the point is the Ariane program is hugely subsidized, so complaining about any SpaceX subsidy is hypocritical. No, that is not the point. The point is (at he claims so) that Space X sells launches in the US for 100M to government and for 50M to european customers. And that has a name, it is called dumping.
Obviously the European Space Agency is subsidized: it is a fucking government organization. But it is supposed to write a black zero at the end of the fiscal year. Which it can't if it gets put out of business by a guy who does not like competition. Or we have to subsidize them more, until it is just to expensive for the tax payer.
Elon should simply charge the same price for everyone and invest the gains he makes instead of driving the guys from the market who created the market.
I guess it was pretty clear and consistent when the terms were coined. Eggplants, a fruit *and* vegetable, and Tomatoes, Pumkins and Cucumbers did not exist in Europe when our ancestors decided that stuff that grows/ripes on trees/bushes are fruits and stuff that grows on the ground or underground are vegetables.
There'll be people who would pay $50,000 on top of the car itself for a true self-driving car. Probably. But most likely not if it looks like this: https://cosmos-magazine.imgix.... (Article is here: https://cosmosmagazine.com/tec...) That car actually is already self driving without Ãoebers/Googles or Teslas "tech". Toyota has self driving cars since more than 15 years.
And then again: that would perhaps be the US market only. In Europe school kids use the bus to school, or walk, or they use the bicycle. It is a rare occasion that parents ride their kids to school or pick them up there.
Keep in mind we are talking about cars that would cost some 40,000 EURO, no one is buying such a thing for 95,000 EURO so he can safe pick up time from school.
What we are waiting for are cars with multiple lidar systems, that are spread over the corners and long edges of the car.
Same here in Germany, we have about 60 packs. Some estimate it is about 600 animals in total. Sad is, one pack killed a whole herd of sheep a few weeks ago. Of course the farmers get refunded, but it is ofc annoying and not good for the project.
Luckily the lynx are more quiet:D We have about 100 in Germany, but some idiots try to poisson them or even hunt them.
The German army had taken heavy damage from the invasion of Poland No they/we did not. Poland attacked the german tanks with cavalry and lances. I don't know if they had a single tank or fight ready plane (as in a plane with weapons and not only scout plane).
The Germans had barely entered France when Reynaud gave up. That is nonsense.
In contrast, even after France was in fact occupied by the Nazis, Only north France was occupied. South France was under reign by the Vichy Government. They collaborated with Germany in some way.
and the French might have a very different reputation today. In the US... No one in Europe, and the least the French, care what reputation France has in the US.
France is the center of Europe, cultural, in spirit, educational, and most certainly in food and wine. And besides the idiotic UK who are leaving, they have the finest armed forces in Europe. They have a superb reputation. Not at last due to 'la Resistance'. However they could have handled Vietnam and the rest of Indochina better and not drop nukes in north Africa.
De Gaulle was an asshole, he lost Algeria which probably would now be a kind of "part of France", and most certainly part of the EU. Why? Because he did not want to give them voting rights!
Like the US messed up Asia, and together with the Brits, the middle east, he messed up north Africa. Gaddafi in Lybia probably hat never made anything interesting if De Gaulle.
If de Gaulle had not turned out into a power hungry semi dictator, the world would be a different place.
But alas, that has nothing to do with the French's reputation in the rest of Europe.
There are many reasons why stuff went like this and not like that.
E.g. Turing cracked the Enigma. German subs positions where mostly known. The british radar was superior and could detect shallow diving subs and of course surfaced subs. So the brits used sailing cargo planes (without engine or engine off) to find subs with radar and bombed them. Many subs that did not see/hear them coming got lost that way. I believe the ME262 engine was removed and overhauled after each flight or every second flight. While the Americans build so many ships, they also had good ideas to make the so called escort carriers. Many ships on the route from America to UK were bombed by planes coming from Norway. That stopped after the Germans lost a few bombers to fighters launched from escort carriers. They could not even land again, they had to give up the fighter and jump with the para chute. Then again the Germans did not want to use their battleships, in the eye of Hitler they were to "precious". So he decided late to use them, when the Brits were relatively well prepared. After the Bismarck got lost, he decided to let the Tirpitz sit in its Fjord... The battlecruisers did useless missions until the captains basically all decided, to save the crew, scuttle the ships and take refuge in neutral countries. And all of them, while experienced captains, did not grasp the difference between a destroyer and a battlecruiser. At least that is what the brits who hunted them told about them. But that is war... if you knew what to do, you could often end it quickly, but all sides caught in fog of war and dumb decisions only draws out the killing.
The US was reluctantly working with England with the lend/lease program. Not Germany. Rofl. You know not much. You know what a Hollerith machine is? You know who sold the most to whom, when and why? You know who the biggest customer of Ford truck engines was? And trucks build under license? Should I go on?
And to be fair, Russia needs due credit for the lives lost to defeat Germany. Sure they do, like any other army that has inferiour material, inferiour tactics, and an incompetent leadership. Like north Korea, and Vietnam...
France did not sell any war material during the Falkland war to Argentinia, you are an idiot. They did the opposite, disabling the Exocet missiles partly, like they did in the second Gulf war.
The british had bad luck that the Exocet still could hit, but no war head exploded, only the remaining fuel.
During the Falkland war, the british refused all help from its allies... only Nepalese Gurka troops where following the Queens call to arms. But I guess they were de facto british soldiers, and not Nepalese support, as Nepal is not member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
My point is: if the brits had handled their pride better, they had asked Newzealand, Australia and Canada for support.
but neutral Belgium and Holland seemed ok with allowing Germany's forces to quickly shift to the west Why do you think such nonsense? They got conquered, like the rest of Europe, and then we attacked France.
and bypass the Maginot line entirely. We did not, we destroyed it with para troopers (Cargo Sailing planes landing on top them dropping about 20 troopers per plane, at night.) The line was designed to withstand field battles, not a night attack by special forces.
When the german troops entered France, it was simply utter stupidity by the French Generality not to listen to news and other reports about where the German troops where. The did not believe that Germany is actually attacking and already 100 miles inside of France.
*ALL* German troops where clocked up in traffic jams 50 miles or longer. They would have been easy target practicing if the Generals had been so prudent to sent at least one single scout plane too confirm the "news".
France fell so quickly because Panzereneral Heinz Guderian ignored several orders to stop proceeding. He basically only obeyed the order not to massacre the british troops in Duenkirch.
In a matter of about a week he hacked the whole French army into small patches of troops that could no longer defend their positions. Leaving a small crops of French soldiers here and another one there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The Wiki articles is a bit uninformative, I guess you find more and better results if you like to search.
Regarding "Fascists": there is no real big fascist movement. We have the Le Pen movement in France, the AFD in Germany, and the UK majourity voting for the BREXIT most certainly are not all fascists.
The people are mostly against immigration, not for a secret police Fuehrer state (regardless of country).
The "antiFa" is not a fascist group, they are left wing militant trouble makers, thats all.
And again: you are mixing up hate speech with hate speech. I can place every hate speech I want, unless it covers the 4 or 5 topics that are explicitly forbidden, e.g. public denying the Holocaust, or directly instigate to violent action. E.g. no one cares (including a state attorney) if I say "The Jews are cause for all important problems on the world". Especially if I follow up with: "If they had not gotten Israel back, we had no problems with Palestinians, Iran would not support Hamas, the Arabs would not hate the west so much... The Americans had not supported the Shah, then Sadam in Iraq, the 1st Golf War (between Iran and Iraq) had not happened. America had not bombed Iraq into the stone age, ISIS would not have conquered north Iraq and Syria.... etc. p.p."
You see: it might be a pretty simplistic view of the current world situation: but it is not hate speech.
Your whole premise in your talk is that there was a "united Europe" that did not get its ass up to fight against Hitler in time. Unfortunately that was not the case. They simply were single states that were happy that they survived WW1 more intact than Germany did. They surely had contracts to aid each other, but never set up an joined command (before WW2 I mean). Or any infrastructure to be able to shift troops around Europe to stop Hitlers troops.
Keep in mind, no one believed that Hitler or Mussolini or Franco would pull most of Europe into a war, most of north Africa, most of the middle east, and to that extend also far Asia which was conquered by Japan that was supported by e.g. Germany. Just like Germany fought basically every country in Europe, with a few allies like Rumania and Italy, Japan fought in nearly every Asian country.
There was basically no single place on the world where not either: German/Italian, British (later also Americans), Japanese, Russian and later Chinese troops where in action.
A friend of mine spent his childhood as a prisoner of war in an Australian camp. He got capt
He meant "understand" as in "comprehend" and not as in "I'm fine with it".
This accident were the woman with the bicycle got killed is not comprehendible.
If your english comprehension level would be higher, we would not need to argue about synonyms that have slightly different meanings.
It should be called "driver assist" or something similar, which is what other manufacturers do. Obviously, but the article is about autonomous cars, not about "diver assist" (autopilot) cars.
The Volkswagen group is pushing their standard in Europe, but no idea how many other vendors are adopting it or find it even interesting.
I assume there will be a very low level standard for V2V, because most interesting are at the moment only traffic jams and other traffic obstructions. E.g. I'm not aware about a negotiation about the right of way between cars. A human driver would probably ignore such suggestions anyway:D
Why don't you google about those questions. They are all solved since decades, why the funk should a self driving car not see a stop sign? Or follow at a construction site?
The problem are not self driving cars. The problem is stat stupid 5 or 6 level categorizing schema, that allows L1 - L5 cars on the road: that require attention of the driver, but the driver assumes it is fully automated on autopilot.
Self driving cars are not sold to the public at the moment. Because e.g. Lidar technology is still to expensive for mass production. But nevertheless all majour manufactors have them, since ore than a decade.
Geothermal has a capacity factor of about 0.7. So the 38 MW the plant is rated for generates on average (38MW)*(0.7) = 26.6 MW.
Probably because people at night need less power and hence the plan is not running with full load during that time. No idea why people throw the "dreaded CF" around when they have no clue what it means and what can calculate from it.
I find the definition of reasonable privacy difficult to nail down.
Probably because you never spent a single minute thinking about others peoples rights of privacy?
If they are looking for _you_ and figure you were at 11:00PM at Times Square, for what fucking reason do they need to have _me_ in the database pointing out _I_ was at 11:00PM at the Louvre?
Superconductors are relatively easy in our times. If you don't mind the costs you simply cool a random metal down to close 0K.
No idea why you think that is difficult. However modern high temperature (with high we talk about 140K) are made from strange materials and complicated sandwiched, but we do that now sine 30 years on a regular base. There are plenty industrial applications especially in medicine.
The highest temperature conducting super conductors are around 200K/-70C but only work under unpractical conditions as super high pressure.
First of all: if an EM drive would work, it would not violate the laws of conservation of momentum. Otherwise: it would not work, plain and simple. And if one here can give an example why "violation of conversation of momentum" automatically implies violation of "conversation of energy" I would be surprised.
The torque came from the cables providing the power, not from the "EM drive". Using an electro magnet to push against the earth magnetic field is not as efficient as using an ion or hall drive (a hall drive is a glorified ion drive):
If you had read the summary or the article, you would know: this EM drive does not work at all. The measurement of "thrust" comes from the power lines, their small magnetic field is twisting the measuring wire.
A "bug" is defined culturally, not scientifically, and culturally we tend to think of spiders as bugs. Then *your* culture must have changed considerably. A bug has wings... a spider has none.
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the point is the Ariane program is hugely subsidized, so complaining about any SpaceX subsidy is hypocritical.
No, that is not the point.
The point is (at he claims so) that Space X sells launches in the US for 100M to government and for 50M to european customers. And that has a name, it is called dumping.
Obviously the European Space Agency is subsidized: it is a fucking government organization. But it is supposed to write a black zero at the end of the fiscal year. Which it can't if it gets put out of business by a guy who does not like competition. Or we have to subsidize them more, until it is just to expensive for the tax payer.
Elon should simply charge the same price for everyone and invest the gains he makes instead of driving the guys from the market who created the market.
Here are another 1800: http://www.transgen.de/sicherh...
Do you really want to check for every language and then we settle around 100k?
OBVIOUSLY "a million" is a figurative speak.
I really wonder how dumb people are in our times.
I guess it was pretty clear and consistent when the terms were coined.
Eggplants, a fruit *and* vegetable, and Tomatoes, Pumkins and Cucumbers did not exist in Europe when our ancestors decided that stuff that grows/ripes on trees/bushes are fruits and stuff that grows on the ground or underground are vegetables.
You simply say: "slow down to pedestrian speed". "Speed up 5km/h", "adjust speed to the pedestrian at our hight"
Or you simply pass the pedestrian and call the car to stop ... then you wait for him to catch up.
All not so difficult.
"It's through pedals and a steering wheel." ofc. But we are not discussing this at the moment.
There'll be people who would pay $50,000 on top of the car itself for a true self-driving car.
Probably.
But most likely not if it looks like this: https://cosmos-magazine.imgix.... (Article is here: https://cosmosmagazine.com/tec...)
That car actually is already self driving without Ãoebers/Googles or Teslas "tech". Toyota has self driving cars since more than 15 years.
And then again: that would perhaps be the US market only. In Europe school kids use the bus to school, or walk, or they use the bicycle. It is a rare occasion that parents ride their kids to school or pick them up there.
Keep in mind we are talking about cars that would cost some 40,000 EURO, no one is buying such a thing for 95,000 EURO so he can safe pick up time from school.
What we are waiting for are cars with multiple lidar systems, that are spread over the corners and long edges of the car.
Same here in Germany, we have about 60 packs. Some estimate it is about 600 animals in total.
Sad is, one pack killed a whole herd of sheep a few weeks ago. Of course the farmers get refunded, but it is ofc annoying and not good for the project.
Luckily the lynx are more quiet :D We have about 100 in Germany, but some idiots try to poisson them or even hunt them.
The German army had taken heavy damage from the invasion of Poland
No they/we did not. Poland attacked the german tanks with cavalry and lances.
I don't know if they had a single tank or fight ready plane (as in a plane with weapons and not only scout plane).
The Germans had barely entered France when Reynaud gave up.
That is nonsense.
In contrast, even after France was in fact occupied by the Nazis,
Only north France was occupied. South France was under reign by the Vichy Government. They collaborated with Germany in some way.
and the French might have a very different reputation today. ...
In the US
No one in Europe, and the least the French, care what reputation France has in the US.
France is the center of Europe, cultural, in spirit, educational, and most certainly in food and wine. And besides the idiotic UK who are leaving, they have the finest armed forces in Europe. They have a superb reputation. Not at last due to 'la Resistance'. However they could have handled Vietnam and the rest of Indochina better and not drop nukes in north Africa.
De Gaulle was an asshole, he lost Algeria which probably would now be a kind of "part of France", and most certainly part of the EU. Why? Because he did not want to give them voting rights!
Like the US messed up Asia, and together with the Brits, the middle east, he messed up north Africa. Gaddafi in Lybia probably hat never made anything interesting if De Gaulle.
If de Gaulle had not turned out into a power hungry semi dictator, the world would be a different place.
But alas, that has nothing to do with the French's reputation in the rest of Europe.
There are many reasons why stuff went like this and not like that.
E.g. Turing cracked the Enigma. German subs positions where mostly known. The british radar was superior and could detect shallow diving subs and of course surfaced subs. So the brits used sailing cargo planes (without engine or engine off) to find subs with radar and bombed them. Many subs that did not see/hear them coming got lost that way. ... ... if you knew what to do, you could often end it quickly, but all sides caught in fog of war and dumb decisions only draws out the killing.
I believe the ME262 engine was removed and overhauled after each flight or every second flight.
While the Americans build so many ships, they also had good ideas to make the so called escort carriers.
Many ships on the route from America to UK were bombed by planes coming from Norway. That stopped after the Germans lost a few bombers to fighters launched from escort carriers. They could not even land again, they had to give up the fighter and jump with the para chute.
Then again the Germans did not want to use their battleships, in the eye of Hitler they were to "precious". So he decided late to use them, when the Brits were relatively well prepared. After the Bismarck got lost, he decided to let the Tirpitz sit in its Fjord
The battlecruisers did useless missions until the captains basically all decided, to save the crew, scuttle the ships and take refuge in neutral countries. And all of them, while experienced captains, did not grasp the difference between a destroyer and a battlecruiser. At least that is what the brits who hunted them told about them.
But that is war
The US was reluctantly working with England with the lend/lease program. Not Germany.
Rofl.
You know not much. You know what a Hollerith machine is? You know who sold the most to whom, when and why? You know who the biggest customer of Ford truck engines was? And trucks build under license?
Should I go on?
And to be fair, Russia needs due credit for the lives lost to defeat Germany. ...
Sure they do, like any other army that has inferiour material, inferiour tactics, and an incompetent leadership. Like north Korea, and Vietnam
France did not sell any war material during the Falkland war to Argentinia, you are an idiot.
They did the opposite, disabling the Exocet missiles partly, like they did in the second Gulf war.
The british had bad luck that the Exocet still could hit, but no war head exploded, only the remaining fuel.
During the Falkland war, the british refused all help from its allies ... only Nepalese Gurka troops where following the Queens call to arms. But I guess they were de facto british soldiers, and not Nepalese support, as Nepal is not member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
My point is: if the brits had handled their pride better, they had asked Newzealand, Australia and Canada for support.
but neutral Belgium and Holland seemed ok with allowing Germany's forces to quickly shift to the west
Why do you think such nonsense? They got conquered, like the rest of Europe, and then we attacked France.
and bypass the Maginot line entirely.
We did not, we destroyed it with para troopers (Cargo Sailing planes landing on top them dropping about 20 troopers per plane, at night.) The line was designed to withstand field battles, not a night attack by special forces.
When the german troops entered France, it was simply utter stupidity by the French Generality not to listen to news and other reports about where the German troops where. The did not believe that Germany is actually attacking and already 100 miles inside of France.
*ALL* German troops where clocked up in traffic jams 50 miles or longer. They would have been easy target practicing if the Generals had been so prudent to sent at least one single scout plane too confirm the "news".
France fell so quickly because Panzereneral Heinz Guderian ignored several orders to stop proceeding. He basically only obeyed the order not to massacre the british troops in Duenkirch.
In a matter of about a week he hacked the whole French army into small patches of troops that could no longer defend their positions. Leaving a small crops of French soldiers here and another one there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The Wiki articles is a bit uninformative, I guess you find more and better results if you like to search.
Regarding "Fascists": there is no real big fascist movement. We have the Le Pen movement in France, the AFD in Germany, and the UK majourity voting for the BREXIT most certainly are not all fascists.
The people are mostly against immigration, not for a secret police Fuehrer state (regardless of country).
The "antiFa" is not a fascist group, they are left wing militant trouble makers, thats all.
And again: you are mixing up hate speech with hate speech. I can place every hate speech I want, unless it covers the 4 or 5 topics that are explicitly forbidden, e.g. public denying the Holocaust, or directly instigate to violent action. E.g. no one cares (including a state attorney) if I say "The Jews are cause for all important problems on the world". Especially if I follow up with: "If they had not gotten Israel back, we had no problems with Palestinians, Iran would not support Hamas, the Arabs would not hate the west so much ... The Americans had not supported the Shah, then Sadam in Iraq, the 1st Golf War (between Iran and Iraq) had not happened. America had not bombed Iraq into the stone age, ISIS would not have conquered north Iraq and Syria .... etc. p.p."
You see: it might be a pretty simplistic view of the current world situation: but it is not hate speech.
Your whole premise in your talk is that there was a "united Europe" that did not get its ass up to fight against Hitler in time. Unfortunately that was not the case. They simply were single states that were happy that they survived WW1 more intact than Germany did. They surely had contracts to aid each other, but never set up an joined command (before WW2 I mean). Or any infrastructure to be able to shift troops around Europe to stop Hitlers troops.
Keep in mind, no one believed that Hitler or Mussolini or Franco would pull most of Europe into a war, most of north Africa, most of the middle east, and to that extend also far Asia which was conquered by Japan that was supported by e.g. Germany. Just like Germany fought basically every country in Europe, with a few allies like Rumania and Italy, Japan fought in nearly every Asian country.
There was basically no single place on the world where not either: German/Italian, British (later also Americans), Japanese, Russian and later Chinese troops where in action.
A friend of mine spent his childhood as a prisoner of war in an Australian camp. He got capt
He meant "understand" as in "comprehend" and not as in "I'm fine with it".
This accident were the woman with the bicycle got killed is not comprehendible.
If your english comprehension level would be higher, we would not need to argue about synonyms that have slightly different meanings.
It should be called "driver assist" or something similar, which is what other manufacturers do.
Obviously, but the article is about autonomous cars, not about "diver assist" (autopilot) cars.
Strange that no European or Japanese car has those problems.
Why should a camera not be able to detect how high a sign is? Or a radar system?
There are standard APIs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Volkswagen group is pushing their standard in Europe, but no idea how many other vendors are adopting it or find it even interesting.
I assume there will be a very low level standard for V2V, because most interesting are at the moment only traffic jams and other traffic obstructions. E.g. I'm not aware about a negotiation about the right of way between cars. A human driver would probably ignore such suggestions anyway :D
You can't pull down to walking speed next to someone you know and ask them if they want a ride.
How do you know that?
Why don't you google about those questions.
They are all solved since decades, why the funk should a self driving car not see a stop sign? Or follow at a construction site?
The problem are not self driving cars. The problem is stat stupid 5 or 6 level categorizing schema, that allows L1 - L5 cars on the road: that require attention of the driver, but the driver assumes it is fully automated on autopilot.
Self driving cars are not sold to the public at the moment. Because e.g. Lidar technology is still to expensive for mass production. But nevertheless all majour manufactors have them, since ore than a decade.
Geothermal has a capacity factor of about 0.7. So the 38 MW the plant is rated for generates on average (38MW)*(0.7) = 26.6 MW.
Probably because people at night need less power and hence the plan is not running with full load during that time.
No idea why people throw the "dreaded CF" around when they have no clue what it means and what can calculate from it.
I find the definition of reasonable privacy difficult to nail down.
Probably because you never spent a single minute thinking about others peoples rights of privacy?
If they are looking for _you_ and figure you were at 11:00PM at Times Square, for what fucking reason do they need to have _me_ in the database pointing out _I_ was at 11:00PM at the Louvre?
Superconductors are relatively easy in our times.
If you don't mind the costs you simply cool a random metal down to close 0K.
No idea why you think that is difficult. However modern high temperature (with high we talk about 140K) are made from strange materials and complicated sandwiched, but we do that now sine 30 years on a regular base. There are plenty industrial applications especially in medicine.
The highest temperature conducting super conductors are around 200K/-70C but only work under unpractical conditions as super high pressure.
First of all: if an EM drive would work, it would not violate the laws of conservation of momentum. Otherwise: it would not work, plain and simple.
And if one here can give an example why "violation of conversation of momentum" automatically implies violation of "conversation of energy" I would be surprised.
Never heard about that. No one ever claimed strong thrusts. And no one ever claimed to use an EM drive to launch a rocket.
The torque came from the cables providing the power, not from the "EM drive".
Using an electro magnet to push against the earth magnetic field is not as efficient as using an ion or hall drive (a hall drive is a glorified ion drive):
He did not mean "average" speed.
He meant top speed at the point where he is reversing the thrust to decelerate to reach the destination.
If you had read the summary or the article, you would know: this EM drive does not work at all.
The measurement of "thrust" comes from the power lines, their small magnetic field is twisting the measuring wire.
A "bug" is defined culturally, not scientifically, and culturally we tend to think of spiders as bugs. ... a spider has none.
Then *your* culture must have changed considerably. A bug has wings