Oh yeah, I mean all of the wind’s energy comes from solar heating. If you want to point a finger, it’s the sun’s fault.

I mean that’s not super helpful, but that is definitely the source of the energy.

Yep, it looks like that new much larger downcomer may really be the thing to thank, now they can actually feed all those engines fast enough.

Pulling out is super easy. Just don’t release a compromised version of the app. Done.

If the app in its current form doesn’t comply with Canadian law, then the play store can’t legally distribute it. So, problem solved.

So basically Signal can pull out of Canada by doing nothing different than they’re already doing.

As for the users who already have the app installed, well that’s just too bad for the Canadian government isn’t it.

Yeah they also lost a sea level raptor on the booster towards the end of the accent. That’s honestly not a big deal, losing 1/28 engines at a point in the flight when they’re already probably throttling down a bunch.

But still, they’ve got some kinks to work out with the raptor 3.

That said, did you see how much faster it left the launch pad? They’ve seriously increased the thrust with these new raptors.

I believe the expression is:

I hear you that such a large rocket is not “needed” very often, but it can still be used. I believe the plan is to ramp down falcon 9 production and go to starship launches for everything, even smaller payloads, simply because it’s cheaper and more sustainable. As long as they launch regularly, the price should still be lower than falcon 9. And at least on paper, it is more sustainable, burning methane results in cleaner exhaust than burning kerosene, the only major exhaust products are CO2 and water. And not letting an upper stage burn up or fall into the ocean is an ecological plus too.

but it also requires a much larger space economy.

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In this world, starship is a waste of time and money.

Well I don’t think I agree with these statements at all. The thing is, if/when they get starship to work, not only will it be able to lift significantly more mass to orbit than the falcon 9, it will likely be cheaper per launch. Not cheaper per kg to orbit, but cheaper overall than launching a falcon 9 (remember, they need to build a new falcon second stage for each launch). That is such a significant improvement that I’d argue that its development is totally worthwhile even if the demand for launches were to stay stagnant.

And honestly, we definitely need some heavy lift rocket. The Saturn V doesn’t exist anymore and the SLS is… economically unrealistic.

Well I think you’re not exactly wrong, the idea to do starlink was definitely about their rockets, but I’d say it was clearly more about falcon 9 than about starship or jump-starting a bigger satellite industry.

First off, starlink works, it’s essentially done and it never used the starship to get its satellites to orbit. So in that light, it clearly wasn’t about starship because it didn’t use it (though it surely will at some point).

But you can just look at what they did with the falcon 9 to see that this was really the reason behind starlink. The thing is, they were designing this reusable rocket and it had never been done before. As a result nobody thought it would work. Nobody trusted it, nobody wanted to put their payload on a rocket they didn’t trust, and no banks would insure these payloads as they had low expectations for success. As a result, spaceX could build a reusable booster, but they couldn’t get anyone to buy it.

SpaceX was basically left with 2 options: They could continue to launch rockets with no real payload to prove the reliability of their reused boosters, essentially wasting a whole bunch of launches. Or they could create their own payloads to launch, accept the risk themselves, demonstrate that the reusable boosters worked fine, and not waste every launch.

The advantage of taking that second option was that they could continue to iterate and make constant changes and upgrades to their rocket. Normally, making big changes would put your vehicle back into the “untested and untrusted” category, but if they continued to have their own payloads to put up, they could continue to demonstrate its reliability.

I will say though, I think starship is absolutely about jump-starting a larger space industry. I think completely reusable rockets are a necessary first step to any larger, more permanent utilization of space.

Well that’s really cool…

Let’s see if they get the Marshalls organized within the next couple weeks. It would be cool to see them arrest a few uncooperative wardens.

Lol, after a prototype proves the viability, they built a larger scale version, more capable, more power, and they use it to run folding@home…

This solution probably doesn’t need pumps. Pumping seawater is tricky, parts corrode, salt deposits build up, algae grows and clogs, regular maintenance is needed.

I’ll bet what they’re doing is a sealed system with large radiators, the seawater cools the radiators, the radiators cool the air in the internal closed-loop system which never actually touches seawater.

At least, if I were designing the system, that’s what I would try to do.

If it’s being powered by wind, it’s not adding additional energy to the environment, at all. It all comes down to conservation of energy, and no chemical changes are occurring.

Electrical energy is being generated by harvesting kinetic energy in the wind, that’s essentially just moving energy, converting it from one form to another. Energy can be swapped and converted around, but in the end, it almost always ends up turning into heat or light.

That wind, one way or another was going to convert its energy into heat. Most often it does that by convection, causing water vapor in the air to change state, after condensing, the now warmer water release its heat into the ocean when it falls as rain.

Turning a wind turbine to generate electricity, to run computers, is a much more elaborate route to take, but the result is the same. The wind is moving slower, a lower energy state, but the ocean is warmer, a higher energy state. It all evens out.

Edit: I just realized, that sometimes that kinetic energy from wind contributes to storms and sometimes those storms generate lightning, and while most of the energy from lightning does turn into heat, some of that energy generates light, and some of that light shoots out into space (actually escaping the earth). So probably, higher wind speeds do result in cooling the earth a very little bit (but it’s likely negligible)

Petty name calling, what a great addition to this community.

Almost ironic really, I’m appreciating childlike wonder, and you’re acting like a child.

I hate this take. Air shows are awesome, they fascinate children and adults alike. Seeing these machines first hand is inspiring…

There’s little enough in this world that I would describe as “inspiring”, so I’ll take what I can get.

This is the actual issue to worry about. Everything else is smoke and mirrors, this is the real issue at hand. The corps want complete control, and they’re probably gonna get it.

I wouldn’t want to live next to one, but they’re cool as shit to fly over. When I fly from the east coast to LA, at some point when I’m over Nevada I’ll be able to look out the window and see what looks like a bright star shining in broad daylight, out in the desert in the distance. After thinking about it for a while I decided it could really only be one thing, that’s a concentrated solar plant. It’s truly impressive how far away you can see it from.

The thumbnail tricked me, I thought this was going to be an XKCD, disappointed.

Well I hear those complaints, I feel like I used to be a gamer, and now that I have a family and a whole bunch of responsibilities, these days I’m more of a guy with a fancy PC.

I read some other posts in this thread saying it was too easy, and I guess I can understand that. There weren’t a lot of places that had me stumped for long.

I think they do need to consider adding in some new mechanics to the puzzles, I think they lean heavily on the light beams and I’d love to see some weirder stuff. For instance, the way that portal 2 added liquids, and the liquids had cool interactions with the existing mechanics. Cubes could bounce or slide on them. The streams of liquids could flow through portals, etc. In Talos, they add new mechanics from time to time, but they don’t always interact with each other in interesting ways. I know that’s difficult to do, but that might be the key to a good puzzle game sequel.

I really enjoyed the second one as well. Out of curiosity, what didn’t work for you?

What counts as NSFW when you work in porn?