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imagine if snapchat announced that they would start living and dying on their core business rather than try to expand

now you have a bunch of investors who are upset that they invested in a company at a 16 billion dollar valuation that has jack diddly squat for income and has no promise of some magical "over the horizon" way to monetize

I honestly think a space race to Mars is a huge waste of time and effort. Literally the only reason to establish a colony on Mars right now is research, and that can be performed cheaper by robots.

I think the Moon would be a much better prospect. Lunar regolith can be refined into silicon, oxygen, iron, alumnium, and other metals. With hydrogen and a few other key metals imported from Earth, the Moon could become the center of space manufacturing for satellites, spacecraft, and other products that require an ultra-clean environment during manufacturing.

If a space war means putting mass into LEO/GEO is much more expensive because of armoring, mining the moon for resources becomes that much more appealing - especially considering it costs 1/20th the fuel to put an object in LEO from the Moon than from the Earth.

it wont, but the vast majority of errors with math formulas are along the lines of adding velocities with positions, raising something to the wrong power, using a multiply instead of an add, putting a parenthesis in the wrong spot, performing equations in the wrong order, etc.

all of those can get caught with type checking, but it isn't perfect

>"a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed"

offtopic, but a unit type would have prevented that. i had no idea how many errors i was making in my math programs before i started using F#'s type checker to make sure all the types lined up properly.

> This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place!

Rule 1: Don't confuse intelligence with experience.

Technological and critical thinking skills can be learned by everyone given enough time and effort. A lot of people dismiss any possibility of becoming technically minded by saying "only smart people can do that", even though they have the potential to gain the same skills.

in the article it says they don't want to submit to testing

> None of which gets round the core issue: if EHS is real, I asked Diane, then why has it not shown up in formal experiments? “I encourage scientists to go to where we are and measure the environment,” she replied. “Don’t try to pretend that you’re God and expose us to different frequencies in a lab. That’s like taking someone and breaking their legs and asking how much it hurts.”

can you add "hacker" to the data too?

it was heavy enough to get deleted by the mods

good job covering your ass, ycombi

if you read the article, you'd see that norway is trying to replace fm with digital radio

>Scientists have never been allowed to examine the E-Cat, details of the supposed physics have never been revealed, and even the identities of his US business partners were only discovered by online sleuthing.

for fucks sake, why even publish such a bogus article

when talking about space travel, speeds and distances aren't relevant the same way they are planetside. in space travel, it's all about who's gravity well you're stuck in, and how much delta V itll take to transfer to a different gravity well.

if we're talking about probes, the delta V aspect becomes a lot more fun when you consider the web of gravity slingshots that can be pulled off to up your dV