Successful or not, news of the test is a pretty big deal given that it was just a few months ago that reports emerged about China's other proposed super-powered rail gun, which is intended to send astronauts on a Boeing 737-size ship into space (NASA had begun building its own astronaut-shooting railgun in the 1990s, but had to abandon it due to lack of dinero.)
I thought EM-powered launching of fragile things like people was thrown out decades ago. How do you fire something up at high Gs without having high Gs? Projectiles and even some cargo may not care, but people might.
That was actually the best idea because a long enough length and curve means you can use less acceleration each second. One problem is that to keep it low, like say 3Gs, both the length and curve are huge. Like hundreds of miles. Second is the exit - how high would you have to built it to not open the vacuum tube (it has to be a vacuum to work, i.e. the issues that Hyperloop ran into) and be slamming the projectile with a deceleration effect into the thin air that's left? The numbers have been crunched before, mass drivers on Earth can't deliver breakable things.
Also, that curve would be additional Gs and a lot of technical problems to maintain its path.
At some point even the best plans aren't going to be enough, and the more we built the worse it gets. When an area gets water amounts in a day that it used to get in a year, that water simply isn't going anywhere fast. You know how evolution is about adaptation? I don't think we're adapting all that well or fast enough. (Yes, it's not quite the same thing, but the same point. Don't change, don't expect to survive)
That's correct, it's about probability based on past known history. An area could get unlucky and have repeat conditions sooner than normal. When many areas appear to be having this same bad luck, it's time to reevaluate the probabilities. It's also why regular weather forecasts haven't seemed to get things as right as they used to...using the past percent chance probabilities in a changing environment doesn't hit as well as it used to.
Suffering from a naturalist point of view is easy to understand, even if it's terrible to see. Suffering because of some greater plan by a deity? Sorry, when a human can have better morality than a omnipotent god who could only figure out a horrible way to put things together, something's messed up. I mean, maybe, if he's a god but some gods suck, like in Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice...
I'm curious on how signers of this petition think companies could afford to do this. Often times shutting a game down is because the interest of players has waned. Making a law to require them to keep that server and software running...forever? Is the end goal to kill any online game development?
It would make sense to require a company to release the code for players to host their own servers, which has been done by many games in the past. Not to continue to run it themselves.
Looking at the petition itself it wasn't very specific on the terms, which is why I questioned the very broadness of the request . "Keep" implies maintaining how it is currently, not a transition to open source and player run.
Wages not keeping in step with inflation is exactly why everything seems so expensive. $30k of today's money is the equivalent of less than $10k in the 80's, and cars were more than $10K then except for a few that ended up being examples of "you get what you pay for".
I should probably state that as "wage increases being suppressed".
US exports methane to other countries...and in producing methane also exports it into the atmosphere in leaks everywhere.
Also, the 30x CO2 number for methane is a long term average over 100 years, and probably at this point inaccurate as methane amounts grow. Methane breaks down at a limited rate, and as more and more methane enters the air that rate decreases as the radicals that act upon the molecules get depleted. So not only does the 30x go up for 100 years, the 84x for 20 years and the over 100x for the first few years also go up. Which is a feedback, causes more warming and more methane and other gases. Etc., etc.
Isn't changing a tire on any of the Teslas a bit of a challenge because of the weight? Do they come with heavy duty jacks? I wonder if the Cybertruck even comes with a spare at all.
I will admit there's a few scenes here and there that were pretty good Trek. Just a shame it's embedded in the rest. I don't even mind the overall idea, just the execution is bad. And some of the resolutions of mysteries are...well, stupid. It's a bit like GoT all over again. I know writers and directors read their fan posts everywhere, so why don't they go with the best fan theories instead of...whatever shit they come up with?
Late 1980's saw the introduction of a cheap small car called the Yugo, $3999 for the base model. Dive into how it did and why. Now consider that with inflation, $3999 is about $10,000. Even the Smart Car retail was last around $24,000 and I think a basic EV would have more cost built into it that those.
I agree that cars, EV or otherwise, could be made and sold at lower prices with the basic safety and features if it wasn't a profit driven industry, but your price point isn't realistic. I also think we really don't need more cars even if they are small, dependency on personal vehicles is part of why we have problems now.
He was right to vote for impeachment. And then dropped the ball and went with the party when the vote would do something. So close to getting Democrat respect for a moderate, and chickened out.
The Earth will be fine, it's been hit with far worse in the past, even larger than the Carrington Event (see wiki-Miyake Event). The issue is that we weren't around with our technology that happens to not do great under such EM fields back then, but we are now for the next time.
EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close (climateactiontracker.org)
China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky (futurism.com)
When climate damage paralyzed traffic (slrpnk.net)
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How we fix things around here (lemmy.world)
The dryer handle broke.
Help me remember a Picard quote from TNG. Something about time being like an old friend.
He said something about how some people consider time and enemy, or a thief of life. But he himself (Picard) sees time as an old friend....
UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government
I just received this email saying that the response “did not respond directly to the request of the petition”...
Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values (apnews.com)
History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says (theconversation.com)
By Tinglong Dai, Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University...
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report (www.theguardian.com)
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found...
Sucks to suck! (lemmy.world)
Found in the wild in Tennessee
"I thought *you* did!" (lemmy.world)
[OC] Backyard views (lemmy.world)
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Yes this is actually OC and not me regurgitating someone elses stuff for once....
NIO undercuts Tesla Model Y with new $30,000 L60 EV, kicking off cheaper Onvo brand (electrek.co)
GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump (www.nbcnews.com)
Tesla Cybertruck Peeled Open Like A Can Of Sardines After Crashing Into A Ditch (www.carscoops.com)
Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls (www.businessinsider.com)
Google promised to keep data from the phone calls private.
Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in nearly a decade, but Earth should be safe this time (apnews.com)