitical, but institutions can. It's actually codified in our law, at least to the extent that political organizations are banned from universities. That doesn't of course prevent students from organizing outside universities, or participating in politics, but universities pushing for political positions would likely get in deep shit.
Never mind that you can find the stories if you dig hard enough.
OK, start digging, then?
It's a good thing, then, that this one case happened 5-15 years before the period in question.
Come on, stores need fire retardants, nor retards on fire.
What about new stores in old buildings? I'd suspect that Dutch buildings are older on average, especially in city centers.
Beam divergence kills you. However, it's quite possible that very lightweight reflectors (~10 grams per square meter) could make at least stationary solar power viable to significant distances in the outer solar system.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the limitations of space travel.
No, I don't.
Let's say I'm on Triton.
Good luck trying not to sink into all that nitrogen ice.
Solar panels provides 0.1% of the energy than it does near Earth. How am I going to turn all that water I mine into hydrolox fuel?
You use a nuclear power plant (before it sinks into all that nitrogen ice). Then you pump it into a non-nuclear rocket. Did you notice how bad servicing nuclear devices is once they fired even once? It sucks.
And just for the record, all nuclear engines have extremely high Isp.
The ones we have an idea how to actually build don't. They're also too heavy. They also have very limited lifetime. You can prolong it by running them a bit cooler, but then they suck even more.
Any space transportation infrastructure is going to use local resources for both cislunar and interplanetary travel. Nuclear propulsion would massively suck at mined mass usage since hydrolox propulsion can use about seven times more of mined mass of water than nuclear engines. Only theoretical nuclear engines with extremely high specific impulse would compensate for that drawback.
Nothing short of nuclear propulsion is going to get meaningful numbers of humans off the planet.
Why exactly does a city bus require an autonomous drive system?
It doesn't, but it might work even better, economy wise. Plus autonomous systems might allow for smaller, more personal vehicles operated by the city.
why you lefties are so enamored with pointless job killing technologies
1) Not a leftie. 2) "Pointless job killing technologies" have always been very popular with righties, too. Didn't you notice the relatively extremely rightie United States becoming a world leader in automation in the second part of the 20th century?
Where? For whom?
In Detroit. Well, at least they did, for a while.
why all those universities go out of their way to remove speakers they disagree with.
Because UK is a crazyland, just like the US. Fortunately I don't have to suffer living in either, and I was most not certainly having UK in mind when I wrote "in large parts of Europe". Hell, the UK isn't apparently even considered Europe by many Brits.
Universities in Europe are, have, and do actively remove/revoke speakers from speaking at their universities. Whether they're old school feminists who's view points no longer "fit" with the new feminist order. Or speakers who argue for more free speech in Europe.
As I said, luckily we don't have this problem. Hell, your fictional scenarios look ridiculous from where I stand.
You seem to fail to understand that universities are the place where your views should be tested ...
Of course, that's a major part of their purpose. Why would I fail to see that?
... and in European countries your views aren't being tested because they're banning people who would challenge them. European universities have been doing this since the 1970's
And around here, they stopped doing that in 1989.
And your tacit assumption is that this situation is permanent?
Not more than, say, one or two hundred million years at the outside, actually.
No, it was 30-40 years ago, and by that time the Japanese were already pretty good.
I meant the period when Japanese vehicles were bad, not the period when American companies were still badmouthing them.
Possibly, but I don't even see any evidence that this particular car was build in a tent. It could have easily come from the older production lines as well. It's not like those haven't had any manufacturing problems on their own.
The 2010 Nissan Leaf with 70 miles of range sold for $25,000. Buying 3 of them and strapping them together will get you the same 200 miles of range for the same price as a Tesla.
Only until their batteries break in a few years. Tesla may be somewhat more expensive but it is likely to have significantly higher lifetime quality. As we're saying in my country, I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things.
despite being told by the rescue chief in charge that it wouldn’t work
Then it's a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, considering that some other people in charge were apparently of a different opinion.