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Carbidereaper t1_ja5nw9f wrote
Reply to comment by Fishtank-Brain in Opinion: Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it by Gari_305
You can’t build a space elevator without an zero-g manufacturing complex in space because earths gravity wreaks havoc on producing the thousands of miles long uninterrupted molecular graphene nanotubes for the elevator cables and you can’t have a zero-g manufacturing complex without a facility on the moon to lower costs
Carbidereaper t1_j9v7rod wrote
Reply to comment by maudefi in The future of Starship includes national security missions - SpaceX’s Gary Henry said Starship holds the potential to become a mobility platform for the U.S. military by Gari_305
Or what ? give it to Northrop Grumman Lockheed Martin ULA blue origin . The military is gonna military with your taxpayer dollars weather you like it or not
Carbidereaper t1_j9j51k6 wrote
Reply to comment by noobgolang in Google starts rolling out Memory and Energy Saver modes to latest Chrome release by Stiven_Crysis
Not an option. iOS doesn’t have the all of the options that I want. Such a emulators and accessing the file structure via a file manager.
I’m also just recently bought a new iOS device a 2022 iPhone se. I bought it to replace my iPod touch and oh boy the differences between iOS 9 and iOS 16 make it look like a completely different OS some things I can’t figure no matter how many times I try to google it mostly because I can’t get a straight answer.
Like Twitter won’t play videos when I’m signed in through the safari browser I also can’t seem to share pictures from webpages straight to my google drive from safari it just won’t show the thumbnail preview before I press save to drive
Carbidereaper t1_j9ge9b9 wrote
Reply to comment by PmMeYourBestComment in Google starts rolling out Memory and Energy Saver modes to latest Chrome release by Stiven_Crysis
So your saying that you want Crome to use up 90% of your system memory while windows defender runs in the background ? No thanks that was total hell everything slowed to a craw. granted that was on a entry level laptop meant for web browsing and light use and had only 4GB of ram but it is supposed to just be a damn web browser
Carbidereaper t1_j9gca2u wrote
Reply to Google starts rolling out Memory and Energy Saver modes to latest Chrome release by Stiven_Crysis
One of the problems I have with Crome on android is that it gives itself root level access to your phone but you as a user aren’t naturally given that level of access it’s because of that I’m not allowed to backup my bookmarks directly on my phone in an organized way without them being a jumbled mess.
I know I can back them up to google and download a zip file of by bookmarks in an organized structure but then there goes my browsing privacy if I didn’t want my privacy tracked.
I know I could’ve used another browser but Crome being the default browser on android means that you’ll no doubt end up having a lot of bookmarks saved because of convenience before you realize your mistake and having to sign into google to backup again
Carbidereaper t1_j9e6i98 wrote
Reply to comment by SmithMano in "Starlink is far crazier than most people realize. Feels almost inevitable when I look at this" by maxtility
That’s not how orbital dynamics works. If an object in orbit suffers a head on collision it will rob the object of its orbital momentum and all of the corresponding debris will fall into a lower orbit were it will burn up. To shift and object to a higher orbit you have to add energy to the object. collisions always tend to rob energy from moving objects
Carbidereaper t1_j8zebgo wrote
Reply to comment by Latin_For_King in Blue Origin makes a big lunar announcement without any fanfare | Making complete solar cells only using materials found in lunar regolith by chetanaik
They got to the karman line and landed using a single stage rocket so they definitely have some talent The several engineers that designed the NASA DC-X delta clipper were hired by blue origin to design the new shepherd so it would be safe to say they have the expertise to pull it off
Carbidereaper t1_j8vnatv wrote
Reply to If someone were to hypothetically put a sun next to ours as a binary system, would this increase the length of the habitable zone radius of the system? by Country_Royal
Only if the sun is within 160 million miles from earth (earth to the sun is 93 million miles and mars closest approach to earth is 70 million miles) of corse putting a sun at that distance would destabilize all of the orbits of the gas giants and cause Jupiter’s orbit to to become so eccentric that it would gravitationally either kick the inner planets out of our star system or send them falling into the sun
Carbidereaper t1_j876bdk wrote
Reply to comment by KungFuHamster in Universal Basic Services in the US? by [deleted]
You could eliminate Medicare/Medicade military healthcare Known as tricare food stamps and the other bureaucratic social services and merge it into the social security administration and use every citizens social security number to deliver the money directly into there checking accounts therefore bypassing the states and all of their individual bureaucratic bloat. this could save many tens of billions in bureaucratic costs you could call it basic universal services.
Carbidereaper t1_j6c5ev6 wrote
Reply to comment by TminusTech in Asteroid Mining: SpaceX Will Help A Startup Launch Operations by Mynameis__--__
Aside from collectibles and science, the point of asteroid mining isn't to bring stuff back to Earth. It is to replace the high cost of launching stuff from Earth.
Let's say the Starship rocket works as intended and can fly for $20 million a launch. It takes about five tanker flights plus the cargo launch to get ~120 tons to the Moon's neighborhood. So $120 million for 120 tons is $1 million per ton. If you can mine usable products from asteroids for less than this, you come out ahead.
Metallic asteroids contain about 15-50 parts per million of the "Platinum group metals" (the ones below iron, cobalt, and nickel on the Periodic Table). Parts per million is the same as grams per ton, so 15-50 grams per ton. Average PGM price is around $50/gram, so market value is $750-2500/ton.
They are alloyed with the three base metals as ~90% iron, 1% cobalt, and 9% nickel (the proportions vary by sample). So first, you have to extract the PGMs from a chunk of iron alloy, and second a little added carbon turns the iron alloy into a decent steel alloy. There are other asteroid types (the carbonaceous ones) with carbon, so that's not hard.
Now your ton of metallic asteroid is worth $1 million for structural steel in space, because that's the launch cost you avoid for not launching structural parts from Earth. The value as structural metal is worth way way more than the small amount of precious metals in it.
You can try to separate out the PGMs before leaving the asteroid, or afterwards so you can use both the iron alloy and the PGMs, but I highly doubt you can process it in space for the $750-2500/ton market value. For comparison, the price of hot-rolled ordinary steel on Earth is $775/ton right now.
Carbidereaper t1_j64lma3 wrote
Reply to comment by erosram in Intel Posts Largest Loss in Years as PC and Server Nosedives by Stiven_Crysis
Future Windows on ARM could be as bad as android smartphones are today with locked down boot-loaders and unsupported driver chipsets. God help you if your windows ARM chip is a Qualcomm one. You’ll never be able to update your pc after 3 years or install an an alternate OS on it. ARM is also owned only by a single company the x86 instruction set is owned by two companies ( intel and amd ) intel and amd would rather develop an open source RISC-V architecture then pay constant licensing fees to ARM
Carbidereaper t1_j5wylci wrote
Reply to comment by 133DK in Apple issues security update for the almost 10-year-old iPhone 5S by generic_psychonaut
The problem is fucking Qualcomm they make some of the best mobile ARM processors but they rarely support their chipsets for more than 3 years if the device maker can’t get a CPU driver for the chipset than you aren’t getting updates period
Carbidereaper t1_j5fyz88 wrote
Reply to comment by Legitimate_Plum674 in Wind Energy Could Power Human Colonies On Mars, Finds Study by upyoars
It would be much easier to just ship raw plutonium than uranium and use it to just make MOX ( mixed oxide fuel ) a single decommissioned nuclear weapons core contains 46 pounds of plutonium. Enough to run a 6 megawatt reactor for nearly a century
Carbidereaper t1_j0cex48 wrote
Reply to comment by DonManuel in Nuclear fusion breakthrough: A physicist answers three vital questions by FarmhouseFan
Different fusion reactions produce different fusion byproducts. Some produce neutrons protons or gamma rays or alpha particles. Deuterium tritium fusion is just a stepping stone to something bigger
Carbidereaper t1_iydvo4i wrote
Reply to U.S Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter by speckz
The only problem is that many cable companies also own the internet infrastructure in Florida 4 years ago my choices for cable/internet were century link with 5mb dsl. bright-house. Comcast. And time Warner which was not bad considering what other people only have access to. Today now it’s just time Warner and Comcast because time Warner gobbled up fucking bright house and century link isn’t worth it because of the damn speed. So now I’m down from 4 service providers down to two until century link upgrades to fiber
Carbidereaper t1_iycx6au wrote
Reply to comment by Gari_305 in Texas company wins grant to 3D-print moon bases by Gari_305
Better the moon than the earth
Carbidereaper t1_iycwugb wrote
What’s the crash safety rating on this ? Can it reach highway speeds ?
Carbidereaper t1_ixm04sh wrote
Reply to comment by nesquikchocolate in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
Well depending on the damage you aren’t going to be able to repair them on site step 3 and 6 being very important quote from article
Production. The typical manufacturing process of an LPT consists of the following steps:
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Engineering and design: LPT design is complex, balancing the costs of raw materials (copper, steel, and cooling oil), electrical losses, manufacturing labor hours, plant capability constraints, and shipping constraints.
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Core building: The core is the most critical component of an LPT, which requires a highly-trained and skilled workforce and cold-rolled, grain-oriented (CRGO) laminated electrical steel.
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Windings production and assembly of the core and windings: Windings are predominantly copper and have an insulating material.
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Drying operations: Excess moisture must be removed from the core and windings because moisture can degrade the dielectric strength of the insulation.
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Tank production: A tank must be completed before the winding and core assembly finish the drying phase so that the core and windings do not start to reabsorb moisture.
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Final assembly of the LPT: The final assembly must be done in a clean environment; even a tiny amount of dust or moisture can deteriorate the performance of an LPT.
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Testing: Testing is performed to ensure the accuracy of voltage ratios, verify power ratings, and determine electrical impedances.
Carbidereaper t1_ixl803l wrote
Reply to comment by AFSAlameda in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
It’s actually only 2 to 5 years because only a few companies actually build them and they have to be ordered years in advance they can weigh hundreds of tons and can only be hauled by specialized rail cars and tractor trailers http://energyskeptic.com/2015/power-transformers-that-take-up-to-2-years-to-build/
Carbidereaper t1_isoipyx wrote
Reply to Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped
Nuclear thermal electrolysis is over 85 percent efficient because your using that raw thermal heat to push the H20 molecules up the energy gradient then all you need is a very small amount of electrical current to break down the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen
Carbidereaper t1_jd0x13a wrote
Reply to comment by danielravennest in The Internet Archive is defending its digital library in court today by OutlandishnessOk2452
Sounds easier to just download a book from Z-library